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New-York tribune., 1908-07-05
THOUGHTS ON AlRN0TS
Ind Also on the High Passenger
Rates for Balloon Tra0el.
Hashinura Togo, in Golfers Weekly.

. am given to understood by newspaper infor-
nation that Right Bros, famous airnots, has
solved problem of air navigation again by very
! delicious wreckage. Them Right Bros fy-tests is
| always shot off with entire secrecy, that Jap
anese navy won't be there to represent itself. This
| time them sky-boat manoever were witnessed by
less than two thousand persons, mostly reporters,
inventors & foreign powers, who seen very nicely
! from bushes twenty-five miles away where they
was hid out of range of Hon. Rights shotgun.
New airship of Right Bros is called Mud Hen II.
| because them crafts should all be named after
some bird what they like Hon. Bells airboat
| are called White Wings because they never
| grow weary of trying to. That Mud Hen II are
| a. 6-cylinder, runabout type of aroplane built on
| model of 3 pancakes and worked with strings
which Hon. Right have attached to thumbs & toes.
! To start them ship Hon. Right lays himself
stummick and runs the engine with mis- teeth.
| When he wish to go up he raise elbows & de-
| presses toes. When he wish to down he
| stand his head
On this trip Right Bros start navigating from
| Killed Devil Hill, which is in Southern States
| After considerable scientick prepare them ship
were seen make following emotion
lit
Pit down.
After successful fight Orville Right found
comfortably setting his airship in middle of
Elkns swamp Except for wings fraxured. en-
gine twisted off. propeller gone & framework on
fire. them machinery landed without a misnap
|
shaking his broken hand
I am morely pleased that areal navigation will
be very cheap sport for poor mans. Hickory wood
are cheap, cheap. nails cheap & life
are cheap. All them is necessary for good air
ship You borrow gas engine from another
automobile Next choose some bird what look safe
g. intelligent & built your y-machine to resemble
it. If you admire for pdgeOns, then built one
pidgeon-toe arplane. If you think hawks is most
pleasant fiiers all well; then make hawlSish air
boat Nail all them airshp together with consid-
cradle canvas & light hickory corners. fasten on
them gas engine what you have borrowed, carry
such machinery vacant plains & teach it to fly
like the bird what you admire most much.
AL airships fly. but some of them is very
hard to teach
Last yesterday / looking a feetWalk by
lonesome hill of Berkeley Among daisy-cup grassy
of steep slope seen machinery in attitude of
ing machinery like a bisickel whose mother a
sailboat Several Hon. Professors standing
around TO encourage Hon. Airnot with statstik
about dying for science. Hon. Airnot speak of
relatives in Kansas City and regret sinful youth
with considerable paleness.
What you so tremble for?' eject Professor with
Ben Tfllman expression. Are II possibly that you
afraid to go up?"
20 earnestly nor collapse them Airnot, II
entirely fearless about going up but 1t are thoughts
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05
GUEST BOOK STILL PURsUEs.

He wonders miserably whether another invitation
to this delightful house depends upon his success
in properly expressing enjoyment of the visit just
terminating. His hostess appears satisfied with
anything at all in way of a sentiment, but all
the way home he thinks of things that he might
have written and wonders how he could ever have
been foolish enough to write what he did
There who evade this manifest duty
and who even have confessed to hiding the volume
they dreaded Success has not rewarded their ef-
forts Scarcely has such man reached his home
when a fat package reached him containing a
blank page and accompanied by a note from his
hostess who laments that the guest book was un-
accountably missing at the time of his departure
and assures him that she has had her book made
with detachable leaves especially for the con-
venience of guests.
His fate has overtaken him. He resigns himself
10 it with groan and realizes that the guest book
is an affiiction of Providence which he can no
more easily evade than he can avoid paying his
dinner calls
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05
IIAlY In NEW YORK.

