Semi-weekly herald., 1910-10-24

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NEW YORK, Oct 20.-Bids for the
construction of the proposed Tri-Ror
ough Rapid Transit rail fos. by pr.
vate capital were opened today By ef 9
public service commission. Next week
bids will be opened for the construc-
tion of the road with IN inicipal bonds
and later it will be determined which OF
the two methods will be adopted
The public service commission has
recently issued booklet containing
figures showing the magnitude of the
great underground system of railways
with which it is proposed to connect
the three boroughs of Brooklyn. Man
haitian and the Bronx The tri-bor-
ough system will have total length
OF nearly forty-five miles and will be
capable of carrying more than one
million passengers day.
| CHICAGO. Oct 20-The inner guard
Of the Old Westbury, l.. l.. society
colony, is talking today of the "func-
ton" at Mrs. Thomas Hastings coun.
try place last night, the headliner of
which was Salome dance by Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney, Who with her
husband, was the guest of honor. Mrs
Whitney, who was formerly Miss Ger
trude Vanderbilt, wore her famous ori-
entail costume, including baggy trous-
ers. She glistened with jewels worth
a kings ransom
| WASHINGTON, Oct. go--Bug doc.
tors of all sorts and from all sec,
tions were given a hea ing al the de-
partment of agriculture today, the de
partment desiring to obtain their
views in regard to proposed regua-
tions under which insectides and fun
gicides are to be sold. The pure food
and drug act of April 80, 1906. did not
been framed to prevent their adultera.
lion and misbranding.
A big rock slide of about forty
tons which came down on the track
about three-fourths of a mile from
town just opposite the old Standard
smelter held up the Red Apple train
this morning for two hours and ten
minutes, and delayed the departure OF
the eastern until about II O'Clock
The slide evidently occurred in the
night, the soil probably being loos-
ened by the recent rains, and washing
away, set the rocks in motion. The
larger rocks were blasted out by the
use of giant powder and the track
cleared by 1880. The eastern. which
uses the same track left the depot al
| IL o'clock
The wires were down between Du-
range and Alamosa, but this after
noon the incoming eastern is report
ed seven hours late. The reason is
| wash outs and soft track. caused by
the rains, which are said to he gen.
eral. A stub will be sent TO silver
ton tonight on time.
ALBANY, N. Y. Oct. 20.-Former
Senator David Bennett Hill died al
bis residence, Woolforth Roost, this
morning. For two weeks he had been
III with a cold and complications. Last
week the senator's conditions was Sc
r!ous. but he seemed to improve ard
yesterday was in good spirits. Mr..
Pilfs age and the tax upon his vitality,
however, brought about a sudden
change during the night. The only
persons in attendance al the time oil
his death was the senator's nurse.
David Bennett Hill was the last OF
the old-line politicians who made
Democratic history in New York state
when that party secured control of
the state government following the ia.
nous stalwart and half-breed fight in
The Republican party. He was for
years in absolute control of the Demo
cratic party organization in the state
and his bitter conflicts with the Gro
yer Cleveland organization finally cul-
minated in Cleveland abandoning New
York state as his home.
AS fighter Hill had no superiors
and as in the case of all men of hit
stripe, his enemies were implicate
haters. Hill, in the very height of his
sway in this state, was characterized
as peanut politician"
AS lawyer, Hill had few equals and
he received large fees in many OF
the cases he was called into, notably
the Molineaux and the franchise tav
appeals case.
Hill was born in Havana, N. T., on
August, 1913. He received an academ.
ic education there and then moved to
Elmira, where he studied law. He
was admitted to the bar in 1864, and
at once took an interest in politics
and that very same year he was made
city attorney of Elmira. lie was a
delegate to the Democratic national
convention in 1873 and from that time
until 1900 was conspicuous figure at
the big gatherings of his party In
1882 Hill was elected mayor of Ell.
mira, and given second place on the
state ticket headed by Grover Cleve-
land. AS governor and lieutenant gov.
ernor, Cleveland Hill frequently clash