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The evening world., 1909-01-04
MRS. ERb DENIES
SHE HAD PART N
HUSBAND $ DEATH
On the Stand She Declares
Cruel Treatment Of Captain
Made Her a Coward.

MEDIA. Pa. Jan. fudge Johnson
In the trial Of Mrs. VI, Florence Erh
and her sister. Mrs. Catharine Beisel.
for the murder Of Capt. ]. Clayton Erh
on oct. last. appears to ne determined
70 keep out OF the proceedings any un-
necessary scandal not directly bearing 2
on the case. Mrs. F.rb was again on
the stand to-day. and Observation-Disclosures
MacDade continued his examination in
an attempt to break down her story
that she had been cruelty treated by
hcr husband.
Following long series Of questions
regarding the events Of the night OF the
shooting, Mr.. MacDade asked:
will YOU declare upon your oath you
had no hand in the killing of your hus-
band In any PARTICULAR
Il had not"
do you mean to say YOU never en-
couraged your sister to Kill him.
Il never encouraged her. My sister
always wanted peace"
Mrs Erb," said MacDnde, sternlv.
III you had no hand in 1t how did your
husband get that wound on his hand?"
Il don't know"
You cannot throw any light on the
actual killing al all?'
mo-" she said simply, Il cannot"
You say YOU remained locked in
The evening world., 1909-01-04
FEARED WIFE WOULD
NAG, LEAPED IN RIVER
Nr. Franz Was Very Sorry
When Tugboat Captain
Saved His Life.

r. Mrs Franz hadn't had Mrs Nagg
beaten forty ways from the deuce ac-
cordng to Mr. Franz, the ley waters
~ the East River would not have held
MI Franz In their chilling embrace to-
day, and he would not now be in Belle
yue Hospital with the prospect OF hay.
ing to answer charge Of trying to
commit suicide,
"SEe nagged at me from sur-up to
bedtime. and II that isn't enough to
make man jump in the river I don't
know what is" lamented Mr.. Franz
Of salt water out of him, He Is sixty
years old, his first name is Michael,
and he used to be butcher when he
had a job, But he hasn't had job
for about six weeks, and that Is the
cause of all the trouble
Franz's home is No, lS3 Schaefer
street Brooklyn, and this morning he
told his wife he was going to New York
to look for work He looked and looked
but IN vain. and then he realized that he
N'ul' lbN' w 81 Il'lll' lbI IIItll, ana
tell Mrs Franz he was still without a
job That realization came to him as he
stood on the rear deck Of the ferry boa
Jamaica, and by the time the vessel
reached midstream. his courage had
oozed away. He thought about how she
would scold, how she had refused to ac-
cept all the explanations of his III luck
he had offered in the past. and how her
sharp tongue would wag all the time lie
would he eating lunch.
so | just Jumped of" he said to
Patrolman Carey. of the East Twenty
second street'Station, and ! wish they
hadn't fshed me out"
The Jamaica wasn't stopped quickly
enough for any one on board to have
saved Franz but Capt Reilly, of the
tug Orange, saw him in the water,
drew alongside and nabbed him as he
was bobbing on the surface. The man
was taken to the wharf of the Willard
Parker Hospital, at the foot of f,aS
Sixteenth street. and revived by Dr.
Holland, after which he was taken to
Bellevue Hospital
The evening world., 1909-01-04
WOMAN ENDS LIFE BY GAS.

Mrs. Celia Gross, a wel-to.do woman,
killed herself with gas early this morn
Hundred and Thirty-third street She
lived there with her son Benjamin, clerk
in Wall street Office, and her daugh-
ter Lillian.
Benjamin Gross found his mother dead
in the bathroom. She had detached the
tube of a small gas stove and held It in
her mouth. Coruner's Physician Curtin,
after hearing that Mrs. Gross had been
melancholy ever since she learned two
weeks ago that she had heart disease.
gave a permit Cor burial Mrs. Gross S
husband died four years ago,
The evening world., 1909-01-04
SAVANNAH ENTRIES.

