Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-15

cradle c0ncern-SO mucn so tnal tney
are extremely cautious about talking
on the subject.
Naval officers believe that as soon
as Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans,
commander-in-chief of the Atlantic
fleet, has piloted the sixteen battle
ships under his command safely on
the Forthcoming voyage from Allan
tic waters to San Francisco he will
ask to be relieved Of his command,
says the New York Times Of Friday.
In the regular course Of events he
will retire from active duty in August
of next year, and his associates say
II Is natural for the admiral to desire
a few leisure moments prior to sever
ing active connection with the service.
AS to Admiral Evans successor there
is already much speculation. There
are many naval officers who believe
that the plum will fall to Rear Admi-
raj Uriel Sebree who, when the fleet
arrives at San Francisco, will be the
commander of the second division and
who will not reach retirement age
until 1910.
New York, October IL: Griffith
Brewer and Claude Brabason, the
English contestants in the interna-
tional balloon race to be held at St.
Louis, October 21, arrived early today
on the Lusitania. They will start for
st. Louis tomorrow or Sunday. All OF
the foreign contestants are now here,
except the French balloonist who will
arrive on the La Touraine, which Is
due tomorrow, and one of the Ger
mans, Paul Mechel, who is due at the
same time. The members af the Ger
man team sent word to the directors
of the Aero club yesterday that the
order of their start would be: Ozier,
Erbsleh, Pommern, first; Paul Mech
ell, Dusseldorf, second, and Capt. Won
Abercorn in his balloon, third; the
drawing of position, according to ma
tions, will probably take place tomor-
row night at the Aero club. The race
will start at $50 o'clock in the after
noon of Monday, October 2l, the COM
peting balloons being sent away at
five minute intervals.
New York, October IL: Four days,
10 hours and So minutes from Queens
town, with every transatlantic rec
ord in her possession, the Cunard lin
er, Lusitania, swept by Sandy Hook
lightship at III a. m, today and al
daylight steamed slowly up the har-
Dor. Three records were written down
in her log book, two of them wrested
from the Great German rivals OF the
Cunard line and one from the swift
Lucania, Of her own line. They were
the shortest time from any European
port to New York; the fastest aver
age speed for any transatlantic voy-
age, 1898 nautical miles per hour;
the longest daily run, 617 nautical
miles. Translated into land miles, her
speed average for the run was 27.6O
miles an hour. The Lusitania's
achievement is a triumph for British
ship builders and sailors, and may
mark the passing Of the old-fashioned
reciprocating engine and the begin
ming of the universal installation or
turbines, which have made 1t possi-
BILE for this ship to break all records.
New York, October IL: New York
city, Americas great source Of buffalo
supply, yesterday shipped fifteen buff
faloes constituting the initial gift OF
the New York game preserve, to Ok
lahoma For a week preparations for
the Grating and shipping of the ami
mails have been in progress. Wooden
cages were built for each buffalo. The
fifteen buffaloes selected for shipment
to the national game preserve were
the best Of the Bronx herd of forty
eight. There were five bulls and ten
cows. 1t was an all day job for Frank
Rush, an Oklahoma cow puncher,
and his assistants, who came here es-
pecially for the work, to get the ami
mails into the cages. The national
game preserve, established by the
government last year, is in the Wich-
ita mountains. The buffalo park COM
prises 5000 acres Of the total of co.
500 acres in the reservation. The
Bronx buffaloes will be the first an
imals, aside from those claiming the
reservation as their habitat, to take
up their home there. The buffalo
range is surrounded by fence ninety
inches high. From Bronx park the
animals were hauled to the Fordham
station of the New York Central road
and loaded into palace stock cars
They are expected to reach Cache'
Okla, next Monday or Tuesday.
New York correspondence Phila-
delphia Ledger: Crowds on lower
Broadway strained eyes and necks this
afternoon when Ernest Capelle, a
steeplejack. slid up the f1agstaff on
the Singer building tower, and, IOO
feet above the ground, began to paste
gold leaf on the globe at the top. AS
cent of the flagstaff was made in
bosun's chair. operated by the climber
with bowlines, and going skyward by
short bitches. There were NUMBER
Of helpers ON the dome beneath 10
al expectations, Capelle did not look
like a fly when he finally gained the
top of the steel pole. He looked ike
a man nine or ten feet tall. for there
was little else in that part of the up
per world to take the attention of the
eyes below. The shaft of welded
steel, 1Os inches in diameter at the
base and 81 inches in diameter at the
top, was in no danger of breaking un-
der the jacks weight, but 1t swayeo
gently in the wind-enough to cause
seasickness to the feeble stomach
Capelle's contract. which calls for the
gliding of the bail and the application
of five coats of paint, makes RECORD
in high climbing work in this city. II
is said that the young mamie Il
scarcely more than a boy-wlll re-
ceive $1,000 for the work.
Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, former