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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-10-11

Broughton, Mrs. w. R. Coe, and Mrs.
w. E. Benjamin, have already pro-
vided him with nine grandchildren.
And he is proud of them in a way
usual to grandparents, and one may
find their pictures making cheerful
his roomy Office at 26 Broadway.
From this lovable domestic side
one travels easily to his general So
cial outlook. That can best be de-
scribed as frankly American. He is
too sensible of the value of his posi-
ton as a man of wealth to underes-
innate its possibilities. He mixes
easily in society, entertains on a gen.
erous scale, with an eye to the ele-
gancies so easily within his reach, but
he enjoys most the company of the
gifted, the genial and the witty, for he
rather leans to saying good things
himself and is never happier than
when he applauds a smart saying or
good story. A quiet game of cards
for the love of the game in congenial
company is his occasional pastime.
He has never developed the fondness
for HELD games that pleased him IL
his youth, He has taken easily to the
automobile, but, like all good sons of
the saltwater, his liking for the sea
has grown with the years.
At Home on His Yacht.
Nowhere is he perhaps more genial
ly at home than on his yacht. No
hurry that sends men to express
trains is allowed to interfere with his
yachting runs to Fairhaven. Hence
the Kanawha is about as we'll known
as Mr.. Morgan's Corsair around the
waters of New York. But it is in
Fairhaven itself that he fairly revels
in life as he thinks he would like to
live it. There he was born and
reared, and his affection for the town
and the bay and the country road is
extravagant in it's manifestations.
There, in his frequent visitings, it is
his delight to move about and chat
with all and sundry old cronies of half
a century gone, who call him Hen;
sons and daughters of old friends who
are middle-aged men and women
salute him as Mr.. Rogers, and third
generation little ones, who regard him
open-eyed as the local representative
of a magnificent providence. Said a
newspaper man recently: 81 couldn't
find anybody there who would say
anything but kindness of H. H. Rog-
ers."
Generous to Fairhaven.
He surely has been good to Fair
haven, which picturesque village looks
across Buzzard's Bay to New Bedford,
ancient home of whalers and all the
romance and business that came of
their seafaring. There he built
great mansion for himself amid beau
tiful grounds, and there he loves most
to live when away from work. But
he alone was not to be the only Fair
havenite who was finely housed. He
built and presented to the citizens
handsome town hall and a Masonic
hall.
On the death of Millicent, a be-
loved daughter, he built beautiful
public library as memorial. 1t is
called the Millicent library, and has
the highest record in the country for
books taken out and read in proper
ton to the contents of it's shelves.
The village wanted water works and
H. H. Rogers provided them. That
they might be doubly useful to Fair
haven, he decided the income from
them to the Millicent library forever,
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Tower Wishes to Retire.

Berlin, Oct. 5.-Ambassador Tower
mas written President Roosevelt ask
ing that he be permitted to retire
from the diplomatic service next
spring.
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be bright and brainy both. Of win
ter evening when he lives in town he
may spend a few hours at one of his
clubs-the Metropolitan, say. There
he would be apt to gather group of
bright people and smoke single
cigar while good things went around.
l heard him once tell of meeting a
whaling captain whom he had known
as lad 40 years before. He took his
old comrade about the town and the
countryside, identifying old land
marks together. The captain had
been away six years from home and
was to sail on new voyage the next
day. ''Pm going aboard now, Hen,"
he remarked. "And won't you go
home first and tell your wife good
by" I asked. "Blazes, no." replied
the whaler, I'm only to be gone two
years." That seemed, he said, the
most extraordinary utterance he had
ever heard. He saw the humor of it,
but to a home-lover it seemed sacri-
lege.
When the new high school -,
about to be opened l spent an after
noon with him, and our talk turned
quite naturally on education. What
he said then is about as good key
to the man and his opinions as any
thing l can think of, and this is the
drift of it:
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High School Best Outfit.


