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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-19
HARD STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
Two Men While Trying to Ford Stream Mar
roWly Escane Drowning.
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Especial TO The Times Dispatch.l
Winchester, Va. April ls--Water Henry
and I.iiburn Carton narrowly escaped
drowning to-day IN Cedar Creek while at
tempting to ford the stream, which had be-
como a raging torrent as the result OF the
heavy rainfall during Sunday and this
morning. The men and two-horse wagon,
together with lightning rods supplies were
carried down the stream by swift current.
but they managed to reach shore in an ex-
hausted condition after desperate strus
gle. All their supplies were lost.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-19
CONGRESS GETS
GREAT Pc Triton
CONTINUED from First Page,@

~ (ContinUeU tom FITsV IHSe,J
right In q country Of equal opportuni-
ties
The sutfragsts in the gallery demon-
strated so loudly and long that Senator
Kean, who was in the chair, banged
the gavel and reminded them that ap-
plause was not permitted In the senate
Two or three OF the offenders laughed
out loud. That seemed TO irritate the
chair. and he declared that il the dem
onstration was repeated he would or
der the galleries cleared. That stopped
the demonstrations.
Senator Perkins obtained an order
for the printing Of the body pa the
petition in the Congressional Record,
Hearings before the Senate Commits
tee son Woman s, fra ge and he n ouse
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-19
YOUNG WOMAN ARRESTED.
Tried by Mayor and Found Guilty Of
Theft OF Money.

Especial to The Times Dlspatch.l
Danville, Va. April lS.-Belle Hor-
ner. young woman about twenty ono
years OF age, who came here about a
month ago from Chapel Hill, N. c., to-
work in the cigarette factory. was
arrested early this morning by Police
officer East, while she was preparing
to leave the city. at the Southern Rail-
way station, on the charge of the theft
of several dollars from Mrs. w. \.
Poindexter, of overly Street. with
whom she had been boarding. She
was tried to-day In the Mayors Court,
and was fined s. and costs, for the
state, and So and costs for the city.
Mayor Wooding RENTED the city fine.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-19
suN.r. strolse of Apoplcxy.

Especial to The es-Dispatch.l
LSnchburg, Va. April Isl. L. Witt
prominent farmer from Schuyler was
stricken to-day with stroke of apo
pleNy in local bank. He WAS revived
sufficiently to go home later,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-19
~
Destreyel hy Fire.

itSpoclal'to The Tlmes-D ispatqh.i
s. observation-disclosures Ma. Arm Is 1.-THE barn
and stable. helonHiug 70 ~, ~ Lawson, IN
Middcsex county Was destroyed By tifa a
few nights ago, togethsr vita fort SEiiNe
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-19
INHALER ARRIVES
80 DAYS OVERDUE:
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Especial to The Times Dispatoh.l
Hampton, Va, April 1S.--Ninety-thre
days overdue, with ten members Of
her crew refusing to obey orders, as
well as being dissatisfied with the
food, the two-masted whaling scEoon-
en- Margaret, Captain Clifford, from
Boston, is in Hampton Roads, While
the skipper is trying to settle the diff
Hculty with his crew.
Captain Clifford to-day appealed to
United States Commissioner Garrett
for warrants, charging the ten men
With "dispbedience OF orders but, aft
ter a consultation 1T was decided to
defer legal action until Tomorrow,
The Margaret has been on whaling
expedition, but owing to the terrible
weather encountered, the vessel had no
success, and the schooner is now Ell
route back to Boston.
The men claim that they should
be paid for the ninetS-three extra days
now, while Captain Clifford says the
money must be paid them by an in
surance concern, which has each mem.
Der OF his crew insured against lust
such trouble as the Margaret en-
counteretl,
ORDERS Against isun,hontins.
Admiral seaton Schroeder, commands
ing the Atlantic fleet, to-day issued
an order prohibiting Illuminating on
the fighters in the future. Hundreds
Of mon have followed the ships for
years, and sold 70 the "tars many
things, .rom pies TO clothing 1t Is
reported that the navy officials have
been investigating q rumor that graft
existed between some OF the petty
officers of the fleet and the aoaters,
and for this reason the pfohihltory or
ID ers. was issued ny the nd rairai. II The
ers say TIL WI I,pesn Ii,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-19
Laundry Robbed,

Hop Lees Chinese laundry, on Thirty
first Street. near Washington Avenue,
was robbed last night. the thief maxi
ing off with s4o The police depart
ment bloodhound followed the rob-
bers trail to tho river at the foot OF
Twenty-fifth Street. 1t is supposed
that the man escaped in boat.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

