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New-York tribune., 1909-03-17
TELLS OF $4,000 BRIBE.
Pittsbmg Witness Says He Care
Boz to Nan 1cith Red CarndtiOn.
[Bx Telegraph TO The Tribune. ]

Pittsburg March 16-In the graft investi-
CATION to-day an employe of a large dowptown
firm told the grand jury that under orders he
delivered in the street to a man he had never
seen before a shoe box containing $4,000 sup
posedIy a corruption fund. He identified the
man. he said, by a red carnatiOn on his right
coat lapel The employe said he had instruc-
tions to pass to the the box of money with
out asking any questions.
Mayor Guthrie spent two hours giving testimony
to-day Among other witnesses examined dur
ing the day were John Walker formerly con-
nected with the Carnegie Steel Company, but
now retired: Thomas Welsh. jr well known
banker, and several 'Councilmen. More sub
poenas were issued to-day. making fifty IN all,
il is said.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17
TWO DIE ON ONE ROPE.
Husband and Wife Commit Suicide
Simultaneously an Their Home.

Using the same length of rope passed through
the transom of door Philip Dietzal, sixty-fve
wears old and his wife. Adelina. fifty-two, COM
n1itted suicide by hanging themselves in their
home at No $50 Grove street, Glendale. Long
Island yesterday. The bodies were found by
one of their sons when he returned from work
at O'Clock in the evening.
chair that had apparently been kicked from
beneath the feet OF the couple was found over
turned on the floor. Both bodies were Of about
the same weight and the weight OF one served
10 hold taut the rope for the other. Coroner's
Physician Mutt who examined the bodies, said
that the couple had apparently been dead sew
eral hours.
Neither Of the of the old couple could
explain the suicides of their parents. They had
lived happily together and were in comfortable
circumstances. Philip Dietzel ii was learned,
suffered greatly from asthma during the last
year and being unable 10 sleep grew despond-
ent 1t is thought that ne decided to Kill him
self to end his suffering. and that his wife de-
cided that she would die with him rather than
ugs alones
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17
ST. LUKES TO ENLARGE
Plans Filled for Nine Story 44ddi-
ton to Hospital.

Plans have been filed for the proposed en-
largement of St. Luke's Hospital. on Morning
side Heights by a nine-stOry addition. to be
Lpo,-n as the Travers Pavilion This addition
will form a new wing at the east end OF the
hospital quadrangle adjoining the administra-
tion building.
1t is TO be ireproof. and will be built of brick
with marble trimmings. from designs by Ernest
Flagg The addition will harmonize in appear
ance with the existing group of hospital build
ings. go
II will be 1894 feet front with similar
depth and will have a large central covered
court The main story will contain a series OF
surgical operating and examination rooms and
a sterilizing room. The second floor VIII nave
,,,,,ra examination rooms. an electrical room and
n laboratory and there will be solartum on
the eighth story and roof garden on the top
story 49, 80.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17
DIPLOMATIC CHANGES.
O'Brien to Remain at TOk1O-Straus
Nay 90 to COnStantinOpie.
[From The Tribune Bureau


Washington. March 16-No changes in the
diplomatic representation Of the United states
at London and Paris contemplated at this
time The Ambassador to Toxic. Thomas j.
OBren, will continue to represent the United
States az that post. He has been offered both
St Petersburg and Rome. and has declined.
finally concluding to remain at Toxic.
AS has been told in the dispatches. John G. A
Ieishman now Ambassador to Turkey, will be
transferred TO Rome. II is regarded as proba-
bic that ex-Secretary OF Commerce and Labor
Oscar s Straus will be offered the post of Am
bassador to Turkey. He was Minister TO Tur-
KEY from 1887 to 1889 and again from 1S!6 to
1901. 1t is possible. however. that Mr. Straus
may be offered the post of Ambassador 70 Aus
tria-Hungary.
II is asserted by those in authority that no
other diplomatic retentions or changes have
been agreed upon and the President is inclined
to defer consideration of these places until he
has disposed of the host of small offices. the
filling of which is now occupying most Of his
attention.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17
REYENUES INCREASING.
Treasury Has Ready Cash to Meet
I4U Demands.

