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New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
CLASH OYER SE4RLES TAX
Bay State officials Uould Increase
TaIuatiOn !S1O.OOO 900.
. IRr Telegraph to The TrIbuns.I J

tween Massachusetts state authorities and the
officials of this town because the personal tax
valuation of Edward F. Searles is not increased
nv S1OOO0OOO. It is contended that Mr.. Seares
pavs no taxes whatever on that amount
Since the state ferrets were put on the
trail untaxed personal property 20 the amount
Of ST. 100000 has been discovered in the state.
Mr.. Searles Is taxed here at present on only
$4,000 OF personal property. but it is alleged
that one painting alone in his home should he
assessed for more than this He has been such
a benefactor to the town. however that none
of the residents inclined to raise his assess
ment and now under the law the town Offisals
can he arrested and fined 81 .O0o each for not as
sessing him higher.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
GIRL ALARMS BLOCK
HER LANTERN PUZZLES
SQUAD or SLEUTHS.
Child Hunting for PIaythings on
Roof Causes Much Ercifemeut in
Fifth 1Jenuf at 5Sth Street.

A little girl looking for the plavthinRs she had
left on the roof of her home. and flashing an
electric lantern 70 aid her in her search. aroused
an immense amount Of activity in police circles
last night Several persons telephoned to Police
Headquarters that burglars were operating on
the roofs. and for time the block bounded by
Fifth and Sixth avenues and 5Sth and 59th
streets in a state Of siege
Rudolph Erbsloh. who lives at No. ~ West
18th street. has little daughter. Olga for whom
he has built playhouse the roof OF his home.
Yesterday the little girl had playmate visit
her. and they together in the roof play
house until il was dark After she had gone
downstairs Olga remembered that she had left
something in the playhouse. and went to the
roof to get it AS II was dark at This time she
carried electric Hashltght with her
AS soon as she reached the roof olga began to
fash the light in various directions one of the
flashes seen by F. NJ. Vermlye. a railroad
supply man who lives at No - West 59th
street. He called his wife his side. and she.
too. observed the flashes recurring at intervals
Mr.. Erbsloh's roof. Then Mr.. VermiIye called
up Police Headquarters and informed them that
burglars were AT work on the roofs In the neigh
borhood
Word was sent 70 the East 5lst street police
station and the 52d street branch of the De
tective Bureau. Soon a squad Of policemen and
thieves
Mr Vermilyes house IS on the south side nf
59th street. and Mr.. ErbsIoh's house is on the
south side Of JSth street Conseq Iently. there
naturally a little confusion on the part Of
the detectives in looking for thu suspicious
fashlight. MI VcrmiIye could say posi-
lively on whose roof he had seen the light. and
the detectives supposed that II must have been
on the roof of one OF the houses IN the north
side of :}Sth street
Detective Tom" Heany was diligently going
through all the houses the north side Of 18th
street when he had an experience on opening
door I'm the basement Of TN" mouse at No. -
West 18th street the detective vas suddenly
confronted by a woman. who denounced him as
a burglar and threatened to have him ar
rested.
Don't he frightened. madam said the dc
tective Il am Il police officer. and am engaged
in looking for a thief who is supposed to be
Somewhere in this block"
The woman did not believe Heany's story. al
though he displayed his shield. and she tele-
phoned 10 Police Headquarters that there was
a burglar in her house.
The second alarm from the same street rather
puzzled the officials at Police headquarters, and
several Central Office men were sent post haste
10 the scene. They got there just in time to
save Heauy from a trying situation
When Mr.. Erbsoh. whose plac" had not been
disturbed by the police, it being on the other
side of the street learned that the polio" were
looking for a burglar who carried hashiight.
he remembered that his daughter had been on
the roof with that sort Of a lantern earlier in
the evening, and his explanation put an end 10
the burglar scare.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
PRAISE L. s. GENEROSITY.
English Papers Urge Emulation Of
Example IN Relief Citing.

