New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-10

TO allow the Esquimaus to cross and search until
eqe f94%ng M b Meh NJ large store of
supplies and my station were used 70 barter Win
The splendid assistance which YOU have given and
the generosity Of your government In sending me
ship form q happy contrast 70 the hlndrance ana
injustice Of one Of my own countrymen
They may have cached most of Cooks instru-
ments at Etah," said Busy Man, but they evil
IDENTIFY did not bury his Ratchet At all events,
Peary cannot deny that Cook reached the lecture
platform first What have the aeronauts been do
ing?'
Competing against all the crack balloonists of
the world Edgar W Mix, formerly Of Columbus.
Ohio carried the colors of the Aero Club of Amer
which started from Zurich, in Switzerland
AT the St Louis balloon races the 81. Louis. No.
8, s L. Phul pilot won the first prize for dis
lance besides lifting the Lahm Cup from Captain
Chandler Of the United States army; and the New
York, c. b Harmon pilot. took endurance prizes
and established q new American height record OF
- POO feet and for time in the air.
Failing TO find a classification covering i'm
ported aIrship, Custom House officials admitted
under bond the first RleTiot aeroplane that has
been brought to America. II is exact duplicate
Of the famous No II monoplane with which the
daring French aviator flew over the English Chan
nell
Customs problems arising in connection with i'm
portations of airships." chuckled Busy Man might
be solved by classifying them wind instruments.
perhaps ANY persons OF Importance die?"
Mrs. Mary Z. G. Baldwin. who eighteen years
ago lost both eyes. both ears both hands and her
scalp in the famous Hastings railroad wreck
the New York Central and received $4,000 from
the company, died this city. Albert Pulitzer.
formerly publisher of The New York Jour
naF and a brother of Joseph Pulitzer, shot
and killed himself in Vienna. He had been
sufferer for years from ncurabIe neurasthenia.
The Marquise des Monsters Merinville benefactor
Of the Catholic University Of America. who
nounced the Catholic faith in 1895, died board
the Kronprinzessu Cecilie- Bright's disease was
the immediate OF her death. Dudley Buck.
composer and Organist. author of many textbooks
on music and well known throughout the country
as an authority musical subjects died in West
Orange, n. j Mr.. Buck for many years
ganst at Holy Trinity Church. this city. retired
in 1902 from all except theoretical work and
position. Chang Chin Tung, Grand Councillor OF
China. died at Picking. Dr. David H Cochran.
president of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
for thirty-ive years. died in Brooklyn. William
Watson. chairman of the Cunard Steamship Com
pany. died in London Edmond Kelly. prominent
a lawyer, author and lecturer both in New York
and in Europe. died Nyack. Tomascito Luis de
Onativia, member of an old Cuban family who had
three American wives. two OF whom ne divorced.
died in Paris the age of forty-three.
Three American wives at fOrty-three" unused
the Busy Man. Il wonder what his record would
have been had his life been prolonged? What else
happened that ! ought TO remember"
THE torpedo boat destroyer Reid not only estab-
Iished a new speed record for the United States
navy. but had the additional distinction Of COM