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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-11
MILLIKEN BROS. FAIL.
New York Steel Manufacturers Forced
 into Bankruptcy.

New York, June 1O.-tAn involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed against Milliyen Bros, incorporated, of II Broadway, manufacturers and con- tractors of structural steel work. in the United States district court late to-day. It is estimated that the corporation. one of the largest of the kind in the city has unsecured liabilities of about $S,5O0,OO0 and secured liabilities of about $1,OoO,0OO. No estimate of the as- sets was given.
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Root Cannot Reulv.

Philadelphia, June 10.-A letter from Secretary of State Root. in which he says he cannot comply with request of the Philadelphia conference of Bap- tist ministers to forward to the French tions commenting that government for it's attitude toward the vatican, was read to-day at meeting of the Bap- tist ministers in this city.
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Invitation from Germany.

Kiel, Germany, June 10.--It is under stood that the German government has invited the government of the United States to send the cruiser squadron which is about to visit Bordeaux to Kiel during yachting week, which be- gins June 20. Two argentine vessels and one Japanese will be here at that time.
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HUMPHREY ST. COMING.
Work VIII Be Started Before End of
 Month, Says Kelly.


 While the contracts for the construc- ton of the new bridge over NH river in connection with the extension of Humphrey street have been awarded work has not yet been commenced be- cause of the appeal of the New Haven railroad from the assessment of dam ages awarded to it. City Engineer Kelly, however, stated yesterday aft ernoon that the work would not be held up very long, by this. He has been waiting to arrange a conference with the railroad officials to bring about an agreement whereby the work may go on despite the appeal. He said yester- day that he had been assured that the agreement would be entered into but that Attorney Spock for the road, had so far been too busy to arrange for it definitely The work, he remarked, will not be started this week but will sure ly be commenced before the end of the month unless something at present un- forseen comes up
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WEATHER RECORD.
washington. June 10. 1gof.

Washington, June 10. 1901.
 Forecast for Tuesday and wednes- day
 For New England: Partly cloudy Tuesday, Wednesday showers with ris- ing temperature; fresh variable winds.
 For Eastern New York: Fair in the interior showers on the coast Tuesday. Wednesday showers with rising tenn. perature, fresh southeast to south winds.
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FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT
One American Killed and One Fatally
 Injured i'm England.


 Banberry, Eng, June 10. a motor car accident at Edge Hill, seven miles northwest of here to-day, a MT. John- son of California, was killed and a MT. Blake of Philadelphia, was fatally in jured. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs Blake, who were of the party sustained grave injuries and tehir condition is pre- carcious.
 MT. and Mrs. Johnson and MT. and Mrs. Blake left Oxford this morning in hired motor car for Stratford Avon. Mir. Johnson's skull was terribly fractured and he died two hours later. MT. Blake lies in a hopeless condition in the Banbury infrnary, whither the two women were also removed.
 The chauffeur, man named West, escaped with slight injuries.
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FIRE ON VIEW STREET
Residence of Late Patrick Fender Gut
 ted.

Fire was discovered in the home of the late Patrick Fender at 12S View street about o'clock this morning and an alarm was sent in.
 It is thought the fire started in the back part of the house near the kitch- en store. The loss Is between $500 and H,OoO The house, which is one story building, was badly gutted. It is occupied by Thomas and William Pen- der.
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{ STOPS DEVELOPMENT.
stuyvesant Fish Speaks In Regard to
 Interstate Commerce Laws.