London. Jan, 4.-The civilized world fastening
70 the aid. officially and unofficially. of afflicted
Italy. and ''the splendid generosity Of the Amer
iran people and government are the subject Of
eulogistc comment in the English papers, which
urge the British government to follow this ex-
ample. although hitherto such matters have al
most invariably been left to private enterprise
in England. Some fears are expressed that a
favorable response by the government to this
appeal might have the effect of drying up the
fount OF private benevOence.
No action in this matter can he taken until
Parliament reassembIes. but it is expected that
Premier Asquith will then urge Parliament
airy grant. Referring 10 President Roosevelt's
proposal THE Daily Mail" says:
Such prompt and generous action sets ex-
ample for the world. and England cannot pos
Of philanthropy.
From many capitals. including Athens. Bel
grade Bucharest and Canea come dispatches
recording votes for gifts from parliaments. mu-
nicipal and other public bodies The city Of
Vienna is organizing large relief expedition
The Mansion House Fund grows at the rate of
nearly $4,000 daily Among the latest contribu-
tions is one Of $500 from woman relative OF
the British chaplain at Messina The first in
gtalment Of the Stock Exchange collection
amounts TO S12jOO
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
ERUPTION FOLLOWS
SHOCK ON STROMBOLI
ISLANDERS IN PANIC rs
HOUSES CRASH.
american Red Cross Has Sent $780,
OOO-4mbassador Gr1scon
Charters Relief Ship.

A severe earthquake shock occurred yesterday
on Stromboli Island one Of the Liparf group,
badly damaging buildings and causing a panic
among the pOpuace Immediately after the
shock the StrOmbOli volcano began eruption.
The American Red Cross last night cabIef
$4,000 to the ItaIi~n Red Cross, making
$4,000 forwarded by that body 70 date.
Ambassador GriscOm. at Rome. chartered
steamer of eight thousand tons burden for two
weeks II is being loaded with provisions and
medical supplies to be sent to the afflicted dis
tricts The ambassador named q special COM
mittee of Americans TO help in carrying out the
relief plans.
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena left
Messina for Rome. having seen the worst dam
aged points and arranged for the work of rescue
Queen Helena has 50 gained the love Of the
fOrtunates among whom she has been working
at Messina that she is almost literally wOr-
shipped and is called "Our Lady of Mercy"
Archbishop Ireland announced in Rome that
the Pope had opened a hospital i'm the Vatican
that he might himself visit and console sick or
injured survivors Of the disaster
The efficacy of the work In MeSsina has been
greatly enhanced by the arrival of troops. who
patrol the ruined city and search the debris for
bodies or possible survivors day and night
II fs now evident that most of the casualties
in Me<sina were due 70 the suddenness Of the
first shock which allowed little time for escape
from the houses The tidal wave was not ss
high aS at first reported
Relief funds continued to pour in all over the
United states yesterday The largest contribu-
tions received in this city were about S35.OO0.
collected in the Catholic churches. and $1,000
from Andrew Carnegie
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
QUENCHES ALTAR BLAZE WITH HANDS.
Priest in St Malachy's Church, Brooklyn,
Checks Panic at Mass

while Father Daniel Cherry. of -. MaiaChy $
Roman Catholic Church at Atlantic and Van Sick
len avenues. Brooklyn, appealing for contribu-
lions for Italian earthquake sufferers yesterday
morning a lighted candle the altar fell among
artificial flowers the altar and caused Wild ex-
cfta,nent In the church for time. Father Cherry
heat ont the flames with his bare hands and re
stored quiet among the congregation when gen
eraI rush for the door seemed imminent
Father Cherry interrupted in his address
when several worshippers rushed toward the altar
He trIrned and saw the flames leaping up the altar
cloths He ordered his parishioners back their
coats and John Moran, the sexton. carried the
blazing pots into the yard. The mass was then
continued St Malachys Church is one of the old
est in Brooklyn
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
LoNGBoAT WHIPS DoRANDo AGAIN
Bulldog Shows What in Name When He
Meets Cat in a Marathon

Tom Loneboat. a brndle bulldog. owned by Ed
win Edgar of No. Il West 92d street. got away
from home Yesterday afternoon and started
training sprint after that wound up in
tTe Western Union telegraph office. at No. 695
Columbus avenue. The messenger boys In the
,,Iaces and their superintendent in erfered with
the contest. and IIongboat vas chased into
closet There he was tied up and iauled to the
19stb street police station. Here q cat. recently
presented to Captain Carson and. according 10 the
noIice named Dora udo. came out Of the rear room
AT once a real Marathon race began. After
,ueptv-tyo miles had been covered. according
The lieutenant's estimate. Dorando quit The race
VAS called off then though it took nghtsticks n
do it As Long boat was being placed in cell
his owner appeared and asked the lieutenant IL
no could bail him out. The lieutenant said the
,,risoner would nave 70 appear the authori-
ties of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
- Animals to answer a charge of speeding.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
UNITED STATES LEADS.
ambassador GriscOm Charters Relief
ShD-King Returns to Rome.