In the lower part of New York, on corner
of Washington Square Park which is crowded
on sunny days with dark eyed, bareheaded
women and children, and where of d Sunday
gay spots of red. blue and orange,
and one hears more Italian than English, there
is a straw colored stone church that strongly
recalls Florence. Upon clear day it makes
the same contrast of pale gold against a deep
blue sky. And the corner of the church each
day a dark skinned Italian carefully spreads
out few oranges upon the cream coIored ledge
of a little fountain built into the wall of the
church, just his custom doubt at
home The artists of the neighborhood iinger
to stare at him they pass His neck scarf is
emerald green, and as he stands there beside his
oranges he is picture ready made, and various
dwelers on the square with memories of Italy
stop to buy his wares, anxious to keep him in
the picture.
The Italian has excellent reason TO feel at
home on that square, which stands at the upper
edge of one of the largest of the Italian settle
ments in New York. Walking down Macdougal
street toward the south. passes among the
cheerful dilapidated houses many old home
with a wrought iron balcony that was the
centre OF wealth and fashion fifty or sixty years
ago Now gay colored rags of unconjecturable
purpose are suspended from those balconies re-
peating the hues that may be seen in touches
upon the garments of the loungers in the street
Also signs may be seen suspended from the iron
ratings telling the passer-by in his own tongue
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05
RECALLS FORGOTTEN EPISODE.

Besides encouraging the almost lost art OF culu
waited handwriting, the guest book while inviting
the outpouring of soul and flight OF sentimental
fancy, really acts a monitor, inculcating reu-
cence and prudence.
Have YOU ever" asked young matron the
other day. turned the leaves of guest book with
your good man. John, and come suddenly upon
love affair of your own facetiousy set forth and
illustrated by a certain gay Charles of your ac-
quaintance? Do you recall how John glowered as
he read the text below sketch of two lovers in a
buggy. oblivious to the fact that their vehicle is
stuck fast in muddy road. which thus
The mud was soft and so Bess.
that why Tom squoze her
He didn't dast to let her
For fear that he might lose her
There is more Of the doggerel. for Charles goes
on to say-and to illustrate-how the hapless and
happy lovers were discovered, TO the vast enjoy
nent of everybody except the parties most con-
cerned You berate the abomnable misuse of Eng
lish and good taste the part of certain person
ages and John agrees with you; but he doesn't
do il pleasantly does he treat the matter as
one too trivial to deserve attention
The guest book has taught many man the
folly OF wooing where wedding not within i'm
mediate contemplation, or perhaps not within the
cardiac horizon at all. Not until Arthur has in
spired his Maud with interest in merry picnic
party, OF which he formed the previous sum
mer, does he come upon forgotten page in his
hostess's guest book wherein a being very like
himself is depicted kneeing before a goddess who
does not bear the least resemblance to Maud. His
discontinue is complete when Maud remarks
bitingly: No wonder you treasure such fond rec
objections Of that picnic
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05
When Torture Volume Con-
fronts One, Origi-
naIity Wits.

Life is fun of surprises, few of which are more
disconcerting than the sudden presentation OF a
guest book to who has been pleasantly en-
tert2ined with the request that he inscribe ID II a
sentiment before his departure Those hostesses
who employ this form of tortlre-and' thahk HeaN-
en-. they are not as numerous as they used to be
nut the mig eather-bound book before the victim
as though confe-ring upon him favor To make
it worse the hostess often confidently intlmafes
that the lines the guest will pen will fairly sem
1i4.ate with briiancy and originality. In the lace
tf such pleading and expectation that is cruel
fate which suggests nothing better than;
think and think think in vain
last I think III write my name
Or that other sentimental standby
The red. the violet blue
Sugars sweet and SO are YOU
After hearty dinner guests have been known
TO take refuge in lines more true and t1te than
eloquent and write in the guest book
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

ze the delights of visit and the delightsomeness
of those who have engineered its enjoyment re-
quires readiness of wit and facility in the art OF
expression which few possess. Curiously enough
those who do possess these qualities complain that
they deserted by them at the very moment a
guest book appears
This fateful volume assumes the place of the
old-fashoned autograph album, but tits more ter
rifying because it demands more The beau OF
twenty years ago could copy any bit OF sent-
mental in album, or even escape oy
merely writing his signature. He has no such
pleasant task to-day He must be original, even
if the only original possession he has been born 10
is original sin. If he assures his hostess OF this
fact she smilingy assents that she knows 1t, but
that she feels he think OF something NICE
to say. He tries to remember all the nice things
he thought of before the guest book appeared and
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05
sTIRS PLEASANT MEMORIES.