New York, June 1O.-No more rail- roads will be built in the undeveloped parts of the United States except at the risk of. and with the capital of ex- lsting lines, if the governments plan to fix rates based upon railroads s valuation is carried out, in the opinion of Stuyvesant Fish, former president of the Illinois Central railroad Mir. Fish expressed his opinion in the course of an address before the graduating class In applied science at Columbia univer- sity to-day. He characterized the ac- tion of congress in giving the inter- state commerce commission the power of fixing rates as distinct reversion to medieval practice which will hinder and delay, if it does not in some places absolutely prevent, the development of the west and south through the estab- lishment of new jobbing centers.
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stray Torpedo strike. steomer

Kiel, Germany June IDA stray tor pedo to-day struck and badly damaged the German coasting steamer August. while the latter was passing a target range here. The vessel was docked, leaking badly. for repairs.
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STRICKEN ON STREET.
Bridgeport Man Ha. Heart rr0ub,. -,

Bridgeport Man Has Heart Trouble Try
 ing to Make Train.
 While huprying down Church street last evening on his way to the railroad station to catch train George Woods an advertising agent of Bridgeport, was suddenly stricken with angina pee toric, species of heart disease. He was helped into Woods drug store at Church and George streets and Dr. Jewett of Crown street was summoned to attend him. He ordered him taken at once to the New Haven hospital. Early this morning it was stated that his condition while serious was slight ly improved Woods lives at 42 Bank street, Bridgeport.
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viclkers-Maxim Men rheraten Strike.

Firth, Eng, June IDA thousand of the employees of the Vickers, Sons & Maxim Co, an Anglo-American con cern, thereaten to strike June F. The men are dissatisfied with the pay sys- tenn and the company refuse to make s concessions.
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NO WAR, SAYS TAFT.
Faith that Japan and United States VIII
 Get Along Peacefully.

Milwaukee, June 10. Secretary Taft in an interview tonight said that there would be no war with Japan. He had faith that the United States and Japan would continue their way along most peacefully together. The secretary said: Never mind the news that keeps coming. It does not always mean all that it seems to mean on the surface We will have no war with Japan"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-11
ApparentIy untrne.

Mexico City, June 10.-So far as can be learned tonight, the report which came from Oxaca last night that Pres ident Cabrera, of Guatemala, had been assassinated was without foundation.
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SUDDENLY CLOSED.
States Case Against Mayor schmitz oY
 San Francisco.

San Francisco, June 10.--Following q decision by Judge Dunne that eorela- tive testimony could not be given to prove criminal intent in the case al bar, the prosecution to-day suddenly closed it's case against Mayor Eugene B. Schmitz, on trial for conspiracy to extort money from French restaurants.
 Attorney Campbell for the defense then made the clients opening state ment to the jury and court was ad- journed until tomorrow.
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EvangelInatlon of World.

Clifton Springs, N Y. June 1O.-"The Glorious Service of the Speedy Evangel- ization of the World, was the topic for discussion at to-day's session of the h. ternational Missionary union now in session here.
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FOUR APPOINTMENTS
Mayor Has Coming Vacancy on Board
 of Assessors to Fill

OA @hSf7NSHCAH ao EAlAa
 Four city appointments are due to be handed out by Mayor studley some time during the present month. As all the appointees are due to take office on July l. Of these the only position carrying with any honor a monetary consideration is that of assessor, which brings with 1t salary of 5000 per year The appointment is to fill the vacancy which will occur in the board when Theodore H. Macdonald takes his place in his new state appointment. The term does not expire with Febru- ary l. 1912.>
 The other appointments to be made are member of the permanent paving commission, the public memorials com mittee and the board of examiners of engineers.
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SIGNALMEN HERE.

Next Railroad Officials to Sign New
 Agreement,
 Employees of the signal department of the New Haven road were in this city yesterday and signed agreements with officials of the road for q raise in pay, and other concessions. What the raise Is neither side will tell, but it is said to be a considerable one.
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Women Clerks of Long Service.

In the executive departments In
Washington, where the business of
the Government is carried on, there
is no belief in the Osler theory as
far as the women clerks are con-
cerned. Several of the most valued
ones working for the Secretary of
State passed three score and ten
long ago. Mrs. Eliza Gridley, moth
er of the man who commanded the
Olympia at the battle of Manila, IS
almost eighty, yet she holds a most
responsible position in the general
land office, and knows more about
records and land law than any six
clerks in the department.
Miss Mason, who is nearing the
same age, is a pillar of strength to
seekers for information in the Ii
brary of war records. She is the
daughter of a former Minister to
France. In the Department of JUS
tice are women nearing seventy,
some of them wives and daughters of
former judges, who work faithfully
and intelligently, and who are
priced more highly than the younger
women who compose the greater
working mass in the departments
Boston Globe.
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Astonishing Morning Costume.

