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Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
Claims Crib Is Fire Trap

CHICAGO, Jan. 2S.-At the resump-
ton today Of the inquest on the vic
Tins of the crib fire, Coroner Hoffman
and States Attorney Wyman renewed
their investigation into the dangerous
condition of the crib prior to the fire,
in which almost seventy lives were
lost. The testimony of many wit
nesses indicated the crib was fire
trap and that frequently it had been
many hours without even the meager
protection of the tug which rescued
many of the victims. Workmen con-
tend that the floor of the crib had be-
come oilsoaked through careless
handling of large oil receptacles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
SAYS HUSBAND BEAT
HER. USING GLOVES TO
PROTECT HIS HANDS

g SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2S.-In (
g granting a divorce to Mrs. Alice Z. (
g Hall, wife of William II. Hall, a (
@ Louisiana cotton broker, Judge Gra- 4
@ ham said today the tale of the hus- Z
@ bands cruelties as recited by Mrs. Z
@ Hall was the most shocking he had {
@ heard in many years of divorce court {
g work. (
@ Mrs. Hall said while living with Hall {
g in cottage at the edge of a swamp, {
@ two miles out of Alexandria, Ia, her {
@ husband had repeatedly fastened her (
@ feet to ceiling beam with a rope, and (
@ as she swung thus, head downward,
o beaten her face and head numerically, {
@ as a boxer in training rains blows ON (
@ punching bag. He wore gloves during (
@ the process In order to protect his (
@ hands from injury.
@ Not content with this, Hall, his wife {
@ declared, took her out on the swamp in (
@ small boat at night and after COM (
@ pelling her to disrObe, forced her to (
@ jump into the water and swim to a (
@ tree, where she chung naked and shiv- (
@ ering until he chose to return for her. (
O The Halls were married two years (
g ago in Oakland, where Mrs. Halls (
O. mother lives. Hall Is in Louisiana and Z
@ allowed the proceedings to go by de- (
g fault. (
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
Southern Pacific Resumes Traffic

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2S.-With the
exception of the landslide damage at
Puenta Gorda, blocking the Coast line
south of Santa Barbara. and the flood
damage on the Knights. Landing
branch, all routes Of the Southern Pa
cific company closed by the recent
high waters are again open. The
Coast line will be blocked for another
week, according to company officials.
traffic to Los Angeles on that line go
ing by way of San Jose, Niles and Mo-
jave, and the Knights Landing branch
will be closed. for an indefinite period.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
ALLEGES ATTORNEY.
GENERAL OF MONTANA
HAS NO RIGHT TO SALARY

D HELENA, Mont, Jan. 2S-A sensa- (;
9 tiOn was caused in the legislature to- &
o day when Representative Hall intro (,
. duced resolution settir forth that 4
. Attorney Genel Cais who is a z
o br@ther-in-law OF Senator Carter, had z
8 illegally drawn $12, 900 from the state (.
D treasury for salary and expenses, when (;
o he was not entitled to take the oath of Z
8 office because he was under thirty Z
o years of age, the constitutional limit &
3 for that office. The resolution de- (.
D mands the return of the money. q
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
ROOT ENDORSES PARCELS
POST; TELLS OF DANGERS
Senator=EIect of New York Addresses
Joint Session of the
Legislature at
Albany

ALBANY, N Y, Jan. 2S.-United
States Senator-elect Root today ad-
dressed the senate and assembly in
joint session. He indorsed the parcels
post proposition. Mr.. Root pointed out
what he believed were two dangers due
to the development of this country. One
is the danger of national government
breaking down in its effective machin-
cry through the burdens that threaten
to be cast upon it. 1.-THE other" he
continued, "is the danger of breaking
down the local self-government of the
states"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
Cuts Throat; Soon pies

SAN JOSE, Jan. 2S.-W. S. Adams, an
employe at the Palo Alto stock farm
was found in an clubhouse last night
with his throat cut. He was alive but
he died soon after. He had been sick
and despondent, and the coroners in
quest this morning brought in a verdict
Of suicide. He was about 40 years old
and unmarried.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST

For Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair
Friday; light northwest wind. Max
imum temperature yesterday, 81 de-
grees; minimum, A degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
LOCAL

