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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-10
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OOOO horse power). .........5, 100000 Completion of fifteen sub-sta
 tions ........................ 765,OOO Completion of subways and feeder system .......,...,..,.. 60O,0OO Elevated and surface car equip
 ment, contracted for and un- der way ............,.....,.. ,4QO0O The following sub-statons have been constructed and placed in operation at a total expense of one million dollars: Parkvlle, Halsey street, Essex street | Tompkins avenue Southern Bridge, Coney Island and Myrtle avenue. The following sub-stations are now under construction at an estimated cost of five hundred thousand dollars: New Utrecht Hudson avenue, Rich mond Hill, Prospect Park, Corona, Canarsie and Lexington avenues. It may be of interest to know that the policy which has directed this ex- penditure for improvement of transit in Brooklyn will be continued on lines al- ready pretty well determined, subject always, however, to those conditions to which business propositions of this character are peculiarly amendable- New York Sun.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-10

SALT FOR MILLIONS OF BLACKS.
 Africa's new railroads are bringing salt within easy reach of tribes that never before saw the European com modlity. They regard it as boon and bless the railroads for 1t. The statis- tics of the first years work of the rail- road from Raves to the upper Niger, include 5000 tons of salt delivered on the Niger, 600 miles inland,
 None of the 40,00O tons of salt that Europe sends annually to the west coast has ever been carried more than 100 miles inland. Under the moist and hot conditions, transportation on the backs of men, in native canoes and by other rude means of carriage, it loses it's savor and often actually melts. This Is the reason why the commerce in for eign salts is just beginning to reach the far interior, now that railroads and steamboats are supplying the trans portation.
 Salt is craved as much by the Afri- cans as by other races and tribes living along the sea or near saline marshes or deposits may produce their own salt Many tribes, however, rarely obtain what we call commercial salt. They dry and burn certainplants leach the ashes, evaporate tie lye and use the residue as salt.
 Tn the interior, from near the west coast to the great lakes, and from Sa- hara to the Zambesi River, there are no salt mines, salt pans or other sources of the continent. Dr. c. Muller wrote a while ago that the 125,000,000 inhabi- tants of this vast area offer the great est unsupplied market for salt in the world and they would buy 100000 tons a year if they could get it.
 Great Britain and France send large quantities of salt to Africa, and have igor years been studying the problem how to supply the enormous demand for years been studying the problem cheaply and that is worth fro 20 to 40 cets pound in the interior of Africa.
 The English have tried to compress salt for the African trade, but have not yet produced an article that will with stand months of rough handling and slow transportation. The French are compressing salt into about two-thirds of it's original cubic contents, and the resulting blocks have a glistening sur face and are as hard as rock. T1is ex- pertinent Is so recent that it's adequacy has not yet been established.
 The problem has been solved by the methods of transportation. Many tons of foreign salt, in as good condition as when the commodity left Europe, are now selling on the inland plateau hund- reds of miles from the ocean. It is welcomed as blessing, and the new trade promises to line the pockets of those who produce and sell the article.
 But our African friends may expect a large drop in prices when the salt movement fairly sets in their direc- tion.-New York Sun.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-10
IMPROVEMENTS ON THE BROOK,
 LIN RAPID TRANSIT.

1 Present Winter Tells Brooklyn Lea
 guers How Much Money Has Been
 Spent.
 Twenty members of the Brooklyn League took trip in a special car over 8 system of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran sit company yesterday to ascertain what improvements had been made and are being made to increase the street car service in that borough. President Winter, of the Brooklyn Ra- pid Transit, furnished the investigators with a memoranda of the work done and under way. It was as follows: 1 This record covers the period be- tween July 1, 1902, and January 26, 1906. There was expended during this time, for additions and improvements alone, slightly more than S19,sS5, 900. The list enclosed is an exact copy of portion of general memoranda statement made up within the last two weeks for my own files.
 Of the sum thus expended, Ss,s53, 900 | has gone for car equipment alone. There are now under way, authorized and uncompleted, additions and im- provements aggregating approximately $12, 025, ,00O
 A few of the more important items making up this last amount are dis ! tributed as follows;
 | New elevated shops and sta
 tions at Thirty-slxth street.. s250, ,oOo Elevating and depressing l tracks, Brighton Beach llne.. 600,00l Automatic signals on elevated
 roads ...... ................... 55,OOO l Elevated shops and storage 1 yards at East New York..,... 175, ,000 Car storage depot and shops at Ninth avenue and Twentieth
 street ..... .....,............ sS5. 1000 Storage yard, shops and
 changes at Ridgewood L ter
 minal ........ ................. 1s5,OOO Carnarsie railroad, reconstruc-
 tion ......... ...............,.. s7O,ooO Track reconstruction, elevated
 and surface lines. es..............1,4O 400, 900 Williamsburg power station (whic when completed will
 have normal capacity of 116,-
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A BROKEN STICK FOR AN I. o.