WASHINGTON. March 16.-Assistant Secretary
Coolidge said to-day that there was marked
Improvement in the condition Of the Treasury
and that government receipts show substan-
tial increase.
There is no foundation" he said for the
widely circulated report that the payment OF
over s5OOOO 600 OF claims against the govern
ment now due has been postponed by the Treas
urv for want Of ready cash on the contrary.
the department is abreast OF demands upon II
in honoring acquisitions. and no necessary pay
ments are postponed for future action All
claims are met as fast as appropriations therefor
are made by Congress
while the appropriations and expenditures
of the government are increasing annually and
the expenditures for the current fiscal year are
largely above the revenues for the year. the
available cash in the Treasury is equal TO all
demands that may be made upon it for some
time. The revenues from imports have recently
shown substantial gains. and should these con-
tinue the Treasury will be in good condition TO
await the approaching readjustment OF the tariff
50 far from the Treasury being in a des-
perate way. the outlook is better to-day than IL
has been in months. The revenues for the first
fifteen days OF March have been S264S0.756.
as against s2O7s5,256 for the corresponding
period a year ago. an Improvement OF more
than % per cent. while the excess Of ex-
penditureS over receipts fOr the same period mas
been S15O9243 as against $4.s7474s an i'm
provement Of more than 65 per cent. The rev.
enues for the first fifteen days OF March were
greater than for any corresponding period in the
last five years.
THE excess OF expenditures over receipts for
tba fiscal wear to date Is SSTS ST1 DOB which Is
slightly in excess of the estimate OF Secretary
Cortelyou at the beginning OF the last session
Of Congress The average daily excess OF ex-
penditures over receipts for the entire fiscal year
To date has been S34O. $50. In January the aver
age daily excess was $5O1.414. Had this contin-
ued. as seemed possible for time. the outlook
might have been less favorable, but since ths
first week in February there has been a marked
improvement The average excess of expendi-
lures over receipts during February was SKI
SAL For the first fifteen days OF March II was
only $1OO.616. An average daily deficit OF S-4''-
COO for the remainder of the fiscal year would
still leave the years deficiency within Secre. aTy
; CorteIyou's estimate Of S114OO0OO0
The new administration comes into Office viii
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17
MEANING OF LIAR IN GEORGIA.
Breach of the Peace and Most Generally ;
Hight" State Court Rules

Atlanta, March l6-To call a liar In
Georgia is breach of the peace and means a
fight according TO the state Court of Appeals. in
decision handed down to-day The lower court
which refused damages to W NJ Rumsey, who
sued W. A. Bulard for $l00 for calling him liar'
is reversed, the opinion by Judge Powell conclud-
ing:
Being to the manner born. the judges Of this
court judicial cognizance of the fact that In
Georgia to call a liar without threaten
ing him with weapon, most geperaly means
hght There may be exceptions to this rule but
they are exotics and find little nourshment on
Georgia soil and under Southern skies
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17
mp cARNEGIE's JOKE ON PITTsBURG.
City Learns About 10000 School Only
After It Is Built.
IN TeIegranh 10 IL Trlbune. ]

Pttsburg. March l6.-Andrew Carnegies sense
II hunor was made apparent here to-day when II
was discovered that he had built 81 10000 school
here without the people of Pittsburg really know
ing ANYTHING about IL. and that he is half way
through with another structure.
This was made public by the announcement that
tho Carnegie School Of Applied Science was now
readv and that il had cost $lOO000o Outside Of
Director Hamerschlag and those directly engaged
in the work of construction few in Pittsburg knew
that sucn a school being built The foundations
of another building Of similar size and cost are
Ireod,, finished 1t is said Mr. Carnegie wanted to
have n little joke Pittsburg
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17
ARoR ORGANIZERS MAY ENTER CANADA

ot,awa March IA bill designed to prevent
union ,abor organizers from the United States
entering Canada was killed in the Senate this af-
tArnoon The motion for second reading was lost
by a vote Of Is TO 2i. The bill cannot be brought 20
life again this session
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17

Ten DAYS Stopover at Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington and Pittsburg Baltimore & ohio K.
r Full information at Ticket Offices. 4S4 & 1900
broadway and Astor House.-AdlL
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17

London. March 17.-"The Times this morn
ing asserts that Germany has been working at
the highest pressure In certain dockyards, both
night and day, to push her battleships. This is
rendered possible. it is said, by the German gov
ernments paying subsidies amounting in some
cases 10 - per cent more than the original IS
innate for work thus FASTENED.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17

nAYToNA AND PALM BEACH RACES.
seohoard Florida Limited only through train car
wing club car Office. I1S2 Broadway.-Adyt
New-York tribune., 1909-03-17