On the other hand, the guest book is full Of
pleasant memories, even though these sometimes
turn up like Tennyson's crown of sorrows.' to
remind of happier things It is delightful to
come Unexpectedly upon characteristic sayings of
dear and distant friends-to be brought it were,
face to face with their smiles, within sound of
their laughter 1t is sweet to read sentiment
clothed in a handwriting once dear. and remem-
bered only with sere cloth and Between its
covers the guest book holds the epitome of life but
most Of all il aims hold the light Of laughter
and the lit Of song
To many however. the guest book is enemy
TO peace. 1t becomes obligation not to be
avoided Inspiration is a tricksy jade and wilfully
evades the man who would from her senti-
ments of proper appreciation of the hospitality he
has enjoyed. Pontedly and charmingly to epitom-
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

that excellent mandolin music is furnished for
entertainments by the dwellers within The
shops along the street contain principally arti-
cles in demand among Italians, and the fruit
sellers standing beside their little carts freighted
with golden oranges. lemons and bananas call
their wares in their own tongue. And IL the
day be sunny and warm, whatever the season
the street Will be full OF an apparently leisure
class. For. although the Italian seldom fails TO
improve his worldly condition in the New World,
he seems also always to have time TO enjoy a bit
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05
EXACTLY.
-Pnf1adelphta Inquirer.
-ul,Istratsd sin

Of sunshine Black Hand associations may ss. and
and personal vendetta may add zest 20 ls w ,ons
even death but the American VINO Us.sJliIlss
enough in the nsighborhOod OF those be
harsh and non beauty loving soul Il u.ssories
not enjoy the sight of them even II tneH rnis WI
OF hygiene are imperfectly developer Mean
all come right in another senerauTy,y-, yy-,at uofs
time they are happy and beautlfuL ~. 1-rstup
does one ask for ones neishoorF-AH'
map
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

take mischevous delight in nditing their
wit and wisdom as TO make il undecipherable to
ilnirtiafed
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04
FAIRBANKS COURT
 IS IN POLITICS
special Dispatch to the Daily Alaskan

Fairbanks Aug. 4-The Wickersham committee yes erlay waited on United States Commissioner Goodwin with written request that they be furnished for publication the names of the judges of election. Commissioner Good win refused the request Commissioner Goodwin is the ap pontee of Judge Slas H. Reid and came with the court from Oklahoma The information sought is known to be in the possession of the Corson forces at the head of which forces are Commissioner Goodwin and other court officials
 Deputy Court Clerk Mcdonald is openly the paymaster of the Corson campaign paying the bills of the liberal ex penses incurred in the name of Cosonand doing it on government time.
 The Wickersham Committee today wired President Roosevelt their reasons for fearing attempt at crooked election and asked hu to take the court ouot politics and help Alaskans to a square deal
 It was the court house bunch that subsidized the Daily News and other newspapers and Cosons manager Harry Steel assumed charge at It was Harry Steel who was clerk of the court at Nome under the notorious Judge Noyes As manager of the News and the campaign Steel is flooding the coast with lying esgrams of the con- dtons here and filling the papers he controls with fake teegrams from Nome and she coast Every unfair means being used to swing the vote here for Coron but without success The people aretbQr6Rgby aroused.
 The poll of heavily s- ain oIi te Eanana rail- road on Sunday was taken under bet made by E Web ser life insurance agent, and Dome creek woman Mrs. Carbonneau with the result that only two votes were cast for Coson and Mrs Carbonneau This is considered fair indication of the feeling among the miners in the Panama valley as they constituted most of the passengers Wckersham success assured in spite of crookedness and ckery of Corson agents The vote of the sour dough Aaskans cannot be bought or estranged from the right man.
 Special Dispatch to The Daily Alaskan
 Nome Aug. 4.-Judge Wickersham arrived here last night and was met by delegation of friends on special
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04
H0W WICKERSHAN
 CAME INT0 THE RACE