Boston, in the first partyless election held
under the new charter. elected former May
or John F. Fitzgerald Mayor for a four
year term, giving him Il small plurality
over his nearest opponent, James j. Stor-
row, banker former president of the Cham
bcr of Commerce and former chairman OF
the School Board. The Hub went wet, and
the vote for the City Council of nine MEM
bers resulted in seven candidates backed
by the Citizens Municipal League, which
indorsed Storrow being elected. 10 two
Fitzgerald men"
Not so bad after all 1t might have
BEEN" said Busy Man. Under the new
charter I believe councillors not only coun-
sell but act, and the voters can recall the
Mayor at the end of two years. If they
think he has been unfaithful TO his trust
and demand a new election. I am not at
all surprised that Boston went wet for one
OF it's most thriving industries is supplying
dry communities with thirst shakers In
original packages. ANY persons OF impor-
tauce die?"
Hamilton McKown Twombly for many
years one of the leading railway men IN
the country, died Of a complication Of dis
eases in his home, Fiorham, near Convent
N j. Mr. Twombly had been i'll since last
June His widow is a sister of W X van
derbilt His first breakdown was due 10
grief over the death of his only son, who
was drowned in Squam Lake, n. II, in the
summer of 1906. He never recovered from
the shock Professor James Barr Ames'
dean of the Harvard Law School. and for
merly chairman OF the athletic COMMITTEES
of the university died in Wilton, n. IL
Death WAS due TO a general collapse ioi-
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
This Is Intended Especially for the Busy Man

River and upper Mississippi River i'm
provement. The President refers to the
Ballinger- -PinchOt inquiry, but says that
the measures he recommends need not
await the result of that investigation
THE scandal surrounding the theft last
summer of letter from Attorney General
Wickersham to United States District At
torney Wise from the latter's Office in the
Federal Building, relating to the prosecu-
ton of the American Sugar Refining Gem
pany and its directors. resulted i'll the
arrest of Thomas P Riley, a special in
vestigator employed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission. who until recently
had sn Office in the Federal Building.
The WickeIsham letter appeared in an
article in the Cosmopolitan Magazine
called Tragedies of the Sugar Trust"
written by Charles P. Norc-ess Of the
Hearst newspaper staff.
One 10 five years IT, state prison was
the sentence given to Robert D. Muir.
formerly treasurer of the Peoples Bank
and Trust Company of New Haven. when
ne pleaded guilty of having converted to
his own use s1O6, 600 worth of the banks
securities
John r. Coye. Edward A. Boyle.
Thomas kehoe and Patrick j. Hennessey,
checkers formerly employed by the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company. were SEN
fenced to serve one year in the New York
penitentary for conspiracy TO defraud the
government by underweighing sugar on
the Havemeyer & Elder refinery docks
The Federal Grand Jury indicted Charles
r. Heize. secretary OF the American Sugar
Refining Company; Ernest w. G Ger
bracht, former superintendent of the
Havemeyer q Elder refinery in Williams
burg and James r, Bendernagel. former
cashier of the same refinery indictments
were also found against three former
checkers of the company. The charges
are the making of false entries of sugar
importations and conspiracy to defraud the
government our of customs duties Where
upon the directors of the company issued
a statement saying that they had given
all the aid in their power 10 the govern
ment in its investigation of the under
weighing and they did not believe any
officer or director of the company had any
knowledge OF the frauds
What the directors do not believe is OF
little Importance" said Busy Man, but il
would be interesting 10 hear them tell
what they do believe caused those corset
steels to be inserted in the holes Of the
seventeen sugar weighing machines. and
what they do believe was the real reason
why the frauds were cCmmitteI'
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

