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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
AUTO TRUCK DOES POLICE WORK.
Heavy junk. supposed stolen. Carried TO
station xhat Way.

St1thVu A8u1t Vby
Two detectives in the West Twentieth
street police station heard early Sunday
morning that a load Of valuable junk was
being carted into a junk shop on Twenty
seventh street west of Tenth avenue. The
plain clothes men. together with several
reserves and three pstrolmen, picked up
on the way uptown, got to the shop in time
to see four persons getting over a fence
near by. A fifth man was arrested. An
empty one horse wagon stood outside the
shop. A lot Of copper wire weighing about
200 pounds was found in the shop. Four
barrels Of brass findings. four bags Of
dross worth from 4 to Q cents a pound and
a dozen boxes Of crude rubber also were
found. The wire 10 worth about 20 cents
a pound.
The policemen had some trouble to get
the stun up the steps TO be taken to the
station. Eventually a message was sent
to a garage at Ninth avenue and Twenty
seventh street, and an auto truck helped
to bring the wire and other things out.
They we're loaded on the gasolene wagon.
The police think that thieves broke into
a freight car.
The prisoner said he was 1 eroy Fsirchild.
living at ass West Thirty-eighth street.
He said he did not know the men who had
the wagon, but they had hired him for 50
cents to help them. Magistrate Barlow
in the Jefferson Market court yesterday
held Fairchild in q 200 bail for ~forty-eight
hours.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
Army and NAVY Orders.

wAsHTNGroS. July a.-Thesc army orders we're
issued to day:
First Lieut.. James B. Taylor, Coast Artillery.
from Sixty NTH TO i3.th Company.
Capt. Frank ID. Ely. Payrnsster. from Denver
TO San FrancIsco.
Capt. Marshall Childs. Twenty NTH Infantry
ington Barracks.
Capt. William M. Morrow. Twenty -nrst Infantry.
20 Newport News.
Second Lieut.. Harry G. Leckie. Twenty sixth
Infantry, TO the Preside of San Francisco.
First Lieut.. william y. Stokey. Corps Engineers,
from Military Academy to Havana.
First Lieut., Henry {. Jewett. Corps Engineers.
to West Point.
Capt. william II. Burt. Fourth Field Artillery
TO MI vacancy In Pay Department At Manila,
First Lieut.. William ID. 4. Anderson, Engineers,
from Washington Barracks TO Havana.
First Lieut.. Ralph r.. Ward, Engineers. from
Washington Barracks TO Fort Mason, California.
Pirst Lieut.. Thomas NJ. Robins. Engineers. from
Washington Barracks 70 Havana.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
NIAGARA RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Coroner BlaMes the state for WlapIdatrd
and Anticipated structure.


n Anticipated structure.
NIAGARA FALLS. July 2s.--Coroner Scott
tonight rendered a verdict in the inclined
railway accident on the State reservation
which cost the life OF Peter Inda of Buffalo
and serious injuries to others. He finds
that the accident was caused by a breaking
Of the manila cable and subsequent breaking
OF the safety device attached to the front
Of the south car, This safety device was
improperly designed and OF improper ma
terial to bear the strain.
He finds that no test of the safety device
was ever made since its installation in
1887, and this failure, he declares. nom
stitutes negligence on the part Of every
body who has had charge of the machinery
from that date 20 the present time. There
was especial negligence on the part of
those who installed the apparatus and of
the State in accepting it without test.
Il find" says the Coroner, that the
whole inclined railway including machinery,
railway structure and buildings, was old,
~antiquated and d~ilapidated. and that the
attention OF the State officials and Legis-
lature has been repeatedly called to this
condition by Supt. Perry and the commits.
sioners OF the reservation"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
FOR MONOPOLY IN BALLOONS
state Ownership Advocated I'm Germany
a. o Necessary war Measure.
Special Cable Despatch to TEE SUN.


