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New-York tribune., 1909-03-02
ARMAMENT OF GERMAN AIRsHIPs.

Rerlin. March IA German military airshIp IS
n be armed qith small cannon or machine guns
The army authorities have virtually decided TO pro
vide balloons of the rigid Zeppelin type either with
ca,no1 of small caIibre machine guns. The
danger resulting from the reco snd the escape OF
sas from the muzzle has been practically eliminated
nv A system OF adjustments. the details OF which
are kept secret. 1t is proposed also TO arm the
sen,rigid balloons OF the Parseval and Gross types
With a lighter rapid fire weapon enabling them 10
attacl, infantry attachments.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-02
DRAMATIsT IN RUNAWAY.
"iSs Grace L. Furniss and Niece Have Wild
klde Down Seventh Avenue.

w. - S1@ce LAFingston Furniss the playwright
n,so, II1ilatEed The Man on the Box" and her
nun farniss had a narrow escape from being
sy..S ,.O1sy hurt In runaway accident in Seventh
-. 'es'e'uay afternoon They were riding IN
tbs - "nen Inc horse bolted and ran almost to
csvs,io ~ we pennsylvania Railroad station az
,auOn rs.1 before he was stopped.
tor IT, - ~oiien are staying AT the Hotel Carl
durf,, -. , oiiish made several attempts TO Jump
-. -.e vic drive down the avenue
New-York tribune., 1909-03-02
eoorH AND RoBeINs GIVE BAIL.

,,ao March w. Vernon Booth, president
Eoorh e Co. the so-called fish trust" and
- y Robhins formerly assistant treasurer OF the
.o,anaov. VINO were indicted jointly last Saturday
coinpinls. nj conspiracy defraud the Continen-
on an-ationrJ Zion Bank out of 100000 gave bonds of
.ss 90 oo6 and $4,000, respectively, to-day,
New-York tribune., 1909-03-02
AN AUTO ACCIDENT NEAR PAU.

Pau France. March L-Mr. and Mrs Goschen
and the Misses Balan visitors here. have met with
an automobile accident at Peyreherade. aud 1t is
believed that some of the party seriously In
jured Doctors have been sent to their assistance.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-02
AMERICAN RELIEF AT MESSINA.
Plans to Build Sixteen Hundred Houses
Lack of Transportation.

Messina March 1.-The work Of constructing
wooden houses with material sent out from the
United States OF purchased With American money
,o sbeIter the earthquake survivors is advancing
RAPIDLY under the direction Of Lieutenant Com
nander Reginald r. Belknap. the American naval
sttache at Berlin and Rome. large portable
house already is in storeroom and head
,uarters The lack of carts and horses has made
the transport OF lumber slow and expensive 1t
costs 5000 to deliver enough lumber to build I'VE
hundred houses II has been decided to build ono
thousand houses at Messina one thousand AT reg
IT. ord ope hundred at the settlement called Re
tne Elena the village three miles from here which
is heina reconstructed under the personal direction
of Queen Helena.
The international committee has published
.tate,nent showing that up TO February 20 1t had
I5 s9 500 e9o which was disbursed 9 follows:
New-York tribune., 1909-03-02
LUCKY" BALDWIN DEAD
Fortune of Pioneer and Racing Man
Estimated at S25. 600 900.

Los Angeles March 1.-E. J., C'Lucky'D Baldwin
died at his home at Arcadia, to-day. aged eighty
years. Death came quietly after illness OF
several weeks. Mr.. Baldwin having been uncon-
scious several hours before death At his bed
side were Mrs Baldwin. their daughter and niece
and other relatives
The fortune left by Lucky Baldwin is esti-
mated by " A Unruh. his manager. at S5,U0Ooo-
Little Is known OF the details OF the will 10 -
certain. however. that his widow and daughter
have been literally provided for
Many OF impending contests OF ths will
rife during Mr. Baldwins illness. but they
have not appeared in tangible form. II Is reported
that the will contains specific statement denying
the existence OF more than single widow. thus
providing against a possible contest from that
direction
Mr. Baldwin will be buried n San Frsnc4sco. but
the date OF the funeral has not yet been deter
mined.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-02