For the boy starting out in life
who is anxious to succeed in business
1 believe that the ordinary high school
education is the best outfit
''He is master of the ordinary inn
plements of business life, whether it
be mechanical or commercial-that is,
he can read, write, spell and figure.
He has at least foundation of gen.
eral knowledge. Our American high
schools, too, cultivate a sense of the
greatness of the country which in
spires him with confidence in her fu-
ture and hence in his own. I speak
now more particularly of what may be
called the country schools, which 1
know best. The high school boy has
had set for him a standard of good
conduct, and that give-and-take, which
is the necessity of all civilized social
conflict.
Ills great advantage over the col
lege bred man is that he gets his
start in life at 16 or II years of age.
as against the 81 Or % years of the
college graduate. The high school
graduate is proud enough in his way
of what he has accomplished in get
ting his class standing, but he does
not bring his pride with him when he
is going to work or looking for a Job.
On the other hand, the college man
who is not entering one of the profess
sions is apt to have more pride than
the situation warrants, and that is a
hampering thing. He is expecting the
world to come to him rather than he
should set out with eager heart to
discover the world.
Had Mechanical Bent.
CAS- for myself, was very eager to
go to work after graduating, and in
fact did go to work in less than a
week from the day left school as a
graduate. My father and 1 were
agreed that should take up the trade
of machinist, but there was no chance.
Apprenticeship were limited even at
that time as much as they are now.
The machine shops within reach were
full, so had to look in another direc-
ton. l wanted to be at work and l
found work. was proud to get three
dollars week to begin.
My father said to me, Make your
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-16
Poe A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
OLD FOOTBALL PLAYER
Princeton I Man to Recruit
Foreign Legion to Fight
South.

Mexico, Aug. 15..--A cablegram re-
ceived here from San Salvador says
that Captain John H. Poe, who was at
one time well known as Princeton
football player and Annapolis coach,
and who recently has been fighting in
the Honduran army, has left Salvador
on the steamer San Juan for San Fran
cisco, where he purposes to recruit a
foreign legion" to take part in the
expected war between the Central Am
erican states. Poe held the rank of
captain with the Hondurans. He was
in the artillery branch. Recently he
was detained at Managua by President
Zelaya, of Nicaragua, on the charge of
being a spy.
The best sources of information in
Mexico City unite in declaring that
trouble in Central America is certain.
Guatemala and Salvador win be array
ed against Honduras and Nicaragua
President Figueroa of Salvador and
President Cabrera of Guatemala have
agreed that peace is impossible so long
as zelaya remains president of Nfcara-
qua
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SUIT FOR DIVORCE.
Papers Served on J. E. Kele-
her, the Well Known
Cafe Proprietor.
BUSINESS rs ATTACHED
Action Of Wife, Who Asks
for $1,000 Alimony, a
Surprise.
BUSINESS rs ATTACHED

An attachment was served yesterday
afternoon by Col Healy as deputy
sheriff on the saloon Of James Keleher
at the junction Of George and Meadow
streets 10 cover the sum asked as ALI
nlony by Mrs. Keleher in suit for di-
vorce which she is bringing through
Attorney Bernard Lynch. The divorce
is asked on the grounds of intolerable
cruelty and of habitual intemperance
and the sum of $4,000 is asked as all
mony. The property is held for the
sum named. Service was made on the
place yesterday afternoon and the sa-
loon is now being conducted under the
control Of Deputy Sheriff Healy.
James Kelener is well known and
popular about the city and the news OF
the divorce action will come as a sur
prise to many friends. The suit is re-
turnable to the Superior court in Sep
tember Colonel Healy has appointed a
keeper at the saloon.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-16
ANGRY NEGRO Uses RAZOR
ASSAULTS MR.. LYNCH
Sore Because He Could Not
Ride Free on Savin Rock
Flying Horses.

Because William Lynch, who Is en-
p,oyed by his father on the flying
horses near the grove, Savin Rock, in
sisted that negro, whose name Is not
known. should pay his fare, the latter
drew his razor and slashed the boy
back and forth across the face and cut
a deep cash in his nose. Before he
could be captured he had left the
grove and though a general alarm was
sent out to the New Haven and West
Haven police, up to an early hour this
morning he had not been captured
The Lynch boy was picked UP beside
the flying horses and assisted to Car
ney's drug store where his injuries
were dressed by DR.. Paul B. Kennedy.
1t was necessary to take eight stitches
to close the wounds in the boys face
and he will probably bear the marks
all his life.
Descriptions of the assailant differ
greatly and this leads to doubt
whether he will be captured. Atten-
tion was given the boy Immediately
without thought of arresting the man
who attacked him,
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$50 FINE FOR Speeding
M. /. ADAMS CHAUFFEUR
First Pleads Guilty and
Then Changes It to
Not Guilty.