Rome Jan. 3-Having done all that II Was
possibIe to do in the districts laid waste by the
eartbouake the King and Queen OF Italy re-
turned to Rome to-day. They have spent the
last four davs among the ruins OF Sicily and
t,aIabria. the King directing the work Of rescue
and relief and the Queen ministering to the IN
i,,rad There is a feeling Of relief in Italy that
their ma aiesties have come home
The limited States is far ahead of other na-
,io1s i'm the relief work. To-day Ambassador
,.isco,, succeeded in finding an Austrian Lloyd
steamer of eight thousand tons capable Of car
rving twelve hundred passengers he mas ehaf-
tered the steamer for two weeks. and it is being
loaded with medical supplies and provisions
This will cost $4,000. and the Ambassadors
sneciaI committee is now perfecting the organi-
zation. 1t is expected that the steamer VIII
sail from Civita Vecchia which is about fifty
miles from Rome on Thursday II viii be
pIaced under the orders OF the Italian govern
meut-
In addition supplies. the American relief
vessel will carry SIX physicians and twenty male
and female nurses. three of the latter being
Young American women from New York. who
volunteered their services
American energy has been strongly manifested
in the work Of looking the relief Of the earth
ouake sufferers Ambassador GriscOm and the
members of the committee have assumed per-
nedition. relying upon the American public for
funds. Prior TO engaging TIE steamer the AM
bassador visited Foreign Minister >Tittoni and
asked him II it would be a real service to send
to the south vessel properly equipped Siznor
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
ELIOT FUND INCREASES.
Thousands Of Dollars 1lready Sub
scr1bed by Har1ord -fIumni.
GBr rcie.:-noa - Tho T-fsunc.l

Boston. Jan. 3,&Thousands OF dollars have al
ready been subscribed by Harvard graduates
and admirers of President Eliot. OF Harvard. to
fund 70 be used as life endowment for the
great educator and his wife. The fund. the In
como Of which when il ia complete will be paid
10 President Eliot and Mrs Eliot during their
lives started in November as p recognition
of the forty years service rendered by Dr. Eliot
to the cause Of education. No publicity has
been given 10 the contributions. but practically
every Harvard association the world over has
been appealed TO by the sponsors of the fund
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
CONCRETE BOAT NOT NEH.
BdlfimOrean Has One Winch He
Built EIeren Years 1g0.
IBv telegram e The Trihrn.. !


Baltimore. Jan. 3-When Daniel B Banks en-
gineer in charge of the cltys nigh pressure
water service. was informed that English boat
builders were testing concrete in the construc-
tion Of sailing vessels he rnodestly announced
that he owned a concrete tHo-rnasted schooner
yacht g. feet long IS feet beam and drawing il
feet. which he built himself eleven years ago.
The yacht. named the Gretchen, is now down
near Cape Hatteras. but when in Baltimore is
one Of the Baltimore Yacht Club feet The
Gretchen is easy riding because Of her weight
She makes oriy moderate time IN light wind
bat Is fast in a gale and heavy sea. Six Years
ago she driven the rocks outside Cane
Charles and escaped without injury
4 built the boat" said M Banks to-day
eleven years ago. not as an experiment. but
because ] knew that concrete structure would
he Just as buoyant az steel structure, and if
steel boat would float and make headway there
good reason why a stone boat should
rot do the same thing"
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
WOMAN HID ALLEGED MURDERER.
1ostmaster Said to Have Shot Inspector Found
in Secret Attic Apartment.
IRy Telegraph to The Tribune }

Enn'on, Miss, Jan. 3.-After federal Secret
= .''Fioe agents had secured the country for more
"oh Three months in search of William A.
''s'y' former assistant postmaster here. who.
icy charge, shot and killed Postoffice Inspector
Niailes Fitz Gerald. Of New Orleans. on Sep
: .eHoer - following the discovery of an alleged
i'sge In Sorsby's accounts. the fugitive was
1P'"fed to-day He found hiding in a
:. 'et apartment in the attic at tho home OF
X H. Johnson. wealthy woman. within n
''''e s throw OF the spot where F'ftz Gerald was
sssassinated
mn Johnson. besides taking full responsibility
oohcealing Sorsby, makes no other state
I- II is said his hiding place was revealed
y woman whom he had piqued.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
POOR YEAR FOR BOSTON BANKS.
Twenty-four National Institutions Earn 1881
Per Cent. Against 1S.1 in 1907.
IRy Telegraph to The Tribune ]

aston Jan 3-The total earnings of the twenty
four national banks here for the year 1908 aggre-
gated sS190s05, an equivalent Of l2Sl per cent OF
The outstanding capital stock Of the same. s2i.-
90, een This showing compares with an income Of
g S5q l5i per cert, on the SSS"e OF capital
outstanding in 1891
The First National Bank heads the list. with
earnings II more % per cent on its stock; the
J-nion comes second. with 81 per cent. and the
Sba Wnlut takes third rank with 20 per cent kX-
,aatiop for the falling off in returns : readily
-. IN .ba fa,t trat the banks were. during the
,.a,A. mart Of the twelve months. overloaded with
s,-,.,,s funds for which it exceedingly difficult
=, GItd profitable employment:
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
CENTURY OLD CLOCK TELLS OF DEATH
Long Silent, Strikes Sixty-three Times When
Owners Brother Dies at That Age.
icy Telegraph to The Tribune,