~ Q Necessary War Measure.
Special Cable Despatch 20 TEE sux.
BERLIN. July 2s.-The interest displayed
In the recent development Of aerial nsvl-
cation. especially with French and German
military airships. 10 mixed with some
anxiety. There is a fear that foreign dir
igible balloons will examine German forti-
fications. IL 10 asked what is there to pre-
ven French airships from lowering over
strategic points In Germany with tele-
scopic cameras.
One writer. Col. Wagner. proposes TO
meet h danger by creating a State mo-
nopoly in sirships. He would rave a law
forbidding anybody except the Government
to build, possess or use such vessels without
a special license and empowering the w.
ernment to appropriate all private airships
and to Danish all foreign ones. Any one
attempting TO evade the law would be fired
upon IL necessary, inc the occupants Of the
airship would be tried as spies IL the cir
oumstances we're suspicious.
The legislation must extend from the
frontiers to the sky. thereby partitioning
the atmosphere SO hat the air above every
country will belong to it as much as the
land itself.
The Dsutsche Tdgesseitung editorially de-
mands the speedy building of a feet Of
aerial warships, which. IL says. will be
specially valuable in a war with Great
Britain. balancing Germany's naval in
feriority.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
4 STAB FOR 4 SLAP.
Now the woman stabbed L. Dead and Her
AssaiIant IL Held BY Coroner

Mrs. Jennie Salerino of 90s Fast i0sth
street died yesterday in the Harlem Hos
pital from a stab wound inflicted by Pietro
Napoli Of $50 East 107th street. The woman
kept a fruit stand. Napoli. abe told Cor
oner Shrady, said she dealt unfairly with
her customers. She met him on the street
on July IS and slapped his face. Napoli
stabbed her. .
The woman's husband shot Napoli in
the leg, but the latter ran a considerable
distance before he was arrested. He was
brought before Coroner Shrady yesterday
When Napoli learned that she was dead he
broke down,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
DOUGLAS S. HUNTINGTON DIES.
Didn't Know His Son Henry Had shot
EBrothcrs and sisters.

tVtthVp @tto Wv
Special Cable Dsspatch TO TME SON.
PARIS. July 7e.-Douglas 81. George
Huntington died this evening without
learning anything of the family tragedy,
when his, son Henry ahot his two brothers
and two sisters. The doctors have been
unable to extract the bullet from Alonzo's
right lung. and his condition this evening
is considered to be dangerous. Edith
Huntington 10 still in danger. The others
are progressing satisfactorily.
The inquiring Magistrate was compelled
to postpone his examination of Henry
owing to the lstter's excited state OF mind.
A special guard Is watching him to prevent
his suicide.
Mrs. Henry Huntington denies the re-
port that her marriage in 1897 caused the
rupture with the family, as all were good
friends until a dinner in 1898, when her
sisters-in-law qusrrelled with her husband.
After the Inner she played whist with
her father and her parents-in-law. while
Henry played cards with his sisters in an
other room.
The quarrel broke out afresh and her
husband took her away. The families
had never met since. She added that her
husband always carried a small sword
cane, which he had on Sunday. He was
under a doctors care as a n~eurasthenic.
The Petit Parisien gives a report that the
elder Mr.. Huntington disinherited Henry
in his will, but after the latter's repentance
on Sunday he tore up this will. intending
to make a new one giving Henry a share in
his estate. The protests Of the brothers
and sisters against this. il 10 said. drove
Henry to Use his revolver.
One son has considerable OF a reputation
as a painter. The other has written for
English and American magazines. Henry
gained a reputation as an eccentric at
Chateau Thierry, where he lives. He vas
addicted to intoxicants, it 10 said. He
would often shut himself up and consume
liquor, as the Journal says, with an intre-
pidity American" after which he would
display fierce bursts Of passion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30

New superintendent for n. n, T. system.
William seibert has been appointed
superintendent Of the surface lines Of the
entire Brooklyn Rapid Transit system.
He began ~railroading in Brooklyn as a con-
ductor on a horse car in 1885 and passed
through all the grades. He will now have
the direction Of 5000 men n 400 miles OF
railroad.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
ODD CASE or WOWAN'S DEATH.
found In CrlIarwsy Behind House Next
Door 20 Her Own.

Mrs, Barnett Simon. found IN Sunday
IN the cellarway back Of 3o7 Fast Twenty
hrst street, died yesterday in Bellevue
Hospital a few minutes after making a
statement 10 Coroner Hamburger. II was
tohbed Il was also said abe might have
iallen from a window in her fiat at 30S.
aItholgh she lives on the ground floor. Her
husband was arrested yesterday.
When Coroner Hamburger spoke to the
nylng woman she exclaimed: u did Il
,vy-eit, no one else did It," She repeated
hls three times.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
STOLE. FROM HIS SISTER.
a Dinner AZ Her House Lamar Took
a Diamond ring.

