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New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
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INTERSTATE
SAY vIeoRITo WASN'T kpNAPPEp.
NEW ENGLAND INTERSTATE MATCH

Paterson. n. j.. July 29.-Friends here of John
Vigorito who was arrested H. this city by Police
Captain Corcoran and Sergeant Higgins, of New
York City, and carried off in an automobile deny
that there any kidnapping in the case and
allege that vgorito had been advised by counsel
and friends to give himself up, and that he went
voluntarily with the policemen.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
PUBLISHED IN SERVICE JOURNAL

In an article published yesterday relating 70
Major H c. BensOn's comment on she part assa'
by General Howard and General VOID n 'hs
Geronimo campaign. the statement Tas nst-
verteatly omitted that Major Be1sOus a-t-cs lad
been published IN The United states Amy a1i
Navy Journal
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
TWENTY MORE INDICTED IN CHICAGO

Chicago. july 2s.-The grand jury which has al
ready indicted a police inspector a detective and
others In furtherance of State Attorney wayman's
attack on the West Side Tenderloin. returned in
dictments to-day against twenty keepers OF alleged
Illegal establishments A report that witnesses are
leaving the city Is being investigated
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
vIcTIM oF AUG AcclpENr nlEs

Long Branch, n. j., July 29.-Thomas Dawson
chauffeur for Daniel A. Egan. Of Philadeiphia who
was injured In automobile accident near Toms
River on Monday. died to-day the Monmouth
Hospital Robert Froriep, machinst, who was
also injured in the accident, was reported TO
he much improved
New-York tribune., 1909-07-30
TO SPEND 100000 ON The KENTveN

Washington. July 2a.-Repairs 70 cost S'aaa9
will be made OF the battIeship Kentucky. nov p
serve at Philadelphia. to place that vessel N ~
service condition These repairs viii be rzaas
the Norfolk Navy Yard and will include sEasz
overhaUling.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14

PEW York. - Give an av-
erage American boy, with
out the restraining infiu-
ence of a mother, $4,000 a
year at the age of IA and a
million when he reaches his
majority, and what will be
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
~MAKEs BETTER RAILROADS"
Western Writer Pays Tribute to
Railroad Masnate as BuiIder-Up
OF the Country.

Mr.. Edward H. Hartman is ON q
trip to Europe. Ordinarily there
would need be nothing added to this
announcement beyond an exhortation
to Emperor William to chain down his
railroads and to other monarchs to
put their crowns and other valuables
in the safe at night But Mr.. Harri-
man is going on on a pleasure trip.
and SO many mean things have been
said about him that it will not hurt
any to change the tune a moment
while he is out of the country and
not able to take any advantage of
the lapse from the cold attitude of Sc
verify that is usually used in mem
tioning the name of Hartman.
OF all the great railroad men de-
veloped in this generation, E. H Har-
riman is easily the biggest and the
(Kan-) Daily News. The head of
railroad company, under the rules of
the game, must work for his stock
holders, whether it is for the advan-
tage of politicians, shippers or con-
sumers. 1t is his job to do the best
he can for the interests entrusted to
his care. Hartman is not only a
hnancier, but he is builder and an
operator Lucky is the town, city
or community that has a Hartman
road. He insists on a good roadbed,
level track, safe track and the con-
venience and comfort of the traveller
and the shipper. The Hartman roads
are noted as the best in the coun-
try. When Hartman gets hold of a
one-horse or played-out track and
right of way he proceeds to put it in
first class condition. He does not
raise the rates of fares, although he
doubtless charges "a plenty but he
insists that enough of the funds go
into real improvements to make a
railroad. And that is where he stands
ahead of a good many others and why
Harrimanism is not such a bad thing
as some people have been led to think.
He makes better railroads, and there
is more need for improvement that
way than there is in some others
which are being discussed. So far
as we can see, he believes in giving
every interest along his, road a fair
deal
He is public benefactor from that
standpoint. He uses his power fairly.
He is a great man, and as good or
better than the ordinary citizen who
looks upon him as the perSonification
of the money power, seeking whom
it may devour. He is a strong man
in the financial world, but that should
not be against him, when the finan-
cial world is the object which most
of us want to reach. He is a good
American and he spends his money
on American railroads, not on foreign
titles, race horses, old editions or
other bad habits. If he is not per-
fect-and we don't think he is-he is
no exception to the rule and is worthy
of the praise of his fellow citizens for
the good he does and has done.
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Picturesque Career Of Young Man with
Plenty of Money
What Has Hoppened Frank Snoluden RicgeLy BroLun,
Son of MaryLands Former Governor, Who Is NolD
Facing Suit for Diuorce, With Many Charges
of Cruelty