Wilmington, Del. Jan. 3.-When century
old clock struck in the home Of Mr. and Mrs-
Frank Massey. at New Castle, Del. to-day Mrs
Massey became convinced that death had oc-
currel in her family The clock had long failed
to strike until to-day. when 1t struck sixty-three
times Mrs Massey, who counted the strokes.
exclaimed: something has happened To my
brother Lewis. That is his age
4 telegram received later in the day told or
the sudden death of her brother, Lewis Burke
in Allentown Penn. 1t was learned that Mr.
Burke died within two minutes of the time
the ancient tlmepiece made its strange run.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
BIG TERRORIST PLOT.
Said To Be Indicated by st. Peters,
burg Bomb Outrage.

London. Jan 4-''The Daily Mails" CORE
spondent at st. Petersburg says that twenty
arrests have been made. including several per
sons at the Emperor's palace at Tsarskoe-Selo-
for alleged connection with the bomb explosion
in the Cafe Central in the Nevsky Prospect. at
St. Petersburg. on Saturday night. The bomb
was left on a table by man in the uniform
of a student and waiter was killed and the
cafe badly damaged by the explosion
THE Daily Mails" correspondent says that
the bomb outrage and the arrests were the out
come Of vast terrorist plot against the i'm
perial family.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
RIOT OYER SACRIFICES.
Troops kW SereroI and .SeriousIy
Hound lSirty Near Calcutta.

Calcutta. Jan 2-The prohibition by the po-
lice in Difference to Hindu feelings, Of Mahom-
etan sacrifices of COWS led to-day to serious
riots At Titteghur. Just outside Calcutta
Troops were summoned from BarraCkpur 10
quell the trouble and We're compelled 70 fire
upon the rioters several Of whom were killed
and sixty seriously injured. Two hundred ar
rests we're made.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
GALL NATIONAL TARIFF CONVENTION.

,,~uahapolis. Jan. 3.'i'he official call fcr ma
a. l"iih convention 70 be held 'n Indiana polls
eordsfy IS. u and is was sent out to-da.. Al
,1eia ''feiai and Other organizations favorable to
,oh % the tariff arc requested 10 appoint dele
The Governor .,f fI.,. e..,-raI states arc Iss
- a" iiafn- delegates, 'Hc fto.n each tonglfss
e,' ana the Mayors Of cities are likewise ro-
sseslso Ia namc deies..-S.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
CAUGHT HYpRoRHosIA FROM HORSE.

Moulton. Ala. Jan. S-Miss Ruby Green daugh-
Ter of n we'll known farmer living near Newburg,
died Yesterday afternoon from hydrophoOia, con-
tracted in an unusual manner mad dog recently
bt = horse owned by her father The horse later
went mad and shot. Miss Green had slight
abrasion of her wrist and this became injected
while she vas around the horse.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
AuTo KNOCKS OUT HoRsECAR.

An altomobe owned and operated by chester
- ,r.rL . IA. nufactll-er at No. - Rroadway-
- ~, a., i,orsecir OF The Madison street line at
I,,are street and Broadway yesterday afternoon
- Id car was 50 badly shaken np by the col
- ,it. asSenEer> on board declined
., sta. in it, They said they we're afraid II would
~ 81. ;ianfs The driver II The car refused -
Itt - fp,r,,.1a:nt and there no arrests.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
OPERATION FOR CASTRO
Becomes Suddenly Horse. and Re
turns TO Hospital.

London Jan 4-"The Daily Mails" Berlin
corresDondent says that Senior Castro. former
President of Venezuela, has grown suddenly
worse and returned to Dr. Israels hospital.
where he will undergo an operation in a few
DAYS He is said to be suffering from a maiady
of the kidneVS.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
ERUPTION AFTER SHOCK.
Houses on StrOmbOH Badly Damaged
and People en- Panic.

