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The sun., 1909-05-17
SUICIDES DECORATION DAY.
=. Eads How Plans New Protest for tho
nempl0yed.


The New York Branch OF the National
Committee for the Relief of the unem-
ployed met yesterday at Casino Hall. rs
Fast Fourth street. with j. Eads How OF
st. Louis presiding, and passed resolu-
tions to hold a parade and entertainment
on Memorial Day. May 81, and to decorate
graves Of those who died by their own
hands az a result OF failure to obtain
employment or OF hardships created by
the industrial depression. The reselu.
tions state that the committee's chief
object Ia TO help those who are defeated
in the battle Of life and continue:
When we consider the number Of those
who lose their lives every day In the mills.
mines, factories and on the railroads en-
gagged in peaceful industry. which is more
deadly than war itself by the inhuman
conditions often surrounding 1t, 1t should
be the duty of the surviving comrades and
brothers all over the country 10 hold me
mortal services in their memory. Deco
rating the graves OF those who have fallen
in the industrial strife by the working
people will be a constant reminder OF what
remains TO be done In the interest OF peace
and higher living which It Ia in the interest
OF organized labor to stand for and pro-
mote.
Chairman How said that sub-commit-
tee had been authorized TO ask the eSecu-
tive council OF the American Federation
of Labor TO send a speaker TO the enter
tainment which Is to follow the proposed
among those who were asked to speak
we're the Rev. Amos Judson Bailey OF
Brooklyn and the Rev. Leighton Williams
Of Manhattan.
The sun., 1909-05-17
PENNED IN ICE ALL NIGHT
VOLTURNO'S 800 PASSENGE
HAVE A TASTE OF THE ARCTIC.
ship Halted at . FoEgy MIDDAY Because
There Was No Way Out OF the urcllng
Fields and Berss-NeN Morning
Narrow Channel showed Ahead.

ship Halted at . FoEgy MIDDAY Because
There Was No Way Out OF the (1rcling
Fields and Berss-NeN Morning
Narrow Channel showed Ahead.
The sharp nosed Britisher Volturno
Of the Northwest Transport Line, out
Of Rotterdam via Halifax, warped into
dock at the Boards Stories over in Erie
Basin yesterday morning with ~int-y
tale in her log. A week before she had
been skinning her nose against pack ed
field ice for nearly twenty-four hours
of the coast OF Newfoundland. Capt
James Harrison was free to say that
he would prefer the Rio run to doing
the hurdles over the north passage In
late spring again.
1t was at 3 o'clock on the morning OF
Sunday. May Q. that the watch reported
the loom Of a big berg of to the staf-
board There was bit Of fog hanging
about the big white shape and Capt.
Harrison knocked of speed trife
Hardly was the berg astern when a sec
ond Of the ghosts from the north, with
its trailing shroud Of fog, appeared about
a quarter mile of the bow From then
Oh uNilI inOTe duu IuOIt
bergs When the night lifted Capt.
Harrison saw that he was in for It,
On Lort and starboard vas the ice.
ahead and astern. 1t was for the most
part in the shape Of big, m,shv foes,
with here and there. cracking big ber d,
that topped the masts In height. The
ice field was fairly open. and though
there was considerable fog the Volturno
pushed her cautious way onward through
the tortuous channels OF blue wat or
between the acre wide cakes.
1t was slow going and grew worse
all the time. BY noon OF Sunday the
ice lay like grease curds on pot Of soup.
At 1850 O'Clock that afternoon Capt Har-
rlson gave the signal to stop the propeller.
The Volturno then lay in n degrees 40
minutes North and 1919 west.
The fog lifted about the time that the
ship came to stop, and those aboard
her could see where they were. The
Volturno had been beguiled into narrow
opening like that between the prongs
OF horseshoe: on each side and ahead
the ice field curved about in an impene-
trab!e arc which was gradually narrow
was nothing but the field ice with the
splintered cathedral spire OF berg pune
tuating the expanse here and there.
All Sunday night the Volturno lay
drifting. smothered in fog and surrounded
by the ice. Capt. Harrison. knowing
that the prov Of sober oceangoing
steamer s not designed for ramming
ice that Is about only one-quarter re-
vealed above the surface, did not try any
marine heroics.
All night long sounded the bung! bung!
Of the ice blocks agaist the plates Of the
Volturno. All night the sickly white
glow OF the ice fields lightened the shred
ding mists that rose. Capt. Harrison
ga id Yesterday that none of the five hun
dred odd passengers that he carried in
ca bin and steera &c took fright, and for that
he pleased all the saints that mariners
swear by.
There was a bit of wind blowing down
The sun., 1909-05-17
NOT A PASSENGER KILLED
t'n the Pennsyiyanis system In . Train
Accident In 1908.