of the Baltimore American in his
beautifully appointed stanhope, with
coachman at his side and footman
seated on the rumble. His horses,
Brandy and Soda, wore blue ribbons,
and Frank was justly proud of his
turnout. The millionaire reporter"
was told to accompany another and
humber reporter on his rounds
through Baltimores East side, but
when he saw that his protege intended
to drive through the ghetto in his
beautiful equipage. the mere re-
porter baked and told Frank to meet
him at a designated police station, as
the street cars were good enough for
his. The policemen in the station
houses visited that day by Frank and
his mentor still possess souvenirs of
Franks frse day as a reporter, for he
scattered golden gifts with a lavish
hand.
Champagne for G. A. r. Veterans.
That evening Frank was assigned
to cover" a banquet given by local
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interviewing the Professor.

$50 you don't think Mars would re-
ply, even if we did send signa1s?"
II am almost convinced that there
would be no response" answered Prof.
Thinktuni, adjusting his glasses
Then you don't believe that Mars
is inhabited?"
''On the contrary, I think it ex-
tremely probable that life similar to
our own exists on the sister planet"
But you don't give those people
credit for intelligence equal to ours? 90
Yes. I am inclined to credit them
with even greater intelligence than
we display. There are many indica-
lions that they have a civilization old
er than ours, in which case they
should have too much sense to fool
away their time on any such imprac-
teal proposition"
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tomobile. or tooling his coach and four
than of playing roles upon the stage.
no matter how inconspicuous they
were
Perhaps it was the inconspicuous-
ness of these roles that induced Frank
after try at a part in "Cyrano de
Bergerac" to abandon the stage as
profession His wife was deeply hui
inflated at this venture, and she did
all she could to dissuade him when he
told her that he wanted to be an ac-
tor. This, she says, brought down his
wrath upon her pretty and youthful
head, and from then ON trouble came
thick and fast for her.
Wife Tells of Midnight Orgies
1t is the alleged midnight orgies at
her home that Mrs. Brown most bit
terly complained of in her bill for di-
vorce. Frank and his Tenderloin
friends, she declares, would wander
into the house at all hours of the
night and from then until the gray
dawn make night hideous for her and
her neighbors. 1t was impossible for
her, she declares, to make her escape
from the house, as Frank would in
sist upon her presiding at the table
and serving him and his guests with
whatever their fancy dictated, despite
the unseasonableness of the hour.
Then, too, Mrs. Brown asserts that
Frank preferred her to be at the head
of the table during these bacchanalian
feasts, inasmuch as she made good
target for his ribald jests or the plates
or glasses he chose to hurl at her.
Sometimes, according to Mrs. Browns
complaint, the glasses were empty,
but more often they contained cham
payne, for Frank was ever jealous OF
his reputation as a wine opener,
and he would never for moment
have it thought among his Tenderloin
friends that anything else but cham
payne graced his table or his wife's
bathtub, for that matter.
Another sport of which her husband
was passionately fond, Mrs Brown
charges, had to do with most vii
lainous-looking and savage bulldog
which is ever at Franks heels.
Mrs Brown asserts that when
Frank was especially deep in his cups
he would set the dog on her. For
some reason, Mrs Brown declares, the
dog entertained violent dislike for
her and was only too glad to do his
masters bidding.
Finally Driven from Her Home.
1t was the dog episode that proved
to be the parting of the ways While
in a drunken frenzy, Frank, it IS
charged in the complaint, set the dog
on his wife, and it attacked her so
savagely that she fed in her night
clothes and never returned. That was
last January and since then, she vows,
Frank has not contributed cent
toward her support and this in the
face of his wife's statement that he
had torn and cut up all her hats,
gowns, lingerie and pretty boots and
slippers, just prior to having the bull
dog charge her.
Mrs Brown says it is lack of home
influence that is responsible for her
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
LAUGHTER Series of Banks.