A BROKEN STICK FOR AN I. o. U.
 An old time way for proving one's S right to the payment of money loaned
 was by tally sticks. A9plain stick was used, and when a man loaned sum a stick was broken and the creditor and
 debtor each took part. When the time for payment came the man who had the stick which fitted exactly to the stick held by the creditor received the money. Two sticks never break in exactly the same shape so that there was never any dispute about who had a right to the money. -Corea Daily News
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day to children of such fathers" Kan sas City Star.
WOMEN HAVE EYES EXAMINED
 JUST FOR FUN.

OCo1 I'OA U N
 Yes said the store manager as he glanced at the sign which gave notice that a deposit will hereafter be re- duired on all orders for glasses, i've had to do it. When we took account of stock little while ago we found we had been stuck for so many frames and glasses made to order and ther never called for that we had to put UT that notice. For the peculiar type known as the shopper, women who travel around among the stores and order things for the mere joy of order. ing them, infests the store of eye specialists as 1t does those of the dry goods men.
 Why, women come in here of an afternoon just for place to rest in, l do believe. They will come in and sit down and say they want to nave their eyes examined, and sometimes get indignant when We find that they dc not need glasses at all. Oh, yes, we dc turn them away at times when they dc not need glasses. And when they dc need them they leave orders for the glasses and we make them up and then have them left on our hands, because they frequently never call for them Men do that sometimes, but more often 1t is a woman. The only way I car account for 1t is by that explanation that they do 1t for want of something else to do and perhaps to see what il is like to have the eyes examined
 You would think that shop where eyeglasses are prepared and sold would be about the last place In the world tc be afflicted with shoppers, but we gel them. "-Jewelers Circular Weekly
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and mining purposes was very pro- nounced, but how to convey the pro- duct over thirty-one miles of hot, shift ing sand was where the difficulty rest ed. With the assistance of Col. Os- borne and others number of steam traction engines were built, each weigh ing over 100000 pounds with great wide three foot tires and a capacity of eighty horsepower.
 In order to enable the use of these huge iron structures, a plank road, stone ballasted, was laid at an enor- nous expense, from Danby, Cal, to the salt beds, thirty-one miles over the sandy Mojave Desert through Skeleton Pass and skirting along the edge of Old Woman's Mountain. The great engines with their two gigantic trail wagons ploughed through the des- ert sand like a Euge steam railroad snowplough in a terrific drift. Occa- sionally the great steam giant would become cratic in it's action and wander off into a bed of soft sand; then the main performance took place. In such an emergency the only alternative was to remain quiet until the other engine arrived to lend assistance:
 As long as the ponderous giants re- mained on the stone ballast all was happy, but, when the cratic moment arrived, great was the trouble and con- sternation. Water andofuel to operate with were carried from twenty to thirty miles, and the spectacle of one of these ponderous locomotives with their enor- nous trail wagons wandering along al a painful speed Of three miles per hour with 70,000 pounds of freight, far, far away from a living soul, presented a sight rarely seen in the history of com mercial life
 | With tine rise of Tonopah, Goldfleld and Bullfrog, the automobile, long the | plaything for the rich, has sprung into popularity as a means of passenger transportation in the desert. It is swift, and despite its many failings and the constant breakdo to which 1t is subject, it is decidedly popular and on the whole a success, but it does not handle freight, 1t generally needs specially prepared roads, and is used but little except on tn main travelled linese between Bullfrog and Goldfield where it will soon be superseded by tine ironhorse of the railroad On the route from Las Vegas 1t did not prove very successful, and no regular line has been maintained. Elsewhere it is used only by occasional parties oi wealthy mining men.
 And now, in conclusion, after briefly reviewing the methods of desert trans portation for the last fifty years, we are inclined to say, as in the beginning that the history of desert transporta. tion from the beginning of time has been the history of success and failure principally failure.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-10
VARIOUS RESULTS OF BROKERS
 MISTAKES