Rome. Jan. 3.--A violent earth shock. running
n0rth-southwest and east-northeast, lasting
three seconds. after which the StrOmbOh vol
cano began eruption. occurred on Stromboif
Island to-day
The phenomenon was accompanied by pro-
Ionged dull rumblings. The houses on the island
were badly damaged and the populaee fed 70
the streets in panic. but no one was hurt The
weather is intensely cold Stromboli Island
The island Of StrombOh is the nOrtheastern-
most OF the Ldpari group. which lie about thirty
miles off the north coast OF Sicily 1t IS almost
circular in form. and it is the volcano StroTn-
boIi which rises about three thousand feet above
the sea and has been almost perpetually active
for the better part OF two thousand years. Ths
population of the island is about two thousand
The principal town Of the island, with a battery
stands on the eastern side and is divided into
two parts. San VincenzO and San BaTtoIomeo-
The houses are low, with fiat roofs. though sons
of them two stories high
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04
PASTOR WITH ADVANCED IDEAS QUITS

charles r Winbigier. pastor of the First Baptist
Church. of this city. rendered because of his ad-
vanced IDEAS of religion and therapeutics. was ac
cepted by the congregation to-day, after an ami
mated discussion.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-04

-ibe Seabuard Florida I.t6-, all Pulmans, electric
liyhted and two other high class trains Shortest
Route Quickest time. InQ. 1883 b Bway-Advt.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-18
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.

It was Japanese batting antAsatc andotng and whatnot to
pass laws for licensing that skilled citizens might be
protected competition of botchng OF Nippon Inc
same kinds of rpiude ascbd attempts stop illegal
fishing that wholesale destruction of nshore fisheries from
derived much of their subsistence When how
aboer undertakes assate the ways
labor world by going strke-yea even adopting
being do by outside professional agators e
him down and stamp him out first and consider the
his claims aeward Thus the japanese find that their
erwhe only for them matters wheH their own
not trod upon.
The friends of the Japanese bore this occasion will adj
working stay their jobs and those who have struck
cutting loose absolutely from Maxine and the
ncndary editors appoint committee of their numbers to confer
Planters Association the entire wages
question visiting the strikers with famine and expulsion
while of violence not brought home to them
will only aggravae the situation probably extending and
Cancellation is better than coercion At all events
those against any violation of equal rights for the Jap
when the claims that regard than doubtful ought
rucuent denying them the right of init
tang everywhere else foolhy and to
their ultimate disadvantage when they have reached the conc
sion that they being paid enough for their labor
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-18

used to be made rule by local business giving SUPP
to Hawaiian exhibit fair that things savorng uncy
lied groue Hawaii such grass hu caabashe hula
and dancing should be eliminated the assembling
the outfit Yet all the tabued would there without
leave of the contributors the undno exhibit
in concession the mdwayand the joke
anachonstc representation of life in the Hawaiian Islands
outrageous buresque of what purpoted be-
majority patrons of the fair took
Many casual visitor from Honolulu for the first
of them also for the last time in hula performance
Yet visitors OF the fair and elsewhere islands receive
the impression that of such the staple
and the outside There ought be false notions
created at the Seattle exposition
With the main form and fabric of the Hawaiian exhibit fairly
comprehensive representation of the industry commerce. churches
schools hotels transportation facilities holiday features
dences OF civilization and Amecanzaton including smon-pure
tokens Of parotsme exhibit will Hawaiian
entertainment OF the day comprising the
stranger here and touch the peculiar decorations
nous festive occasions There will also Mr. Bonne moving
pictures OF real life in country Hawaii All these acces
sores OF the Hawaiian exhibit free the be
potent enough attraction throw quite the any wdrv-
looking and Notwithstanding minstrel show crmnay bous
scenic daubs for outside and inside establishment ang from hence
which may be located the pay streak The Hawaiian building itself
ought to go far in conspicuous dignity manipulating il as
matter OF course that will have these quaes-n dsconne anv
sdeshow monstosy under false Hawaiian esutcheon More
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-18

They may clause OF his will when nobod
could break old Claus.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-18

The Matson steamer Hilonian, Cap
tain Peter Johnson, sailed for San
Francisco this morning at 10 o'clock,
taking a full list passengers and
all the freight that her hull could con-
tain. 1t is anticipated that in case
the strike at the Honolulu plantation
continues for any length of time, the
Hilonian may make a run over to
Kahului to pick up sugar on her next
trip.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-18
THE LDG-BOOE

The Pacific Mail steamer Siberia,
which is due here from the Orient next
Monday will have room for about
twenty passengers for San Francisco.
AS has been stated in The Star on
several occasions the booking for the
coming two or three months are very
much heavier than usual and at the
same time there is little room on the
steamers. The Siberia brings 1900
tons of freight for this city. The re-
suit of the crowded condition of the
Siberia will mean that the Alameda
will take out a full passenger list with
many applying who will be unable to
get away.