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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-17
Blanes English Officials Help
for Technical Loss of
Championship.
COULD HAVE FINISHED.
Italian Runner and Brother
Predict Victory in Gar
den Match.

Dorando, the Italian Marathon runner,
+ whose wonderfully pluCky race at Shep-
! herds Bush made him world famous,
arrived here to-day on the Kron Pr!n-
! lessen Cecelie In anticipation of his race
with Johnny Hayes a; Madison Square
Garden on Thanksgiving Eve.
Dorando is the little Italians first
name. His patronr'nic ts Petra and he
piano Pietra
/ Not even Thomas Fortune Ryan, who
/ was fellow passenger ON the Cecelie,
attracted as much attention as little
( Dorando. when he was pointed out to
the throrg on the pier. He was con-
spicuous enough fer every one to see,
too, as lac wore brilliant green hat
and bright green necktie.
The Petra brothers We're met at the
pier by a delegation of compatriots.
who gave them rousing cheer, fell
upon their necks and embraced them.
Later, they were escorted to the Hotel
Barthodi, where they will remain dur
ing their stay in this city and In prepa-
ration for the big race.
Says He Will Beat Hayes.
Dorando is confident that he will beat
Hayes and speaking through his
brother, said that he would be fit for
the race Of his life. The brother speaks
fluent English. lie said:
although Dorando did not protest
against Hayes's victory. and could not
do so in fairness. he believes that he
won the Marathon race, and that, had
not the English officials interfered and
helped him he would have been able to
drag himself over the tape before Hayes
crossed. However, Hayes deserves all
the credit lie got, and it will be for
Doranio to beat him now, which both
he and | feel sure he will do.
he was very sick on the steamer,
but is feeling fine now that We have
como to .s.nrc. He viii be given no
bauqucts and will keep in strict train
ing. | vim see 10 that. We will have
"a give him n lot of practice running
ming is unfamiliar to him. If HAYES
beats him IL viii he because the race is
rn on circular track ana. no, In a
str"!S!!t1wnH.
Has Run Thirty Long Races.
My brother has run thirty long races
and lost only two, one at the Athens
Marathon three years ago, and the one
AT Shepherds Bush, last summer. I am
runner, too, and ! think if l have time
to train. and my brother is beaten,
will challenge Hayes.
My brother has done little real train
ing since the race last summer, so he
will have to crowd himself now TO get
into condition. However, think he will
be fiji for a magnificent run"
Dorando Is a pastry cook by trade
and after the Marathon race at the
British Olympic games, was about TO go
back to his ovens when he was offered
a theatrical engagement. He may APP
pear on the stage here If he wins the
raoe at Madison Square Garden next
week
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-17
TRAIN KILLS WOMAN
AT NEWARK CROSSING

An aged woman who has not been
Identified. was struck and killed by a
I.ackawanna Railroad train AT the Mes.
bit street crossing In Newark to-day.
Ssfi " ana Black ss coat The body oI Ss
taken TO Mullins MoTgus.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-17
LOOKOUT INN ON TOP
OF MOUNTAIN ABLAZE,

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, Nov. IL
Lookout Inn, the famous hotel. on the
crest OF Lookout Mountain, caught fire
this afternoon, and late to-day was
still burning Tho hotel IL open ths
sA-Ahs sa-asy'
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-17

Stricker's reputation was won chiefly
in Germany, whore he had name of
daring and GOODNESS second to no driy,r
OF his nation, He was brought 10 luis
country by Robert Graves 10 drive me
big Mercedes entered in the recent Vau-
derbilt cup race on Long Island, AND
the very hrst time he made trial s.Dl
over the new course he showed the dar,.
devil stun Of wh.rh he was made CO.
lng at eighty miles an. hour the ma
chine skidd-d OF INTO a ditch dea4o.-
ished two trees, tore down about Sky
feet of Tease and threw the driver
lie escaped fatal INJURY solely because
he landed IN a soft pa;ch OF grass, oat
Murray vas pinned ben a; tie car and
HIS skull WAS fractured
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-17