,rbp Ikit" stylish eyeglasses call at Spencer s.;
see new Bisight Torc Pebbles. Now 81 Maiden Lane.
-AdYL
The border vidette., 1909-10-02
OCTOBER 3, 1909.
LOCAL ITEMS

Mine Host Jaeger of the Mentezu- ma and Santa Rita hotels. arrived from Tucson Thursday ni- ht.
 Yesterday Ralph McOorkle came up from hls Calabasas ranch, return ing the same day.
 Pete Torres has the best line of cigars in NogAles, Sonora. Just across the international line. Step in and inspect his line. If.
 United States Marshal Overlook has appointed O L. Fowler of this city. one of his deputies. with. headquarters in Nogales.
 During the absence of A. Carpena, in Tucson couple of days, A. Dunn bauld is managing the International Store.
 Manuel Mascare 1as, Jr., of The Bos. ton Store, Inc., has gone to Los An geIes, Cal, on business for his big "House of Quality"
 District court in and for the county of Santa Cruz. convenes in Nogales next Monday, at which time the grand jury will meet.
 The trustees of the Nogales public schools are figuring with contractors for a pumber of fire escapes to be pla ced on the school house.
 Mrs. T. J. Wylie and the baby re- turned home Tuesday night from a couple of months visit wi1h relatives and friends in Missouri
 G. B. Kelley, local agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company, is a very busy man these days hustling orders for his big company.
 Paul s. Sprecher offers his Elm street property for sale; four vacant lots, one brick dwelling rented for S3O.OO per month; Address Nogales, Ariz. tf3, l Mr. z l.. Pettigrew, chief clerk in I Agent w. G. Bowman, has resigned his position and gone to Fl Paso, Texas, where his family reside.
 Tuesday night Mrs. Marguerite Cleary of Illinois, who for some time past has been sDiourning in Texas arrived in the city on visit with Mrs. George B. Marsh.
 Some time next month MT. and Mrs George B. Marsh will go east on ar extended pleasure trip, including point in Indiana and Illinols. where they will visit friends and relatives.
 OF Holler & Go have had a hand warding and commission office or Morley avenue. The sign was design ed and painted by Artist T. Ruiz.
 Early last Sunday morning there arrived at the home of Mir. and Mrs E E. Noon. of this city, fine i2 pound boy baby. Both mother anc the little mining engineer are doinf nicely.
 Yesterday morning Joaquin Aro left for Cauanea, Sonora, with his family, it being his intention to en- gage in the butcher business at tha place. Joaquin's friends wish hin good luck.
 Road Overseer Bob Rankin came 1T from his ranch home Wednesda, afternoon and returned Thursday. Bo says just at present he is very bus. !, putting the county road out his wa, in good condition.
 Miss Dora Hannsh's desk in tn First National Bank is vacant, tn young lady having gone to Pasaden to visit at the beautiful home of MT. an Mrs. John Henderson, formerly of tn , city.
 a Attorney Frank J. Duffy has h , law office on Morley avenue greatl improved and beautiGed by Artist Dumbauld. Mir Duffy extends h friends cordial invitation to call an 2 make themselves at home. } George Januel, the expert Germa S barber, opposite the Sonora Nev ! Company, guarantees his work, ar
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28
Helps for Automobiles

