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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-08-04
BOARD TO SUPERVISE
GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT

A preliminary meeting Of the Govern
ment board 10 supervise the installation
OF the exhibits OF the National Govern
meat at the jamestown Exposition. Will
be held next Thursday. This board con-
sists Of the chief clerks Of the various
departments. and it Is understood that
the President himself. because OF the
interest he mas IN the jamestown
project. has urged their early meeting.
The purpose is to discuss the character
Of the exhibits 10 be made, and 10 con-
suit with the supervising architect Of
the Treasury upon the design of the
buildings TO be erected. and the amount
of floor and wall space that will be
available.
1t is understood that the effort will be
made to duplicate at jamestown the
Government exhibit which was such a
success at the Portland. Ore. EXPOSE
ton.
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.BLADENSBURG FLOOD
DAMAGES WERE SMALL
Conditions Normal at Scene of Deluge.
Losses Confined to Fences
and Gardens.

With the recedlng Of the high water.
which practically flooded the entire Bla-
densburg section Thursday night, IL was
found that damage by the deluge had
been confined to washing away small gar
dens. tearing down fences, and drown
ing chickens and other fowls
This morning the surroundings were
practically restored TO their normal con-
dition, although considerable water re-
manned in the lowlands IN the vicinity
OF both the lower and upper bridges
The heavy storm also did much DAMAGE
IN other sections Of the Eastern Branch
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MONEY IN SISTERS CARE
STOLEN TO PLAY RACES

NEW YORK. Aug. 4-Charles Schultz
Yesterday appealed 10 the police to ar
rest his seventeen-year-old son Richard
who, the father said, was living around
the racetrack on Sl3.5S which he had
stolen from his sister Amanda. A war
rant was issued for the boys arrest.
The sister from whom the money is
claimed To have been stolen that the
boy might take in the races, is a book
keeper for Bramley & Sen. florists. The
girls duties compel her at times to
carry home with her money belonging
10 tie company by which she Is emplov-
ed. II was this money that her father
says the son stole.
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PRESIDENT PERMITS
OFFICER TO RESIGN
Lieut.. Odell, Sentenced to Dismissal for
Drunkenness and DisObedience.
Obtains Privilege.

The President has settled the court
martial case OF First Lieut. Albert S.
Odeu. Eleventh Cavalry, which has been
pending before the War Department for
many months. by accepting the reslgna-
ton OF that officer.
Odell was court-martialed several
months ago on serious charges involving
drunkenness and disobedience Of orders
and sentenced by the court to be dis
missed from the army. II appears. how
ever, that there were certain mitigating
circumstances connected with the case
which have led the President 10 allow
the officer 10 resign. OdelIs family re-
side IN this city.
Announcement was also made at the
War Department OF the acceptance Of
the resignation "for the good Of the SER
vice" of Second Lieut.. Clarence A. Eus-
taphieve. Twenty-third Infantry.
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Will would be one OF the chief grounds
for attack CA II.
Lawyers IN general believe that the
Sage will as filed Will eventually stand
But they az NIT that smaller defects
than that In the Sage Will have resulted.
IN the past IN Tying up the distribution
OF estates COR years.. The fact that
there is an erasure and that some OF the
heirs are disposed TO attack the Will on
the ground that on February II. 1901. the
day Il was .igned. Mr. Sage was not
competent 70 make a viii may eventual
Is induce Mrs Sage TO compromise with
some OF the hnirs. for no other reason
than that she IS anxious 10 begin the
distribution OF the e.Jate for philan-
thropic purposes.
a story has been current - the last
few days that up 90 seven or eight years
ago Mr. Sage had told a number Of his
relatives that Oue-half Of his estate
would 20 20 his wife and the other half
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20 his blood heirs. The story went on
20 sSy that when Mrs. Sage learned that
her husband had made "a will she and
her relatives IN 1900 prepared new VIII
and finally induced Mr.. Sage to sign IL
on February II, 1901. That. according
TO the story. IS the viii offered for pro-
bate
The erasure In this viii consists Of
three pen marks drawn through the
date 1900 as the year Of the signing
OF the will. and the substitution ~ the
figures 1901"
The law does not say a person may
not erase clauses IN the draft OF his VIII
before 10 IS signed. AT a trial, therefore
II would be "a question OF testimony as
10 whether the eTaguTe iu the Sage will
was made before or after AIr. Sage sign
ed il.
II IS said now that the executors Of
the Sage viii, who have been making
close inventory. have discovered that the
value OF the estate viii approximate
$4,000 0oo or twice the amount left by
jay Gould.
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ADMIRAL TRAIN
DEAD At CHEFOO
Commander of the ASiatic
Station SuCCumbS to
Brights Disease.