Ferdinand deJournal, who left yester- day morning for Fairbanks was the ln- strument of bringing James Wicker sham in the field as candidate for del- egate to congress Everybody who knowsa thing about the fight made upon Wickersham as judge knows that de Journal was one Of the most active if not THE most active against him. Mir. de Journal is the attorney for the original loeators on Dome creek who are plaia tiTs in case in which Capt. Barnette, the Fairbanks banker is de. ieudant He fought WIckersham for the reason, ss he says, that Wicker sham, to bis mind, lis not a good judge because he insisted on interpret ing the law, not as 1t Is but as he thought it should be-" He leglsates on the bench. "I think" said Mir. dc Journal yesterday before taking the train. that the place for Wickersham is in congress and am doing all can do to help bimGet there, believe he will make sn ideal representative. Be Is energetic; resourceful; aggres- slye; a good fighter where fight is necessary; that he is better equipped than any other man I know lu Alaska to accomplish things for Alaska in con. gress. Now that's the fact. Wicker sham did not, Of course, consider me bis friend and we did not speak as we passed on the street. And yet such was my feeling for him down in my heart that | relieve was responsible for his entering the field
 Ut was this way" continued Mir. de Journal. "I was asked by Cum boom CTS to attend a meeting which was to launch a boom for the postmaster. told them not to call upon me to make a speech, warning them they would be sorry if they did. Tn spite Of this they
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04

called upon me. went upon the stage and, after paying my respects to Mir. Cum, whom I esteem, said that I favored him with one proviso-that Judge wickersham was not candidate. I said had heard 1t repeated on the streets frequently that Wickersham void be 0 candidate. IT Wickersham Is candidate want you to understand am for him heart and soul-becsuse I believe he Is the man wanted on that job, said I. Well, the thing took like wildfrs. The meeting stampeded for Wickersham right there-it was Wickersham meeting after thaE-they went wild. The next dqy wickersham sent for me and asked me If meant what I said. He then said be was thinking of entering the field and asked me If he announced himself candidate would I campaign with him. said would"
 "The result was that Wickersham at once announced his candidacy and to- gether we set out to campaign the creeks. Everywhere we were met by crowded houses Of enthusiastic people. Some one sent word that we had better keep away from Dome creek. But we went there and, greeted rather coldly at first, enthusiasm was the same before we left. Judge Wickersham after wards, as you know, influenced by tele- grams he received from the friends of Gale in various parts Of the district, withdrew, against my advice. He was out of it at the time left. He is sure to be elected. The Panama country will give him great majority, Those who were against him as judge unite upon him for congress. We believe in Netherlands integrity 1t was never questioned In all the fight against him as judge"
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04

west and east. Many deaths are re- ported. The conditions are worse than at any time previous. Eighty babies died yesterday as a result Of the ex- treme heat.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04
PRIMARIES
 IN MISSOURI
(sy United Pressl

St. Louis, Aug. 1.-The vote at the primary election throughout the state Is unusually heavy. William Cowhecd and David Ball are asphants for the nomination for the governorship on the democratic ticket and Herbert Hadley on the republican,.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04
PETTIB0HE
 Is DEAD
tBy United Press.)

Denver, Aug. s-George Pettibone, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, who figured as defendant in the sensational trial for the murder Of former Governor Steunenburg, of Ida bo, died here suddenly today after an operation for cancer.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04

The P. c. ss City of Seattle has left Wrangel and will arrive here at mid night tomorrow. She brings SO tons of freight, 30 passenger for SkaGway and 45 round trippers.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04

steamer out at sea and escorted back to Nome with band and great enthusiasm He will address a meeting tomorrow COrsons strength has been greatly overest mated Of the candidates in the field here is believed he will run forth on Seward peninsula.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04

Fernie Aug. 4.-with only'twelVe houses left standing, with many oharred remains unidentified from the terrible visitation of yesterday, the people of Fernie have already begun rebuilding. The whole city seems a smoldering ruin. It is believed that 40 peo- pie died in the fire.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04
S25,000,000 IS THE -05S

Winnipeg, Aug. 4-Three towns in the Crows Nest country are still unreported since the great fire, the wires being out ot business. The gravest fears are entertained concerning them. There are 5000 people homeless as a result of the great sweep of the flames. The loss is estimated to total S25,- 100000 or more.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04

All the dclicacies Of the season a' the Pack Train restaurant.
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04

Go to Tony Dotero and try a Bull Dog cigar. lm
The daily Alaskan., 1908-08-04
HEAT GROWS
 EVEN WORSE
(By United PresS.)