PHILADELPHIA. May 1s.-Reports OF
all accidents on the $4,000 miles OF track
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad system
show that in 1908 the various lines carried
A.e5s.54s passengers. and that not a
passenger was killed as the result OF an
accident to a train.
The lines carried l1.344.l13 fewer pas
sengers than in 1907. a loss OF ~ per cent.
but the total Of passengers injured in
train accidents was only l02. a reduction
OF 452. or 81. per cent. from 1907. These
figures include every case requiring
surgical or medical attention. Only one
Of every i.sss,sis passengers carried was
injured
The number OF passengers travelling
a distance OF one mile during the year
was 3,457 ,87l. .462 so that for each pas
senger carried one mile S3, 8oS, ,7So were
carried In safety TO one injured.
The passenger trains in 1908 travelled
6s.440.44s miles. Freight trains travelled
90. .2s3, ,eoo miles.
or the subsidiary lines, independently
operated. the record Of the Long Island
Railroad is most striking. That line
carried in the year 2s.242 .SSs passengers
and only seventeen were injured in train
accidents. This line has been operated
for fifteen years without a fatality to a
passenger due to train wreck.
The sun., 1909-05-17
DESERT OUSTED LEADER.
Some EhgeWater sunday School Pupils
Return 70 Presbyterian Church.

Supt. George W. Robins OF the Union
Sunday School Of Edgewater. N. j..
who is proud of the fact that 81 x years ago
he organized this school, received a
painful blow yesterday when thirty
eight OF his pupils left his ranks and at
tended the Presbyterian Sunday School
Of which Lynn NJ. saxton OF New York
University is superintendent,
The Presbyterian Church was formed
out Of the Union Church. which was non
sectrian, a few months ago after a two
story stone church building had beeL
erected, majority Of the members voting
in favor OF the change. A week ago
Yesterday Supt. Robins was not admitted
10 the church by order OF the trustees,
and seventy Ave OF his pupils refused
TO enter the church unless he was ac-
corded that privilege. The trustees
standing by their order. the children
marched in a body to private residence
with their leader.
The trustees called a public meeting
for last Friday evening at which full
exclamation OF the controversy was made
A the Union Sunday school owned every
hi of furniture in the Presbyterian church
Supt Robins caused 1t to be removed on
Friday afternoon, Fortunately, however.
the IOU CnhlTb OiuCiC1 ttio iSooy iohS
arrived on Friday afternoon and eI Mayor
Daniel A. Higgins. one OF the trustees,
hurried one OF his trucks to the ferry and
had the seats In place before the meeting
was called to order
.We didn't persuade any OF the chill dren
10 leave Supt. Robins. but We Pre- sumo
their parents had explained matt e5s to
ably an many went to Supt. Robins's
home this morning where he conducted
the Union Sunday school. There will be
no further trouble 80 far as we are con-
cerned.'
The teachers OF the new Presbyterian
school are Miss Molly Tuttle. Mrs. Minnie
Griffen, Miss Minnie Allison, Mrs; SaLton
and Edgar M. Robinson: The Rev. Mr..
McCurrie taught the Bible class. The
Presbyterian church has twenty-five
members.
A son Of Supt Robins stood near the
Presbyterian church yesterday morning
and tried TO persuade some Of the children
TO 70 TO his fathers Union Sunday school
The sun., 1909-05-17