Nineteen cars of cattle arrive in de-
plorable condition.
Signatures to recall come in with unex-
pected rapidity.
Residents seek relief from alleged pottery
nuisance.
Fire commissioners forced to negotiate with
protesting woman.
Alleged bunko suspect says she intended to
marry victim.
tuberculosis discussed under auspices Of
Typographical union.
Socialist arrested for speaking on street.
Held to superior court to answer charge
of burglary.
Describes horrors Of cheap dance halls at
W. c. T. U. institute.
Woman beats off mad dog that invades
house.
Federal policies supported in Live Stock
associations convention.
Fined for breaking back of pet fox ter
rier.
Valuable heirloom lost at ball given by
Shriners.
City club works for charter amendments
Testimony in Thorpe divorce case nearly
all in.
''society day. at automobile show.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
FOREIGN

President Gomez of Cuba is inaugurated
and government is turned over to Cubans by
Americans, Gvoernor Magoen and his off
cials leaving as as details are COM
pleted.
Chile and Peru are renewing old-time ami
nosities because of rupture of diplomatic re-
lations between two countries.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29
COAST

Emma Goldman and manager are acquitted
of charge of trying to hold illegal meetings
at San Francisco.
Stetson railroad bill for California is
doomed to be killed. as measure is said to be
a compromise.
President of jockey club in address before
legislative committee on public morals at
Sacramento says ministers of gospel in Can
ada and United States have committed more
crimes in past twenty-eight years than any
other class.
Woman suffrage bin before California as
sembly is defeated by vote of 80 to ST.
Sutro tunnel of Comstock mines at Vir-
ginia, New, burns, but no miners are in
iured fatally.
Lawyers engage in lively disputes at trial
of Patrick Calhoun, president of United
Railroads of San Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-29

Former real estate dealer, under arrest at
Kansas City on charge of passing fictitious
check, is alleged to have victimized many
women by making love to them.
Negro youth in Cincinnati kills one white
boy and fatally stabs another.
Socialists gain balance of power in annual
convention Of United Mine Workers of Amer
lea at indianapolis.
Former President Kieran of defunct Fidelity
Funding company of New York, in which de-
posits of many Catholic institutions were lost
tesctifies at bankruptcy proceedings.
Daughter Of artist at Phoenix, Ariz., jiIts
rich fance of Denver for violinist, and mar
ries latter at Kingman, Ariz.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
THE, RTR4L NAIL CARRIER.

Rural prosperity has it's shadow well
its sunshine. The head Of the Postoiice Depart
ment is learning this To his sorrow. Years ago
the farmer was content with almost anything.
In those DAYS he didn't have telephone IN the
dining room windmill in the yard an auto
mobile in the shed and large pile Of money
in the bank. So when the experimental rural
routes were established in order that the bus
bandman might have his mail brought to him
once dav instead OF being compelled 10 get it
once a week from the poStofiCe when he made
his Saturday trip to town. there were plenty
Of applicants for the place Of rural carrier
a 5000 a year. even though the successful man
understood that he must provide his own horse
and wagon.
Now, with the rural carriers receiving many
of them. 5000 year. they are not satisfied.
It's bad enough for the government servant to
be compelled TO watch his neighbors riding by
him in their touring cars as he picks two
pennies our Of the mail box and applies the
scanty moisture Of a parched tongue To stick
ing a stamp on letter, without having 70
provide his own equipment, while suburban
city carriers who ISe horses and vehicles
Ceive an allowance of $500 year in addition
10 their salaries. Then. too. the rural carrier
will insist on complaining about the roads In
other days any road upon which a hall loaded
wagon would not he stalled when the spring
thaw came was good enough, but now the rural
carriers. when they assemble in convention, de
mand that bridges be repaired and harrows
dra gged over the highways At frequent intervals
10 make them smooth.
Looking at the matter seriously, however. it
is easy to imagine that the rural mail delivery
system has been the greatest factor making for
good roads. Once the country folk became
customed 70 having their mail brought to them
they looked for il as anxiously the city
dUnIIar docs his morning delivery AS
government does not require its rural carriers
10 traverse impossible roads. there was some
incentive TO improve the condition of the rural
highways, and once begun the work worth
carrying on for its own sake. The rural
rier may have the appearance of being a chronic
kicker but he has been of nestimable value to
the rural public in several ways.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30