Kapslas and Karerambus were held Is
bonds OF 81 100 each on the charge OF
carrying concealed weapons The other
two were fined s. each for disorderly
conduct ,
Although the men apparently spoke
only Greek Brandenherg insisted mat
he had heard them using Italian. lie
doesn't understand Greek.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-17

After the football Same be sure that you
ase Callsta Cream b prsveut any chance VI
shapped hanas % Ease, A. all ilns irlg-
siSts', -
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-17
GRAND JURY ST|RS
B|NGHAM'S WRATH
ABOUT BROOKLYN
Says He Is Reforming Borough
Headquarters ani Saving
Much Money.
NOT AFTER MAYORS JOE
Suppress Robbery Reports?
No-That Is, the Police
~. Obey Orders Well.
NOT AFTER MAYORS JOE

An inqulsitive Grand Jury questioned
Police COMMISSIONS Bingham for an
hour and three minutes IN Brooklyn to-
day Then much more skilfully in
ouistive squad OF reporters questioned
him for fifteen minutes and drove him.
speeches. and confused, To his auto
mobile and the seclus!on of his Office
in Mulberry street.
The action Of the Police Commissioner
in virtually making Brooklyn Police
Headquarters suh-staion las aroused
the citizens OF thai independent COM
munity. Brooklyn was some city before
It was annexed to New Work, with a
police force OF its own. and its people
feel that it is entitled to police or
ganization handled by Brooklyn police
officials for Brooklyn.
The Grand Jury summoned Commits
sioner Bingham and Deputy Commits
sioner Bugher to-day to learn from
them Just what their intentions are re-
garding Brooklyn. II is quite likely
that as a result of his trip across the
Bridge. Commissioner Bingham may
store up some new ideas about a part
of New York with which he is not much
more familiar than he was when he
came here from another State to take
charge OF the Police Department and
had to inquire his way to Police Head
quarters
Says Term Should Be Ten Years.
In the course OF his conversation with
the reporters the Commissioner prophe-
sled that the next Police Commissioner
of New York will be appointed to serve
ten years. He declared that he does
not expect TO get the tenyear term him
self.
Commissioner Bingham was accosted
by the reporters in the Office Of District
Attorney Clarke, after his long session
with the Grand Jury. He was asked. If
It was his intention to wipe Police Head
quarters in Brooklyn off the map,
That's what the Grand jury asked
me-" he replied II want to tell YOU
that 1 am answerable only TO the
Mayor. My sole object is to give an
efficient and economical administration
i have heard considerable comment
about my making changes in Brooklyn
in the absence OF the Brooklyn Deputy
Police Commissioner, Mr., Baker.
II did that with a purpose. l wanted
Mr.. Baker out of the way so that he
would not have TO stand the brunt of
criticism. and ! could stand the whole
responsibility myself"
Does not the Charter provide that
Police Headquarters shall be main
tanned in Brooklyn" the Commissioner
was asked.
"It does not" he answered. But 1t
Is not my desire Or intention to wipe
out Brooklyn Headquarters. l want to
make II bigger and better. l am plan
ming to spend $1,000 on the improve
ment OF the Electrical Bureau, but
there is an economical waste the way
things have been run.
Let BrookIynites Cross BRIDGE.
by abolishing the Boiler Squad over
here | save 500 ii year. BY aboiishins
the Information Bureau ! effect big
saving, and people with inquiries about
missing relatives can just as well go 10
Manhattan"
How about some 1000 steam boiler
engineers who will have TO take a day
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
VOLUME LxxvII.-No. L.
THURSDAY. JANUARY 2. 1908.
DIsrRANcHIsED BY MACHINES.