Word was received by cable at the
Navy Department this morning Of the
death az CAefoo China, % Rear Admiral
Charles ]. Train, commander-ln-chief Of
the estate station OF the United States
Navy. BTighrs disease is assigned as
the cause. The admiral had been crlu-
caily III only a short time. His son and
flag lieutenant. Charles r. Train. was
at the bedside when the admiral breath
ed hts last.
Admiral Train had been in the navy
since 1851, and had seen nearly twenty
years active service on the sea.
He was graduated from the naval
academy in 1855. and became a master In
lsG6 a lieutenant ia 1865, lieutenant com
mander in 1859, commander in 1856. and
reached the rank of rear admiral on
September l3, 1904
He was regarded as one Of the most
ca able officers I'm tho service. his irving
duties en- the Asiatic station 10 which
he was assigned immediately after re-
crlFlug ms commission as Rear Admiral.
having been exceptionally we'll per-
formed Upon his shoulders dev0fyai
the duty or maintaining neutrality in
Philippine waters during the Russo
Japanese war. Last year while making
q tour IN China, the admiral and his
son We're attacked by Chinese mob
outside Of Marking, resulting in PROMPT
apologies being made 10y The Chinese
government.
During the Atlanta Exposition. Ad-
mlral Train, by appointment Of the
President represented the Navy Depart
ment there. In the Spaulsh-American
war, he commanded the United States
gunbOat Prairie on the patrol squadron
which was charged with the duty OF
protecting the Atlantic seaboard cities.
From 1901 10 1901 he was President OF
the board Of inspection and survey.
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believed That Apparent
2Change in Date of Sig
nature May Force a
Compromise.

NEW YORK. Aug. talk Of a ros-
sible contest over the Will OF Russell
Saee received new impetus because OF
the announcement that eTasures had
been discovered in the original draft OF
the will, sufficient. some lawyers said. to
tie uD the property for years and result
In long litigation IN the courts. II was
said that the erasure OF a date in the
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Baltimore and Return SI.z5, Baltimore
q Ohio r. r. every Saturday and Sun
day. All trains both ways, both DAYS
except Royal Limited
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500 Earpers Ferry and Martinsburg;

KS Berkeley Springs; 500 Cumberland
and return, August >. Leave Baltimore
& Ohio station sos n. IN. Returning
leave Cumberland. 6; Berkeley Springs,
Z; Martinsburg, g, and Harpers Ferry,
$40 ,. m. same day. Delightful oppor-
tunity to spend Sunday in country.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to Ocean

o l5 -l On ana dot,,I henoDoth beach SEQ
good II days, s. season. Train leaves
Wash ngtOn p. m. daily except Sunday,
making connection with boats from Bal
timore.
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s2s.OO Minneapolis and Return

Account q. 4. r., via Baltimore & Ohio
August 10 70 p valid to return until sIst,
and may be extended to September 3O
Stopover at Chicago returning. Consult
agents for full particulars.
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All Omces of Trust

Arc most eucieatly discharged by Union
Trust CO., 14l4 + ST. NV. Wills drawn
without charge. Consultation invited.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
Eight Lost from Soops Capsned at Bar Off Angle
sea, N. j., in Heavy Sea.
DANGEROUS RESCUEMADE JUST IN TIME
Survivors Fought for Life Tange of Ns-Brookn Young Man and
Women Lost in Lake Hopac0ng

he vas sitting IN his home near the us.savgry
station watching the fishing boats come IN.
i was not watching any particular boat" he
said. but suddenly I saw a sloOp yacht heel
over and then turn turtle. A rough sea was
running. and knew C was death Sor al unless
quick work was done. bolted out OF tho house
without waiting % tell my wife what had hap
pened. and started 20 look for some Of the men
who make up my nfesaving cr-w. could not
find all Of them. but got together Harry Me-
Ginty, George Redding. Harry Fr7rh CAPTAIN
John Taylor and a volunteer. We Tcl the xov-
ernrnent boat In a iirSy and launched her. As
We drew near TO the Nora the screams 81 -.
terrified persons could be heard above the loar
OF the waves- They were hanging Co the keef
OF the sloop. and their cries Sor help were pileuL
we shouted 20 them 20 hold fast, as we would
take them or as soon as We could work our
boat close enough. In doing this We picked uy
four men who had lost their holds and yrsrs
drifting away After hard work ua got every
body we could find aboard, and then the Violet
came up and We transferred the exhausted
people 20 her. On the way back the violss
found one drowned man"
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
SAILOR HURT BY CANNON.
Accident on r. ID. Underscood's
Yacht BIoscs Seaman's Hand off.