Monday last. July 26. Ten days before tnat
date about one hundred and fifty representatives
of the miners unions including the miners men-
bers of Parliament met in London to consider
the situation and the outlook, and as Il result
of their deliberations decided 10 submit 10 their
nearly nine hundred and forty thousand con-
stituents for determination the question of
general strike throughout the kingdom against
the threatened reduction of wages in Scotland
The question submitted to the miners was: Are
You in favor of determining your contracts for
employment. so that you may stop in sympathy
with the Scottish minersE' The answer pro-
vided for a straight yes or no. The reduc-
ton of wages i'll Scotland made on Monday
last and the Scottish miners stopped work Inc
voting of the miners of the United Kingdom
was completed on Tuesday, and the result was
announced Wednesday, Of 93S,129 miners
enrolled in the unions 5S1361 voted, and of
these 62.9S0 voted no. while 51S,361, or a sub
stantial majority of the whole number, voted
yes.
If Mr.. ChurchilPs efforts and those Of the
Scottish Cancellation Board should fail. a gen
eral strike would doubtless be Immediately or
dered. The command would be Obeyed, and the
whole coal mining industry of Great Britain
would be at a standstll The effect upon in
dustres and commerce, and indeed upon all
the activities of British life, would be disas-
trous. How long the strike might last before ii
was ended by exhaustion is matter for Specula-
ton. The miners unions have nearly $1OOOO,UO
of accumulated funds. That is a large sum- but
it would not long provide for the support Of
nearly million men and their families. The
disaster and the loss which such conflict If car
ried 10 the bitter end would infliCt upon the
United Kingdom are so enormous that il should
be d matter of moral and civic necessity for the
disputantS TO come to an agreement
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
GALVESTON NOT YET SAFE.

1t begins to look as if the rejoicing at Gal
weston over the way in which the defences OF
that city withstood the recent Gulf storm was
premature Correspondence of The Tribune
shows that the new safeguard. q fine sea wall
on the southern side of the island on which the
city is situated, was not subjected to an ex
IRENE test At no time did the wind velocity
exceed seventy miles an hour. and, as Calves
ton well knows hurricanes sometimes develop
far greater violence. Yet enormous quantities
of sand were thrown up over the crest of the
wall and in some of the streets water stood for
hours at a depth of from to three feet. 1t
is doubtful therefore, If the wall is high enough
to afford the protection il was expected To give.
There is an equal degree of uncertainty about
the adequacy of another costly improvement
which has been made in the last few years-the
raising of the grade of a considerable part of
the city.
Although the federal government assumed
share of the expense of building that sea wall,
the part borne by the municipality imposed
no small burden on the taxpayers a burden
whicl was materially increased 10y the altera-
tions of grade. AS these effects were fOreseen.
Galveston made a fine exhibition of courage and
enterprise in adopting the plans which en-
cineers recommended The pluck shown was
the greater because the nundation Of 1900,
which drowned a quarter of the population. in
yolyed many taxpayers in serious losses also.
If now the people have cause for uneasiness
about the future they deserve and viii receive
n corresponding measure of sympathy. 1t is
extremely unfortunate that there should be
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
SOCIAL NOTES FROM Nsw.o.-

lSy Telegraph 70 The Trts5,.';
Newport, July 29.-Quite nurubs- ~.
set Of the sqpner colony will ,,r. Is N.
bazaar and tableau perfornanc. ' pa's
next Wednesday for the bepss. - ne e
Lutheran Church Of Newuor.. ~
has been arranged principally thro4,s 'sa',e ).
Of Mr.. and Mrs Newtnl Adams us {
There was a large attendance -
which was given this afternoon ~ Sso
home Of Dr. and Mrs. = J. Maso, ~. s Va
Curtis, Of New York. vas the pr,n.,--1 -l''a V'a
Miss May Van Allen gave luncbss- sa'E
noon at Wakehurst @s q
Mrs Edward C. knight gave a d.,
William G. Rocker. j.. Will givs
dance tomorrow evening for tn vo..-- -lns
the CIambake Club.
Mrs. Charles NJ Oelrichs viii b,v,
Club on August p for a dinner daues- - - Ca-a
her daughter. Miss Blanche OeIricbs a's
Mrs Oliver H 2. Belmont bas rs.,,-
brief visit in New York -
Mr.. and Mrs. George W vazder,V.
daughter arrived to-day and are the -'...l sl'
and Mrs Hamilton Mex Tvoublv A. - -
Mrs Elsie French Vanderbilt mad. -
TO the Casino this morning since hsr -
abroad n
Charles Hayden. OF New York, is tls zr..
ard Mrs. Philip A Clara
Frank Beach. OF Roston. is a 9I.s+ =.
and Mrs G L. F Robinson; Edward D =,
OF .Lenox. is a guest Os Egsrr3n L. Vr...-
Thornton Baker. Jr.. OF Philadelphia -
Howard s Graham. jr and n,
Schroeder. OF London. IS a guest OF W,'
de Barill; Miss EnOs. OF London. is z a,... =
and Mrs E s Reynai. Mr.. and Ms. G 90.
EngiewOod. y J. are guests Of Nr and ". g
Jam Murray. and Mr. AMI Mrs Grant x,g.
Boston, are guests here over the veek a.
Livingston Kane is i guest Of sEdnsv w..
Commodore Lewis Cass Ledyard and A -
NOrrie have returned from New York
Isaac E Emerson took a party OF gYezr
ragansett Pier to-day on his yacht Narzs-,
Registered at the Casino to-day were NJ, IL
French Vanderbilt. Edward R. Wharton. A =
ton Baker. E f Davenport and n va.
Schroeder
Mrs Alexander s Clarke has returned n,
visit in Troy. " Y
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
Mr.. EDW4RDSs GOOD IDEA.

