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building have done all that ingenuity
could suggest to make the bailiwick OF
the chef perfect in It's fittings. A steel
range. having four fires and ovens, occu-
pies the chief place in the kitchen. A
charcoal broiler. gas broiler, soup and
vegetable kettles and steam table heated
by special high pressure pipes from an
individual boiler in the basement are
adjunots to the range.
There are three dumbwaiters arranged
In a group and passing through the
kitchen TO all the dining rooms In the
building. from the basement grill TO the
banquet hall. These are operated auto
matioally by elect ricity. A large cleo
trio elevator serves to convey supplies
from the basement TO the kitchen.
In the kitchen there is an Office for the
chef himself, and under his domain also
are the butcher shop, oyster bar and
general pantry and kitchen storeroom,
which open directly from tho kitchen
proper and extend back to the middle
OF the building. In the butcher shop
there are large refrigerators subdivided
into compartments for tho keeping OF
cooked meats, fresh meat in storage,
poultry, game and fish. There are sepa-
rate storage plants for the aocommoda-
ton Of milk, butter and eggs.
A drop from the kitchen into the red
tiled basemens completes the survey
OF the building. The major portion OF
the basement is devoted to the den and
billiard rooms. The den Is full forty
three feet in length and thirty-four feet
wide. The members bar opens from
cas side 9: It and gree. Fireplace hanhs
another end. All Of the tables and chairs
are Of white unpublished oak aud the
whole air of the place is that Of Dutch
housewives .kitohen-a CHEEKY. spotiess
place for comfort.
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The home for retired actors and ao-
tresses founded by Coquelin the elder,
who obtained a permit to hold a lottery
for the institution, shelters some forty
pensioners. 1t is at Pont aux Danes,
twenty five miles from Paris.
The homo stands in large grounds and
the original house OF the estate is used in
connection with the work. Coquelin
kept a room in this house and was there
trying TO recuperate after his illness when
he died.
The homo owns a vault in the village
cemetery near by and Coqueln's body
has been placed in it with those OF the
twelve pensioners who have died at the
home since its opening, The body will
later be reburied at spot in the grounds
chosen by Coquelin himself for his last
resting place
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Coquelin was always glad TO show
visitors through the home. This is an
Incident that occurred there.
Here's the old actors bed he said.
opening the door Of a bedroom. "He gets
up. opens his window and there's the
landscape he has before bis eyes. IL he
feels lonely he has only to knock on his
wall and in comes a neighbor. They sit
down by the flreside and talk shop. their
past successes and failures"
Yes interrupted one Of the party, Il
can hear than. This is what they're
saying: That man coquelin had no
talent"
Coquelin laughed.
y hope 80, really he replied. for IL
they say that my object will have been
attained and | shall have the proof that
they are treating me as comrade.'
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lOlOS CLUBS NEW QUARTERS
CONFORT AND LUXURY MARK
ITS SEVEN STORY HONE.

italian Renaissance Building IN west
Fifty-soyenth street Now IN Use
Rich simplicity the Keynote--Art
Gallery and banquet Han q Feature.
The last word In club comfort and club
luxury; that epitomises the architectural
scheme and furnishing design Of the
I,otos Clubs new home at ITO West Fifty
seventh street. Within less than a year
after the first foundation stono was laid,
which was in April last. the seven story
building, with the design OF the lotos flower
carved in the stones Of ito facade, has risen
10 completion, the decorators and furni-
ture men have gone from basement to
roof hlling the interior with the things
that bring comfort to clubmsn, and since
about the first Of February the members
Of the Lotos Club have been getting ac-
auainted with the finished product,
Following the uptown movement Of all
the other clubs, the Lotos buried the
memories OF the old house on Fifth avenue
above Forty-sixth street with more than
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
ELECTRIC WIRES CUT;
ELGIN, ILL.,, ISOLATED
DENTIST OBJECTS TO POLE ON
HIS RESIDENCE
Lines Strung in His Absence, He Sew
ers "a, Stopping Telegraph and
All Other Electrical
Utilities