While cleaning the signal cannon on the steam
yacht Alice, owned by Frederick D. Underwood
president of the Erie Railroad. which is moored
in the Hudson River off S4th street, the right
hand of Samuel Christian. a sailor. blown
off, his left thumb shattered and his whole body
perforated with powder early yesterday morning.
Mr. Underwood and his family were asleep on
the yacht at the time. They were awakened by
the explosion and Mr.. Underwood rushed TO the
deck, to find several sailors bending over Chris
tian. who was unconscious. II learned that
he had accidentally pulled the string attached
TO the trigger of the gun while cleaning it. The
man had been standing directly in front of the
cannon when the charge was fired.
Mr.. Underwood directed that the sailor be
taken ashore after the physician on the yacht
had bound up the wounds.
Patrolman Leonard. Of the West 6sth street
station. who had heard the report OF the cannon.
met the launch. Mr. Underwood told him about
the accident and an ambulance summoned
from Roosevelt Hospital Christian hurried
to the hospital, still unconscious. MIR. Under
wood accompanied him. and left directions that
everything possible should be done for his
comfort.
The yacht Alice is a triple expansion. steam
vessel. lie feet long and 1T-foot beam. She is
No 236 in the list Of New York Yacht Club
hOats
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
PIERCE KEEPS TROPHY.
GLIDDEN TOUR AWARD.
Demang Prise to Kelsey - Hill
Climbing Contest To-day.
rBy Telegraph 70 The Trl5une.I


Breton Woods N. n. July 29-Percy Pierce
retains the Glidden trophy by virtue Of right. as
twelve other cars tied him IN the long run. but
did not beat him. R F. Kelsey wins the Derning
trophy. as Augustus Post, who tied him. with
drew after the finish Mr.. Post had been pro-
tested for coming into Elizabethtown by a short
course.
The victory of Mr.. Pierce, IN a Pierce car, was
ing all finished with perfect scores. The tourists
received the cars to-day. and scores started for
New York and Boston.
Hundreds remain here, and over a hundred
cars are Quartered at Breton Woods tonight
preparatory 20 the hill climbing contest up
Crawford Notch tomorrow, for which forty-six
entries have been made in the ten events.
Many cars came to grief in practice work on
the hill to-day. One Stearns car struck a rise,
broke an axle and was disabled. Guy Vaughan.
driving Thomas car was buried hub deep In
sand The hill runs up from IL to % per cent
In awarding the Glidden trophy the committee
gave equal credit TO all cars completing the tour
with perfect scores. The protest of Ezra Kirk
was not allowed. He had two punctures and a
broken chain. and at that was coming in on
time when signalled to stop at the Mount Pleas
ant where the car was decorated with flags. No
time was allowed for this, and the needless
ceremony cost Mr.. Kirk and the Thomas per-
feet score after weeks of hard work
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
VAN SCHATCK IN FIGHT.
NeEc York Broker Sinks to Mud 0cith
TrespaSsing CLdmmer.

John B. Van Schaicl, a Wall Street broker,
had exciting experience a week ago yesterday
which has Just become known. He and George
Hickey. clam digger. wallowed in the mud of
mill pond that Van Schaick claims to own. The
clammer, who was thrown into the mud by Van
Schaick, it is alleged, because he would not
render the clans he had dug from the disputed
territory threatens bring suit for assault, and
Van Schaick has caused his lawyer to institute
two trespass suits, which arc TO be tried to-
morrow.
Van Schaiclk has beautiful home in Hunting
ton Long Island Recently he has acquired con-
siderable land there, having great faith in Long
Island property What has long been known as
Lefferts mill pond is claimed by Mr.. Van
SchaicK. Heretofore there has been no COM
plaint when clammers waded out into the pond,
after the water had been expelled in turning the
mill Wheel to I'LL their baskets with clans But
when last Sunday Van Schaick. saw Walter
DoolittIe Archibald OFT and William Van Sise
digging CLAIMS, he ordered them off and brought
trespass suits placing the damage at s25 in each
case
TT takes power of clans TO be worth s25,"
said an old salt when he heard Of the amount
Then Mr.. Van Schalck found George Hickey
and others claiming in his pond He obtained
boat and rowed out TO the shoal water where the
clammers were lingering the clans from the
mud Van Schaick demanded the clans. and is
said to have been laughed at Suddenly Hickey
was houndering in the soft mud. But he did not
go down alone His muddy hands clutched Van
Schaick's spotless vest and Van Schaick is said
90 have come a header out OF the boat and TO
have been as mirsd Hickey when he rose
sputtering 10 the surface.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
New York Central Train Piled in Heap by a
Landslide Near New Hamburg
TWO KILLED--MORE THAN FIFTY INJURED
Engine Tuns Turtle and Goes Rr-Ri Rushed
the Scene of the Disaster