There is hope in the announcement just made
by the Street Cleaning Department that streets
in the downtown sections of New York City
will be flushed in the future, beginning about
August /. That this decision has been reached
is not astonishing; the really surprising th'nG
is that such a method of street cleaning was
not adopted long ago. Situated as Manhattan
Island is with water every side Of il, there
would seem to be not the slightest reason why
our streets should not be kept as clean as the
prOvprbal floor of a Dutch housewife.
Some inland towns long ago adopted the
plan of washing their paved streets daily, and
those who live in such fortunate places would
probably find difficulty in imagining reason
why cities so advantageously situated as New
York should not avail themselves Of so excellent
an opportunity If disease is disseminated by
germs there could he no more fruitful source of
infection than the dust which is stirred up IN
the process Of cleaning dry streets by either
hand or mechanical sweepers Flushing pre-
vents the disturbance Of this germ laden dust
CARRYING all into the sewers without inconven-
ienCe or danger.
South Sof 23d street have salt water mains
for the use of the Fire Department. There Is
unlimited quantity Of water, which needs
only 10 he pumped in 70 he available. Let Us
by aiI rneaiS give our streets their daily salt
water bath. and the public health and comfort
will be the gamer thereby. While the city
was dependent entirely upon its fresl water
supply there may have been inSurmountable
obstacles in the way of carrying out such
plan. but with present facilities that argument
no longer holds good.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
rFrom The Tribune Bureau-I


u,asbfnrton July 29-The President sent COM
r,nicatfou TO the conference COMMITTEES this morn
ing clearly stating the conditions on which ne
would accept the tariff BILL
IL have always said that President Taft is at his
hest when thoroughly mad." said Senator Borah
after a conference in tn Executive Ohices "Ihe
best politician is the n.An who finds our wha' 'he
people want and thea 3ives IT TO them or ries u
90 so" The Presidents morning was devoted al
most entirely the tariff. representative I.st Oh
CCuCressmen having BEEN in conference win him.
Senator Curtis had conference with the President
before dinner.
Count NJ Leonardo de Cazalino. commandment OF
the Italian cruiser Etruria. which is anchored
ir the Potomac River near he arsenal, rU-
ccived this morning b. the President, To wnon ne
cyl pressed the gratitude Of Italy for America au
in the recent earth quake. The Italian conlahdahI'
VIC was accompanied by Lieutenant Camperio'
naval attache of the italian Embassy. and seveial
officers of the cruiser introduced TO President
Taft by Assistant Secretary winthrop.
The President assisted by the Secretary Of state
aid Captain Archibald w Butt, his military ald'
received L. A. Cororlilas. Greek Envoy ExtraoIdl-
nary and Minister Plenooientiary. Mr.. CoromilaS
las only recently oeen promoted from Minister
Resident. which rank he has held since December
25. 1907
A tentative programme has been arranged for the
Presidents trip from st. Louis 10 New Orleans IN
October The President is scheduled to spend Oc-
tober . and 26 in St Louis. He will then proceel
on his four-day trip i-wn the Mississippi in whicn
he will be accon.1Eied by the NIce-PreStdent'
Speaker Cannon, .l5ou- hundred Representa-
tives and thirty Governors and th'ir STATS The
Presidents vessel viii be of thirty that VIII
compose the hotiIIa. Arriving in New Orleans Oc-
tober 80 the President VIII make an address at the
Deep Waterways Convention.
Tie Presidents to-day included Senators
Burrows. Borah. Sutherland. Smoot. Burton. Lori
Nor, Ncwlands and johnson; representatives Cal
Gerhead. Fordney. DriscoT, Howell, HILL Fowler,
Mcclure. Fish. Cox 6dIthcd'. GiIlett. Esch. Den
by, Craig and MUIsan and ex-senator Hemelway.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
THE BRITISH COAL STRIKE.