on the volturno from the north, and
that kept her fairly free from the edge
Of the encircling ice field to starboard;
The opposite side Of the ice circle did
not close in. else things might not have
gone as well as they did.
When day broke on Monday the fog
was curled up with the night and ahead
OF him Capt. Harrison saw way out.
A thin ribbon OF blue water showed
through the white Of the field, and into
this the VoIturno put her nose. At QUAR-
ter speed she went. nudging smaller ioe
blocks out of the way and dodging the
larger ones. Occasionally a berg piled
up along the side Of the crooked falrway
aud past this the Britisher picked her
way carefully have way OF
shedding several tons II bumped. -
. Before noon Capt. Harrison had his
$essel out of the ice and speeding It for
Halifax. He reached that port on Thurs
day. dropped most of his pas senEers
and put out for New York on the same day.
The sun., 1909-05-17
HUNTING TOWN'S OWNER.
Tax Collector Wants to know VINO Will
Pay for Model Village or Burrsge-

Tax Collector Wants to know VINO Will
Pay for Model VILLAGE or Burrsge-
BOSTON. May Ie.--The tax collector Of
Henson would like to know who owns
the town OF Burrage. For months past
the selectmen. the collector. constable
and other officials OF Henson have been
prying into records. interviewing people
and even employing detectives to find an
owner.
But no owner has been found and now
the residents are looking to Albert g..
Burrage to solve the vexing problem
for them. The village named for him
is now an orphan and is all that is left
OF his model town scheme Of only three
years ago. ..
Burrags Sprang into prominence
through the ambition OF the copper mag
nate to own and operate an entire CON-
munity. To this end $4,000 acres of land
had been purchased in the town of Henson.
On this site. in accordance with the plans
ot it's owner. were erected factories
houses. a hotel. a railroad station and
several big power plants. The factories
were started and the cottages filled with
employees.
Then things began to 60 wrong in the
factory Of the Metal Foil Company one
of the names under which the COM
munity was becoming known to the
business world. This trouble became
SO serious that after Six months Of I'M
certainty the factory was shut down.
other miahaps followed. until year and
half ago. so the citizens of Hanson
saw, Burrage was finally deserted The
hotel was closed and the power plant
nailed up and the shutters drawn in the
thirty or more cottages. Then began
the troubles OF the town OF Hanson.
About six months ago the Hansonites
say they first discovered that the large
property left in their midst had no owner.
That was when they sta rted in to collect
some Of the taxes due. When Rurrage
was finally located he, according to the
Hanson people announced that the
property had been transferred. That
was four months ago. Since then the
tax collector and all others in authority
have been searching for an owner
Residents Of Hanson say that there is
A $40. 600 board biz to be paid for the
keep OF this orphan village, and they want
their money. A record has been found
Announcing the sale OF some Of the land
and houses to the General Electric Com
ranv
The sun., 1909-05-17
CHAs. Il. FOxWKLL ARRESTED
Accused or Fraudulent Operations ny an
Onioer OF . Boston Copper Company.

