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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-26
Removal Of Piles in Harbor.

The Banks pile-driving machine en-
ployed in pulling piles which were driven
into the river bottom at the upper end of
the harbor. near the railway bridge. to
carry dtnky line track across the har-
Dor completed the work last evening and
the harbor is now clear for the first time
in two years or longer. The track across
the harbor was constructed while the work
of excavating for the new railway yards
and for the sunken railway track through
the southwestern part Of the city was in
progress and 1t was used by trains of
earth-laden cars which carried the mate
rial excavated in the railway operations
across the harbor to the Potomac park
where 1t was used to raise the grade of
low-lying portions. This work was COM
pleted about two months ago and since
that time the narrow-gauge tracks. which
ran from one end of the excavation to the
other, were removed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-26
FORTY-ONE YEARS OLD
KIT CARSON POST, G. A. R., CELE-
BRATES ANNIVERSARY.

Forty-one years ago a number Of young
men-Union soldiers and sailors who had
only recently emerged from the blasts OF
the civil war-held meeting in this city
and formed a post of the then newly or
ganized military order known as the
Grand Army Of the Republic The name
decided on was Kit Carson Post. No 2.
Department of the Potomac. in honor Of
the great scout who had made such SPLEEN
did American pioneer history.
A number of the venerable veterans as
sembed last evening in G. A. r. Hall
ana celebrated the forty-first anniversary
Of the formation of the post. Department
Commander John s. Walker and his staff
were present to do honor TO the occasion
and Capt John Middleton. post COM
mander. presided. After delivering an ad-
dress of welcome ne turned the program
over to Robert Armour. who presided the
remainder of the evening.
Representative Murdoch of Kansas
made the principal address. He gave
a comparison between the days before
the civil war and the present time, and
praised the work of Kit Carson.
Addresses were also made by Repre-
sentatives Washington Gardner of Michi-
gan and Joseph Gouden of New York.
Commissioner of Pensions Vespasian
warner ana others. he star SpdnSleC
Banner was sung Miss Lena Sutton
played piano solos, Miss Mary Lamond
recited Miss Lillian Chenoweth sang a
contralto solo, and Arthur E. Middleton
sang basso solos.
Features of Program.
A quartet composed of Mrs. Charles
Bailey. Mrs D. Olin Leach. W. G. Ather-
holt and Mr. Middleton sang. David Bar
nett, accompanied by Philip NJ. Brown.
played several violin solos. Harry ".
Howard played piano selections, w. A.
Morsell sang ragtime melodies. and Mrs.
Dana c. Holland sang contra!to solos,
Miss Grace Ross read. Messrs Nor
sell and Boyd sang a duet. Milburn, the
mysterious. performed tricks of legerde-
main. America" was sung by the au-
dience.
The presiding officer was assisted by
Frank A. Butts. G. G. kniffen, Thomas
H. Mckee. J. H. jerks. James f. Hefr-
ner. T. D. Yeager, John McElroy and
Charles Loeff1er as an entertainment
committee. A campfire will be held by
the Kit Carson Post next month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-26
Mr.. Bonaparte's Tribute.


After being presented Attorney General
Bonaparte said:
Il fully agree that statue of Hamilton
should be erected in this city.
Then turning to Justices Harlan and
Brewer he added: And / promise my
continguent fee in that $29OOO.OOD when
the Supreme Court allows me to collect
it. Had 1t not been for Hamilton We
would have had no capital
Il care not whence you come, said
Franklin w. Collins, secretary of the as
ISOLATION. "or in what political school You
may have been trained. II only you adj
mire God-like genius and spotless integ-
rity you may revere the memory Of Alex
ander Hamilton.
"All through his short life he was the
same tireless worker. At twelve years of
age he was the master of every book tina;
was obtainable. At the age of seventeen
city. astonishing all by his arguments
and eloquence. During the war with the
mother country he was aid and military
secretary to Washington. and at York
town he led a charge that carried the
last redoubt.
''At twenty-nine years of age he tried
to save his torn and tormented country
from anarchy, through the medium of the
convention at Annapolis, which prepared
the way for the great constitutional con-
vention which met in Philadelphia the
following year.
In the closing address Gov. Sheldon OF
Nebraska declared that the west Is willing
to aid in the work for the statue, and
hoped that later the cities of that section
TO the Golden Gate will have similar
statues OF this patriot
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07