Bradley Hamilton, jr., of this city,
chauffeur for DR.. NJ. ]. Adams, was
fired $50 in the Hamden town court
yesterday afternoon by Judge Cook on
a plea of guilty for speeding his ma
chine, and then because the price
seemed to him too high he tried to APP
peal the case.
AS Mr.. Hamilton had pleaded guilty
the case could not be appealed, but
Charles F. Clarke, who Is prosecuting
attorney, allowed him to change his
plea to not guilty and the hearing was
continued until Monday. DR.. Adams
advised the continuance.
When Hamilton was arrested he was
going down Dixwell avenue at rate
of nearly forty miles an hour the
prosecutions witnesses state. The peo-
pie of Hamden say they are tired of
lodging whizzing automobiles, and this
is probably one reason for the heavy
fine.
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SIDE ROOMS DOOMED
win be Illegal Adjuncts Of Saloons
After September /.

Hartford, Aug. ia meeting of the
county commissioners will be held here
next Monday to discuss features Of the
new law regarding the closing Of side
rooms and booths in saloons.
Some Of the commissioners are said
to be uncertain whether the law win
take effect September 1, Prosecuting
Agent Thayer says it will, and that the
side rooms and booths in the saloons
here must be closed on and after that
date The number Of places affected
in this city is between go and 10.
The penalty for violation Of the law
is forfeiture of the license and the
testing of the place for a year as un-
suitable for a license. The latter part
Of the penalty is new In the history of
liquor legislation in Connecticut.
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Committee Recommends the
Date to the Selectmen
and They Will
Adopt It.
CIRCULAR GIVING
CHARTER CHANGES
Sixteen Members Of the
Committee Present at
the Meeting Last
Night.

Sixteen members Of the committee
of twenty-five, which has charge Of
Ie action on the new charter for the
proposed city Of Orange, which was
passed by the legislature at the session
last winter attended the meeting held
in the town hall in, West Haven last
night to consider the setting of date
for the voting of the citizens on the
acceptance or rejection of the charter.
After considerable deIiberation the
committee decided to recommend to
the selectmen the Thursday after La
Dor day, which will be September 5.
This date will undoubtedly be adopted
by the selectmen, and on that day the
citizens of the projected city will be
able to record their votes on the mat
ter.
The sixteen members of the general
committee who were present last night
were Henry A. Il. Hall, who acted as
chairman of the meeting; Judge Sam
uel A. Bryant, John Wilkinson, Arthur
A. Benham, Robert J. Woodruff, Ed
win S. Thomas, Edward A. Richards,
George E. Bailey, Frank s. Bradley,
Representative John Brown, James A.
Merwin, Walter A, Main, DR.. J. F.
Barnett James B. Smith, Louis RI.
Warner and George S. McLarin. Cliff
ford f. Smith acted as the clerk Of the
meeting.
"A committee consisting of George e..
Bailey as chairman; Judge Bryan,
John Wilkinson, B. Smith and George
Is. McLarin with Clifford Smith as clerk
was appointed to get out circulars
which are to be issued and which are
to call attention of the citizens to the
various changes which were made by
| the legislature In the original draft Of
1.-THE bill when it was passed. Copies
of this original draft were sent out be-
fore the bill was passed and the circu-
lars now to be issued will call atten-
| tion to the changes from this copy.
While none of the changes Is of great
| Importance the committee desires that
every one know clearly just what the
document is upon which he is voting.
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MRS. MAC CORMAC
KILLED OUTRIGHT
Automobile of Young Mil
lionaire Crashes Into
Carriage at South
Norwalk.
TRYING FOR RECORD
FROM NEW HAVEN
Drs. Converse and Bradley
Of This City Returning
From Catskills Aid
Injured.