Especial 20 The Eyln!ng Worldl
SAVANNAH. Ga. Jan. THE en-
tries for to-morrow's races are as fol
lows:
FIRST RACE Three.yelr.o .olds and up
selling; hye ;4r!ons', Hr.sht 10y, ~ Og,
nah. Do; Bis Ham, ~ Miss Marjorie. 100
Tlekihs, iOu; Co.a'Ia mt, 100.
SECOND RACE -rhgcc-year.olds and up
selling, SIX turorga Lady Ripe lO3
Anna Smlth. III. Mushroom. I'D, Belle o
the Bay, 10; Lucuus, ils Risk, lis; Bosom
Friend, Ill,
= THIRD RACE, -Thrce-year-od and up
selling. one miic.-Frank patton. 100
Counttermand. no: George Bailey, lOT Dene
lo5: Jisger, l0I; Flmnap, 10.
FOURTH RACE Maiden three. e.year-old
and up; five and u Ey.t furlongs -Da,sy
lO0; Merise. 100, Nirgil I'll IL. Arnwaka
lM: Miss Cardigan. 10 Malecon. lOI.
FIFTH RACE Three year.oids and up
selling; fye furIongs lstria, 100. Cerro
santa, l02: Revery, IUI, w. q Williams
luJ; Hanoway, lU2, Arthur StlllwelI, lO9
Mask and Faces, 100.
Weather clear. track fast
The evening world., 1909-01-04

1915 EASTERN WOOL BLANKETS
white, full size. all fresh and coJQ
good for this sale, per pair. ~e'A'
N.75 BED SPREADS, crochet, the best
on the market at the regular price
full size: all hemmed, medal c1 nm
lion designs; special at....".' ~i'oo
MUSLIN SHEETS; very good grade,
bleached, ringle bed size; Ax9o
inches, all In one piece, special 25c
IN this sale, at.......,..,...,''''' wv
crib BLANKETS, white With fancy
border or IN fancy Borrett effects
Jus, the thing you want for Sprinl
and Summer bed covering FOR
baby. Special for this sale, per 10.
MUSLIN SHEETS, New Y X Mill
standard brand, Ill strictly first quail
ity; size Slx9O inches with ?-inch hem
~, wards OF the sheeting would cost
YOU. II bought by the yard 7ir.; In this
sale you can get the ready-nade 60.
sheet fO- .....,...,...''.'..... wv
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FIFTH AVENUE
Z. CH9KED BY TWO
/. FIRE SENSATIONS
Little Blaze in Brokers Office
Stalled Traffic Into
Chaotic Mess.
THEN AUTO "BLEW UP."
Casualties, Cabman Arrested
for Sass" and Messenger
Threw a Fit.
THEN AUTO "BLEW UP."