60 49, ~ 4
and l saw no more Of them until about /
O'Clock. This was the first time I had
ever seen Elliot and I noticed him care
fully"
o'Neill then told of delivering the trunk
to Mrs. Schmitters at Whitmore's request.
Mrs. Hattie E. Hull, of So West 104th
street, New York, who figured in the
murder mystery through her conflicting
and false ide%ntifcations of the body, ap-
peared in the West Side Police Court,
New York. yesterday and obtained from
Magistrate Hermann a summons for her
husband, Frank Hull, of CSC Manhattan
avenue, that city, whom she charges with
non-support. She asserted she was mar
rted March Q, 1906, in the West En- Pres
byterian Church, Amsterdam avenue and
10Th street, by the Rev. A. Edwin Keig-.
win, formerly of the Park Presbyterian
Church, this city. Her maiden name was
Hattie Womack, she said. and she said.
her father was DR.. r. d. Womack, of
Seville, Tenn. She is now subsisting on
money paid her for the i~dentihcatlons,
according to her story.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
ELLIOTT DENIES He
WAS WITH WHITMORE.
witness Caught at Newton, Mass, Says
He Did Not Meet Victims Hus-
band Until After Murder.

BOSTON, Jan. Fired w. Elliott,
the Boston and Albany Railroad fire.
man whose name has been mentioned
during the last day or two in connec
ton with the investigation of the MUIR
der of Mrs. Theodore S. Whitmore, of
Brooklyn, at Harrison, N. j., Christ
mas Day, was located in Newton last
night, according to the Globe, which
publishes an interview with hin this
morning. Elliott said:
81 have heard the authorities want to
see me, and I am going down to New
Jersey to prove to them that / was not
with Whitmore on Christmas day or
night, but that 1 was In Boston until
11:30 that night, and then went to New
York on the Boston and Albany express,
arriving there Thursday morning. am
not going to tell you all I know about
this matter, for I have taken legal adj
vice, but l am going to tell the district
attorney in New Jersey everything 1
know"
Elliott admitted last night that he
had known Mrs. Whitmore, but he de-
MED emphatically Whitmore's state
ment that he had met him on an ele-
waited train in New York a few days
before Christmas. Elliott says he had
not met Whitmore in over two years
until December 26 last, when he called
upon him to get a gold locket he loaned
Whltmore in 1906. Elliott said he would
go to New York today.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
DOLAN MADE RECEIVER.
Local Lawyer Will Handle Affairs Of
Deep Sea Diving Company.