Miss G. is a beauty, with an enor-
nous fortune, a devoted family Of
brothers and sisters and a host Of
friends, but she has one fault, they
all agree, and that is oYer-dressing.
She came into Gown from her country
home the other day in a cerise broad
cloth princess frock, embroidered in
self-color and appliqued with a cut
out design of the cloth. Her hat was
Of cerise felt, with a large, curling
plume of a darker shade on n side,
and was draped with one of the new
fashioned black lace wells, the dot
ted centre variety, with deep ioweted
border. 1t was punched up in the
back Of the neck and held in place
there with a diamond clasp. She
wore a high, gold dog collar, stud
ied with diamonds, black pumps,
with gilt leather heels, and carried
o gold mesh handbag, incrusted with
brilliants. And all this in the morn
ing.-New York Tribune.
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Collectors of Fans.

Mrs. l.. has a. weakness for fans.
She never carries one, but that is
probably because she thinks a really
beautifully specimen should be
looked upon as a work of art and not
as a breeze stirrer. She has a col
lection of fans in her drawing room
on Fifth avenue worthy of a place in
a museum, for it contains some of the
rarest examples of old French fans
of the time Of Vatican; point lace
fans which hail from England, carved
ivory ones from China, sandal wood
fans that breathe the spiced air Of
the Orient, fans from every part Of
the world and almost every age.
They are kept in glass cabinets, and
some are so old, SO frail from years,
that they have been mounted in fan
shaped frames made of ormolu, with
glass, back and front, so that their
beauty may not be hidden. New
York Tribune.
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Etiquette in London ClubIand.

In some of our ultra exclusive
clubs it is a serious breach of ETH
quette for one member to speak to
another without obtaining a cere-
monious Introduction beforehand.
A painful case has just occurred
in a certain old-established and eX-
tremely respectable Pail Mall cara
vanserie. It appears that a newly
Joined member, in callous defiance
of custom, ventured the other after
noon to make a remark about the
weather to a gentleman with whom
he was not personally acquainted.
The recipient of this outrage glared
stonily at it's perpetrator.
Did you presume to address me,
sir?" he demanded, with an awful
frown.
Eyes, I did" was the defiant re-
ply. Il said it was a fine day." The
other digested the observation
thoughtfully.
Then, after an impressive pause,
he turned to it's bold exponent
well, pray don't let it occur again.
he remarked, as he buried himself
once more in his paper.-London
Chronicle.
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Cost Of Women,s Dress.

Miss Giulia Morosini's calculation
Of the necessities of a smart New,
York woman in the matter Of dress.
which are reproduced here, led to
inquiries of fashionable West End.
tradesmen for the purposes OF COM
p%arison. These show that the most
extravagant English woman in Lon
don spends less than one-third Of
Miss Morosini's estimate.
The English woman Is content
with fifty gowns costing $500 apiece,
instead of 100 costing double that
amount. Her lingerie. costs just one
fourth of what Miss Morosini's does.
her furs one-half and her shoes one
tenth, while her miscellaneous ex-
penditure Is placed SIT, 900, in-'
stead Of $4,000.
The rich French woman, 1t is said.
rarely spends large sums on clothes,
Her natural taste and quick eye en-
able her to seize the simplest ideas
and evolve a masterpiece therefrom.
If the fashionable shops on the Rue
de Ia PAX in Paris had +r depend on
French customers they n,ould have to
close their doors in a month. II. is
the Americans, Brazilians; English,
Italians, Russians and some Germans
who keep them going.-London Let
ter to the NeW York Sun.
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VaporiZing Iron.