press Catherine l. from whom the pres
ent Car is descended, was born Of
peasant parents, had been a chamber
maid at a village inn, and had lived
under the protection of several officers,
including Colonel Cheremetieff and Gen
eral Menchikoff. before she aroused the
admiration and won the heart, the hand
and the crown of the Emperor When
he died she reigned in his stead for sew
eral year
l have sometimes seen it stated that
King Victor Emmanuel has Breton
blood in lis veins and counts among his
forebears mere Breton country gentle
man Of the name of Magon, who resided
near Rennes at the close of the eigh-
teenth century, and who was cousin of
the poet Chateaubriand. This however,
is not quite correct. True. a prince of his
house-namely, Eugene of Savoy-mar-
ried on the eve OF the great Revolution
Mile. Elizabeth Magon, at Rennes. BY
this union he had two DAUGHTERS, one Of
whom is the mother of the present
Prince Massimo, the other marrying
Prince Leopold of Bourbon, while the
son, who bore the title of Prince Eugene
of Savoy-Carignan, was at the time of
his death, in 1888 the ranking admiral
of the Italian navy, and left a consider
able number of children by his morgan
attic union with an actress known as
Felicite Crosis. They bear the name of
Counts and Countesses de Villafranca-
Scissor. The dynasty of Savoy, accord
ing TO researches instituted at the in
stance Of Queen Marguerite, is now
shown to have been founded by a soldier
of fortune named GARNER, who achieved
military distinction under King Raoul Of
Burgundy, from whom he obtained the
viscounty of Sens.
Both King Edward and the Kaiser, as
well as the Grand Duke of Hesse. the
sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha, the Czarina Of Russia, the Queens
of Spain and of Norway and the crown
princesses of Greece. of Sweden and of
Rumania have a very humble French
ancestor of the rather plebeian name of
Poussard, who f1ourished in the early
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

sia. who was a princess OF the House or
Baden. another strain OF non-royal blood.
since Grand Duchess Michael was herself
a granddaughter of Louise Geyer, the
consort of Charles Frederick, sovereign
Grand Duke of Baden. Mile. Geyer. IN
spite of the fact that her mother had
been a member OF the purely bourgeois
family of Hedwiger, noted in connection
with the rope making industry of the
town Of Iiegnitz. was raised by the de-
cree of the crown of Baden and by act
of the national legislature to the rank Of
a princess of the blood. in order TO enable
her children to succeed to the throne. for
which there would otherwise have been
no heir
While this by no means exhausts the
list of non-royaT ancestors of the now
reigning houses OF Europe, yet il serves
TO show how pronounced is the strain
of the blood of the people among the
present and future occupants Of thrones.
AS have mentioned above. il is far more
strongly developed than among many Of
as we'll as untitled. This mingIing has
this advantage, that II adds vigor TO the
royal line and brings il into closer touch
and sympathy with the citizens. But at
the same time. IL cannot be denied that
ii reduces to a mere figure of speech the
phrase princes and princesses OF the
blood" EX-ATTACHE.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
ON THE B0ARDW ALK
Guests at atlantic City Increas-
ing IN Number.

Atlantic City. Jan. 15-The weekend
crowds at Atlantic City now are surprising
in their size. The sunny weather brings
down great many automobile parties. and
the trains from New York and Philadelphia
add 70 the throng.
Many Of the smaller hotels, which have
been closed for the winter. are opening Or
are preparing to do so shortly the ap-
proach OF Easter. with the spring horse
show the pier, will bring the usual
Easter throng early in the season.
That Atlantic City is carefully watching
over the welfare OF her many guests is
shown in the fact. that half a million dol
lars is to be spent this year on her munich
pal water system.
The fine orchestral music given ct the
Traymore, the Marlborough -Bleaheir1. the
ST Charles and several of the other big
hotels is finding appreciative audiences in
the afternoons among the many guests at
those houses.
At Young's Boardwalk Hotel A L. Saun-
ders. formerly OF New York but now a
ranch owner of Mexico. is making an in
definite stay. Among the guests at the
Hotel Dunlop are Mr.. and Mrs. j. H Say
lor. Mr.. Saylor is a New York contractor
The Westmont in Rhode Island avenue
Hotel Morton has been refurnished and re-
decorated for the Easter season, and it's
pleasant sun parlors, filed with blooming
plants and flowers. prove attractive sor IT'S
guests.
DR.. Robert T. Oliver. L s A. of West
Point, accompanied bg Mrs. Oliver and
their son. have been staying al the Holm
hurst. Mrs. MalIet-Prevost Miss Sadie
Mallet-PrevoSt. Mrs G. A Strong and Miss
Isabelle Baird are at Haddor Hall Will
lam A. Edwards is staying at the Seaside
House; he is accompanied by his friend
st. Glare. one of the pleasantest hostleries
in Pennsylvania avenue. is enjoying con-
tinued prosperity.
Among the New Yorlers at other Allan
tic City hotels are:
ChaIfonte-C. X Burris, Mr. and Mrs
S. L. Grass. ". H Mothersen Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Gould Ornond V Gould. Mrs
T T. Gushing.
Schlitz-C. s. Reberkenny. Mrs. ]. Ware
E. G. Ware George Sykes and E Bryns
Pennhurst-Mrs. II Ardriancs Francis
Ardriance. ]. Hall, Philip Abbott Carol
~Tryon and E. E. Holtboons
MonticeIIo-R. Rodel. Theodore r Gam
bic. Robert Lowe. Harry PermeH Mr.
and Mrs. ]. Quigley and James Hoonberger.
Coutinental-C. D. Stewart John Beas-
y. R. j. SoocIis and " Skinner.
Dennis-Mlss f. G. Reynolds, c. L.
Cammann. jr-. S. E. Hayes r Lenane
Thomas B. Reynolds and Mrs St. Claire
Smith
Runnymeade-Mrs T. T. Lines. Mr. and
Mrs. II A Ross. Z. V Collins and Mrs
Lines
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