On the complaint Of Frederick W. Naylor
who gave his address as Grove place. East
Orange. Henry Lamar Of iO4 West Fortieth
street was locked up in the Tenderloin
police station house last night on a charge
of grand larceny Lamar Is a brother Of
Mrs, Naylor. On Saturday. after dinner.
at East Orange. Lamar returned to the
city. When he had gone Mrs. Naylor
M Used a diamond ring valued at $3.50.
Mr.. Naylor and his wife last night found
Lamar on Sixth avenue and had him ar
rested
A pawnticket was found on him for q
diamond ring which had been pawned
for $40 The following letter was also
found:
DEAR Ina I'm very sorry ! had to take
the ring. but ! needed the money to get to
Chicago. Enclosed find the pawnticket for
the ring HENRY.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
GERMANS NEW WAR BALLOON.
Successful Trip Over Berlin. with Head
wind DtncuIties Obviated.

Special Cable DesDateh 20 TIE Sun.
BERLIN, July @.-Crowds watched for
over an hour to-day the maneuvres Of the
war balloon which travelled over the
Inter den Linden from the Br~andepburg
gate to the royal palace. After encircling
the latter it returned by he same way,
now and then diversing to other parts Of
the city.
A military balloonist declared that one Of
the chief difficulties met had been the prob
lem Of making Roadway against the wind
The only noticeable effect OF the wind was
a light diminution Of the pace and an easily
discernible %undulatory motion Of tho bal
loon. The noise OF the rotor could be
heard distinctly when the balloon was from
800 to 900 feet from the ground.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
Ambassador s,recl Visits Canada.

MONTREAL. July 20 -Senor Enrique Creel,
Ambassador from Mexico TO the United
States, arrived in Montreal to-day. He
will remain a few days in this city. during
which time he will interview business men
and shipping interests relative to the sub
iect Of trade between Canada and Mexico.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
IRISH MEETING Forbidden.
Gathering az United League At Bella
stopped Held. However. Two Miles Away.

Special Cdble Despatch 10 The SCN.
LONDON. July 2s.-Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman's Government has proclaimed
for the first time a meeting convened under
the auspices Of the United Irish League.
IL was to have been held to-day at Bella,
County Rosoommon. Ireland, where there
is a boycotted grazing ranch.
The Government, ~suspecting that the
meeting would lead TO intimidation. noti-
fed it's promoters, including Laurence Gin
nell, NJ. p. for North Westmeath, that
the police would prevent the gathering,
using force il necessary.
A large number of police were sent to
Bella. The meeting was nevertheless held
at a place two miles distant. Mr.. Ginnell
told his hearers that the anti-grazing move
ment had the support and encouragement
Of the Irish Parliamentary party. and urged
its continuance.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
PHILIPPINE PLANTATION 90.
Manager In Msnila wlthdraws the Appiica,
ton for License to 10 Business.

ton for License to DO Business.
Special CobIe Despatch TO TIE sun.
MANILA, July &C.. H. Hilbert, manager
Of the Philippine Plantation Company. has
withdrawn his application to the Govern-
ment for a license to do business here.
The authorities intended to refuse the de-
sired permission on account Of the excess
sive capitalization Of the company and
their belief that the promoters were not
dealing fairly with the public.
The circular issued by A. L. Wisner 4
Co. concerning the status and prospects
OF the company is considered to be mis-
leading.
The Philippine Plantation Company had
a capital stock Of iO.OOO,O 900 shares Of a par
value Of 81 each.
The prospectus Of the company said that
the plantations had paid dividends at the
rate Of 9 2-3 per cent. for last year. when it
was first organized. and announced that
the dividends would be increased this
year. Persons who asked at the Office
Of A. l.. Wisner d Co.. rs Wal street, about
the plantation company were told that
about $50, OOO worth Of mules and modern
plantation machinery had been shipped
over to work the land this year;
The firm, IL il asserted, said that the
plantation consisted Of 49, $50 acres Of the
most fertile land in the Cagayan Valley,
on the island of Luzon. and that sugar,
tobacco. hemp. rice and corn could be
grown there in great quantities.
Clarence h. Wisner. a brother OF A. J..
Wisner. who has a desk in the firms office,
said last night that nothing had been heard
here about the action Of Manager Hilbert.
He didn't believe il could be true because
the company's attorney, C.. F. Humphrey
OF San Francisco. was over there a few
weeks ago and reported everything running
smoothly.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
LUSITANTt'S TRIP 4 SUCCESS
New Cunarder Performs Perfectly More
vibration Than Was Expected. .