One point made in the voting ma
chine literature put out by Secretary
OF State Dickinson as his official report
as custodian of the State voting ma
chimes is this: That in the late election
2.S56 ballots were rejected in the State,
while during the past three years $780,
600 machine votes had been cast, and
there had not been a single instance of
Acknowledgement by defect of the
ballot.
As the Hudson Observer says, this
Is an unfair argument" We would
say 1t is a dishonest one, since it is
meant to deceive. 1t is said that a
physicians blunders cannot well be de-
tected because they go underground.
There can be no detection of the
plumbers of the voting machine. When
q vote is wrongly recorded by the voter
the machine affords no evidence. All
mistakes in voting are hidden. And a
mistake means Acknowledgement for the
voter, and even more, for he can in
adyertently vote on the machine for an
opposition candidate.
Then again, in every district in which
voting machines are placed numbers of
voters decline to vote because they can
not or win not manipulate the ma
chimes. That is Acknowledgement. 1t
is fair to say that in the last election
more voters were kept away from the
polls by he voting machines than the
number of defective paper ballots re-
.iected. But Secretary Dickinson knows
these facts, and possibly If he had read
his report" after it had been handed
to him to sign, he would have excised
the point made.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
EXPLAINING GOVERNOR HUGHES.

We who may have maryeled at the
sudden rise of Governor Hughes, of
New York, from comparative obscurity
to eminence need marvel no longer. If
the wild notion has been percolating
through our minds that it was all be-
cause of~the Governors own abilities
and rigid integrity that he has been
able so splendidly to seize his oppor-
tunity, we may now be released from
error.
What, indeed, could have made Gov
ernor Hughes great? What but the
fact hat he was once, like John d.
Rockefeller, jr., leader of the Young
Mems Bible Glass. John d. Rockefel-
Ter, jr., says it himself. and when that
pious and shrinking object lesson in all
the virtues of Sunday school and Stand
ard Oil says a thing the world listens
Governor Hughes is announced as the
Young Mems Bible Glass candidate for
President. John d. Rockefeller, jr., is
his nominator. Governor Hughes has
done a great many good things in his
life against heavy odds, however, and
he may livetit down even yet.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
THE TORPEDO rLorrLLA.

Emperor William of Germany sized
up the true value of the voyage in time
Of peace Of our fleet from our Atlantic
to our Pacific coast, when he said that
It would show us how to avoid mis-
takes in time of war. In other words, it
would reveal our weaknesses, from
which we could profit. Some of our
amateur critics nave already discov-
cred that we are weak in our torpedo
fotilla because the boats are behind
their schedule at Para, and because the
battleships have overtaken them. But
there is a question whether this is a
just criticism or not.
The torpedo notilla started ahead, and
1t Ms composed of the speediest
craft we have in the navy, but were
they expected. on this long cruise, to
keep ahead when they must depend
on their transports for coal and sup
plies? 1t Is true that we are behind
other navies in the number and the
speed OF u torpedo boats and de-
stroyers, but 1t was never intended that
these boats should round the Horn at
- knots speed on a $4,000 mile voyage.
lie coal supply could not keep up with
5em at that gait.
Merely because they have not mad
record speed, and two of them have
been partially but not seriously dis
abled, is no reason why they should be
condemned as a failure. And although
1t may be conceded that our boats of
this class should equal If not excel in
speed the fastest boat of a foreign
hnavy, it would seem that the ON
q 1emnation of them is somewhat hasty.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

President Eliot, of Harvard, advises
the Jewish students al the university
to Join the National Guard and cult
waite the military spirit, and it is sound
advice. The Jewish element is largely
represented in commercial life nj IN
the professions, and it is especially
prominent in music and art. 1t Is
destined to be one of the greatest fac
tors in the future of our country, and
that future, which no man can read,
may witness some great wars, n
each a gigantic struggle to maintain
u republic. Americans of the Jewish
race have the patriotic interest of all
other races that go to make up our
national life, and as we have today a
Jewish Cabinet officer so should there
be Jewish officers and soldiers in the
organized force hat is maintained for
the national defense.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

