Semi-weekly herald., 1909-09-30
Washington square.

tempted 10 Illustrate periods OF Amer
i lean history. mndc famous by the
achievements OF Hendrick Hudson and
Robert Fulton. Today's pageant really
represented the supreme effort OF the
celebration. For several months three
hundred artists, carpenters and papier
mache manipulators have been at work
preparing wood and plaster figures
which today decorated fifty-four floats
In the procession.
| PUEBLO. Sept 2S.--Thirty Italians
were arrested this morning. Officers
declare that within the last sixty days
the Missouri Pacific hast lost prop
erty aggregating $4,000 and that these
men stele It. The roundhouse has
been burglarized several times and
Itools have been taken In such num-
bers that the machine shops of the
company finally did not have enough
equipment to work with.
Detectives recovered great guam
tti of material. including blankets,
lanterns and tools and In one room
recovered nearly whole dining room
service which had been stolen from
n diner.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2S.--Three thou
sand women who obtain mail Mt the
general delivery window revealed to
the postal authorities. many under
protest their true names and address
es yesterday. They were compelled
to sign cards of Identification and
these we're placed In card indexes for
reference at each recurring applica-
tion for mail. The requirement en-
forced yesterday tor the first time
tears away part of the veil of secrecy
under which many clandestine CORE
spondence has been carried on.
MESSINA, Sept. 2s--Frank Alverd
Perret of Brooklyn, honorary assist
ant director of the Royal observatory
on Mount Vesuvius. and the first man
10 forecast seismic disturbances, and
the only man to fortell the Messina
disaster, believes that within the next
out of shape by the terrific power of
the sun and planets Ia unusual con-
junction and that as one result Sicily
again Will be the scene of earth shocks.
NJ. Perret bases this last forecast
upon astronomical conditions as his
guide as in all his prior predictions
and so accurate In the past have been
his readings OF the positions of the
planets as exerting great strains upon
the earht that his predictions are now
regarded as scientifically accurate.
In the next three days the positions
of the sun. moon. Mars. Saturn and
Jupiter viii be such as to exert "A most
tremendous strain of direct attraction
upon the earth and produce strong
gravitational distortion of the earth's
form. so much so as to change the
world from n sphere TO an eliipse.
1t il such a severe strain an this as
causes the major seismic disturbances.
according to Perret.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 2s.- Seven
teen years ago Peary returned to Phil
adelphia from "A polar expedition which
N"H VI t,ahiL'u ilhhBttd ny the
Academy OF Natural Sciences In this
city on the condition that com
plcte set of specimens collected and
observations made should belong to
and be the property OF the academy"
rhe academy has received from the
man 1t thus generously started on the
road to arctic fame one preliminary
and entirely unscientific narrative fill
ing nine small pages of Its proceed
ings" for 1892 and forty-six birdskins.
These facts recorded In the archives
of the academy, throw new light on
the explorer who is seeking to dis
credit Cook, who was member OF
this expedition and OF whom Peary
said In the report. THE report would
he incomplete with An acknowiedg.
ment of my obligations to Cook. a
patient and skillful surgeon. an indie
fatigable worker, an earnest student
of peculiar people, has obtained. ! be-
lieve, a record o. the tribe unapproach-
able In chronological archiyes"
Practically all the money was raised
in this city, yet when alternating an
nouncements of bis discovery. with
the accusations against Cook. he quite
forgot to notify the academy which
had fathered his first attempt.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. ga mask
ed desperate shot one man to death
and seriously wounded two others
early today In the saloon at York
road and Lycoming streets. The dead
man is James Quinn, aged 20 years,
son OF the owner of the saloon. The
wounded men are James Cassidy and
Henry Saylor. who were standing at
the bar when the bandit entered.
Entering the saloon shortly after
midnight the bandit produced "a re-
yolver of big callber. In true frontier
fashion he commanded the three mon
to produce all the money and jewelry
they had on their persons.
You're not moving fast enough" ex-
claimed the desperndo swapping the
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