Accused OF Fraudulent Operations ny ~
Onicer OF = Boston Copper Company.
WAsHNoToN, May 1o,--.My arrest 10 9
mistake said Charles L. Foxwell. wh c
was taken into custody by the Washing.
ton police last night on complaint OF
Herbert Moseley Of Boston. an officer Of
the Growler Copper Company. FoIwell
who is SO years old and disting guished
looking man with iron gray hair and
mustaohe. 10 being held In witness room
at No. precinct, and beyond the state
ment that his arrest was an error and that
he would clear the whole matter up In q
day or two he declined to discuss his
case or furnish any information about
himself.
Foxwell and bis wife had been OCCUPY
Ing al apartment in tho Connecticut, a,
Connecticut avenue and M street. and he
was arrested there yesterday. Mrs. Fox-
we'll. accompanied by an attorney. called
on Foxwell this afternoon. The police
do not know the name Of the attorney
and Foxwell declined to give It. Il e
believed that the attorney tomorrow will
institute habeas corpus proceedipgs to
procure his release.
Mr.. Moseley, who secured Foxwells
arrest. called on Capt. Boardman. chief
Of detectives. at police headquarters yes-
terdsy and told him Of Foxwell's alleged
fraudulent operations In Boston and other
places In Massac chusetts by representa-
himself as an American agent Of the
Societe Generate OF Paris. France. Mr..
Moseley said that he was secretary Of
the Growler Copper Company Of Boston
Of which George II. Merrill. Jr.. is presi-
dent.
A little more than a year ago FoXwell
he said. came to the officers Of the copper
company. having been informed that they
were endeavoring to hoat some stock OF
bonds. He said that hs was the agent
for tho Societe Generate Of France. Ar.
rangements were made with him. Moseley
said. TO float q. 500 900 stock. On January
20. 1908. "a, 900 was paid to Foxwell. and on
July Q and October 10 Of the same year
s. 600 and 340O respectively as advance
commissions. Foxwell representing that
these advance payments were necessary
before the French concern would handle
the matter.
According to Mr.. Moseley, Foxwell Sc.
cured money from the following John
W. Freed. los Thorndike street, Brook
line Mass. representing the Virgins
Mining Company. 81 500; Scott Bukford
president OF the Old Reliance Mine Com.
pany Of Boston, 81. $50; Warren D. Wheeler
Of the Hillside Mining Company, Boston
81, 25O; Mr.. West Of Whitoomb, Court
Co.. Boston, $2,25O, and George Otis
Ora per, Hopedale. 3l2.5OO.
The sun., 1909-05-17
STUDYING OLD BATTLEFIELDS.
Onloers From War College Covering Route
OF Grants "On to RiohmO Ond" Campaign.

OF Grants "On to Richmond" Campaign.
RICHMOND. Va. May 1o.-Thirty-!two
student officers from the War College at
Warrington. accompanied by an escort
under command OF Second Lieut.. w. W.
Overton OF the Fifteenth United States
Cavalry. entered Richmond this morning
and pitched camp in corner Of Sherwood
Park. whore they will remain until Wednss-
day.
The route trav ersed by the party was
that taken by Gen. Grant on his famous
On to Richmond march. The officers
are escorted by forty-two soldiers. drawn
from all branches Of the service. The
command carries sevsuty-nine horses.
thirty-two mules and . number Of army
wagons. In which the supple. are
freightsd.f
The detachment left Fort Myer on
May 2. arriving in fredericksburg on
May 8. where they were met by the stu
dent officers. Thence the detachment
proceeded to Chanoelorsville. thence to
the scene OF tho battle Of the Wilderness.
thence to Spottsylvania and North Anna.
The itenerary Of the column covers a
pretty wide area. hardly any OF the scenes
Of tho conflicts between the North and
South being missed. Each officer is re-
quirsd to make a spoolal study OF some
particular battlefield. on arriving at
which he delivers . lecture to his brother
officers. In this way they expect to OBJ
tain q pretty thorough knowledge at first
hand Of the famous actions in the Old
Dominion.
The command will break camp on
Wednesday. when ten students will 60
by rail to Petersburg. there to make a
study Of the battle OF the crater. Others
will 90 to Seven Pines for like purpose.
while still others will 90 to Appamattox.
The rest OF the command will proceed
on its regular itinerary. which win cover
the famous Valley campaigns Of jackson
and Sheridan.
The sun., 1909-05-17
DEAD IN 4 HALLWAY.
Some suspicion Of Murder In the Taking
or OF q Biackwell's Island Cook.