Special Cdble Despatch 10 TEE SUN.
LIVERPOOL. July 2e.-The trial cruise OF
the new Cunarder. the Lusitania, was
successful. The ship was on her best be-
havior throughout and everything worked
fsultlessly. No attempt was made to push
the ship at top speed. the cruise being
mainly a reliability trial. She averaged
twenty knots. Possibly, because the ship
was light and somewhat unsteady, there
was rather more vibration than had been
expected.
One OF the most interested OF those on
board was Sir William White. late Chief
Constructor for the Navy. He said that the
Mauritania. the Lusitsnia's sister ship, for
which he was mainly responsible. would
be finished about the middle Of September.
He said that the coal consumption Of
these leviathans would be forty-fve tons
an hour. or about $500 tons for a trans
atlantic trip.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
FRENCH ELECTION RESULTS.
The ProErcssiVes and Reacti0nartes Lose
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gain slightly.

'Spfr'0t Cdbtc Despafeh 10 THE SDN.
PARIS. jay 2s.-l1he results are known
in the case Of l.27s Of the 1 $50 elections held
yesterday for membership in the General
Councils. There will have to be 1877 second
ballots. The Reactionaries. who formerly
held 2s8 seats, lost 20. The N~ationalists
kept 10 Of the 20 they had held. The Pro-
gr~essives lost 50 of their $50 seats. The
Republicans gained II and the Socialists Q,
Many cantons in the department Of Herault
had no candidates and cast no votes.
At Montagnac, in Herault. out OF SAC
entitled to vote only twenty-seven cast
their ballots. The strike is almost uni
versal in the departments Of Pyrenees-
Or,entales AMI Auds. but Gard voted.
al. Ferroul, who 10 in prison for having
resigned the mayorship Of Beziers in pro-
test against the Governments policy toward
the wine growers OF the Midi, was elected.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
To Meet with Gar and Kaiser.

Special Cdoie Despatch 10 TER SUN.
BERLIN. July 2s.-It is believed that
when the Gar and the Kaiser meet near
Danzic, probably on August I. Chancellor
Won Buelow and Baron' Isvolsky. the Rus
sian Minister OF Foreign Affairs. will be
present
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
KERNELS. No. 9.
Perrnanency.
There are eleven xsrnsis. Road them ali.

The circulation Of an advertising medium. even if proved super.
lstive in quality. quantity and distribution. must have another and
final characteristic TO make it valuable to the advertiser. This
may be called permsneney. which means the number Of days or
weeks or months that a magazine is kept in the home before being
thrown away. Here The Associated Sunday Magazines has an
advantage over all standard independent magazines from the very
start. because eshy-two per cent of Its enormous circulation Is
home-deivered. whereas a largo proportion Of the circulation jof
never reach the home. After The Associated Sunday Magazines
is delivered into the home. how long does it stay herep On
February g Of this year. three Of our papers sent out about 5000
letters to as many Of their subscribers. These letters were uniform.
and asked the subscribers opinion Of The Sunday Magazine; If
he kept il longer than any other part of the paper; and If he kept
. Gle of il regularly. To these letters the astonishing number Of
nearly 5000 replies were received. These replies were tabulated
as follows: soy kept a file regularly: 20% KEEP. it until it is
thoroughly read; 1919 read it through and passed it on to others;
and % were Indifferent. Can any independent magazine prove
such a remarkable interest on the part of its readers. or show
anything like such a proportion Of its circulation that IS regularly
filed for future referencep The result of this investigation is a
natural tribute to the literary merit and human interest of the
contents of The Associated Sunday Magazines. Letters were
also sent to a number of advertisers. asking over how long a period
the answers to a single advertisement were received. The replies
to these letters indicated a minimum period of about three mor,hs.
with a maximum period Of over a year. and proved conclusveiy
that advertisements appearing simultaneously in The Assoc"aed
Sunday Magazines and in the leading independent weekies bring
answers covering an equal period. The letters received from. The
subscribers and from the advertisers, on the subject Of permaneney.
were so interesting that we have reproduced a number Of them in
a special booklet, which we will gladly send to any one interested
on request. The net result of the investigation was to establish.
beyond question, that the life Of The Associated Sunday Maya
zines is al long as the life of the most popular independent weekly
magazine.
Kernel No io-Advsrasns Rate-wii appear. week from to-day.
The Associated Sunday Magazines is the most
The United States. 1t eirculstes more than a
million copies every week. and sells more ereuls-
standard magazine published.
The Associated Sunday Magazines
Issued eeop...dv,ly by and . part of TIT. Sunday issue. of the
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-07-01
Sahara GROWING Drior.