Mr.. Winston Spencer Churchill has n great
task before him, and a great opportunity. Sev-
eral British ministers have won much reputa-
ton and favor through their success In averting
ending industrial disturbances, the latest of
them being Mr.. ,Lloyd-GeOrge Now the pres-
dent Of the Board of Trade is confronted with
the immediate menace of one of the grea test
strikes in British industrial history, and one
which in an exceptional degree would injurious
IL affect nearly all the material interests of the
United Kingdom He will address himself TO
the task of conciliation and settlement with all
hi characteristic zeal and force Indeed he
has already done SO. for just a fortnight ago he
held at his Office conferences with and between
the leaders of the opposing factions and offered
10 intervene with his good offices for the avoid
ance OF strike or lockout and for n settlement
OF the dispute. That offer was tentatively ac-
cepted. and Mr.. Churchill is now lnterposinc his
influence TO the fullest extent TO avert CON
hict which would involve practically all the in
dustries and commerce of the United Kingdom
The question at issue is one OF wages. Some
time ago the Scottish coal mine owners gave
notice of reduction of wages from-G shings
10 a.. shillings day, to go into effect ON
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
DIR. HuNTlNeToN-AN APPRECIATION.
From The Churchman.


But it is the memory of Dr. Huntington's work
as a pastor, as shepherd OF souls, that those who
knew him at Grace Church Will cherish longest and
most fondIy. His assistants will recall his firm yet
kindly will, that grudged no time spent in admins
trattve conferences and recognized with dscrimina-
ton both good intentions and good results The
congregation to whom he minstered for twenty-six
years learned to know in him depth and breadth
Of Christian sympathy for every need and cheer
for every trouble. Men came TO him from beyond
the city and almost daily his Office hours were
prolonged beyond the appointed time. The recOl-
lection of that personal interest In each member of
his great parish entered largely into the sponta-
neous and general expression of poignant regret
when, year ago, after the completion of a quarter
cent'iry's rectorship Or. Huntington rendered his
resignation 1t prompted the eager insistence that
he should retain his charge. and when he yielded to
their desire gratitude found a general expression
in great gift in which hundreds sought to share
This gift of $4,000 set aside by DR. Huntington
as a fund for the aged clergy of the parish and
their dependents.
This side of DIR Huntngton's life few knew, vet
no characterization OF him be true that does
not let the light fall from this window the
of the picture. Thtre have been few such striking
personalities In, his generation; few whose loss
would be felt BY so many ana In SO many ways
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
AT TrcoyDERoGA 800 YEARS AGO

It would probably be possible for somebody
with deft turn for logic TO make out with a
measure of plausbiity that almost any battle
in history was one of the decisive battles Of the
world. and thus 10 swell Sir Edward Greasy
fifteen to fifteen thousand. In our own Revolu-
tion each of at least four conflicts those at Con
cord, Bunker HILL Trenton and Saratoga, has
been voluminously exploited as the one battle
which really determined the outcome of the war.
while DR. Emil Reich insists that not one nor III
of them put together should count for so much
the small dust in the balance by the side of
the supreme. decisive and epOch-making naval
engagement between British and French vessels
off the Virginia Capes.
There is. however. something more than mere
casuistry or Intellectual Juggling TO support the
suggestion which is made by Mr.. Charles NJ.
Harvey in The Atlantic Monthly that few Of
Sir Edward Creasy's decisive battles from Mara
thor to Waterloo had larger consequences than
the little fight at the southern end of Lake
Champlain just three hundred years ago this
morning On the side were Samuel Cham
plain and two other white men and a party of
Hurons and Algonquins and on the other side
party of the Five Nations Of the Iroduois There
We're only between three hundred and four hun
dred men engaged. all told, and only about a
dozen were killed and as many more taken pris
oners. But ii was the first fight in this corner
were allied. and il marked the origin OF that
implacable blood feud between the Iroquois and
the French which made the Five Nations allies
of the Dutch and English in New York and thus
enormously aided in the defeat and expulsion OF
the French from this continent and the consoli-
dation of all the colonies on the Atlantic Coast
under the British flag.
Because of that farreaching effect Cham
plains little battle deserves remembrance and
indeed. il is not unworthy TO be bracketed. as
Mr.. Harvey brackets 1t, with Washington's first
battle at Great Meadows nearly one hundred
and forty five years later. Each was a small
aHair in itself. but each veritable spark
in powder magazine Of which we might say
with Carlyle that IL went off with the dread
fullest consequences. Ticondernga and the coun-
try round about il have been the scene OF many
thrilling episodes, but perhaps of none more inn
portant in consequences than that skirmish of
three hundred years ago to-day.