Tumbled into heap in q corner OF a
hallway leading TO the back room Of a
saloon at 40s First avenue the body of
Jack Smith. q cook in a Blackwells
Island hospital. was found last night.
On his throat was blue streak. but that
was the only mark which the police found
that looked like murder.
Somebody had made way with his
shoes and his gray stockinged feet were
sticking out where ono could stumble
over them. He didn't have any money
vest eroay, il ia said, for he had come to
the end Of his months pay in the three
or four days that he had spent around
the saloons on First avenue. John
Dahne. the janitor. pointed to the fact
that the gaslight was out, contrary to
Gust ON, and said that that made things
look strange. Likewise the snap lock on
the outer door had been sprung.
The sun., 1909-05-17

Highest temperature. 10. at tso r. N.
WARRINGTON FORECAST FOR TO DAT AND TO
MORROW.
For eastern Mem York, fair 10 day dndio morro'c'
ltohi 10 moderate ptsterip pinds
For New England. showers followed by clear
Ing to day: warmer ln Maine and on the coast
fair 10 morrow: moderate variable winds shit
Ing TO westerly
For the District OF Columbia. eastern Penusy,'
yanIa. Now Jersey, Delaware and Maryland fair
and cooler to-day; partly cloudy tomorrow;
light westerly winds
For western New York. fair today partly
cloudy and warmer 10 morrow light TO moderate
westerly Winds becoming variable By To- night.
For western Pennsylvsnia fair o-day: partly
cloudy to o-morrow; light to moderate ~eseefD
winds becoming variable
The sun., 1909-05-17
RESTRICTS INSURANCE AGENTS
They Must Hereafter Apply to the De.
partment for Certiheates.

They Must Hereafter Apply to the DE.
partment for Certineates.
ALBANY. May 1s.-Participation in the
commissions OF life insurance agents ia
prohibited hereafter, and State Superin-
tendent OF Insurance William H. Hotch-
kiss has notified all life insurance CON-
panies OF this change in the law by tho
last Legislature. He has sent to the COM
panies new blanks for agents spplicatio
for certificates OF authority which have
been prepared to meet the new law which
aims to prevent any but bona fide in
surance agents writing insurance. Asked
these blanks and the changes
accomplished by such act. Supt. Hotch-
kiss said:
1T seems as yet little appreciated that
the amendment TO section sl which just
became law practically revolutionizes
the practice Of the department as to the
certificates or licenses OF agents for life
companies. Thus applications made on
or prior to May 8 came from the COM
panies direct and the issuance Of the GER
tiicates was a pro forma act without any
investigation by the department. APP
pica tions made since May must be upon
application blanks prepared by the de-
partment and intended by the questions 8
stated therein to demonstrate both that
the applicant is qualified to act as an
insurance agent and that he will transact
bona fde business. The result, il is
thought. will be to put an end to the
practice INDUCED in by some companies
OF des gnating as agents persons who
have no intention Of entering the can
vassinG field aud whose designation is
merely for the writing Of a single policy
that such agent or perhaps his partner
or best friend may secure a share OF the
commission. 1t ia believed also that the
new regulations will prevent the organiza-
tion Of so-called local boards prac-
tce quite common in the past and which
besides misleading the general public
The sun., 1909-05-17
MONTohAIR MAN At ADANA.
Dr. Dsru,sn Gables That Relief Party
From Beirut IL Safe.

MoNTcLAIB. N. j.. May i6.-Mrs.
received a cablegram from her son.
DR.. Harry Dorman. who headed an Ameri-
can relief expedition that left Beirut.
Syria. for Adana. where the Armenian
massa cres occurred. The message con-
veyed the information that everything
is now quiet in Adana and gives assur-
ance Of the safety Of the relief party,
about which concern was felt here.
DR.. Dorman Is connected with the
Syrian Protestant College in Beirut. OF
which Br. Howard Bliss, formerly pastor
OF the Christian Union Congregat tional
Church In Upper Montclar. is president.
The sun., 1909-05-17
CiR HITS Az .iHBi LiNCE.
scur, Hospital surgeon and Driver Badl,
shaken tp.