Elias Jackson Baldwin, for over hfty ysArS
picturesque figure IN the history OF California.
his sObrlquet OF Lucky Baldwin BY his long
OF tempting fortune, in which hs Invariably
landed on his feet He won and lost over Ho,ooo.O
in his day, yet died q nUlti-millioEairas After
losing one great fortune he would ohssrfuT1y be-
gin again at the bottom and soon win II back Not
TIL his eightieth year did he yield TO fatS when
falling eyesight compelled retirement.
Mr. Baldwin born IN Hamilton. Ohio, de-
scendant from OF the pioneers ot that stats.
After common school education he married at
the age OF eighteen. and with D0Oo made In ho-ss
and cattle trades. started grocery stors In Val
paraiso. Ind Then he established = general stors
and hotel in New Buffalo. Ind. aud al sxtsnsivs
grain shipping business. AL OF which enterpx1ss<
hourished In 1852 he went TO Racins. VIA. and
started a big hotel. which he soon sold At large
profit, and moved TO California by wagon train.
trading prohtably along tho routa-
In San Francisco he made tia first OF his grsSt
fortunes in mining ventures Another came % him
from his venture n Nevada. ths Cou1stock nina
At one time Mr.. Baldwin held one-ta1th oe 81 tHs
stock OF the bonanza mines By his daring spec
ulations in opposition to ths powerful combination
controlling the mines after they had bought him
out of the OphIr mines he cleared not lssS than
100000 in twenty minutes. When ths California
Bank closed its doors, August D. 1915. Mr.. Baldwin
had deposit there s2O0O,000. He had bean carry
ing balance OF 100000. Realizing that numOer
OF persons wished to throw the bank into insolvency
he contributed S0C0000 to the fund for rsorg7nis1
ton By placing that institution its feet he
earned the credit OF having accomplished . great
financial achievement
No identified with horse breeding and the
racing Of thoroughbreds widely known
throughout the country than Lucky Baldwin
Even the weight CT his eighty-Ons years did not
suffice diminish his interest IN turf matters. and
while horses bred BY his trainers winning
races distant tracks. the owner OF the vast es-
tate Los Angeles lived the luxurious life os an
old Spanish don. with army OF employees and
retainers his great ranch. which has become
OF the show places OF Southern California
Il at Saratoga. y. Y, white attending the
races. that he decided to acquire stable OF his
Many OF his earlier purchases were made in
the ring after he had cashed a bet the animal
he favored Cfrinstead and Rutherford two
OF his horses purchased in this manner. He
the American Derby four tines with Emperor OF
Norfolk. Silver Cloud. ToIants and Rsy sl Ssntz
Anita
New-York tribune., 1909-03-02

A telegram The Tribune from Newark sad
that there was record at the city Clerks office
Of the birth OF & Mary Anne EdEeworth or Edg-
worth and that tho Chdren's Aid Society had no
records OF the adoption referred 10 in the dispatch
from Paris There nre no EdEworths In the city
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22

fought, burned and sank two man-Of-
war briggs; he captured one ship, one
bark, one galliot, six briggs and one
schooner, and he destroyed two briggs
and sent home one very rich prize
There seemed to be no limit to his dar-
ing. Some of the vessels that he cap
tured or destroyed he cut out while
they were under the protection of frig-
ates. Chased off time after time, the
Wasp would return again and again.
One of the vessels the Wasp scuttied
was particularly valuable, being loaded
with cannon, mUskets and military
stores. This loss was more severe to the
British than would have been the sink
ing of a fTigate.
Whatever sorrow BIakely may have
felt over his leaving the enterprise lust
before the Boxer engagement surely
must have been assuaged in those days
in the British channel Great and
glorious as was the fight between the
Enterprise and the Boxer that between
the Wasp and the Reindeer was greater
and more glorious. And then for good
measure came the battle of the Wasp
and the Avon The Goddess Of Fortune
certainly smiled on Blakelv i'm those
days and made up for her frOwns Of the
days before
A Glorious Contest.
1t was before daybreak on June %,
1914, that the Wasp sighted the Rein
deer, a brig-sloOp Of eighteen guns,
which came up while the Wasp was in
pursuit Of two merchant vessels. As the
day broke the Reindeer made sail for
the Wasp. While the vessels were Of
nearly the same tonnage, the Wasp be-
ing 500 and the Reindeer Az, the Wasp
had decided advantage in the weight
OF shot it threw. This made little diff
ference to the captain of the Reindeer,
William Manners, who was as cour-
ageOus and competent a commander as
there was in the British navy. And
Theodore Roosevelt, who is inclined to
be a severe critic, says in his Naval
War of 1872" that the crew of the Rein
deer was made up Of "as brave men
as ever. sailed or fought on the narrow
seas"
From early in the day until midafter-
noon the rival captains manoeuvered.
The sky was overcast and threatening,
hut there was little wind and the sea
was smooth. The combat was opened
at S:l7 p. m. by the Reindeer, which
was only sixty yards distant, but being
on the Wasp's weather quarter, was
able to use its shifting carronade with
out reply from the Wasp. Five times
the British used this gun and then
Blakely got the Reindeer abeam.
Here is the way Roosevelt describes
the fight; For ten minutes the ship
and the brig lay abreast, not twenty
yards apart, while the cannonade was
terribly destructive. The conclusion Of
the explosions almost deadened what
little way the vessels had on, and the
smoke hung over them like a pail. The
men worked at the guns with desper-
ate energy but the odds in weight of
metal Cthree to twO) were too great
against the Reindeer, where both sides
played their parts so manfuIly. Cap
tain Manners stood at his post as reso-
Lutte as ever, though wounded again and
again. A grapeshOt passed through
both his thighs bringing him to the
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22