 Many of what are known as the two- dollar brokers were busy this morning in trying to straighten out mistakes made at the opening yesterday, which was exceedingly wild and active. Va- rious stories are told about the results of mlsconstruing orders. One broker was called on to stand a loss of sixteen hundred dollars on failure to properly execute an order in Reading, to make up which at the usual rate of co.nmis- sion on Reading half-stock would re- quire the execution of orders on one hundred and sixty thousand shares of Reading common in direct contrast with the losses there were many cases in which the brokers profited by their mistakes The most singular instance of gain through broker misconstru- ing orders on the floor occurred in Christmas week, when one member of the Exchange executing floor orders re- ceived an order to sell Anaconda at the market. Misreading the order in a hurry he bought Anaconda instead of selling it, and on reporting the pur- chase, and finding his mistake, was forced to receive himself the stock he had been ordered to sell, thus standing long twice the amount of the original selling order, Before he decided to close out, Anaconda was booming and the net result of the mistake was a profit of forty-seven thousand dollars. Wall Street Summary.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-10
STORIES OF FRENCH FRONTIERS
One Who Warned Against The Villain
 Another Who Was a Hunter.

The ex-prompter of the Comedie Francaise has committed suicide, The poor man had been an inmate of Sainte Anne's lunatic asylum for some time. At half past o'clock each evening he fancied he heard the three traditional knocks which, in a French theatre, herald the going up of the curtain. He would become very excited and declare that the company was waiting for him. What will M. Mounet-Sully say?" he would exclaim.
 Stories are told of other prompters.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
 special meeting of the stockhold- CTS Of the New Haven County National Banl. will be held on the 18th day of February, 1a06, at ten o'clock in the forenoon at the banking house of said corporation for the purpose of chang ing Article 3 of the Articles of Asso- citation of said corporation so as to read: The board of directors shall consist of not less than nine nor more than fifteen stockholders" instead of as at present, The board of directors shall consist of nine stockholders" and to ratify and confirm the election ol eleven directors had at the annual meeting of the stockholders held OH January 9. 1906,
 r. s, PORTER,
 HENRY w. REDFIELD, Stockholders of the above named bank January 13. 1908.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-04
T4GG4RT PLACE RAIDED.
Sult Begun to Haze Hotel Charter
Re0ofed Because of Gambling.

Paoli, Ind, July 3.-Attorney General Charles
Miller, acting under instructions from Governor
HanIy, filed in the Orange County court to-day
an action 20 revoke the charter of the French
Lick Springs Hotel Company, at French Lick.
this county. The company is a corporation OF
which Thomas Taggart, chairman OF the Demo-
cratic National Committee. is president 1t is
charged that gambling is allowed on the prop
erty owned by the hotel company.
Sheriff Maris Deputy Sheriff Jones' Constable
Baggerty and City Marshal John salices raided
the casino at French Lick to-day at the same
hour that Attorney General Miller filed pro-
ceedings in the Orange County Circuit Court
number Of arrests were made, and consid-
cradle gaming paraphernalia was captured
The casino at French Lick is described at
length in the complaint, and the charge is made
that children are allowed to frequent the gaming
tables It is alleged that the company derives
an income of $4,000 annually from the gam
bling.
The men arrested at the casino were brought
here this evening and arraigned before justice
OF the peace. The hearing on the suits for
injunctions and receiverships will be held on
Thursday. The officers found guests playing
keno at West Baden. but only employees were
arrested. At French Lick. L. G. Neary. man
ager OF the casino. arrested No one was
gambling there when the officers appeared. The
Colonial Hotel, West Baden, raided also.
Roulette and faro outfits were found in all the
hotels
New-York tribune., 1906-07-04
THE HARVEST BEGINS.
SIR Children AIready on the CeIe-
brati0n Casualty Last.