Fishkill Landing. \. Z, July 29.-Pacifc Ex-
press Train No. 81, of the New York Central
and Hudson River Railroad, which left the
Grand Central Station in New York at e:32
o'clock tonight, was wrecked shortly before
midnight at Tower 50. short distance above
Chelsea, and eleven miles below Poughkeepsie,
by running into a landslide which had been
swept down from high embankment by a ter
rife rainstorm this afternoon.
The engine of the flyer was thrown from the
rails, and plunged into the river. Fireman
Mills was killed outright, and Engineer Edward
Wells. whose home is in The Bronx, New York
City, died at the Highland Hospital, Fishkill,
soon after he reached there.
Fifteen passengers were seriously injured, and
thirty or forty others received minor hurts.
The most seriously injured are:
EDWARD KELLY, of Poughkeepse, n Y; arm
broken and one leg driven into the thigh: will
MRS. AUGUSTUS HERATH. of Schenectady: arm
broken.
MRS. WARREN REYNOLDS. of Peekskill. N Y:
arm broken and legs lacerated.
OXFORD PETERS. No s31 Broad avenue. schen-
ectady: arms broken.
HENRY TAYLOR. Poughkeepsie; leg broken.
Most of the injured were taken to Pough-
keepsie.
All the doctors at Poughkeepsie and this place
were called to the scene.
During the afternoon and night heavy rains
undermined the embankment on the east side
of the tracks. and shortly before the arrival Of
train No. 81 tons of earth and rock slid out on
the roadbed. covering the northbound track.
The express train was going at a lively rate of
speed when the engine plunged into the mass OF
earth and stone. The locomotive gave one leap
into the air, turned turtle and rolled over
into the river. The baggage car, which was
the first car of the train. thrown up against
the embankment, the parting of the couplings
preventing it following in the path OF the loco
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
STORM HITS PATERSON.
Houses and Trees Struck and TrOl-
len Wires Torn Dozen.

Paterson, n. J., July "a severe wind and
electrical storm visited this city this afternoon.
doing much damage. For time trolley traffic
WAS brought almost entirely 20 a standstill
through the feed wires being torn down by fall
ing trees Lightning struck IN many places and
did considerable damage Many trees ana Chin
neys and one or two houses were struck
Lightning struck big tree IN troht OF the o'o
r,ousaso Co,ntv Court House. wrecking IT. The
,or ,,nrfions OF the tree were hurled into
Mssn street and tore down the electric wires
the heaviest part OF the tree fell within twenty
ova sest OF Passaio trolley car, which was
aued with passengers. Another bolt cut down
a big tree in Beech street, which also tore down
wires. Two handsome memorial windows IN inc
Broadway Reformed Church were broken py
tree which feu against the size Of the church
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
MONASTERY ATTACKED.
Peasants Besiege Priests Near Borky
The Wires Cut.

Ekaterinoslav July 29.-While the train on
which correspondent Of The Associated Press
was travelling from Ezharkoff TO Ekaterinoslav
was passing the great monastery erected near
Borky by Alexander III TO commemorate the es-
cape Of himself and members Of the imperial
family from railroad accident in 1888 hrlng
and CRIES Of help were heard The train was
stoned and a monk came on board. He said
The peasants we're attacking the monastery. and
that the monks were defending 1T. He had man.
aged 10 escape to summon help. He was brought
on the train TO Ekaterinoslav. whence he tele-
graphed 70 the Governor of Kharkof. asking
that troops be sent to the monastery. No de-
tails have been received. The peasants appar-
emily have seized the telegraph lines.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
VAUGHAN'S CLOSE CALL.
AUTO Turns Turtle While Rushing
Through Craz0ford Notch.