lowing a nervous breakdown General
Newton Martin Curtis, known as The Hero
OF Fort Fisher fell dead of apopexy in
this city. He seventy-five years old
Former Supreme Court Justice Charles H
Truax died in the Hotel Savoy of an attack
of grip
What else happened that I ought to re-
member" asked Busy Man
AT the Los Angeles aviation meet Glenn
II. Curtiss established a worlds record for
speed with passenger of fifty-five miles an
hour He broke the worlds record for
time consumed in getting into the air by
ascending in 6 % seconds. He also broke
the worlds record for short distance COW
cred in run before leaving ground rising
at ninety-eight feet. Louis Paulhan. the
French aviator, broke all official and un-
official records for altitude by flying TO
height OF 4.145 feet and descending safely.
He remained 80 minutes 46 1-5 seconds in
the air
William Watson. British poet, sailed for
home on the Adriatic with his wife 10 face
the music that he struck up on his own
Tyre when he wrote The Woman with the
Serpent's Tongue
In the British general election Joseph
Chamberlain was the first member 10 be
returned to the new Parliament, and this
was hailed by the protectionists as d good
omen.
The Board of Education decided to
establish as an experiment ar open air
school for anemic children as a prevent
i've OF tuberculosis in School p. No EOS
East 42d street. The plan contemplates the
fitting up of quarters on the third floor of
the school, these quarters to have eastern
and southern exposures the provision of
foot warmers, additional cloaks and wraps,
Venetian blinds for the windows, movable
and adjustable desks and reclining chairs.
"A gift TO Yale of 100000 from ]. Pier
pont Morgan was announced. II is de-
signed TO establish in memory of the late
William NJ. Laffan, proprietor of The
New York Sum- a professorship in Assy-
rioIogy and Babylonian literature.
President Taft appointed Henry s.
Graves, director of the Yale Forestry
School, Chief Forester OF the United States.
to succeed Clifford Pinchot. Mr. Graves
was assistant chief of the Bureau OF
Forestry under Mr. Pinchot from 1898 to
1900. Mr.. Pinchot issued a statement show
ing that he would continue his fight
against Secretary Ballinger In his state
ment he said The conservation of nat
uraI resources and the conservation of
popular government are both at stake.
The one needs conservation no less than
the other. The great moral issue now
facing the country is not the loss of nat
ural resources so much as whether special
interests or the people shall rule
President Taft sent 10 Congress his
promised message on conservation OF the
natural resources of the nation. He ear
nestly recommends that the bills prepared
by Secretary Ballinger in respect TO land
Withdrawals and the future conservation
OF the public domain be enacted: also a
law permitting the issue OF 3o,0oo.o0o in
bonds TO aid reclamation projects, and the
immediate carrying forward OF tho Ohio
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16

part of the seventeenth century. His
fair daughter. Jacqueline Poussard, won
the heart and the hand of a country
gentleman of Poitou. named Alexander
d'Olbreuse and a daughter of this union
aroused the admiration of and ended by
deeply infatuating Duke George William
of Brunswick. After innumerable ad-
ventures and intrigues they were mar
ried. But the alliance would seem to
have been a mOrganatic one for Eleanor
d'Olbreuse never bore the title of duchess,
but was known as the Baroness Har-
burg. Until the time that he had met
her the duke had been the most dissi-
pated and prof1igate man in Europe, but
she entirely reformed him. They lived
most happily together, and died within a
few months of eacE other. at the age of
eighty-four leaving an only daughter by
the name of Sophia Dorothea.
This child was legitimatized as a full
fedged princess of the blood by the leg
islature of the Duchy of Brunswick, and
growing up to be a wonderfully beautiful
girl, besides being known as a great
heiress, her hand was much sought after.
She married. first Of all, Prince Augustus
Louis of Wolfenbuttel and subsequently
Louis, Elector Of Hanover. who after
ward became King of England under
the title of George I. Although this sec
ond marriage was d most unhappy one.
yet she lived with King George long
enough to present him with two children
"a daughter, who became the mother of
Frederick the Great and from whom
Emperor William is descended, and
son, who ascended the thrones of Great
Britain and Hanover as George II.
The d'Olbreuse family still f1ourishes in
France, and only the other day there
died in Paris Henri Desmier d'Olbreuse,
a lineal descendant in the male line
direct of the eldest brother of Eleanor
d'OIbreuse, mother of Queen Sophia
Dorothea of England and Hanover.
Henri dOlbreuse was a we'll known fig
ure in Partisan clubland and in the Fau-
bourg St Germain. where, by relation
ship with Edward VII, he used to go by
the nickname of LIE petit cousin du
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
AMERICANS TAKE TO SKIING.