Vice-Chancellor Howell today ap-
pointed Patrick ]. Dolan, an attorney
in this city, receiver for the Petrie
Deep Sea Diving Company. which had
a plant in Harrison for the manufac-
ture of deep sea diving apparatus. The
application for a receiver was made by
minority stock holders a week ago and
the order to how cause was returnable
today. The receiver must give bonds in
81, 500.
The attorneys for the complainant
were Saul Cohn, of Newark, and Maur-
ice B.. Gluck, of New York. Their cli-
ents are George E. Keelers and julius
Huelsanbeck. The company abandoned
business a year ago, and the Office has
since been at the home of William o.
Axtell, 122 Rutgers street, Belleville.
He is a director in the company. He
was in court and said there were unjust
reflections on him in the bill of the petit
TONERS.
He was told by the vice-chancellor
that the only question now was whether
a receiver should be appointed. Mr..
Axtell said he would be willing to serve.
but the court preferred a disinterested
person and appointed Mr.. Dolan. The
assets of the concern are a lot of pat
entS.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
ROBBERS
THREATEN TO
SHOOT
Frightened Off at Kansas
City Station Without
Securing Valnables.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. -Four
men attempted to rob the passengers
on a Missouri, Kansas and Texas pas
senger train standing in the Union
station here today. They were fright
ened off without, securing any money
or v~aluables. They escaped without
leaving a clue.
The train is what is known as the
flyer" due to depart at 2:20 for the
Southwest. Shortly before starting
time the would-be robbers, -four white
men, entered one of the forward day
coaches and walked up n down the
aisle, awaiting a favorable opportunity
to their work. The station,
aside from this one train. was practi-
cally deserted, and this fact is believed
to have prompted the men to make the
attempt.
DR.. M. H. Kennedy, of Kansas City,
a passenger in the coach, said:
THE four men walked through the
coach several times. 1t was crowded.
Several German immigrants were in
the rear Of the coach, and they seemed
to be the object of the attack. Before
any of us realized what they were
UP to, two of the ROBBERS showed re-
v~olvers, and pointing them at the for
eigners, commanded them to give up
their valuables.
Just then H. w. Drew, the con-
ductor, and David White, the negro
porter, came into the car. Drew hit
one of the robbers on the head with his
lantern n smashed the lamp to
pieces. They then ran off. None of
them wore a mask. Two started to the
rear of the car, and the other two
toward the front door. The rear door
was locked and they made the porter
unlock it. They opened the vestibule
and fed. The others were in just as
big a hurry to get out the front door,"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
INAUGURAL PLANS
JOINT COMMITTEE HAS FIN
lSHED ARRANGEMENTS.
Father of Governor-Elect Will Be Pres
ent-Mr. Fort Satisfied with Pro-
gram-Tickets for Legislators.

TRENTON, Jan. Arrangements
for the Inauguration of Governor-elect
john Franklin Fort on January 81
were practically completed yesterday
by the joint legislative committee.
Two sessions were held, and at that
of the afternoon the Governor-elect
was a guest. He heard the arrange
ments and. excepting in minor details.
expressed satisfaction with them. At
night the few changes suggested were
adopted.
1t was decided that tickets of ad-
mission to Taylor Opera louise should
be distributed by the Senator's and AS
semblymen. Each will be allotted
thirty general admission tickets n
ten reserved seat tickets.
The reserved seats will be those on
the first and second floors, and they
will be held until 11:45 for those hold
ing tickets for them. After h a hour
persons holding ordinary admission
tickets will be permitted to take seats
not occupied on the first and second
floors.
Two of the lower boxes will be oc-
cupied by Mrs. Fort and her party,
which will include her daughter and
two sons. The Governor-elect's aged
father and other relatives from Bur-
lington County also will occupy boxes.
General Bird w. Spencer inspector
general of rifle practise, and his staff
will form the reception committee. 1t
will be the eleventh time General
Spencer has served in such a capacity
at the Inauguration of a Governor. His
staff consists of Colonel Charles A.
Reid, of this city; Lieutenant-Colonel
Richard B.. Reading, of Lambertville;
Lieutenant-Colone Alfred T. Holley,
of Hackensack, and Lieutenant-Colonel
William Libbey. of Princeton.
Those who will assist Governor Fort
in receiving will include the staff of
Governor Stokes, the chiefs of the va
rious military departments and their
stats, and the members of the inau-
gural committee. The military officers
will be in full dress uniforms.
Winkler's Second Regiment Band will
play at the receptions.
The State House will be beautifully
decorated. Flags will be festooned
over the front of the building, and the
corridors and executive department
will be gay with drapery, flowers and
plants.
It is likely that Governor Fort will
remain in this city over night, and that
he will begin work as governor the
next day.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
QUEER ACCIDENT
IN CLOTHING STORE.
Water Was Forced from Mains Into
Steam Apparatus of Market
Street Establishment.