Breton Woods. N. H.. July 29-Guy Vaughan
the New York automobilist, narrowly escaped
sudden death to-day while driving his big car
through the Crawford Notch. The struck a
big water bar in the road. bounded into the air,
then turned turtle and landed on the rocks at
the side Of the road. The car was demolished
Mr. Vaughan. although badly shaken UP and
covered with bruises. escaped without serious IN
jury He was not participant in the tours for
the Glidden or Deming trophies. but had come
here to enter in the hill climbing contest to-
morrow. and was testing the grade up Crawford
Notch hill in preparation for that event.
He estimated that he was travelling at the
rate of forty miles an hour when the accident
happened. No one was in the with him at
the time ".
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
TRAINS CRASH In CUT
Eight Persons Hurt-Crezcs Placed
Under arrest.

Eight people were injured in a collision be-
tween two Brooklyn elevated trains the way
70 seaside resorts yesterday morning. Three OF
the victims were so seriously injured that it
found necessary to remove them to neighboring
hospitals. The other five were taken home. The
accident occurred in a cut just north of the
Woodruff avenue station OF the Brighton Beach
line. The injured are
EwLLERH1RsCH. Dora, sixty years old. No esq Put
leg ebrasions oS the Hight 3birp and sSocN: remoVeS
to the Kings County Hospital.
GRulBSMAN lS b. f9Tty-tvO years OId Of No 155 East
leg and shock: removed to the Kings County Hospital
street Manhattsn cut over ifs eye te2ded By 4 pT
lazarus: home.
KENNEDY sixteen years DID, Ne 2O5s Pacific avenue
Brooklyn. fracture Of lert anklei home.
faB yo6P orgH t d M vs old & No 2's
PERRY; William thirty-sis years old No. 300 West
Norwegian Hospital
street Brooklyn. left knee injured; home 1''''''
SULLIVAN. Edward twenty-five years old
home. -S'' N''7'
The trains were crowded with pleasure seekers
outward bound from Brooklyn Owing to a lack
Of precaution which the railroad officials have
not explained Manhattan Beach train No. 1881.
Arlington Chichester, motorman, was permitted
to swing around a curve into Brighton Beach
train No. s54 which was stalled by broken
trolley wire. B. Grubman. guard. was standing
on the rear platform to signal the train follow
ing. and escaped with a e fractured leg
Chichester quit his booth and climbed out Of
the cut with many Of the passengers. When
found later at the Prospect Park station he said
that he did not the stalled train owing to the
heavy weather.
The crews Of both trains were arrested
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
BIG STRIKE IN FRISCO.
Sirteen Hundred LabOrers ON Street
RGI1Cays to Quit.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.I


San Francisco. July 29.-One of the most seri-
GUS strikes that the city has had since the fire
will occur tomorrow morning, when $500 un-
skilled laborers employed by the United Rail-
roads will quit work. This will stop all recon-
struction work on the street railroads as the
leaders declare they will prevent any one from
working. and previous experience has shown
that the city authorities Will give no aid in
stopping violence
This strike is the result of efforts of labor
unions TO form union Of these ignorant, un-
skilled laborers. a large part Of whom are Greeks
and Italians. who cannot speak a word of Eng
lish and whose living expenses are less than so
cents day About one thousand OF these men
belong TO labor unions formed during the last
two weeks.
The United Railroads discharged about one
hundred employees who were annoying the men
who were not in the union. The union de-
manded the reinstatement Of these men, which
was refused. The organization then demanded
not only restoration but the unionizing Of the
whole force and advance in pay or IL would
call out the whole gang. It demanded So so for
unskilled labor and SO 50 for PAYERS for eight
hours. Unskilled laborers had been getting from
81 so 90 81 and PAYERS 81 so for ten hours. The
United Railroads will refuse any terms. Stop
page OF work on the railroads viii be a great
hardship 20 the people. as every new line opened
means quick communication Tor thousands.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
HOLD-UP IN CAPITAL.
Printers Forced to Issue the Viborg
Manifesto.

St Petersburg. July 29.-A party of men
armed with revolvers forced their way yesterday
into the Boussel printing establishment here
They made the foreman a prisoner and pre-
vented ihe compositors from leaving the build
sng They then had printed 10000 copies of the
Tiborg manifesto OF the outlawed lower house
Strangers calling at the establishment while
,,+,gs1-pvas being done were detained to pre-
vent them from giving the alarm
While this was going on within the printing
Office religious procession. escorted by police
men both mounted and foot. drew up before
2 church opposite but no one was aware OF what
was happening inside the establishment