a tiny FIRE In a brokers' offiC, made
chaos in Fifth avenue, between Thirty
NTH street and Forty-ftth street this
afternoon. AT least, the Are started
the joy, and the other complications
came rattling out OF the box, fast and
/. plenty.
The fire was started by a match
thrown behind a steam radiator in the
uptown office OF Feuchtwanger & CO.,
Stock Exchange house. at No. 536
Fifth avenue. There were about thirty
! customers In the place. all intensely
watching the gas quotations on the
board, as was Office Manager Robert
+, Nathan.
Mr., Nathan s1uIrmed on his chair
and remarked that It was getting
mighty warm for a winter day. All Of
a sudden he bounced in the air, whirled
and found a spear of flame reaching
between the bars of the radiator for
his chair The customers made for the
street, Mr.. Nathan and the office boys
threw the contents OF the water cooler
on the flames, but they wouldn't go
out.
Chopped Fire Out.
Someb body grabbed telephone and
yelled Fire and hung up the receiver.
p No engine came. A boy went out and
told Policeman William Clarke about It..
lie rang proper alarm and the engines
came. The first company OF frcmen put
the fire out by chOpping great chunk
out OF the wall and the door. The stock
OF a millinery store on the ground floor
and a photographer and tailor above
were carried into the street.
Fifth avenue traffic was little
heavier than usual and the eruption
Of merchandise into the midst of it did
not relieve the congestion, The lines OF
cabs began to turn and Jam and lock
wheels with the coming OF the first
whooplng engine. BY the time Deputy
Chief Langford arrived the engines,
ladders and water tower had completed
the tangle.
taxiCab driver broke through the
FIRE lines rolled up to Langtord and
howed
There's an automobile exploded and
burning down at Thlrty-ftth street,
Its awful"
Auto BLEW Up."
Langford ordered the latest arrived
engine to Thirty-frh street. The en-
Eine made down through the swarmlng.
swearing, yelling confusion as fast as IL
could. And still the tendency was no,
for the 1riet lie on Fifth avenue.
The 'blown-up' automobile was de-
livery truck 1t had blown out a fuse
and set fire to an axle. The chauffeur
had put the fire out with sand. There
was some language between the fire
man and the chauffeur This didn't
tend TO restore peace either.
The climax came when Mounted Po-
,l!ceman Barnes didn't like the way Pat
Flanagan, driver Of a hanson, talked
back to a officer" and arrested Pat
forcing two women who were inside Ia
get out and walk-and then II. f.
French, fourteen-year-old messenger
boy, Of No. i2I East one Hundred and
Twenty-third street. overcome by the
multiplicity Of his sensations, fell into n
MT and necessitatcd an ambulance call.
1t took tie police nearly an hour to
make the puzzle come right.
The evening world., 1909-01-04

PILLOW CASES, size ijx3Si, Inches;
extra well made and finished with
3-inch hem: regular zoe. ,o,I
soc. BED SPREADS, good quality; IN
crochet, for single beds, at. t........ 4yc
MUSLIN SHEETS, extra heavy; linen
finish, scanned centre, 3-inch hem:
neatly finished all first quality; a,
size 7gx9O inches. at............. Nc
Size SlN90 inches, at..............,.31c
APRON GlNGtiAMs, warranted fast
color; extra heavy, in staple checks.
blues and browns, at, per ~
yHTU '''s','s' '','.......,... S/AS
DOMET FLANNEL, unbleached, % inches
Wide. The regular l0c. and e,/
l2isc. qualities, at..................04 &C
No Null Orders Filled.
Main Floor. Rotunda.
The evening world., 1909-01-04
Bed Clothes in the White Sale

SILKOLlNE CoMFORTABLES, excel,
lent quality; heavy winter weight,
stitched or with plain backs, In pretty
Persian styles, and very good colors
Have been selling for sl.15 each, 90,
In this Observation-Disclosures. SoC
BLANKETS, great lot OF cotton
fleeced blankets in white, tan and gray,
f0t less money than the yarn costs:
SINGLE BED SIzE........,.. jSc
y BED SIZE. E................. 4Sc
FULL BED SIZE............. (Jc
FRUIT OF THE LOOM MUSLIN.
Hi and Lonsdalc muslns. and
other well known standard brands
of bleached muslins that the mills
sell for Ssc. and tho 40 +
retailers ask lnc, per AOI
yard for; special for UN L
| tnlS Sale ht..,......,...
| Limit 10 Yards
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
Cap'n Hathaway's Tale:

Il knew old Teasley well, and 1t was
he that got me the best job 1 ever had
in all my experience at sea- 1t was
hardly at sea, either. for most of the
time it was up the Nile. This was in
80, or just after lost the bark Laura
OFF the French coast and was back In
London stranded. I ran into Teasley
in the street, and the first thing he did
was to take me up and Introduce me
to his wife. She was indeed a remark
ably beautiful woman, a woman sail
ors the world over revered and loved.
for she was noted in every port for
her kind deeds. Teasley and his wife
Were ashore for a couple OF weeks
while the Kilgarie. his ship. was load
ing down at Liverpool for the run to
Calcutta told him how the land lay
for me. and he had just the thing that
suited me to t. a few days before
an American scientist had offered him
big money to leave the Kilgarie and
take command OF an expedition to
Egypt which he was fixing out, but
Teasley and his wife decided to stay
with the ship they had. This Ameri-
can-his name was Francis Harcourt
Upman--was stopping at the same
hotel. and Teasley introduced me to
him. He told me to hold out for a good
stiff price and this did. Upman told
me he wanted man to Mt out and sail
a small schooner to Egypt and assist
him in certain undertaking and that
he was willing to pay well for it. He
offered me $500 month to take com
smand, and you bet 1 jumped at 1T. 1
was TO buy the boat and get my own
crew and look after all details I'm
man had all kinds or money and told
me not to spare expense, and I didn't
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
Cap'n GridIey's Turtle

Captain Gridley glanced at the chro-
rometer anchored TO the gold cable
which crossed his vest. ITS pretty
near time TO steer for home" said he.
$50 I'll make this yarn short There's
nothing exciting about It. 1t happened
when 1 was master OF the schooner
Jennie G.. We were bound from Tahiti
to Valparaiso and had been Just crawl
ing along for a month. 1t was hot
as 1t gets only IN the tropics, and had
slung my hammock between the fore
and main rigging, so as to get as much
of the cool night breezes as possible.
On this night. June 20, 1889, I turned
in as usual. The swinging OF the ham
mock woke me up and the next minute
was overheard. It's something OF
a surprise TO wake up In the water
with the lights OF the ship disappear
Ing in the distance. A good breeze had
suddenly sprung up and when the ship
heeled I had gone overheard or
course I swan, but I knew I couldn't
last long. I managed to get or most
OF my clothes, and after about three
hours I says to myself that II was
all day with yours truly. Just then
saw one OF those great tortoises
asleep on the water and carefully
swan over to him. managed to
grab his head before he woke I'D. and
then i had him. I tore my shirt into
strips and made reins out of it. and
rammed a chew of tobacco down the
big turtles throat to wake him I'D.
And this sure had the desired effect.
1t was all 1 could do to stick on his
back, he went so fast. I had a smas-
pocket compass. and I had no trouble
to head for Valparaiso. With these
improvised reins I could steer him all
right, and as long as they held knew
he couldn't dive. Every time he wouls
start to slacken his speed, Ia nan
a new chew down his throat Just
about daylight sighted the schooner
about four points of my port bow, but
she was becalmed again, and I thought
1t would be good sport to beat her
into port. so I kept my old tortoise
headed for the coast. Next day I
reached Valparaiso. and when those
people saw me riding in on the back
OF big turtle they thought was old
Neptune himself. But I was hungry
and thirsty. and I sold the tortoise for
800. which was enough to keep me
until the schooner arrived. I was the
first one to go on board when she
reached port. and they all thought
was sure enough ghost. But I beat
them to port two weeks and had a
good time. Tomorrow I'll tell you how
became king OF a canniba1 island and
lost the throne by the villainy OF a
n parrot"
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below, and when came on deck next
morning there was no sign OF them At
first was pretty sore. but the idea
OF taking the ship into port alone
struck me as pretty good It was
simple When I'd turn in I'd lash the
wheel OF course. puzzled my head
over the strange progress OF the ship,
but I couldn't make It out I began
10 believe. like the crew. that It was
the devil that was towing me along.
but then 1 decided the devil was
pretty good fellow. and I used to SIT
aft and drink many a toast TO him The
funny part OF II was that the ships
speed kept getting greater as we went
farther north.
Twenty days from the day we lost
our masts I sighted the California
coast. and that night I went through
the Golden Gate az a Il knot clip
wanted TO anchor of Meiggs wharf.
but the old ship wouldn't stop.
circled around Goat island all night and
then ran her ashore on the mud fats
in the Potrero.
AS soon as possible ] got to the
telegraph Office and wired my owner.
They could hardly believe that I had
reached port in such fast time and
they wired twice 20 make sure that II
was the Alice that had arrived. I had
broken all previous records so far as
speed for a trip round the Horn was
concerned. and all the old timers here
remember the sensation It created
They were all asking me how did it
but that was what / was wondering.
After getting couple Of tugs to
put the Alice on the drydock 7 exam
ined her bottom and the mystery was
explained. to me at least. You know
told you the Alice was an old whaler
and had been in the Arctic for some
thing over 80 years. Well, she was
fairly alive with teredos, those
strange little enemies Of wooden ships
OF course IN the icy waters Of the
north they had remained torpid. When
we went down in the tropics on the
Atlantic side they came TO life, and
" NAS NAtA4| 5SN a. SNHA ~ ~
warm water again on the Pacific side
they were active and healthy. when
the hurricane struck US Il broke u
casks OF whisky. and this stimulant,
added 20 the warm water, fairly drove
those little beggars crazy and they
bored their way through the ships
sides and kept boring into the water
Their tails acted like million tiny
propellers and sent the Alice ahead
az her remarkable and ghostIy speed
OF course I'm the colder waters Of the
bay-and by that time the loose whisky
had all evaporated-they drew back
into their holes and when the ship
was examined there was nothing to
show that would account for her mys-
terious voyage from the line TO port
I said nothing. and TO this day there
are few men that know how I broke
all records on the voyage from New
York to San Francisco. Now, Con-
nelly. let's hear something from you"
The old skipper smoked meditatively
a few moments before replying.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
Says Cap'n Connolly:

Your remarkable experience makes
me almost timid about relating my
everyday yarn" he said ct last. 'but
the fact that you made the fastest pas
sage on record reminds me that was
second mate on the ship that made the
longest voyage recorded between the
two ports-san Francisco and New
York. We were at sea ls months. This
was before your day. back in the early
seventies. In them days the American
ships were the hardest afoat. Why.
a sailors life wasn't safe If he even
looked at an officer. Those were the
days OF the old clippers-the Dread
nought, Blue Jacket and others. The
bark Lucy Lee was in this class. I
shipped aboard her with old Cap
Teasley, a man who looked like
Methodist preacher-until he got
started. knowed from the time we
cleared Sandy hook that she'd be hell
ahoat. We had bunch IN the fo'c'sI
that the boarding house masters had
thrown aboard the last minute, an
there wasn't a sailorman among 'em.
Tim Casey was mate an he was one
OF the worst buckos that ever sailed
the western ocean. We started TO lick
the bunch in shape and make seamen
out OF 'em. IT was hard work an
couple of 'em couldn't stand the gaff
and went under We buried 'em, but
that made us more short handed than
ever. And never in all my experience
have I seen such weather. II was gale
after gale from the southland that kept
US beatin' around the north Atlantic for
month an a half When we finally
gets to the line we lay becalmed in
the doldrums for another month, an
II was so hot that / think hell would
be cool compared TO IL. II took us
four months to reach the cape and
there our troubles fair doubled.
From the time we reached the Falk-
lands II was a succession of snow
storms with sleet that drove and cut
like a knife The slopchest was pretty
slim, and before we'd been off the cape
month there wasn't one OF the men
eAoA Hdu a. SuiA VI OllAhi1S DuI what
took water like a sponge. nor a pea
coat that would keep out south sea
breeze. We'd left New York in July
and here il was the day before Christ
mas-midsummer down in this coun-
try-but showing and blowin' for all
IT was worth. / remember the night
we'll for it was my midwatch. I'd
just come on deck and was standing
in the lee of the cabin tryin' to light
my pipe. The man at the wheel was
outlined dimly through the drIvin' sieet.
an his face. blue from the cold, looked
more like week old corpse than a
Twin creatur'. Suddenly there came a
yell from forward that could just b.
heard above the shrek Of the gale an
the pounding of the seas, and next
minute there was crash that threw
me fiat on deck. The fore an main
m'sts went by the board and the mizzen
top followed suit.
Il ran forward and found we'd struck
a big full rugged ship square mid
ships. There were men runnin' and
shoutin an the old ship was heelin'
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
By John Herman Wishar

y the docks. where the rattle
and roar OF the city comes
family Ike the distant rum
ole Of surf on the beach. is a
Evening star., 1909-02-19