Stories from Ivy" the Rev. A. Church;
"Dampier," w Clark Russell; Captain
Cook" Walter Besant; STORY of the
American Indian" Brooks; Captains of
Industry" Barton; Fifteen Decisive
Battles of the World Creasey; "Knick-
erbocker History of New York. irving.
Here are a few in geography and adven-
ture and travel: Astoria" Irving; Cap
tain Cooks Voyage Around the World"
kippes; THE Great Navigators of the
Eighteenth Century, Jules Verne; Boots
and Saddles" f. b.. Custer; I'm the Will
~derness," Charles Dudley Warner; boy
Travellers in Japan and China" Knox;
Wild Men and Wild Beasts Cumming.
In the arts, sciences and natural history,
selections may be made from these: Days
Out of Doors" Charles c. Abbott; "A
Naturalist's Ramhles About Home" ABB
bolt; "Locusts and Wild Honey Bur-
roughs; Through Magic Glasses Buck
ley; Wonders of Sculpture Viodot;
of Architecture, Lefevre. Read
Robinson Crusoe,' "Swiss Family Rob-
inson," "Gulliver's Travels ARABIAN
Nights and Pilgrims Progress" Other
good books Of fiction are "Tom Brown at
Rugby Travels of Baron Munchausen, "
Scottish Chiefs" kidnapped" STORY of
az a Boy "Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Two Little Confederates," 1.-THE Hoosier
Sehooltoy," 1.-THE Modern Vikings y
Around the World in Eighty Days.
The Man Without a Country" ''Ben
Hur, Captains COMMONWEALTH
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

ATLANTA, Jan. ATLANTA Is as dry
as a powder horn. The change was
made smoothly and without difficulty.
The new law, covering the entire State,
was effective at midnight January J.
and now there are nearly 300 stores
closed in this city where liquors were
sold prior to yesterday. Men are at
work today tearing down the fixtures
and moving out.
The most notable feature of the first
day of prohibition in Georgia was the
refusal of Judge w. p. Newman, in
the United States Circuit Court, to
grant an injunction pending litigation
which would prevent the putting into
effect of the prohibition law. Papers
in the ease were filed late Tuesday on
behalf of two breweries, one in Chat
tanooga and the other in Cincinnati.
The scenes of New Years eve were
most unusual. Thousands of persons
thronged the streets with nearly every
conceivable variety of vessels which
would hold liquor. Along the principal
streets where the saloons have thrived
for years the sidewalks were impass-
able on account of the crowds. But
there was little disorder n few ar
rests.
One arrest which caused considerable
comment was of a policeman in uni
form, who with two quarts of liquor
in his arms and an equal amount in
nls system, visited the establishment
of a g undertaken and fired his re-
volver five times. Another man, a we'll
dressed stranger, wearing diamonds,
was arrested for drunkenness and
taken to a patrol box.
One wholesale house is said to have
sold $40, 900 worth of liquor in fifteen
hours Tuesday. Toward the latter
part of the evening everything was
free. One sabon-keeper gave away
thousands of dollars worth of cut glass
decanters, drinking glasses and statu-
airy.
Rev. Len G.. Broughton, who had de-
clared he would break a bottle of liquor
in the centre aisle of his church, the
Baptist Tabernacle, as whiskey went
out and prohibition came in, was pre-
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
REAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Although ii is unusual to get the mi
nority ahead of the majority report
from any public body, hat of the mi
nority, from Commissioner Borden d.
Whiting, of Orange, of the State Rail-
road Commission, made public
first, presents excellent features.
Mr.. Whiting recommends the repeal of
the law that created the commission
of which he is a member and the en-
actment of one modelled on the Hughes
lawNo of New York tina will create a
real commission, having genuine
power to do things, not simply a body
that can do little more than give adj
vice and tell about it in reports.
Mr.. Writings idea is that New Jer-
sey needs a commission that should
have under its Jurisdiction practically
all public utilities, including pipe lines.
telegraph and telephone companies, as
well as steam and street railways, in
fact, a general Public Service Commits
sion. This was the original purpose of
those responsible for the idea. 1t is
obvious that a commission with a title
and good salaries, but merely nominal
powers, an ornamental commission, is
worse than none at all. AS the mi
nority member of our commission"
saws. the idea embodied in the New
York law. hat has already proved
effective, its purpose, it's scope, it's
scheme of inquisition, publicity and
regulation, are not radical, but in the
true and accurate sense conservative.
Some such law is what New Jersey
Leeds and must have.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
Are We Rennx civilized,