Chateau dock. Jan. s-Americans tfirons-
ing the Swiss winter resorts have become
enthusiasts in skiing and ski jumping.
which. indeed. seem at present 10 be the
main topics of conversation Skiing fur
nishes a new sensation of swift Gid
ing over the crispy snow and birdlike flight
through the frosty air At Chateau dOex
the season opened with a rOllcking ski
race for children. and continues throughout
the present month and February, with
other races for experts. beginners and
strangers. AT Gstaad ski lessons have been
arranged for mid-January, and there will
be fancy skiing and jumping contests
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
Constant Reader Tells Him What He Missed in Last
Weeks Papers.

Reader, --as if Tammany's toes might turn
UP unless Mayor Gaynor shows some pity
Since last we met he has made the follow
ing appointments none Of them Tarnmauy
mem: Tax Commissioners. Lawson Purdy
OpresidenO John J. Halleran, Charles j.
Mccormack, Daniel s. McElroy. Judson J.
Wall, Charles T. White and Edward kauf-
man; Commissioner Of Parks for Manhat-
tan and Richmond and president pf the
Park Board. Charles B. Slower Commits
sioner of the Health Department and pres
ident Of the Health Board. DR.. Ernest ].
Lederle: Commissioner Of the Tenement
House Department. John j. Murphy: Com
missioner of Licenses. Herman Poonson
labor leader, and member of the Board OF
Examiners. William A. Boring.
Mr. Gaynor's new Fire Commissioner,
Rhinelander Waldo, began his cleaning up
Of that department by fining eleven fire
men from five to ten days pay each for
being absent from their posts without leave,
and he also abolished the transportation
equipment hitherto maintained in the de-
partment stable at Amsterdam avenue and
9eth street for the exclusive use OF the
Commissioner When Waldo took Office he
old not know that there were at his dis
posal enough horses carriages and sets OF
IdTUeSS 10 SAOCA q LlOuCSL AlsSlE
not TO mention sleigh and a disabled elec-
tric automobile. It was revealed 10 him
that the taxpayers were maintaining five
horses. five sets of harness, one brougham.
one two-seated surrey, one top buggy, one
side bar wagon. one phaeton, one sleigh
and one electric automobile for the sole use
of the Fire Commissioner.
Colonel Michael c. Padden. the best
-asa 81 ma pHHDrG1ngr
to former Mayor Mcclellan, was removed
from office by Commissioner Henry s.
Thompson. OF the Department of Water
Supply. Gas and Electricity, after the lat
ter mad sent 10 Mayor Gaynor a letter ac
cusing Padden OF incompetency, bad Ian
guage. insubordination and many other
things. Padden is Sullivanite.
AS II this were not enough. PARK Com
missioner Thomas ]. Higgins in The Bronx
Topped of more than one hundred and sew
enty heads, starting with the superintend-
ent. John II. Morrison, whose salary is
$4,000 a year. The other adierents Of
Haffen, Berry and Mcclure, though NOM
inally discharged. are sent back TO the
waiting list of Civil Service employees. with
only remote prospect OF their getting
back their jobs. The total saving 10 the
city will exceed $4,000 month"
THAT will not only be a great relief to
the taxpayers" said Busy Man. but to the
really good men in the department who
have been obliged to do the work OF these
useless heelers as well as their own. What
else have the politicians been doing?'
"Thc contest at Albany for the chair
rnanship OF the Senate Finance COMMITTEES
WAS settled by the appointment Of Senator
Henry Wayiand Hill. Of Erie. TO the place
by Lieutenant Governor Horacs White.