About 9 o'clock last night an en-
ployee of Ernest Rost, who keeps a
bowling alley in the basement of the
building occupied by King, the clothier,
at Market and Halsey streets, saw
water running into the place from the
store above.
The Salvage Corps was notified and
Alex Neuman, the manager of the
store, was called from his home. 1t
was found that water was running
from the steam radiators on the second
and third floors over clothing piled on
counters. The Salvage Corps men COW
cred the clothing on the main and sec
ond floors, but Mr.. Neuman estimated
today that the loss will amount to from
$500 to $500.
William Watkins, who has charge of
the boiler. said he banked the fire at
about 6:45 o'clock last night I'M went
home. He said the water from the
street main must have been forced by a
sudden increase of pressure through
the supply pipe to the boiler and up
to the steam pipes through the build
ing into the steam radiators. The cocks
of some of the radiators were probably
left open, to be closed when steam was
turned on in the morning. Mr.. Neuman
said he did not blame. Watkins for the
accident, for the man knew how to
attend a boiler and was careful in his
work.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
DEATH ELUDES Him
JEWELER WHO TRIED SUI
eide WILL RECOVER.
Disheartened, Henry Ellis Inhaled Gas,
but Wife and Daughter Baked
Grim Purpose.

While in a respondent mood last
night. Henry Ellis. 45 years DID, q
teweler. of 326 Sussex avenue, at
tempted to commit suicide in his nome
during the absence of his family 10y
inhaling illuminating gas. That he dio
not succeed was due to the return Oh
his wife and daughter, but when tney
tried to open the door they found II
locked.
Roundsman Van Orden, who was
passing the house. was called upon To
assist. AS soon as he had forced open
the door a strong odor Of gas was oe-
tccted
A search discovered Ellis on the MOOR
of the bathroom in an unconscious
condition. He was hurried to the CITY
Hospital without delay. but it was moi
until an early hour this morning that
he regained consciousness. 1t was SAID
however, that he will be all right again
in a day or so.
According to Mrs. Ellis, her hus
band has been subject to fits OF
melancholy of late and frequently in
tinated that he would be better OH
dead.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
LITTLE WOMAN
WHIPS BIG
OFFICER
8 Millionaire Policeman .
TrOunced by His Fair
Tenant.

NEW YORK. Jan. New Yorks
millionaire policeman was the ac-
cuser of meek little Mrs. Julia Mulhall
in the East One Hundred and Twenty
sixth street police station today. The
policeman. Charles Reilly, Weighing
200 pounds and six feet tall, had a black
mark and other bruises on his face.
Pointing his finger at the woman. Reilly
said:
"She attacked me in the performance
of my duty. She got the strange hold
on me and beat and kicked me-"
Somebody certainly gave you a good
licking said Lieutenant Jackson. do
you mean to say that this little woman
did it?"
The big millionaire policeman"
solemnly ayerred such to have been
the case. And he wanted her daughter
Elizabeth, aged eighteen, arrested for
interfering with an officer. Twenty in
dignant witnesses boiled over at this
and the lieutenant refused to hold the
daughter.
Reilly owns the brownstone house Nc.
lis East One Hundred and Twenty
eighth street. He called for the rent.
Mrs. Mulhall, who leases the property,
asked him to wait a few days and she
would send him a check.
The policeman, according to Mrs.
Mulhall, went to the street and began
to call her vile names. A crowd col
In it was William Mulhall, son
of Mrs. Mulhall. The policeman tried
to arrest William and somebody gave
the policeman-landlord a whipping.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
AMNESTY FOR AUSTRIANS.
Affects Those Who Have Not Enlisted
in Army.

WASHINGTON, Jan. THE Austro-
Hungarian Embassy in Washington has
received an official communication with
regard to the amnesty decreed by Fran
els Joseph l., Emperor of Austria, and
King of Hungary, in commemoration of
the beginning of the sixtieth year of
his reign.
This amnesty is extended to all citi-
zens of Austria and Hungary who,
being under military obligations, nave
been declared deserters on account Of
non-observance of enrolment call. 1t
has no effect, however, on those who
have practically deserted the army or
navy while performing active military
duty. For the latter special appeals
for clemency can be recommended.
In order to give better protection in
case Of arrest and as a ean of iden-
LITIGATION. the Austro-Hungarian con-
sular offices in the United States will
issue documents of Identification to
those who wish to profit by this am.
neSty.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
BOARD
TO ORGANIZE
TONIGHT
City Counsel Urges Com
misSiOuers to Get Busy
Without Delay.