o. w. Hanson has secured patents o a speed gear for automo-
biIes, the point of which is that two gear wheels will serve all the
purposes of many now in use. In this connection it will not be VIC
lating any confidence to say that County Comptroller Solomon is
awaiting a patent on a contrivance for automobiles that will enable
them to pull out of any sort of mud hole, no matter how desperate
in character, by their own power. 1T is so simple a thing that it
mon. Thomas B. Kimball, the architect, is associated with MI. Solo
mon in the development of this invention.
NJ. D. Houck has developed and secured the right to make and
market a mechanical toy that he feels will add greatly to the gayety
of juvenile play.
Two men named Luke and Wolf are the inventors of a five
horse hitch for plows, by the peculiar construction of which five
horses htched to a pillow can all walk on the land and the pillow will
still run straight in the furrow.
Paxton a. Mitchell of 1922 Harvey street are the holders OF
patents on a metallic packing for engines. A man named Bateker
is also the inventor of a metallic packing, but as in all things OF this
kind, where large corporations have to be dealt with, progress in
getting a profitable market is slow. Every purchasing, agent of a
railroad or similar large user of packings is from Missouri, and they
originally lived at the center of the show me" district.
DR.. H. w. Allwine holds patents on a swaging machine to be
used by dentists that Is said to be not nearly as fearsome as its
name would indicate.
John Hartman of the Hartmann Vinegar and Pickle company
turned his attention successfully to a steam boiler and excavating
machine built on somewhat unique lines; so much sc that he was
granted patent.
George A. Lang of the Monarch billiard hall has not walked
about his tables in vain. since he has perfected a cushion rail, the
merit of which made it patentable, and it is in use in his own hall
and elsewhere.
Charles o. MichaeIson, who does his work in the Sharp plant
at Tenth and Howard, has the Omaha flavor all over him. He is
saturated with It. inside and out. Il have been a newsboy here"
says Mr.. Mchaelson, "and have owned Omaha real estate too
heavily at the wrong time. served my apprenticeship in the old
Union Pacific shops, have mined and made money and lost it; but
for a lifetime almost Omaha has looked good to me-"
MI. Michaelson owned at one time the Omaha Machine shop.
we'll known in the days before the panic of 1898, when he was hit
hard, in common with others. Afterward he went to mining in the
Cripple Creek district, and the money he made he spent largely in
developing mining machinery. To this line he now devotes his at
tention exclusively, working at the lathe himself and giving the
most minute personal care to every piece Of every machine. His
hopes IT. now based on a rock crusher that. as he puts il, lis a dyna-
mite gun working on rock and street paving stones are not too hard
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

engages the thought of his brain day and night and Sundays. Hav-
ing the eggs, three things r. necessary, says Mr.. Lee, to make them
hatch, and these he names in order: Proper amount of heat, Just
the right ventilation and moisture refined to an exact degree. BY
having these three essentials properly under control, Lee will almost
undertake to make china eggs give up the fluffy, ridiculous little
strutters that grow into most delectable "sprngers," and occasionally
into most execrable rubber-lke things suitable only for table deco
ration, not for tooth use. Mr.. Lee, for instance, had to invent a
hygrometer of his own before he vas satisfied that he had become
intimately acquainted with the almost defunct duty of hens, to hatch
chickens. What is a hygrometer? Why, it is one of the twenty
five inventions credited to Mr.. Lee and his associates on the books
of the patent office in Washington; concretely. it is the automaton
on an incubator that determines the amount of moisture. Lee and
his company do not brood much any more, but they do furnish
breeders, with some little fances of their own attached that make
the machines in demand.
7. F. Stroud g. Co. send the name of Omaha far and wide on a
line of dirt moving tools, wagons, scrapers, dirt elevators, excavators
and the like. The merit of the Stroud machines lies more or less
in certain little wheels, cams, levers and other parts that have from
time to time been invented, changed, modified and made better by
Mr. Stroud himself and Pete Reinhardt, his righthand man. The
Stroud machinery is in use on the Panama canal, and some of it has
been shipped to Germany. Every big railroad job is also a gathering
place for what this factory turns out.
Railroad men ar generally clever enougn to do anything, and
not infrequently they do inventorial stunts. C. S. Carrier, ticket
agent at the city office of the Milwaukee, is the inventor of what is
known a s a check and ticket protector, and the same is being put
on the market by a responsible eastern concern that handles such
things. Carriers invention stamps on a check the exact amount
and on a ticket the exact date, in such a way that. it is claimed, there
is absolutely no possibility of changing the sum or the date and
getting away with the bogus thing. Similar machines put out by
earlier inventors are very costly and have proved in some ways in
accurate; but Carriers is cheap, costing about $40, and Is unbeatable
and eternany correct. He worked on it for years, and Is pardon
ably proud of his star performance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28
Martin Myers Inspiration