South Norwalk, Aug. 15.-Mrs. Carrie
MacCormac was instantly killed late
to-day, and her husband, Paul MacCor-
mac, a young millionaire, of 316 West
95th street, New York city, is In the
Norwalk hospital as a result of a COLI
lision between a carriage containing
four people and an automobile con-
tanning Mr. and Mrs MacCormac, and
which Mr.. MacCormac was driving in
the town of Norwalk a short distance
from the Darien line on the Connecticut
turnpike. MacCormac 1t is believed has
a chance for recovery, although he may
lose his left leg.
The automobile, six cylinder high
power runabout, had started down a
declivlty, running at high speed, it is
said. when it met the carriage coming
in the opposite direction. The latter
was overturned and the occupants
spilled out, receiving painful but not
serious injuries. As the car struck Fhe
carriage a glancing blow, the forward
wheel of the machine flew off, causing
1t to swerve to one side and run UP a
pdIlk lOuE Ieet HlSuy Wu6I6 ~ SlIuCh q
wire fence and tree, turning over as It
did So MaeCormac was thrown for
ward, missing the tree by a few feet
and being rendered unconscious from
the effects of his fall. Mrs. MacCor-
mac, who had been seated beside him,
was hurled against the tree as the car
turned over The frontal bone Of her
skull was crushed in, and when the car
settled down on the ground she was be-
meath it, mangled, crushed and dead
Her left leg was torn and broken and
her whole body bruised. On the ground
short distance away lay her husband,
unconscious, and suffering from q
compound fracture OF The Ieft leg below
the knee, while his right leg was
wrenched and the muscles of the thigh
torn.
DIR. C. B. Keeler of New Canaan, who
happened to come along just after the
accident attended to the injured. Al
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-08-16
NO HEALTH BOARD QUORUM
FOR EVENING SESSION
So Adjourned Meeting to
Act on Complaints is
Postponed.

When the board of health adjourned
Tuesday afternoon after the regular
session it was to hold a continuance of
the meeting last evening in the board
room but owing to the failure Of a
quorum of the members to show up
there was no meeting held. The ses-
sion on Tuesday was given up to the
hearing of the delegations who COM
planned against certain nuisances
which they wished abated, and the
board was to consider what action
should be taken on the petitions
heard last night. The session was call
ed for 8 o'clock and three quarters of
an hour late those who had come
withdrew from the field leaving the
meeting to go over
The meeting may yet be held this
week as the members seem very desir-
our to get the business on hand off
before the next regular session. There
is no date set for adjournment.
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DOWN GOES GAS PRICE
Waterbury Consumers Rejoice to
Learn of Reduction.

Waterbury, Aug. 15.-of1cial an
nouncement is made of a reduction in
the price Of gas and electric light, one
feature being the substitution of a fiat
rate for rate subject to discount if
payment be made by certain time.
In the first place it is announced that
the price Of gas in Waterbury will be
reduced to affect bills issued September
for gas used in August The price
will be SLID per 1000 cubic feet net,
with no discount bills being payable
when presented. The former prices
were $1.S5 gross, with discounts to
SIPS net for lighting and 1$115 net for
fuel purposes Now the price will be
S1.1o net for both lighting and fuel.
The cost of electric lights has also
been reduced on about the same scale.
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New Haven Yachtsman's
Sportsmanship Averted
Collision and Loss
Of Life.
ELMINA COULD HAVE
RAMMED OPPONENT
Expert Declares Twould
Have Served Maxwell's
Right to Have Been
Smashed.

In the recent races Of the Larchn1ont
Yacht club In which the largest and
fastest boats of the east were entered
a very serious collision was averted.
almost by a hairs breadth, by the
quick action of Frederick e. Brewster,
Of tA4s city, owner Of the feet Elnina.
But for Mr. rewster's thoroughly
sportsmanlike es-.fduct the Queen, Max
wells great yacht, might be at the bot
tom of the sound to-day and several
of her crew with her.
The incident is teisely told by the
yachting expert OF the Forest and
Stream as follows:
Queen is undoubtedly the fastest
smooth water sailor of the three (Queen
Ingoinar and Elmina) yet the Elmina
was going some that day and it was
a pity Queen forced her about when
she had no right to thus spelling an
opportunity to see how they would
compare in weather to the formers lfk-
ing. Had the Elmina kept her course
she would have cut Queen clear In two
and a disastrous wreck was a GER
tainty.
This trying to force a man on the
starboard tack is practiced altogether
too much. There were several cases of
it tried during the week in the smaller
classes and while boats that do Ii
should be run into and smashed ITO
teach those would do 1t better manners
no man likes to put his own boat out of
one or two days racing when there ID
only one such weeks racing In d year. /,
Mr.. Brewster, himself, will not talk
for publication about the matter, blits
his friends say that the two boats were
so close together that If the Elrnina
had not replied to her helm with url-
usual readiness a collision could not
have been avoided with loss nf lite
Yachting men say Mr. Brewster's ac-
tion In changing hts course speaks VOL
umes for his sportsmanship as especi-
ally 50 that he filed no protest.
The Queen is sailed by the Maxwells,
father and son, and much credit has
been given to them as amateurs pitted
against professionals This credit isH
misplaced, yachtsmen say, when such
reckless tactics are pursued.
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MARRTEs NoBLEMAN
Charles A. Moore's Daughter Weds
Don Merino Torlonia.