ELGIN, Ills, Oct. 14.-Dr. A. n.
Stone, an elderly and wealthy dentist
armed with pair of rubber gloves and
tinsmiths shears, cut Elgin off from
telegraphic communication with the
outside world yesterday and for an
hour stopped street cars, motors, lights
and everything else run by electricity.
Telegraph companies decided to
string their lines over DR.. Stones build
ing and asked permission to erect a
pole on his roof. This was refused.
DIR. Stone went to Europe, and the
first thing he saw when he returned
yesterday was a new pole on the top
of his building and twenty-fOur wires
strung on it.
Despite the fact he is 65 years old
he ascended to the roof through a
skylight, climbed the pole and cut the
wires Some of them fell across the
trolley wires of the city street car sys-
tenn and others across the feed wires
of the railway company which supplies
the city with electrical power.
There was a brief electrical display
and wrecking crews were ordered out.
The police saw the dentist on the pole,
and thinking he was crazy went up
on the roof to bring him down. The
pole was wavering beneath the weight
of the doctor, however, and the police
men did not dare ascend it.
The dentist hurled defiance at them
while he finished his work. Descend
ing, he was about to cut down the
pole also when the managers of the
telegraph companies affected tenn
porary truce
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
MURDER MYSTERY is
PARTIALLY CLEARED
WITNESS SAYS HE SAW FIGHT
MADE ON VICTIM
Police Arrest Two CrippIes Who They
Claim Are Members of Gang of
Yeggmen with the Man
Now Dead

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14.-The mys-
terry surrounding the death of a man
believed to be John Frederick of Ra-
ton, N. M, was cleared up partially
today when E. C. Richards reported to
the police he had witnessed a fight
between the man now dead and four
others Monday night which ended in
the death of Frederick.
When the body was found Tuesday
with the throat cut, the police believed
it was a case of suicide.
After they had heard Richards story
they arrested Harry Boyle and Joseph
Lane, two cripples living near the scene
of the murder.
The police charge that both men were
fellow-members with Frederick of
gang of yeggmen and the dead man
had turned traitor to the gang.
Fredericks identity was fixed by
means of letters and other documents
found in his pockets. All were dated
Ration, N. M, and some of the papers
bear the stamp of the National Real
Estate company of that place.
A book was also found which con-
tanned a request that Dave c. Majors
of Ration be notified in case of acct-
dent
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
SURPRISED AT
DENIAL BY BARRILL

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Oct. a.
Expressing astonishment at the state
ment of Edward Barrill, DIR. Cook to-
day maintained that he had ascended
to the summit of Mount Mckinley, and
said further that if an expedition will
follow the route he took it will find the
records deposited by him at the sum-
NIT of the mountain.
Referring to Barrilrs sworn state
ment, DR.. Cook said:
81 cannot understand why Barrill
should have made such a statement as
the newspaper reproduced, if he was
acting under normal conditions.
II must say it surprises me. We were
always on the most friendly terms.
Until I know of the conditions under
which this alleged affidavit was made
l will make no specific reply to it. My
account of the trip has been published.
For the present it is just the statement
of one man against another.
IF an expedition of experienced
mountaneers will follow the route that
1 took and will go to the top of Mount
Mckinley they will find there the rec
ords which 1 deposited on attaining the
summit of the mountain in the manner
described in my book To the Top of the
Continent
'I have always had the most COM
plete confidence in Barrill and cannot
comprehend why he should have sworn
to such a statement.
"The fact that General Hubbard is
proprietor of the Globe throws a light
on the affair which was not previously
apparent. I shall see Barrill, 1 hope,
when I reach New York, but 1 do not
know when or where.
'It appears to me that there was
money behind his statement. He was
perhaps annoyed that he had not been
paid his wages, but that was not my
fault, and l remedied the matter as
soon as I got back from the pole"
DIR. Cook said he would reserve his
further comment.
DR.. Cook met with a hearty reception
here Several thousand persons cheered
him as he stepped out of the station.
A military guard of honor composed
of the city troops presented arms as he
entered his carriage, and the troops
acted as the explorers escort through
out "a pitU
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15

have had only short message from
him. That was in answer to my tele-
gram asking him to come east, and he
replied he could not do so at that
time"
us there any reason why Barrill
should make the assertion that you
did not reach the summit of Mt. Nc
Kinley?" DR.. Cook was asked.
HE was not paid in full for all of
his services, but neither were others.
1t was just an oversight"
do you think that would make him
vindictive?"
"I do not think it should"
Regarding his ascent Of Mt. Nc
Kinley, DR.. Cook stated emphatically
that he had sufficient evidence to prove
the statement that he had been there.
Asked if he had other photographs
than the one most frequently pub
lished of himself on the summit Of
the mountain, DR.. Cook said:
"That picture was not taken of me.
That was a picture of Barrill. We
took pictures from every possible view,
but many of them did not turn out
well, and were not published"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
WILL BRING ESKIMoS TO
DISPROVE PEARYS STORY