Through the long winter of 1913 ana
the spring of 1914 it seemed TO John-
ston Blakely that fate had marked nm
for one of its sorry victims. The mel
of the United States navy We're winning
for themselves undying fame, Dut
IBlakely, it appeared, was doomed 10
have little or no share in it. Young,
ardent, keenly ambitious, he beWailed
what he thought was his misfortune. III
luck had followed him throughout the
war. In all the months that he had
been in command of the Enterprise
there had been no opportunity for a
fight with the enemy. Less than TWO
weeks after he was made master COM
rnandant and transferred to Portsmouth
to take charge of the Wasp, the Enter
prise met the Boxer. History tells us
that the battle was one Of the best
fought of the war, and Lieutenant Bur
VOWS. who commanded the Enterprise,
ranks high among the nations heroes.
MortaIly wounded, he would not go be
low. but when the Boxer surrendered
and he received the sword of his adver-
sary he said: Il am satisfied; die con-
tented"
To Blakely, eating his heart out at
Portsmouth while the country rang
with the story of Burrows glorious
death. there was the added mOrtifica-
ton that he could not hasten work on
the Wasp. The slOOp of war to which
he had been assigned was the third of
that name in the navy. There was no
need for transferring him from the En-
terprise to the Wasp so early, for work
on the construction of the new slOop
had not progressed far when he got his
orders to proceed to Portsmouth, but
the secretary of the navy had a high
regard for Blakely's ability and wanted
him to not only sUperintend the con-
strUction of the vessel, but pick and
train every one of his crew before he
proceeded to sea-
Although here and there American
craft and American seamen We're as
founding the world by showing that
England was not invincibIe on the sea.
all the ports Of the United States We're
blockaded by British ships, and a little
boat such as the Wasp had no chance
TO get out through the blOckading
squadron except when storm scattered
the fleet that watched the harbOTs.
Around Portsmouth the blOckaders
were particularly vigilant Once or
twice, late i'm the winter Blakely
thought he might get out, but it was no
use. To add to his discontinue some
other commanders Tcftt1s mt other
ports. had managed to slip 0ut and.
once through the Gordon had begun to
harass British shinDing.
In q letter To ono Of his friends Blake
~ poured ont his soul just about this
time
"Alas" ha wrote. ct SHAH ever Wow
as one of the most unfortunate events
of my life havinr .rir-a1 che Eutcr-visr
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22

Avon was shot away and her hull was
riddled. Some of her guns were dis
mounted, and even the mainmast went
by the board. At 10 p. m.-the Avon
having ceased to fire-Captain Blakely
hailed to know if she had struck There
was no reply other than a few shots.
Blakely theTeupon renewed the battle.
At 1912 the Avon was hailed again.
This time the reply came that she had
struck her colors.
All told the battle had lasted forty
three minutes-thirty-On minutes up to
the time Of the first hail and twelve
minutes after that.
Three Against One.
Blakely was sending a boats crew
over to take possession of the Avon
when he had to recall the men hurriedly
and prepare for another fight. The Cas-
lillian, a big slOOp Of about the same
size as the Avon, was bearing down on
the Wasp Within ten minutes Blakely
was prepared for the newcomer. Before
the Wasp and the Castilian could get
together the other two warships of the
four Blakely had sighted when he start
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22

ed in pursuit Of the Avon came bear
ing down on the Wasp. Then Blakely
had to seek safety in running. The
Castilian made an effort at pursuit but
signals of distress from the Avon called
her back.
The guns Of the Wasp had turned the
Avon into a slaughter house. Forty
two of the crew were killed or wounded
CThe loss on the Wasp was only three)
Hardly had the Castilian taken off the
Avon's survivors than the vessel sank
With a cruiser roaming the channel
commanded by a man ready ten min
utes after one engagement to enter into
another no wonder the British were
alarmed. So heavy had been the dam
age wrought by the Wasp in her first
expedition that the British channel
commanders determined at all odds to
destroy or drive off the American. But
while the British were planning to sur
round and destroy him in the channel
Blakely left them behind, cruising off
the southwark and westward and
tTaversing the line followed by English
vessels bound for the West Indies and
! the gulf. Two prizes he captured and
scuttled, and on Sept. p he captured the
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BY RICHARD sPILLANE.