Laughing is barking, say the SCI
entists. The neck and head are
thrown back while a series of short
barks are emitted from the throat.
However musical the banks may be,
they are barks. The laugh begins
with a sudden and violent contraction
domen- But instead of opening to let
the air pass out of the lungs, the vocal
cords approach each other and hold it
back. But they are not strong enough
to exercise such opposition for more
than an instant, and the air, which is
under pressure, promptly escapes. AS
1T does SO it makes the vocal cords vi
brate producing the bark.
This obstruction and liberation of
the air expelled from the lungs repeats
itself again and again at intervals of a
quarter of second. There are thus
in a hearty laugh four banks second,
and if continued, they go on at that
rate as long as the air reserve in the
lungs holds out. The empty lungs
must then fill themselves, and this in
terval is marked by quick gasp for
breath, after which the banks are re-
newed- The barks occur in series
with gasps for breath at intervals
When laughter is violent, the entire
body participates. The upper part of
the trunk bends and strafghtens itself
The feet stamp on the floor, while the
hands are pressed upon the loins to
moderate the painful spasm.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
RELICS OF EMPRESS
Objects Associated with Jose
phine in New French Museum.
MaImaison, Home Purchased by Napo-
leon for His Beautiful Wife.
Thrown Open to Public by
the Government.

Paris--Josephine, who was the star
of Napoleon's destiny. has at last q
monument that all who go to Paris
may visit.
1t is Josephine's museum, erected
by the French government in the
country house associated with the
joys and struggles of her life before
she met the conqueror; with her few
married years of splendor and love;
and with the sorrows of her divorce
and lonely death. 1t is Malmaison.
The museum is made up of a thou
sand familiar objects which surround
ed her; and on June 1 opened the
loan exhibition of things not yet gath
cred permanently together.
There is the harp that Josephine
never learned to play-type of the
broken music of her life; the silver
gilt dinner service offered her by the
city of Paris; her bed, her bath, her
toilet table. her beauty utensils.
There are 500 samples of damask,
satin and tapestry furniture covers
which Napoleon had brought to select
from in imperial housekeeping. 1t is
raw material of the imperial stage
setting never before exhibited. 1t
shows Napoleon and Josephine as pal
ace furnishers and makers of the en-
pire style.
Every school girl in America knows
the story of Josephine; but how her
destiny was bound Up in this country
house of the old regime is new his
tory from documents and letters. Out
the avenue of the Champs EIysees, be-
yond the Arc de Triomphe and the
river, runs the ancient royal road to
St. German. Six miles from Paris
is Croissy village. Almost at its edge
begin the wooded grounds of Nal
maison
From Croissy village, in the days
before Napoleon, young mother took
her two small children for their airing
to the shade of empty Mahmaison
The place was uninhabited. The
young mother was glad. There was
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no one to warn her off. She read her
book while the kids played. She had
$1,000 a year income, in her legal
separation from a flirting old husband
who had not appreciated her. She was
at peace. 1t never came into her
head to wish Malmaison hers.
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ERANk RPOWN JR'