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14.-Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook, who passed through this
city today for Atlantic City, said to
the Associated Press:
There is a mistaken impression
among the public that I am bringing
the Eskimos to New York to prove
that 1 have been to the pole.
1.-THE real reason of their coming
here is to disprove the story they were
made to tell by Commander Peary and
his party.
Certainly they will assist me by CIV
ing evidence they have been to the
pole with me. but I rely on my own
data to prove my claim"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
PALLBEARERS BRING BILL
OF $40 EACH FOR DUTIES
One Claimant Drops His Claim to
Sue for 1854 for Other
Services

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Oct 14.-Al-
though left $500 by the will of Newton
C. Brown, who died at the Railroad
Y. M. C. A, John Davis who made
his home at the Y. M. C. A, put in
bill against the estate for $40 for act
ing as pallbearer. So did the other
pallbearers.
Davis dropped his claim for $40 as
pallbearer while on the witness stand
to claim $154 for services rendered the
deceased. The services consisted of
rubbing the legs of Brown who was
afflicted with rheumatism, cutting his
corns, and dressing him at So day.
This claim is objected to by the exec
utor, who also opposes a claim of
$4,000 for similar services for ten years
presented by Joseph Allen, railroad
engineer.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15

at camp 6, shown on attached exhibits
and d. The camp in this picture Is
noted thereon to be 5000 feet This be-
ing so, the point where my picture was
taken with the flag should not exceed
1000 feet, as the 5000 feet camp was es-
tablished from six to eight hours after
my picture was so taken.
THE drawing shown opposite page
2O4 of DR.. Cooks book, above men
toned, is entirely false, as we never
built snow house on the trip, although
the diary, as dictated by the doctor
says so; nor did we shake hands or
have any other similar ceremonies as
stated in the diary.
1.-THE drawing opposite page 209 Of
the doctors book is also false. We
never climbed anything half as steep
as there shown. We slept every night
upon comparatively level spots.
"The photograph opposite page 226
in the doctors book entitled In the
Silent Glory and Snowy Wonder of the
Upper World, 15,400 Feet was taken
two or three hours before the taking of
my picture with the flag, and was
taken in the amphitheater about mile
northeasterly of the point where was
so photographed"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
REQUISITION ISSUED FOR
MAN SOON TO BE FREED
Convict Just Ending a Term at San
Quentin to Face Murder
Charge

SACRAMENTO, Oct. IA requisi-
tion was issued from the governor S
office today for the return to Chicago
for trial for murder of Vincent Briscoe,
prisoner at San Quentin prison, who
will be released November Z after sery-
ing a years sentence.
Briscoe is accused of killing a police
man in Chicago three years ago. After
long search he was found in San
Quentin. Governor Gillett would have
pardoned him eight months ago so that
the Chicago police could have him at
once, but he resisted successfully
through an attorney.
Briscoe's alleged accomplice in the
crime and woman to whom he is
said to have confded it will testify
against him.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
HENEY is SUSTAINED AS
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
Graft Prosecutor Wins in Recount, but
, His Majority Over Fickert Is
Reduced

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14.-Francis
]. Heney was sustained today as the
candidate of the Democratic party for
district attorney at the coming munich
pal election, when the recount de-
manded by Charles Fickert, Republican
and Union Labor nominee for the same
office, and Heney's only opponent, was
completed. The recount resulted in a
gain of sixty-four votes for F'ickert, re-
dueing Heney's majority to "a.
The recount was ordered by the
court after a long legal fight. Fickert
declared in his complaint that votes
had been rejected by the judges in
eleven precincts, which should have
been counted for him. The first three
precincts counted showed a decided
gain for Fickert, but the total gain
was not sufficient to give him the
Democratic Endorsement.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15

Kinley. These affidavits have been
made.
Il met Barrill in Seattle on May 16,
1906. I knew nothing of him up to
packer for the expedition and took
Barrill along as assistant. I had no
particular reason to doubt Cooks word
at the time we Joined him after our
hunting trip, and he told us he had
been to the top of Mckinley.
THE feat hardly appeared possible,
but 1 gave the matter little thought
until Barrill told me the point they
actually reached.
walter P. MILLER"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
Hotel Men Convene