Chicago, Aug. 4-The heat wave still continues over the whole middle
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-09
BERLIN BANKER GONE;
HIS LIABILITIES 100000

BERLIN. Feb. S.-Siegmund Fried
burg. a private banker and owner Of
THE Investors Advisor" has disap-
pcared, leaving liabilities Of $4,000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-09
CANAL GOLD PAY ROLLS
FOR AMERICANS ONLY

President Roosevelt has signed an
executive order providing that in the
future only Americans are to be carried
on the gold rolls Of the Panama Canal
Commission. This action was taken
upon representations Of the Machinists'
Union, made by President O'ConneU.
President Adams. of Federal Lodge, az1
other international officers
To be carried on the gold rolls means
10 be paid in gold, and the law provides
that only skilled labor is to be carried
on the gold rolls. Therefore, the effect
Of the order is to prevent any but Amer
lean skilled labor being employed on the
canal work.
There are at present a number OF for
eigneTs carried on the gold rolls as
watchmen, tmekeepers. etc. and these
viii be retained, but all future vacan-
ces viii be filed by Americans. thus
insuring a gradual elimination of the
foreigners.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-09
Count DivulgeS
Engagement to
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Rich American Declines 10
Discuss RumOred
BetrOthai.

BUDAPEST, Feb. s-Count Alexander
Hadik has announced TO his family
that he IS engaged to Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt and that the wedding viii
he held IN the near future.
Count Hadik is forty-fve years old
and was formerly very rich, but re
lost his entire fortune in card playing
and on the races.
In one single night he gambled for
his fine palace in Budapest, and lost it
He is a member Of the imperial coun-
Gil. and is well known on most OF the
race courses OF Europe. He belongs 10
the jockey and other exclusive clubs OF
Budapest
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has declined
to make any statement concerning her
reported engagement to Count Alex
ander Hadik. The count is said 20 have
been present at the wedding Of Mrs.
Vanderbilts daughter, Gladys, on jan
uary q.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-09
PUPILS OF HOLY CROSS
IN DELIGHTFUL RECITAL

The advanced pupils IN music OF ths
Holy Cross Academy gave q beautiful
musicale last Friday afternoon. which
was attended by many of their friends.
The students showed marked ability and
rendered an attractive program with
finish and skill.
Among the students who attracted
particular attention were Miss Mar
guerite Curtis, Miss Agnes Downey,
Miss Violet Hickman, Miss Imoge1e
Harms, Miss Susanna Yerby, Miss Geilne
Macdonald. Miss Marie Osborne, Miss
Irene Schaefer, Miss Marguerite Bern
hardt, and the Misses Ridgway, Watts,
Amnon, MCGEE, HOusler. Parks Pomar,
and Ewart,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-09
Washington Auto Plant
Will Soon Be Completed
Carter Motor Car Corporation Has First Build
ing of It's Eastern Plant Almost Finished.
All Kinds ofCars Will Be Manufactured.

for the immediate construction Of two
additional buildings.
Officers Of the company say that ma
chinery viii re Immediately installed in
the building, and that the work Of as
senabIing cars viii be begun IN this
building as soon as the machinery is
Installed. The other two buildings. one
on each side, will be completed and
ready for the installation CT manufac-
turing machinery by early summer
Will Make All Types If Cars.
There viii be a complete line Of cars
of practically all of the modern styles
manufactured In this plant. including
the limousine. roadster, and touring car
which will enbody the twin-engine prin-
cipIe. In addition TO these types, which
are all high powered cars, there Will
be manufactured a small car, which viii
have an abundance Of power. II is the
intention TO put this car on the mar
ket al a price which viii be in the reach
Of everyone desiring 10 own an auto
mobile.
An experienced designer Is now at
work on a number Of different types Of
/ cars, in addition TO the types already
made by the Carter Motor Car Corpora
I ton. which viii be turned out from this
! Eastern plant as soon as the necessary
! machinery can be installed
! The carter Company proposes to make
/ at the Hyattsville plant an automobile
/ ire engine and other fire-nghting APP
paratus which viii meet all the require
meuts Of. and surpass any hOrse-drawr
lfre-hghting apparatus now in use. These
machines viii all embOdy the tWin-en-
! CINE principle.