Henri Moissan, the French hem
ist, has recently continued his ex-
periments in the distillation, with
the electric arc, of various metals
and metalloids. He concludes, as the
result of these researches, that there
exists no known substances which
cannot be distilled in u abora
tories. The ebullition of iron is very
difficult to produce, yet Moissan has
distilled 400 grams Of iron in twenty
minutes with an electric current OF
1000 amperes at a pressure OF llo
volts. In all cases the vapors OF the
metals condense in the form OF a
crystalline dust, possessing all the
chemical properties of those metals
when reduced to the form of powder.
M~oissan's experiments throw light
on the probable temperature Of the
sun, where iron and the other chem
ical elements exist in the state of
D The maximum temperature
of the electric arc is about $500 de-
grees C%entigrade. But, owing to
the greater pressure produced by
gravitation on the sun, it is probable
that the temperature Of ebullition Of
the elements there is higher than on
the earth.
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Princess of Wales Knits.

Because of her devotion to her chill
dren, the Princess of Wales Is called
an "old fashioned mother. to dis
tinguish her from the smart set
mothers who regard their offspring
as a bore.
Whenever it is possible she takes
her youngsters with her. They are
on the scene at many public func-
lions where the Princess figures, and,
being unable to take them to the
courts at Buckingham Palace, she in
yariably visits their rooms before
starting.
The Princess has impaired her love
of needlework to her little daughter
Princess Victoria, who sews and
knits quite nicely. The Princess of
Wales is hardly ever without a piece
of knitting. It is a joke against her
that she took her knitting with her
on her honeymoon, and even while
visiting country houses now she knits
in the drawing room after dinner.
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Unique Town.

A Philadelphia business man, dur
ing the fine weather a few weeks ago,
decided to make a horseback tour of
Maryland. After being out for a
few days he was struck with the
number of towns in that State which
had claim to historic interest. The
principal brag of the various villages
through which he passed was that
Washington at one time or another
had been a guest of the leading citi-
zen, or that the first President had
spent the night at the local tavern.
The claims of the M%arylanders be-
came so monotonous to the Phila-
delphian that when mi evening, af-
ter a long days ride, he was about to
dismount from his weary horse, he
noticed opposite the hotel that he
had picked out an ornate bronze tab
let with the name president Wash
ington," in big, raised letters on it,
he was moved to ridicule. Turning
to the proprietor, who was standing
near the curbstone, he said: "You
Maryland people make me tired with
your everlasting claim to have been
visited by Washington. Why, every
town I have been in lately vas nee
his home" With a quiet smile, the
hotel man told his prospective patron
to read the inscription on the tablet,
which, much to the visitors aston
ishment, was: This is the only town
in Maryland that President Wash
ington never visited. "-Philadelphia
Record.
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MY OWN O WALLS.

Ehe storm and night is on the waste,
Wild through the vino the herdSman
calls,
AS fast on willing nag I haste
Home to my own four walls.
Black, tossing clouds, with scarce a gllm'
mer,
Envelop earth like sevenfoid pals;
But wifekin watches, coffee.pot DOTH SIM
mer,
Home in my own four walls.
"A home and wife I too have got,.
A hearth to blaze whate'er Details;
What needs a man that l have not
Within my own four walls:
King George has palaces of PRIDE,
And armed grooms must ward tnocs
halls; -,
With one Stout bolt I safe abide
Within my own four walls.
Not all his men may sever this;
It yields to friends, not monarchs calls;
MY whinstone house my castle Is,
I have my own four walls.
When fools or knaves do make a rou.
With gigmen, dinners, balls, cabals.
4 turn my back and shut them out
These are my own four walls.
The moorland house, though rude it be-,
May stand the brunt when prouder tails;
Twill screen my wife, my books and me,
All in my own four walls.
Thomas Carlyle.
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GOOD g y.
@ n DIS.
Roads and the Automobile.