c. F.. Gautier, French explorer, Is
authority for the statement that the
3ahari: is continuously becoming drier
10 such an extent that the GASES are
gercepubly drying up and will disap-
gear altc .o'har In a relatively short
dine. He quotes historical records and
physical signs to show that springs
were 1T one time much more plentiful
than now and that the extent Of the
patches where vegetation hourishcs
were much greater even fifty to hun
dred years ago. AS the climate Of the
region has undergone no change in
perhaps Thousands of years, he believes
that the disappearance of the water
must be due to purely mechanical
causes. He considers that it Is due to
tho continual advance Of the great
sand masses to the north, thus forming
an impermcable barrier against the
watershed OF the Atlas mountains.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-07-01
The Primitive Violin.

IN its primitive form the violin was
a direct development Of the Tyre and
monochord-the strings from the for
mer and the elongated box, with its
sound holes, finger board and movable
bridge, from the latter The history
of the violin began with the invention
Of the bow some time before the thir-
teenth century, when the wolfe, or vielle,
used by the troubadours, made its APP
pearance. This instrument underwent
many changes until the middle of the
sixteenth century, when the true violin
model appeared. The primitive violin
had little or no contour. 1t was not
until the thirteenth century that the
viellc was scooped out at the waist.
The corner blocks were added in the
fifteenth century and are attributed
to Germany. For nearly a century
the sound holes were shifted all over
the instrument before they were cut
In their proper place and the bridge
fixed between them.-Circle Magazine.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-07-01
Told Who He Was.

The game warden Of Colorado was
walking out in the mountains on one
occasion when he met a hunter with
his gun. The official suggested that
that ought to be good country for
hunting. "It certainly u.s." said the
hunter proudly. Il killed one Of the
finest bucks yesterday I ever saw. and
he weighed over two hundred" 1t was
the season when deer may not be shot
without subjecting the hunter to a
heavy fine. "Well, that is fine one.
said the warden, land do you know
who you are talking tot" Being assur-
ed that he did not, the official said.
"Why, I am the chief game warden Of
Colorado" The hunter was only taken
aback for moment, when he asked,
"And do you know who you are talk
ing TOT" The warden didn't know.
"Well, SIR said the hunter, appar'
emily much relieved, you are talking
to the biggest liar in the whole state
Of Colorado. kansas City Star.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-07-01
The First Oil Well,

With the death Of James p. Smith Of
Titusyi lie recently there passed the
last 81 t. u CUP Of men who appear
N the famous Drake well picture,
taken n tie autumn Of 1861 by John
a. 1Iathar, the noted oil region pho
rogra pher Tho group in the picture
included Colonel Edwin J.. Drake, the
nan who drilled the well; William and
James L. smith, practical drillers, who
assisted with the work; Peter Wilson,
TltusviIlc merchant and steadfast
friend of Colonel Drake, and Albridge
Locke. The five men are dead. This
picture adorns the offices of hundreds
Of oil operators and refears and is the
only Photograph Of the first oil Well.
The only person now living connected
,gith the picture Is John A. Mather,
the photographer. - Philadelphia Rec
md
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-07-01
The HIGHEST Skyscraper,

The tower to be built by the Metro
politan Life on the northwest corner
Of the block between Twenty third and
Twenty fourth streets and Fourth and
Madison avenues in New York city
will be 6JS feet above the sidewalk
and G0ola feet above its foundation.
The clock 10 be placed between the
twenty first and twenty-thlrd stories
viii have hands twelve feet long. Of
fees on the forty-frst floor will be the
same height as the lookout windows il
he ton Of the Washington monument.
Al Interesting point Is noted by Il
i7riler in The Scientific American. The
Acwar being thirty feet higher than
ne NJ 1ntcaIr hills. will catch the rays
OF the sun aflar It has set behind re
Grange mount ainA