"The Peacock has ere this spread her
plumage to the winds and the Frolic
viii soon take her revels on the ocean,
but the Wasp, 1 fear, will remain for
some time a harmless drone in the wa
tiers Of her own country"
How little he knew of what was in
store Tor him and for the Wasp.
But even if he feared the Wasp was
to remain a drone he trained his crew
as few crews had been trained up to
that time. Every day he drilled them:
every day he brought them nearer and
nearer to perfection. 1t is declared on
competent authority that the crew of
the Wasp was the highest in point of
efficiency Of any Of the war of 1912.
Every man on the sloop except Blakely
was a New Englander BIakely was
Irish. Born in SeafOrd, County Down,
in October, 1871, he was brought to
America when he was 2 years old. His
parents settled in Wilmington, n. c.,
and when he was 10 years old he was
sent TO New York to be educated Then
he went to the University of North Ca
rOl1na to be prepared for the law, but
he had a prediction for the sea, and
in 1900 became a midshipman He
served in the Enterprise IN the Mediter-
ranean under the gallant Commander
Preble in the war with the Barbary
states, and was made a lieutenant in
1907, and got command Of the Enter
prise in 1918. There probably was no
better seaman in the service than
Blakely, and no more resourceful man.
Though he chafed at delay and bewailed
his luck, he never relaxed in his work
Hah dozen times in March and
April Blakely tried to get the Wasp
out, but the blockaders held him tight.
Once in the night he almost got
through without discovery, but again
luck was against him. At last the door
of opportunity opened. A storm arose
that scattered the British watchers, and
on the wings of the storm the Wasp
went kiting out over the broad Atlantic /
It was on the first of May that the |
Wasp left Portsmouth, and the next few |
months were big with her doings. /
Straight across the Atlantic she went. !
headed for the enemy's country. The
English channel was patroled by thirty I
five British warships but into the thick .
of the fleet went the Wasp. She was /
there to fight, to burn, TO destroy, to /
terTify. John Paul Jones won a name l
for himself among the immOrtals by /
what he had done in neighbOring waters I
thirty-Odd years before, but John Paul
Jones was a slow sort of individual in /
comparison with Johnston Blakely. For /
thirty-fOUr days BlakeIy ranged the /
English channel. Then he went into a /
French port to refit. Back to the chan /
mel he hurried so soon as repairs had
been made. This time he remained six /
days. Into the forty days of actual |
operations he crowded so much of &C 1
ton that the British marveled as to /
where his audacity would end He |
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British brig ATLANTA Of eight guns.
This was a particularly rich prize, and
be put prize crew aboard under COM
mand of Midshipman Geisinger, with
orders to proceed 10 America. A few
weeks later, while stul in the course Of
the West India men, the Wasp spoke
the Swedish brig AdOnis and took off Of
her two men of the Essex.
That evening the AdOnis proceeded on
her way to Europe and the Wasp, scud-
ding along under a strong breeze. went
booming toward the west. The AdOnfs.
slow and numbering, arrived in due sea-
son in port. but when the Wasp on that
October evening sank below the horizon
she was lost to the sight of man. Never
has she been heard of since. Never until
judgment day will her fate be known.
North Carolina, claiming Blakely as
one of her greatest sons, educated his
daughter and made her a ward of the
state. Blakely's name stands high jim
the scroll Of fame, for no soldier of the
sea accomplished more with the means
at hand.
Copyright, 1909, by Richard spiHane.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22

Copyright, 1909, by Richard spiIlane.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-08-31
ORDERED FIRST SHOT
IN THE CIVIL WAR

NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-Gen. jeremiah
II. Gilman, u. S. A., retired, who was
credited with having ordered the first
rife shot fired in the civil war, is dead
at the Oriental hotel, Manhattan Beach,
after an illness of two months. He was
70 years old.
General Gilman was graduated from
West Point in 1856. At the outbreak of the
civil war, Lieutenant Gilman, with Lieu
tenant Slemmer and 20 soldiers belonging
TO Company G, of the First United States
artillery. held Fort Pickens, which was
located on an island and commanded the
entrance to the harbor of Pensacola, Fla.
1t is asserted that the first rife shot in
the war was fired when seven Confeder-
ate soldiers tried to pass the pickets at
night and failed.
Later Fort Sumter fell, but Fort Pick
ems held out, although it was besieged by
1000 Confederates until reinforcements ar
rived by the fleet from New York. The
Union admiral and navy yard at Pensa-
cola surrendered to General Bragg, but it
was of 10 use to the Confederate army
because Fort Pickens commanded the en-
trance to the harbor, and was the only
fertilization south of Mason and Dixon's
line that did not surrender.
Upon the wars close Colonel Gilman
was appointed assistant commissary gen.
eral at Washington, and served for many
years, until he was retired under the age
limit November II, 1895.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-08-31
FIGHT TO THE DEATH
rs MADE BY CONVICT

MERIDIAN, Miss, Aug. 8.-Edward
Strickland, federal prisoner In the city
Jail here, escaped with two other prison.
ers tonight, only to lose his life In Q
fight with a sheriffs posse several hours
later.
Strickland was recently arrested by the
postoffice authorities on charge or
robbing the mails. With Lee Edwards
and Harry Groves, the last two men
held on the charge of robbing box cars.
he pried off a trap door on the top OF
the Jail and escaped through the JAN
yard.
VIII Edwards, arrested with his BROTH
er. Lee Edwards, and ]. c. Walton,
life prisoner, awaiting transfer to the
state convict farm, gave the alarm and o
posse was soon in pursuit of the fugi-
tiyes The three men separated ana
Strickland was riding alone in buggy
with a shotgun on his knees, when the
officers came up. He fired on them and
they returned the fire, Strickland falling
out of the buggy with load Of ouckshot
in his breast.
Bloodhounds have been put on the tran
OF the other two men and the posse is
still pursuing them at late hour to-
night.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-08-31
GRANDPA s Hopes

Dear Miss Thomas: On account or an acct
dent Of last fall ! have been confined almost
exclusively 10 the house. and Il makes time
hang very heavily nv hands. 1 81 years
old and. as my wife says. about as homeIy
as they make them" My hair. which once was
blatk SIS the crow. rs low we'll sprinkIed win
SNOW and the sun has burned many streaks
II tan, as my mule and ! the crooked rows
have run. Put with all the gray locks and
copper rolored skin. ] find that In the country
there arc many delights and pleasures that |
was not acquainted with when living in the
city. Out here. after preparing the ground we'll
md planting the seed, one watches Mother
Nature as she makes the crop. grass and v''gr-
fahles spring forth I'm emerald green ror1'ng
N together just neghboriy as though all
we're to decorate tie festive board. The vege-
alhes taste better for having been gathered
. the eapacious Bingham apron Of the lovely
n,iScyvife instead 81 being brought. IN a stale
condition. in paper bags by the procer's boy.
Then the proverbial early worm" you can
lind in clusters and in platoonS. some arc
..cnDtains Of Industry" like the potato beetle,
and others only ply their vocations In the early
l.urnIng hours. like the cut worm. while Others.
ike the tick and the pesky red bug are con-
stEntiy at work. furnishing one with employ
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-08-31
Praises the WidoWers

Dear Households: ] enjoy all Of the letters,
]. C. P.'s letter in August 20 edition is what
want to talk about this morning. 1 think
that he is a widower and wants 10 marry. ike
all the rest.
| want to say to all girls that widowers
mike good husbands, but stepmother is the
most unthankful place you can step into. IL
the children are boys, all they care for Is Tor
yor 10 welt on them. l have no experience IN
girls. Boys think "She Is not my mother;
don't have to mind her." l think that a step
mother ought 10 treat her husbands children
ne near like she would her own as she can,
but when they won't mind you, and your nus
band SAYS for you not to whip them, what
must poor heart-brokcn stepmother do with
saEcy childrcnT If you talk TO them and give
them good advice and try to teach them about
tn. Bible. how TO act nicely and how to talk
they don't pay any attention 10 what you say.
j. c. T., come again and tell us II you are
widower. We alI have our troubles. Ihosa
mothers that have children see trouble 1
think that some stcpmOthers are TO blame. and
snme stepchildren. / never could mistreat a
mothcrleSs child. A great many write about
their husbands | have Il good husband. ] din
sick a lot aud he Is good to help me. How
many Of us are trying to live so mat When
We die heaven will be our home?
MRS. ABBIE CARLISLE.