on the altar of pleasure. Young
Frank" as he is Familiarity called in
Baltimore, has been pleasure-bent
since he was a boy OF ten, and his
pleasures, more often than not, have
been purchased at terrific cost. He
has had his fling and when a boy of
IT he was blase and so satiated with
the gayeties of the Old World that he
cast about for new sensations and
new fields to conquer. Life for him,
even then, was one mad whirl, and
what he did not know about the but
terf1y life" wasn't worth knowing.
At Ostend he was the petted darling
of-women of title, and otherwise, and
it was a prank that he played on one
of these while in her bath house at
this gay resort that made it necessary
for his father to spirit him out of
France and back to Baltimore The
boy abhorred books and rarely
studied. He had the choice of any
university in America or Europe if he
would but say the word, but instead
he preferred to run wild, do as he
pleased and give little, if any atten-
ton to the studies prescribed for him
by the tutors his father engaged for
him.
Started Work as Reporter.
About this time his father and his
sister, May Brown, who later married
Gordon Hughes, New York lawyer,
and since his death married Alfred
Dietrich, whose former wife had
eloped with Benchley, one of Alfred
G. Vanderbilt's stable managers,
planned a return trip to Europe
Frank was engaged in paying ardent
court TO a RaltirnOre girl at that time
and his father told him if he did not
accompany him to Europe he would
have TO gosto work.
Fine" said Frank, nothing could
better suit my purpose" At dinner
the same evening he announced that
he had Joined the reportorial staff of
the Baltimore American Franks adj
vent into journalism will long be re-
membered in Baltimore, and to this
day the soubriquet of Millionaire Re-
porter clings to him.
When Frank reported for his first
days work he drove up to the office
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him. and, finding that Mr.. warren
was then living in West Ninety-fourth
street, Frank, his dancee and their at
tsndants repaired 10 Mr.. Warren's
home and there tie ceremony was
performed
Their marriage same as great sur
prise to their respective families, but
the young pair was soon installed IN
a beautifully appointed home and
many predicted that Mabel would
make her young husband more con-
sentative. But her charges against
him do not confirm this hope
His wife says he never settled
down In fact, he became gayer than
ever after his marriage, If that had
been possible. His chosen companions
were as gay as himself, although few
if any of them had the funds to
squander that Frank ever had at COM
mand. His escapades became more
daring each day, and 1.-The governor,
as he is still called, was compelled TO
admonish and intercede more than
once.
Accused of Killing Child.
Automobiling was this boys passion
and he was never satisfied unless he
was bowling through Baltimore's ten
derloin at top speed. His arrest was
of almost daily occurrence, and when
Baltimore awoke about eighteen
months ago to be told that Franks
car had killed a negro child the night
previous the Il told you SOS" got busy
1t was not openly charged that
Franks car had killed the boy, but
the newspapers limited SO strongly at
the identity of the driver and owner
of the car that within "a hours the
trail led to Franks door and he was
arrested and formally accused of run
ming over the little pickaninny and
then running away without the for
mality of stopping to ascertain the
seriousness of the injuries inflicted.
The parents of the dead child re-
ceived $4,000 to drop the case against
Frank. This frightened Frank for
awhile, and he did not break into
print again until his friend Lester
Bresee, who had figured in almost all
of Franks escapades, was committed
to Mount Hope, private asylum for
the insane and inebriates.
Lester had been going the pace for
several years and when his mind gave
way none was surprised. Frank sore
ly missed his chum and often motored
out to the beautiful retreat ON Charles
Street avenue to spend an hour with
him. In the course of one of these
visits Lester complained of his en-
forced confinement and begged Frank
to devise some means of effecting his
release.
I've tried that already said
Frank, but the courts won't stand for
it. so 1 guess the only thing 1 can do
is to kidnap YOU"
Go as far as you like" said Lester,
but for Gods sake get me out of
here. l haven't had a drink for a
month"
Kidnapped Chum from Asylum.
The next day Lester, while out for.
his afternoon airing in the hospital
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-08-14
use Of the Eyes in READING.