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. IA. The
Western Hotel Mems association, COM
posed of hotel managers and owners
this side of the Mississippi river, opened
its first annual convention here today.
The chief problem before the conven-
tion pertains to the best means of pro-
tecting hotels from swindlers and dead
heats
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
GOES TO JOIN HUSBAND
SHE THOUGHT WAS DEAD
Believed She Had Buried Spouse More
Than Year Ago; Finds He
Is Alive

MUsKOGEE, Okla, Oct. 14.-Mrs
Robert F. Bradford left here for Seat
tie last night to join her husband,
whom until few days ago, she be-
lieved she buried in July 1908.
Bradford disappeared more than
year ago. A few weeks later the de-
composed body of a man was found at
McAlester, which a dentist who had
repaired Bradford's teeth identified as
that of the missing man.
Recently w. r. Robinson, an old
friend of Bradford, met him in Seattle
and notified Mrs. Bradford of his
whereabouts. Mrs. Bradford got in
communication with her husband
through the Seattle police.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15

HHE historic old city of Juarez,
Mexico, is gay with bunting and
Il flags and is preparing feasts and
all manner Of celebrations for the COM
ing of Presidents Taft and Diaz Oc-
tober 16. The barracks are filed with
soldiers, among them being several
troops of picturesque rurales, and
nightly the bands are giving concerts.
The meeting of the two presidents will
be a big day for Ell Paso, but it will
be a bigger one for Juarez. The BAN
uuet to President Taft in Juarez will
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
GRANDSON OF MARK HANNA
MARRIES GIRL IN SECRET
Mother of Minor Son VIII Take Steps
to AnnuI Marriage of Last
June

NEW YORK. Oct. 14-Mrs. Edmund
K. Stallo declared today the marriage
of her son, Carl H. Hanna, the grand
son of the late Marcus A. Hanna, to
Gertrude Jerome Leavitt of Short Hills,
N. j., was a surprise to his parents.
and that steps will be taken to have
1t annulled. Mr.. Hanna is a minor,
she says.
Young Hanna and Miss Leavitt were
married last June, but the fact was
kept secret until last night. The bride
is the daughter of the late Edward
Leavitt Of Stamford, Conn.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
DR.. COOK SAYS MONEY
HAS BEEN OFFERED TO
GET DATA FOR PEARY
PHILADELPHIA,

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14.-"We
have learned that money had been
offered for information regarding my
ascent of Mount Mckinley" said DIR.
Frederick A. Cook today, have not
paid any particular attention to the
talk regarding that trip, because 1 did
not think II was worth while.
IT will not speak of it until Barrill
returns east He Is coming east now
Since my return to this country
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15

be held at the custom house. Artisans
from Paris have been employed to in
close the pretty court in the rear of
tertainment. General Diaz will cross
the river and meet the president of
the United States at the union station,
and later Mr.. Taft will go to Juarez,
where he will be the guest of the pres
ident of Mexico and the city of Juarez.
The accompanying pictures give a good
idea of the appearance of the Mexican
city with its odd architecture and
adobe houses.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
PHOTOGRAPHER SAYS
ED BARRILL REFUTED
TALE TOLD BY COOK

SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. 14.-Walter
P. Miller, who was photographer of the
Cook expedition to Mount Mckinley in
1906, made the following affidavit to-
day, which is published by the Seattle
Times:
'I was a member of the DR.. Cook
Mount Mckinley expedition that left
Seattle in June 1908, for Alaska, for the
purpose of climbing Mount Mckinley.
In that party were DR.. Frederick A.
Cook, Robert S. Dunn, Ralph L. Shain-
wald, Fred Printz and myself,
after making two attempts to scale
the mountain that year and falling we
returned to Seattle.
''On May II, 1906, DR.. Cook again left
Seattle with a party for Alaska for the
purpose of climbing Mount Mckinley.
In that party were Dr. F. A. Cook
Hershell Parker, Russell w. Porter
Belmore Brown, Ed Barrill, Fred Printz
and myself.
1--WE landed on Tyonek, on Cook inlet
about May 2S, 1906, with twenty pack
horses and a power boat for the Susitna
river.
"Barrill, Printz and Beecher took the
pack outfit overland and met us on the
headwater of the Yentna, about 12O
miles from Cook inlet.
after exploring the country there for
a suitable route to Mount Mckinley the
ascent was abandoned for that year.
and our party divided Prof. Parker re-
turning to New York, Porter the to-
pographer, staying in that vicinity for
the purpose of mapping the country
Brown and Beecher went to the Ma
tunaska, and Printz and I to the
Kechatna on a hunting trip.
Cook and Barrill and man named
Docking left in the launch, going down
the Yentna, and up the Susitna, up the
C,lo,11i+pa and into tbe TO1S9 SitD9 where
they left the boat.
Knew Nothing About 1t
From the time Cook and Barrill left
us at the headwaters of the Yentna,
when Printz and I started on our hunt
ing trip, until we met them at Susitna
station September 90. l knew nothing
of their movements except what was
told me by Barrill.
"Whenever I asked Barrill concerning
the ascent he always referred me TO
Cook.
Ask the doctor about it, he would
answer. He told me not to say any
thing about it,
Cook told the story Of the ascent to
us several times on the way out.
Later I met Barrill in Missoula,
Mont, where he told me the actual
facts of the trip. He said that neither
he nor DR.. Cook made the summit Of
Mount Mckinley, and pointed out TO
me on the map the different camps and
the point which Cook claimed was the
summit of Mount Mckinley. This
point is fully twenty miles from the
summit.
"A fortnight ago I was asked by an
attorney for aa expedition club with
Headquarters in New York to bring
Barrill and Printz to Tacoma for the
purpose of making affidavits as to the
actual facts of the trip to Mount Nc
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
Woman Ends Her Life

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14.-With
bullet wound through the heart and
the revolver from which the missile
was fired lying beside her, the body Of
a we'll dressed, unidentified woman was
found today in Laurel Hill cemetery in
this city. She was about 40 years
of age.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-15
Situatlon of Camp

"The photograph opposite page 92 in
DR.. Cooks book was taken on the even
ing of the same day that he took me
with the flag at what he claims as the
top of Mount Mckinley, and was taken
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-08-20
COM ESSES TO
COUSINS MURDER
Maryland Mau BrutaIly Slain In
Quarrel Over Whisky.
BODY FOUND IN LONELY CABIN

Murderer Was "swested" BY Baltl.
more Detectives, to Whom He Ad.
mitted the crlme-Dead Man Had
Been Missing For Nearly a Month.
Baltimore. Aug. 18.-Oliver Herman
Harris who some days ago acknowl-
edged having murderously assaulted
his aunt. Mrs Clara Harris. confessed
that on July p he had murdered his
decomposed body was found on Sat
urday afternoon in a closet IN the
little cabin in which he lived alone.
near Rockville Montgomery county.
The confession, which followed two
hours sweating" by Baltimore detec.
tives, Harris having been borught here
largely for that purpose. 1t is said,
was taken down by a stenographer,
and a typewriter copy of it was sign.
ed by Harris. who broke down when
told that his finger prints, taken in
the police Bertillon bureau here. were
like those made in blood on the door.
way of the closet in which Poole's
body was found In II he says that
he went to Poole's cabin about a.
m, July %. 10 buy some whisky and
that a quarrel arose over the ques.
ton whether he or Poole should put
water in the liquor. The confession
continues
He came toward me and | knocked
him down When he got up he grabbed
for the rife then grabbed the rife
and shot him and hit him with a ham
mer. did not want him 10 make any
noise and draw a crowd. | shot him
twice more while he was on the mat
tress. then dragged him to the closet
and shut he door"
Harris further said that he took two
quarts of whisky and $50 in money
which Poole had, together with his
KEYS and went away. Subsequently. he
went to a fair at Rockville and 10
Washington. where the money taken
from Poole was spent.
Poole not having been seen for
about three weeks. his father became
uneasy. and on Saturday began the
search which ended in the finding OF
the body of his son in his home the
door of which had TO be forced to Sc
cure entrance.
While the stolen money lasted Har'
RS seemed 10 have given no thought
10 the possible consequences Of the
crime. Finally realizing something of
his position. however, and needing
money with which to get away from
the neighborhood. his thoughts turned
TO his aunt. Mrs Clara Harris. He
knew that she usually kept some
money at her home. but took it with
her whenever she left there. Sending
her word that a relative was i'll and
needed her. Harris waylaid her in the
Geld and almost killed her. Robbery
alone was the motive of this crime,
Harris says Mrs. Harris was shot
and beaten very much as was Poole.
This. and the fact that Harris APP
peared to have been the last person
10 see Poole alive. threw upon him
the suspicion which brought out his
confession.