Numerous accidents preliminary TO the cele-
bration of to-day were reported last night.
Playing with a blank cartridge pistol on the
stoop Of his house. Carl Naish. nine years old.
of No. 1O2 East 1O6th street. shot himself in the
left hand.
Playing with a similar toy in the yard Of his
home, Harry Rosenberg. of No. 1855 Lexington
avenue, wounded himself the left hand.
George Leavy aged eleven. of No. 3O31z East
33d street, shot himself in the left hand.
Frank Yule, fourteen years old. of No. 227
East 29th street squinted down the barrel Of
his pistol Flesh wound over the left eye.
Noah Farrell, four years old. of No S26 East
32d street, picked up a irecracker which had
not exploded. AS he blowing on it it ex-
ploded Powder burns in the eyes and face
Willie L. wynkle eight years old. of No. 63O
East 18th street. shot himself in the left hand
New-York tribune., 1906-07-04
HOT CHASE after NEGRO.
Pickpocket, soith White Confederate,
Caught after Long Run.

In a chase OF a Negro pickpocket from an Am
sterdam avenue car west through 18th street.
yesterday afternoon the fugitive jumped down
a twenty-five foot embankment on the west side
OF Riverside Drive and followed by Patrol
man Fitzgerald. The fugitive tried to find
cover in the woods on the river bank, but Fftz-
gerald caught him and after struggle made
him prisoner.
The Negro was Alfred Watson. known as the
BLACK Prince pickpocket often arrested and
numbered in the Rogues Gallery Watson was
working with white youth. captured more cas-
fly, who said he was George Sexton. twenty-five
years old, Of No. 432 West 56th street.
The pair were working a southbound car, and
at 157th street Frank Bollisancke of 221st
street and Broadway, who standing on the
rear platform discovered he says, that the
Negro was trying to pick his pocket. At his
outcry Watson jumped off and ran west. and
Sexton betrayed his alliance with the Negro by
jumping off and following. Sexton was not
recognized by the police.
In the Harlem police court Magistrate Baker
held the prisoners in $500 bail each for further
examination tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-04
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS
- Ths TrIbune purean.1

IFrOm The Tribune BureauI
Washington. july
NEW YORK NAVAL MILITIA CRTusr-A--
rangements have been made az the Navy peuar~-
ment for taking out the 1st Battalion OF the New
York Naval Militia in the week from July = %
July q. The "a Battalion OF the same Organization
will be taken on its annual crUise IN the week O.
August II to 1S. II has not yet been decided which
Of several available cruisers win be used for n.
New York Naval Militia The choice Is between
the West Virginia the Maryland. the Missouri. ths
Illinois and the Alabama These vessels are now
az the navy yards undeTgoing repairs preliminary
70 joining the Atlantic feet for the summer opera
used as il becomes convenient 20 draw them from
the navy yards. suspending for the time the repair
g require the uninterrupted prsssncs q tSs shies
epaTtr6ent S TT % mss the eTisS y f s aI Sa ra,
this summer as practical as possible and % stv,
the cruise 70 the end that they may understzna
what would be required Of them Y called INTO
NEW BOILERS FOR WARSHIPS-Ths battle
ship Massachusetts,. now at the navy yard at
Brooklyn. will have entirely new boiler plant
installed. This work. together with similar IN
stallation on board the cruiser New York now az
the Boston navy yard. will cost the government
$4,000 Bids for the boilers. which viii be os the
SUPPLIES su9S and Ss accounts @ O Hsvy Be4ss SS @
July a
ORDERS ISsUED.-The following army and
navy orders have been issued:
ARMY
Captain 45!TS aP5ET S85TS F1 HERS mr. artillery eD e~'aa
First LAeutenant CHARLES I. J. FROHWITTER. artl-
lery corps. nom go Company. coast artillery. 90
assigned list; detailed recorder artillery hoard For-
Monroe
Colonel ERNEST A. DARLINGTON. Inspector gsnerRA
detailed member General StaG Corps.
NAVY.
Commodores J. A. H. NICKELS ard W 8 MOORE
transferred to retired list
Commodoras x. ROHRER and W H TURNER Chr
tain A y. WOOD. Commanders 8 ARNOLD. T. u
FENTON A 9. DIEFFElNBACEf. II. p EAEMENT-
". JONES. transferred retired Hss: continrs pres
duties-
Commander J. NJ POYER transferred 90 retired lists
detached the Illinois; home
Commander o. HCLNlE transferred TO retired Iists
detached the Tacoma; home.
First Lieutenant A 3TALLISTER. marine corps d=a a
Brooklyn. June so.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELs-The following
movements Of vessels have been reported:
ARRIVED.
July The Lebanon. League Island
July 2-The Talbot Annapolis
July 3-The Standish. Annapolis
SAILED.
July the Talbot. from Norfolk Annapolis.
July 9-The Norfolk for cruise: ths Ne
vada. nom Annapolis for cruise.
The Nicholson torpedo hotlla Norfolk ths
De Long commissioned at Norfolk 60 third torredo
notiha; the C1lgoa restored 20 naval list
New-York tribune., 1906-07-04
POISONED By EATING RoTTED HAM.
MoTistown Woman, Seriously III, win Re-
oOver-Health Board May Investigate.
TBy Telegraph to The tribune J