Going home on a car some two and a half years ago, Martin
Meyer saw a woman who was overly anxious to alight. He endeav-
ored to stop her, but in vain; and another death was added, within
a day or two, to the list of people killed in Omaha through street car
accidents. This accident, with its fatal termination, gave Mr.. Meyer
a heart shock and a brain shock. The result was a study of the pos
sibilty of preventing such accidents, and later on the completion of
a model, application for a patent and the granting OF same by the
government Today Mr.. Meyers invention is being tested on cars of
the Omaha 4 Council Bluffs Street Railway company and is making
good, so far a can be judged from its operation. The Meyer guard
covers the front and rear platforms Of closed cars, each guard being
operated independently by the conductor or motorman. 1t can also
be used on open cars, and can then be operated by the conductor
from any point in the car. 1t works easily, automatically fastens
the open cars the conductor can pass along inside the guard to col
let fares, or any other person standing on the footboard is held
from a possibility of falling unless he deliberately drops downward.
Soon, If this device comes into general use. Omaha street cars will be
talked Of by travellers passing to and fro across the country as having
a distinction worthy OF mention.
Oscar A. Albrecht is an Omaha inventor who is in line. al his
friends predict, to make a fortune. He will shortly be turning out
flat and tubular shoe and belt laces with tips attached. He is not
ready TO go into details as yet. for the reason, as he says, that he has
had to invent a material from which to make his machine after per-
fecuns the machine itself. Mr.. Albrecht says he now has this ma
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

terial about perfected. 1t will be made by mods, and the inventor
asserts that the different parts will not need any attention from a
machinist after being taken from the molds. Heretofore the attaching
of tips to shoe laces has been a tedious and time-wasting process.
John Huffman of the Neville block is one of the busiest among
the local geniuses. His most fruitful piece of work is a wagon end
gate. now being marketed by Paxton & Huffman. He has also e
cured patents on a sawfilng machine, a rotary street car adver-
Using device, a selfworking water elevator, a car ventilator, a trail
ing fender for street cars, a horseshoe in which caulks can be re-
newed without removing the shoe and a poiceman's club. The lat
ter seems to be just what the coppers have long been seeking. Made
of sole leather on a steel spiral. 1t is strong, resilient and its maker
says will grow better as it gets older.
Richard C. Taylor of 2462 South Seventeenth street holds pat
ents on advertising strap hangers and n anti-sneak thief garment
holder, that will also hold umbrellas against unknown borrowers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

to be crushed like egg shells" Mr.. Michaelson is
also the inventor of a placer mining machine, and
of commentators and crushers for use at mines, and
today he faces the prospect of being again rich,
with as much equanimity as he accepted the wrong
turn of fortunes whee1 in the trying days. He has
had ~flattering offers for his rock crusher, but In
sists on perfecting 1t and holding 1t himself.
Theodore Ponsar, a millwright, has been devot-
ing himself in a winning way to the development OF
alfalfa milling machinery, for which there is a big
demand all over the west today, especially in Ne
braska.
A patent notebook holder is the child of the
brain of F. w. Mosher of the business college bear
ing his name.
e. Oehrle is an Omaha mechanic who has been
prolific in the line of combination tools, squares.
levels and things of that kind. Some of his contri-
vances are marvels in their way.
H. F. Reed has secured patents on a steel Whit
fletree that promises well.
c. e. Niece of 20O7 Cass street secured letters
patent on an envelope which cannot>be opened with
out breaking the seal, just to make trouble for
those who pry when they should not.
w. J. Mccoy of South Omaha holds rights from
the United States for a cement block machine, and
R. D. Owens has secured similar rights on a cement
fence post.
The lettering of farm machinery appealed to
e. o. Orendorff, as II does to many men; so he went
ahead and worked out an attachment to open fur
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-28

the wheels with a knife and altogether the thing looks like
it was cut out with a dull saw, a left-handed cleaver and an italic
jack-knife. 1t still. lacks the one spring that was to make it perfect.
Unlike some other inventors, the tribe in Omaha has devoted
its energies to real conventences for use in the home, on the farm
and in commercial life. Little things that everybody will want prove
the most successful, and on this line a Milwaukee inventor secured
a patent in October, 1907, for a back scratcher. 1t is very simple,
too. You get a long wire handle with a tin clamp on n end, into
and shirtband, presumably, and run the itch eradicator down and
up over the spot where the itching bacili turks. Old Scotchmen tell
of a simpler contrivance at the crossroads in ancient Scotia, where
a person might back up and rub his shoulders hard against a scratch
ing post, and murmur, God bless the duke of Argyle" thus CON-
plotting the charm.