While innocent of the hideous acts that
make New York so prominent in erimi-
nal annals, Philadelphia contributes its
lawless share to the excessive homicide
record of the United States, as the report
of the coroner for the past year too sadly
shows. One hundred and ifty-one homi-
cides in twelve months! One hundred and
hfty-one human lives taken in sudden
anger or with premeditated intentf A muir
der every two and a half days, and no re-
turn of the secret deaths Of infants caused
by malpractitioners and mothers seeking to
conceal their shame of wilfully refusing to
bring children into the world! There is
something awry with civilization as con-
Quoted In the United States. The founda-
ton of civilization is respect for and obe-
dience to law. In the eye of the law murder
is the chief felony, and yet in a long
established, law-abiding and commonly or
derby city like this, some one is murder
ously slain every two and a half daysl
What real claim has such a community to
be recognized as civilized and Christian? A
land which holds life as cheap as the
United States does, and in which law MS
often condones or approves murder by set
ting the murderer free as 1t enforces its
authority, is MISREPRESENTATION
Telegraph.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

his own or hired; $3.50 for his bachelor
dinner, and $1,000 for wedding equip
ments This Is said TO be for the
wealthy youth of the middle class, but,
figuring down to the level of the poorer
young man, it is proved in cold figures
that the time a man a-wooing goes Is
the most costly time of his career. the
experience is well worth it all, he will
admit, every one of him. But how
would the leap year enthusiasts of the
| other sex like to shoulder the same
burden? They have a chance to ray
during the coming twelve-month.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
franklin state.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
What and whore was Franklin state,
IL there ever was such 4 place? G. G. c.
1.-THE boundary lines Of what might have
been n Nof our States under the name OF
Franklin State included what are now re-
teen counties of Virginia, six of West
Virginia, one-third of Kentucky, one-haif
of Tennessee, t%wo-thirds Of Alabama and
at least one-fourth of Georgia. Its for
nation in 1884 was due TO the dissatisfac
ton of some of the inhabitants with the
control of North Carolina; acts OF vlolencs
were committed both by them and by
the aeherents to the old regime and al
one time civil war seemed inevitable. Tn
October, 1888. however, John Sewer, thu
governor of the newly formed State wa;
arrested and carried to North Carolina fol
trial; soon after the government Of Frank
lin collapsed wEereupon the parent Stat
passed an act of ''pardon and oblivion
and the cession of the North Carolinl
lands 70 the United States. on August :
1880, sealed the incident once for all.-Ed
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02
VITAL ORGANS OF ANIMALS
FOR HUMANS PREDICTED

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-Experiments
have been made at the Rockefeller In
stitute for Medical Research which
have resulted in the successful trans
ference of vital organs from one living
animal to another. Cats were used in
the experiments and Alexis Carrel, the
experimentor, that he trans
planted in mass the kidneys of n cat
to the body of another.
Doctors with whom the experiments
were discussed said it was not a far cry
from the time when it may be possible
to transplant one of the vital organs
from an animals body to that of a
human. Now that it has been shown
that the transplantation may be made
in animals, it only requires, n of them
said, the emergency and the need Of
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-02

The lost traveller accosted the freckled
lad astride the gate post.
Sonny, how far is 1t from here to the
next town as the crow nies?"
Dunno mister. | amt no crow"
3 well, which is the best way to hit the
pike?"
"Hit it any way you want; it amt got
no feeling"
Tut, tut, my boy; don't be So facetious
and tell me if I can make the next car"
Hardly. It's already made"
The traveller frowned and removed the
perspiration from his brow.
"You appear to be a pretty smart
youngster."
Not half as smart as my brother,
mister"
HIN! What made him smart?"
why, he fell into a yellow Jackets
est."-Chicago News.
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such an operation for it to be tried IN
the more important case.
Fourteen experiments were conducted
by Mr.. Carrel at the Rockefeller In
.stitute between February n October
of last year. five of which were failures
because of unfavorable conditions at
the time of the operation. The cats
survived the operation in periods vary
ing from three to thirty-six days, and
DIR. Carrel said that if it had been pcs
sible to permit them to return to their
natural life he believed they would
have lived their allotted time.
In the first Ease the cat survived
fourteen days; the next lived but
three; ten days was the record Of the
third: the fourth died at the end of
eight days; FIVE days sufficed for the
fifth: the sixth lived n month; the
seventh and eighth thirteen days. and
the ninth made the record.