Morristown, n. J.. July S-Mrs Frederick Z.
Gallagher is seriously i'll at her home, No 4o
Harrison street, with ptomaine poison resulting
from the eating Of potted ham. Mrs. Gallagher
purchased a can Of ham of one Of the local deal
ers a day or TWO ago. When she opened the
can she found the meat covered with what she
thought was a green mould. Not thinking at
the moment Of the danger of eating tainted meat
she cut the mould away and. tasting the meat
and finding it sweet, she served 1t for supper.
During the night she was taken violently Ill
Or Anna l. Aleben, who was called, pronounced
the case one Of ptomaine poisoning and was
successful in relieving the patients sufferings-
Mrs. Gallagher will recover.
member Of the local Board OF Health was
asked If it would take any action. in the matter
He said the board had never passed any ordi-
nances regarding the sale of impure food and
could do nothing in consequence about the mat
ter Mayor Charlton A. Reed was also una PIE
70 say whether the town would take any acuoh
He said If anything done il would be unGer
state law. and he had not looked up the
pure food statute he did not know just WhaI
the procedure would be.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-04
ORDERS TOBACCO SELLING STOPPED
Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association Will
Ask Offenders to Move.

Ocean Grove, July (SpeciaD. and
persistent violations of the rule prohibiting the
sale of tobacco in any form in Ocean Grove has
led to an official notice being served the bust
ness men and keepers of hotels and boarding
houses to refrain from the same at once. The
notice was prepared and signed by the Rev. Dr.
Aaron E. Ballard. vice-president of the Camp
Meeting Association Those who refuse 10 obey
the order will be requested to migrate 20 Asbury
Park or some other place where tobacco selling
and tobacco smoking is not considered a sin.
This evening in the Auditorium. a patriotic
concert was rendered by MFR. Morgan's singers
and players II was enjoyed by a large audience.
Tomorrow morning. at II O'clock the annual
patriotic exercises will be held in the Auditorium
John F. Andrus, who represents the Yonkers
district in Congress. will preside. and the ora
ton will be delivered by Theodore E. Burton
CONGRESSMAN from the Cleveland district Pa
triotic songs will be sung by a large choir. the
Declaration OF Independence will be read and
concert will be given by the Letter Carriers
Band OF Brooklyn The Asbury Park Grand
ARMY veterans will have seats OF honor on the
platform.
Bishop James N. FitzGerald. president of the
Camp Meeting Association had charge OF the
young peoples meeting In the Temple this morn
ing The Park Sisters, cornettists. played, as did
Ray F4tzGerald the blind viOlinist. Miss Fannie
G. Simpson, of Brooklyn. sang HE Never For
gets His own"
DIR. r. c. Freemantel. Of Philadelphia. who is
TO assist the musical director. Mr.. Morgan. this
summer is at the Arlington.
DR. and Mrs. c. V. Everitt. OF Jersey City. are
registered at the ArbOrtOn-
Mr.. and Mrs J. N. Webb OF Waterbury, Conn.,
will spend the Fourth OF July at the Langdon.
James r. Rigby OF Paterson N. j., has rooms
for his family at the Norman House.
Mrs. T. NJ. Ludlow, OF 81. Louis. Is a new
conner at the Sheldon House