City Counsel James r. Nugent today
advised DR.. Herman c. H. Herold, pres
ident of the Board of Health, to have
the board for 1908 organize tonight, as
in his opinion 1t would be poor policy
for the health matters to lay over until
February. In the past the board has
not been organized until February, be-
cause the Mayors appointments were
not ratified by Common Council until
the February meeting. But his year
they were confirmed by Common Coun-
Gil at the reorganization meeting, be-
cause of the fact that there were five
vacancies in the body, which was half
the board. There were three vacancies
by expiration of term and two by resig-
nation, and because of this unusual
condition, which would prevent the
board fro mtransacting business With
out the new men, the board consisting
of ten commissioners.
The wife commissioners recently ap-
pointed by the mayor, DR.. Herman G..
H. Herold, DR.. George L. Warren, Tim
othy F. Foyle, Henry c. Vance and
Frank M. Schulz-the latter two to fill
vacancies-were sworn in today, and
tonight a president of the board of
1908 will be elected, presumably DR..
Herold, although he will not make a
fight for the position, it Is understood,
and DIR. J. T. Wrightson, who two
years ago led the fight to make DR..
w. S. Disbrow president. will be a can
didate for the presidency.
The emergency resolutions, which
were passed by the Board of Health at
the last meeting to cover the payment
of the bills for work done at the tuber-
culosis sanatorium at Verona and the
city ~dispensary, and which were re-
jected by the finance committee of
Common Council, and sen back to the
Health Board by the Common Council
at the last meeting, will lbe taken up
tonight. The trouble was because the
work had been given out without adj
vertising for bids on jobs that
amounted to more than $500, above
which amount the law provides bids
must be advertised for, and then emer-
gency resolutions were passed by the
board authorizing the work done after
1t ha dbeen finished and Immediately
afterwards the resolutions providing
for the payment of the bills were
passed.
When the bills were returned to the
Board of Health the work at the tuher-
culosis sanitorium was Immediately
stopped, and the Board of Health re-
quested City Counsel Nugent for an
opinion as to whether the work on
municipal buildings should not be done
by the public buildings committee of
Common Council, but failed to so place
the responsibility, the city counsel
pointing out that the girls cottage at
the City Home, Verona, was turned
over to the Board of, Health by Com
mon Council and the City Home rus
tees.
The matter of the control of the
school medical inspector, which will be
taken Up by the Board of Education
this afternoon, will be discussed also,
ard it is understood that several of the
members of the Board Of Health do not
take kindly to the idea of taking away
the authority of the department Of
health and giving full control to the
school board.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
HUSBAND GONE, WIFE
ASKS SUIT DISMISSAL.
Wants Divorce from Pietro Toilette,
Who Had Begun Proceedings.
Court to Act in Case.

The suit of Pietro Faletto against
Maria Faletto, his wife, for divorce on
the allegation of desertion, was befors
the vice-chancellor today on an appli-
cation of her attorney. A. G. Ciccarelli,
for a dismissal of the suit on the al
legation that the complaint has quilted
this country.
The attorney said Mrs. Palette had
denied all the allegations of her hus-
band and wanted. a divorce from
Faletto.
The vice-chancellor told the lawyer
to have Ralph Skinner, counsel for
Faletto, furnish a transcript of the
testimony in the cas- to the court
within twenty days when the case
would be decided.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-07
NEW COUNTY PHYSICIAN.
DR.. Robert R. Armstrong Elected FOL
Unexpired Term in Passaio.

PATTERSON, Jan. 7.-Dr. Robert r.
Armstrong, Of Passaic, was elected county
physician to fill the ~unexpired term OF DR..
Mcbride at the meeting for organization Of
the new Board of Freeholders yesterday
afternoon. The reelection of Lawyer Fred
eric Beggs as director was a foregone con-
c~lusion, and interest therefore centred on
the fight for county physician.
Director Beggs, William Mason and the
two Passaic men, Messrs. Drukker and
Kehoe, were pledged to vote for Arm
sfronp