1t only requires six months of the year 10
plant, cultivate and harvest this crop.
The other six are spent mostly in idlencSS.
Six months of work minus six months
of idleneSs leaves them little. if anything,
ahead for the next year. Thus. during
tie idle sea son. they consume what they
have made during the working season
Mat the great mass of negroes in the
So.th not only remain poor and ignorant.
but. what is worse, continually drift into
mischief a result OF this idleneSS.
Our primary aim is to emphasize pro-
ductive industry instead of education Is
the prime factor in community develop
ment Not that we believe less in edu-
cation, but because We would insure econ
oInc progress first: ct the same time pro-
viding for the proper training Of the
masses without emphasizing education out
of proportion to the local need and the
ability of local support.
The main advantage of such u plan lies
in the possibility of multiplying indefinitely
similar enterprises in the rural districts
where they are most needed. requiring
only the initial Investment To put them
Oh their feet After that, the community
gradually advances toward Self-support,
increasing its earning capacity as IL
grows, instead of becoming more de-
pendent upon and iasistcnt in its demands
for outside help.
Evening star., 1909-02-19
DENIED BY KEEFE.
Against Russian.
German Immigrants Charged.

In reply TO letter from Senator Bur
kett inclosing circulars complaining that
ussian-German immigrants are i'm
properly treated and dscriminat ed
against in the matter of medical exami-
nation at Ellis Island. which results in
their rejection on account of being afflict-
ed with trachoma. Commissioner General
keefe has written TO the Nebraska SEN
ator defending the course of his burea u
and denying the charge. The commits
sioner calls attention 10 the legal re-
qIIirements that the eamShip COM
panies provide proper medical examina-
ton of intending immigrants before per-
mitting them to embark. He then takes
up d suggestion that medical officers en-
ployed by this government he stationed
a the various foreign ports of Cmbarka-
ton. which. he says, is imuractica bic
it had been ascertained through the
Department of State that several of the
foreign governments objected to the as
signment of American medical officers
at their ports for the purpose of exam
lining aliens about to embark for the
United States. Furthermore. he SAYS the
immigration law prescrbes medical
examination at the port of entry.
Evening star., 1909-02-19
In Wireless Touch With Hawaii

Los ANGELES. Cal, February 10
Los Angeles was i'm wireless conmunca-
tion with the Hawaiian Islands Wednes
day night for the first time. Operator
Blakeney reported yesterday that his sta
ton was in touch with the station at
kahua, Hawaii. for a brief time We'd
nesday night. The distance between the
two points is about 100 miles.
Evening star., 1909-02-19
total of about $1,000 acres owned and
controlled by colored people.
Aims of Enterprise.

while the school and the company are
organized and conducted as entirely sep
arate enterprises. their fundamental aim
is to raise the standard of intelligence
and industrial efficiency of the tenant
population. This is being done by giving
a grammar school education along with
manual, domestic and agricultural train
ing TO the children. and by furnishing to
their parents an opportunity to turn into
money that part of their time which has
heretofore been wasted.
THE distinctive feature of such COM
bination lies in the fact that il engages
every individual in the community. from
the children in the school to the grown
up people in the farms and industries,
vile the school alone abandons the pres
ent generation to its fate. and begins with
tie children. hoping that by the time they
have reached maturity and established
families they will show the advantage
of their training; whereas the industrial
company begins with the grown up people
and puts them on their feet where they
arc, thus saving a whole generation i'll the
process of racial development.
What has been accomplished at kow-
alisa may he made widely applicable to
other communities with variations to meet
local ronIit ions