Most people, according to the Opt
cal Journal, believe that the eyes in
reading follow the letters in a steady
movement clear across the column,
but if the readers eyes are watched
closely while in action it will be seen
that they make a series of jumping
movements, each jump corresponding
to about one-half inch of letters. This
shows that reading is done more by
words than letters, and that the words
are read without having to look di
rectly at them.
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The Way He Did 1t.

Jenkins-Wel1, sir. gave it to that
man straight, / can tell you. He is
twice as big as 1 am, too, but 1 told
him exactly what thought of his ras-
ca1ly conduct right to his face, and
called him all the names in the die
tionary. and a lot of others as we'll
Studds-And didn't he try to hit
you, jenkins?
Jenkins-No, sir, he didn't And
when he tried to answer back, 1 just
hung up the telephone receiver and
walked sway.
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grounds, eluded the keeper, climbed
over the high fence and dropped into
Franks waiting car. Frank was at
the wheel, and he let it out, and in an
hour or two was beyond the jurisdic-
ton of the Maryland courts. And once
more it became necessary for Brown
pere to get busy and square things
for Frank
Meanwhile Franks affairs at home
had been going from bad to worse.
His wife says she was left much to
herself, for Frank was so busy with
his other friends and associates that
he had little or no time to devote to
his girl-bride. Franks gay friends of
both sexes were ever welcomed at the
youthful Browns home-that is by
Frank Among these, his wife says,
were many actors and actresses, and
then it was that Frank conceived the
idea that he would like to enter upon
a stage career
He joined the stock company con-
Quoted in Baltimore by George Faw-
cett, and was given small parts. The
verdict of Franks many friends after
witnessing several performances in
which he appeared was that he was
i,x more capable Of steering his au-
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G. A. R. post. Beer was the only tip
pie for the veterans, whereupon Frank
invited everybody to have champagne
with him. Accordingly a dozen cases
were ordered by the Croesus scribe.
The hotel proprietor later sued to re-
cover the price of the champagne. AS
tipster to his city editor on the gay
dog doings of Baltimore society Frank
had no equal. So disconcerting did
these tips prove that friends of the
Brown family in the inner circle of
Baltimore society cabled to Brown
pere to suggest some other field of en-
deavor for his youthful son, and this
he did. Franks journalistic career,
while brief, was quite as meteoric as
every other that he has since launched
out upon.
1t was just three years ago that
Young Frank saw and met Miss
Mabel Michael of Baltimore. The two
families do not move in the same set
and there was opposition from both
sides. The Browns had always moved
in that social circle which was known
far and near as the Brass Band, -
while the Michaels, in every respect
the social equals of the Browns, be-
longcd to a more conservative ele-
ment. Franks courtship was brief
and ardent Serious opposition from
both sides but served to fan the
fame. and when Frank proposed to
Mabel that they elope she with some
hesitation consented
EIoDed in Touring Car.
Just before midnight on October %,
1906, Frank and his fiancee met by
appointment. His touring car was in
readiness and was geared up to its
highest speed Frank was attended
by one of his many chums, while Miss
Mary GriSmer accompanied Miss
Michael The party bundled into the
automobile and Frank instructed his
chauffeur to cut out for New York
and get there as soon as possible %
Arriving in this city, they went to
the Waldorf-Astoria, where Frank had
spent much time in the handsome
suite of apartments his father used to
maintain there the year round Frank
was anxious to have Rev. Henry NJ.
Warren. the hotel chaplain. mRrry
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husbands waywardness, and she
further avows that 1.-The governor is
mainly responsible for this. She de-
clares that he has alienated Franks
affections, and now she is suing the
governor for heart balm to the tune
of 100000.
In the mean time Frank is continu
ing on his merry way. With ample
funds at his command, and with the
prospect of sharing with his sister the
several million dollars Gov. Brown is
said to possess, young Frank has
lively future ahead of him
Will he reform? Ask his wife.