An ambulance Of Seney Hospital ~as
In collision with a trolley car al Fifth
avenue and Seventh street, Brooklyn.
Yesterday afternoon. DR.. Wells. the sur
s"on and John o Brien. who was driving.
were thrown to the street and badly
shaken up The car struck the horse.
sIllnlering the shafts and injuring the
ANNA seriously.
pr Wells was able TO notify the police
io have another ambulance answer the
,al' al Eleventh street and Second avenue.
49, was summoned from Brooklyn Hos
llhl lour-year old Joseph Collins OF
~ Twelfth street had fallen from the
grand stand while watching hall game.
llr 'iarcelon patched UP a deep cut on
The boys chin ard took him home.
The crippled ambulance/ was taken
'dck - the hospital and sick leave was
granted TO DR. Wells and the driver. who
WAra suffering from shock
III" motorman OF the car was not ar
rstti
The sun., 1909-05-17
The Weather.

Tn, storm from the, Southwest continued
II. course over the Lake regions yesterday, pre-
ceded by threatening conditions and rnin In the
New England states and the northern part OF the
middle Atlantic States.
An area of high pressure WAS central over the
eastern Rocky Mountain States and caused
cooler w.stber In the Western and Southwestern
states. There was little change Of temperature
In any Of the Eastern districts,
In this city the day opened cloudy and threa,
enlne. but became fair: wind. Hight 10 fresh east
erly: average humidity. II per cent: barometer,
orrected TO read 10 Sea level. at = A, NJ. Ssi: !
p. NJ. 3.sz.
Th. Temperature yesterday, as recorded by the
ofocaI Thermometer. 10 shown In the annexed
The sun., 1909-05-17
WHITLA NOT A CANDIDATE.
kidnapped Boys Father Wants No More
Publicity for q white,

MERCER, Pa, May le.-James p. Whitla,
father OF Willie Whitla. who was kid
mapped. will not be a candidate for the
Republican nomination OF Governor
OF Pennsylvania to succeed Gov
Stuart. While the candidacy Of Mr..
Whitla has never been formally
announced it has been known for u
Year that he was being groonfed for the
race. Close friends Of Whitla this after
noon admit that because of kidnapper
Boyle's trial Whitla will not seek any
more prominence for some time and that
he has told those who would ush his
candidacy that under no conditions must
his name be used.
The sun., 1909-05-17
HELD ron Whipping Girl.
Orphan Asylum superintendent Alleged
10 Have tsed Cowhide Brutaliy.

INDIANAPOLIS. May l6.-Henry Rosener,
superintendent OF the German Protestant
Orphans Home, Ia under arrest for alleged
cruelty to Ressie Sturgeon, fifteen
year-old girl the charge being that he
whipped her numerically with cow
hide.
The prosecution was instituted by MEM
bers OF the Humane Society, to whose
attention the case was called by some one
connected with the institution.
Officers Of the society caused photo
they show the stripes which she will
testify we're the result OF a whipping which
Rosener gave her. The pictures are very
clear and the society expecte to use them
In the trial OF the case. The photographs
wsre taken thirty-six hours after the girl
was whipped.
The sun., 1909-05-17
STEEL CAR CRUSHES OPEN ONE.
-Four Hurt In Collision In Long Island City
Steel Car Was FOR Tunnel Vse.

Two men and two women were hurt
late last night in collision between an
open car and one of the new steel cars
that will be used in the Belmont tunnel.
A Calvary Cemetery open car bound
down Borden avenue, Long Island City.
for. the Thirty-fourth street ferry ran
into College Point car at Borden and
Vernon avenues. The College Point car
was the steel one which was being tried
out on the surface lines. and when the
open car struck IL the latter was badly
crushed. p.
There were not many persons in the car
and several OF these we're able TO jump
before the collision. Four we're cent to
the hospital. where II was found that non
bad been hurt seriously.