Greenwich, Aug. 15.-The wedding
of Miss Mary Elsie Moore, daughter
of Charles A. Moore, of New York.
president of a number of manufact-
uring concerns, and Don Merino Tor
lonia, member of noble italian fam
lily, occurred here this afternoon at
the summer home of the brides par
ents, the full service of the Roman
Catholic church being used. Mrs.
Colby M. Chester, wife of Rear-Ad-
mira1 Chester and sister of Miss
Moore, was matron of honor. Don
Torlonia was attended as best man
by Chevalier Montagna, the Italian
charge d'affaires at Washington. The
wedding guests included many distin-
guished people.
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DID ORCHARD
SWEPT BY FIRE
Peventeen Hotels, Sixty
Cottages and Several
Stores are De-
stroyed.
EXPLOSION KILLS
UNKNOWN MAN
Fitzgerald of Bos-
ton Narrowly Escapes
Serious IN
jury.

I Old Orchard, Aug. 15.-seventeen
hummer hotels, sixty cottages and a
core of buildings occupied by stores
we're burned tonight in fire which
swept the eastern section Of this town
&long the shore, causing a loss estimat-
Ad at half a million dollars. The in
burance is $780, 900. An unknown man
was killed and two others injured se-
Eerely by a soda water tank which ex-
zploded in a burning drug store and shot
put among a group standing on the
Hreet. There were no other casualties.
The burned buildings were of wooden
construction and therefore an easy and
buick prey of the flames which spread
with remarkable swiftness, reducing to
hshes section of half hundred acres
zvithin three hours. The burned area
Extends from Old Orchard avenue east
Evard between Milliken street and the
beach for nearly half mile, and In 1t
kwere included some of the finest guest
bouses and private residences of this
popular resort. The fire started just be-
fore o'clock and was under control at
Ill 40.
The hotels burned include the fol-
lowing: Florida house, Olympia house,
Hotel Emerson, Hotel Emerson annex,
Eleaves house, Hotel Alberta, Hotel
9rving, Hotel Fiske, Linwood house,
evesper house, Hotel tArvine, Lawrence
house, Lewiston house, Boyden house,
Hotel De Bernier, New Palmer house
hnd Seashore house.
The explosion Of a soda tank in Hor-
BaE's drug store on Old Orchard ave-
hue caused the instant death Of one
9nan and severe injuries to two others.
The dead man has not been identified.
*rhe injured are:
Newton Morrill,, 25, Green street, Sa-
EN-, Mass, a Boston and Maine rail-
&cad enginee4.
Rev. Rufus H. Jones, pastor of Trim
] ts Episcopal church, Saco
Mayor John f. Fitzgerald of Boston,
pho was passing along Old Orchard
*lvfnre at the time, had narrow es-
#ape from injury. He was slightly
Ehurt by flying fragments of post
which the tank struck in its course
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SHE'S MARRIED NOW
New Haven Normal school Graduate
Elopes to Do it.

Stamford, August 15.--Married in
New York on Sunday April 2S, Miss
Charlotte Rieger, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Adolph Rieger of Foundry
street, told of the marriage for the first
time to-day The bridegroom was Fer
dinand Fl. Born. well known Glen
brook young man.
"Why yes, I suppose it was an elope-
tnent," said the bride to-day I'VE were
married secretly, because we thought it
would be romantic. Besides, my par
ents did not want me to marry. They
considered me too young, and they be-
lieved Mr.. Borm's prospects were not
quite bright enough"
The bride is twenty-three and has
ben teacher for four years. She is a
graduate of the Stamford High school,
and Of the New Haven Normal school,
and for two years taught in Greenwich
Recently she was given a promotion
for conspicuously meritorious services
at Turn of-River school here. In all
likelihood she will now decline the pro-
motion,