Bicycles did not a little toward
~lcreating a general appreciation Of
and desire for good roads, and they
would have done more had it not
been for the mysterious blight which
fell upon the popularity Of those
very able little machines just when
they seemed about to become an es-
sential and permanent part Of civil
lied life. But the task which the
bicycle only began the more efficient
automobile has taken up, and now
it really looks as If a long-standing
disgrace t. the country, the condi-
ton of its roads, was soon to receive
serious consideration. OF course, ii
needs nothing else to be remedied,
for the question of good roads Is one
with only a single side, and when the
arguments are heard actions must be
taken.
It would be a mistake to assume
that the automobiles are more in
terested in the Improvement Of high
ways than other people. The farm
ers, for instaaae, suffer much more,
in pocket at 1east, from bad roads
than do the automobiles, but both
the expense and the, personal incon-
venience fall so directly upon the
automobiles that the latter are
moved to "do something" while the
farmer car and does forget how rap
idly bad roads wear out his horses
and his wagons, and he has not been
taught to number the hauling Of big
loads with a small expenditure Of
energy among the possibilities Of his
life.
Even for the automobilist good
roads have some advantages to which
he has paid little. or no attention.
He knows what a difference 1t makes
to the machine he now has whether
highway grades are easy or steep,
and whether the road surface is
smooth and hard or rough and soft,
hut it has not been noted by many
of the fraternity that it is the low
power machine that profits most by
good roads-that is turned by them
from an unsatisfactory vehicle, fire.
quently stalled and barred from many
routes, into one in many ways as eff
cient for. practical purposes as the
big cars. And low power e a
comparatively small original invest
ment, simpler engines, smaller con-
sumption Of fuel, and a marked de-
crease in bills for repairs. ~a =
Good roads would therefore enor-
mously increase the number Of peo-
pie who could afford to have auto
mobiles-of people, therefore who
would buy and use them. And it
would be much for the advantage,
even of. those to whom the cost Of
the best of the present machines Is
not %prohibitive, If machines much less
expensive could come into something
like common use. The greater the
number of automobiles the less are
they ."class" to be viewed enviously
and hostilely and the less will they
be bothered by needless and irritat-
Ing regulations.-New York Times.
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writer comments on how easy Amerf.
can women find it to live here. He
makes the remarkable statement that
statistics show that in four years 152
American heiresses have come here
s240,000,000
Paul Bourget, writing to-day in Gil
Bias on American women, says the
French can never understand that
wise innocence of American girls
which was illustrated in the remark
of one of them to him that the rea-
son that a certain woman's husband
had gone astray was that his wife
did not know how to manage him
and the other woman knew how to be
seductive.
NJ. Bourget asked a diplomat to
explain this characteristic Of Ameri-
can girls. The diplomat answered
that they have a chaste depravity.
M. Bourget calls the answer severe.
Paris Correspondence of the New
York Sun. -
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EMMAEAsH1oMD

Crochet covered and braid buttons
are very popular.
There are some combinations OF
brown and black that are particular
ly modish.
A little v of white velvet at the
throat is a becoming touch upon one
of the dark, long haired fur coats. :
The style of decorating with short
bits of braid or velvet straps termin-
ating in fancy buttons permits many.
variations.
The soft draped. tam crown'o vel
vet or jetted lace is in evidence upon
some of the smart millinery models
of the season. :
Those with whom the poppy design
is a fayorite will find many lovely.
ones among the silver gift things OF
the season.
In new skirts there is a decided
preference for length of line effect
ed by pleats, panels, etc., in place OF
round ard round trimmings.
There is no hard and fast rule as
to hair, dressing now, and consequent
ly everybody is at liberty to select
the most becoming fashion.
Fancy buttons made by sewing
gathered lace to cover moulds, n
centered by a jet or steel nail head
or a colored bead, ornament many.
costumes.
Hats of fur are expensive in them
selves, and though they do not re-
uuire a great deal of trimming, 1t
must be of a quality to correspond
with the fur foundation.
While gray and tan CATERS with
patent leather shoes are not in the
least unusual, white ones are a little
more so; however, they are very styl-
ish and make a stunning finish for a
dressy black costume.