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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24
DR.. COOK I'LL IN CHILE
WIFE WRITES FRIEND THAT
EXPLORER Is PENNILESS.
Saws It Was Her Fault Husband
Did Not Answer Accusations
Against Him.

BBLLINGHAM Wash. March 4.-Dr.
William H. AxteIl. a personal friend OF
DR. Frederick 4. Cook. yesterday re-
leeived a letter from Mrs Cook. dated
valparaiso, Chile, in which she says the
explorer is broken in health, without
funds. and unable to continue his fight to
establish his claim that he discovered the
pole. DR.. Axteli said:
Mrs Cook tells me in her letter that
Cook made considerable money out OF HIS
trip when he first arrived in New York,
hut that he spent 1t in defending himself
against bitter attacks from his enemies
before the Copenhagen decision was made
public.
Cook left New York later 10 escape
contumely, says Mrs. Cook. and to &c
before the board of inquiry at Copenha-
gen as his own representative. Then Mrs.
Cook followed, met him i'm England AND
found him a nervous wreck and very III
..She writes that 1t was her fault tina
Cook did not appear publicly at the tins
he was unfavorabiy reported on. Sh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24
LIGHT VESSELS KEPT BUSY.
Making OF Repairs to Maple Works
Other Ships Hard.

The fact that the lighthouse service
steamer. Maple, the largest Of the tend
ers attached to this district, is under re-
pair and not available for service makes
it necessary to press into service light
ship No. II, Capt. Jacobsen, which re-
Gently returned from long tour OF
duty on the Diamond shoals, in order to
carry supplies to lightship No. 50. sta
toned on the Cape Lookout station, on
the North Carolina coast. No. 20 In nov
taking aboard coal and stores at Balti-
more and will sail in few days.
The tender Holly. in consequences OF the
absence of the Maple from the local
fleet, is kept busy looking after buo.
work In the district She Is now en-
gagged in overhauling buoys In the upper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24
NEW BABY; NEW BARGE.
McNally Family and McNally Fleet
RIM Neck and Neck.

The new barge Mildred McNally, the
latest addition to the McNally fleet of car
go carriers, has arrived at Occoquan. on
the Potomac, to load her maiden cargo of
railway ties for New York The barge
was built at the yard of Henry Deibert
at Elkton, Nd, and is fine vessel of her
class. Like all the barges Of the McNally
neet she is named after a child OF her
owner, James ]. McNally OF Philadelphia,
and is the ninth barge SO named
1t is asserted that whenever a new baby
arrives in the McNally family Mr. Nc
Nally places an order for an addition to
his fleet of cargo carriers and names the
new craft after the new baby. The Mill
bred McNaIly, is a modern vessel of her
class and is 200 feet long on keel and oo6
feet over all, % feet fG inches beam and
- feet deep, which gives her cargo dead
weight capacity for 400 tons In addition
to being fitted up with every comfort for
her master and crew, the Mildred McNal-
ly has a ten-horsepower gasoline engine
for working windlass, pumping out holds
and driving fire pumps and for washing
down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24

says she took him to Holland, France,
Italy. and then to Spain. where they en-
barked for Buenos Aires.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24

rotary of Agriculture. 1t has happened in
a good many cases that settlers have 10
Gated on government land before it was
surveyed, and have been living there
when it was taken into the area Of a for
est reserve The order of Secretary Will
son provides that when the settlement
has been made in good faith and the land
occupied is more valuable for agriculture
than for its timber. the squatter may
complete his entry just as though he had
settled on any other unsurveyed gov
eminent land. In fact. IL the area he
has taken up does not contain the legal
100 acres, he is at liberty to take addi-
tional land up to this amount.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24
Went Around Cape Horn.

From Buenos Aires they went around
Cape Horn to Chile. Cook is still very
i'll. and will be in no condition to take up
his fight for the honors which he still
says should have been his
DIR. Axtell added that, according to the
letter, the explorer and his family will
arrive quietly in New York and will set
tie down for a quiet life.
Mrs. Cook says" he continued. that
her husband has no funds with which to
go to the arctic regions after the proofs
required by the University of Copenha-
gen. and that il he had the necessary
cash he knows of no one he could trust
to do the work for him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24
SETTLING ON FOREST LAND.

Secretary Wilson Looks After Inter
ests Of the Squatter.
Interests of the 'squatters'' in national
forests are being looked after by the Sec
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24
Bureaus Not Efficient.

We have had bureaus for one hundred
years. They are scattered in eight de-
partments. They have been disconnect-
ed and without coordination. They have
ever been jealous of each other. the one
MULTIPLYING and hampering the work of
another. They have been without a re-
sponsible head because of this subdivision
and because the chief Of the most impor-
tant of these bureaus, the surgeon gen.
eral of the public health and marine
hospital service, cannot express an Opin-
ion or give information until he has con-
suited the Secretary of the Treasury.
1.-The Secretary of the Treasury was
not selected as a cabinet officer because
of his knowledge of the public health,
but because he was an expert on finance.
At present our cabinet expert on finance
directs government activities in control
ling bubon;c plague, and the board of
trade and the commercialized physicians
of San Francisco would be more inn
portant in his eyes in all human probable
ity than the chief of one of his subordi-
nate bureaus: at all events this was true
as to previous Secretary.
Under a department of public health
these problems can be worked out with
far greater efficiency. The cooperation
OF the authorities OF the several states of
the Union and Of the, municipalities OF
the several states. each one operated
along the lines of constitutional propriety,
can be established by department of
public health with much greater efficiency
than through subordinate bureau.
This is question of vast national inn
portance. In eight years we have in
creased our expenditures over the aver
age of preceding years by the huge sum
of one thousand millions for the army
and navy, and are spending 20 per cent
of the national income to cover the OBJ
legations OF past wars and the prepara-
ton for possible future war, or about
ing us infinite treasure in life, efficiency
and commercial power and prestige we
spend nothing and do not even employ
the agencies we have in an efficient man.
ner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24

part of Chesapeake bay and within the
next two weeks Is expected to come to
the Potomac for buoy work in the vicin-
ity Of this city.
Grover c. Riggs, second assistant keep
err Of the light station at Cape Henry,
will retire from the service Monday next.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24

Engineer Peary, and stating that he was
confident that Peary had reached the
north pole.
The letter was addressed to sAamrai
Chester and was forwarded to Repre-
sentative Allen, who is one of Mr.. Peary's
supporters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24
Urges Department of Health.

.In the name of the people and in the
name of the American Medical Associa-
ton, whose members are the faithful and
self-sa crificing guardians of the health Of
our people, and in the name Of the COM
mittee of one hundred, of the American
Federation of Labor, of the National
Grange and of the various health boards
of the forty-six states of the Union and
of the great body of learned men desr-
ing improved sanitation and the appli-
cation of the improved agencies of pre-
venting disease, disability and death,
pray the Senate to establish a depart
ment Of public health.
THE principle of the bill meets the
general approval of the public health So
cieties and Of the medical associations of
the United States. and there should be
| no difficulty in perfecting this bill and in
impressing upon the country the impor-
| ravages of tuberculosis, typhoid and ma
| larial fevers. bubonic plague and other
| preventable diseases. which inf1ct such
enormous injury upon the people of the
| United States, impose such vast but need
| less human misery and pain. with great
| financial loss and loss of prestige and
power.
"A commercial nation will not be un-
! mindful Of the commercial value of the
| saving of life and efficiency possible,
| which is worth S3,0O0.O0J,O00 per annum.
| "A humane nation will not fail to act
| when 1t is known that we could save
| the lives Of coco of our people annual
people per annum who now suffer from
| preventable disease and greatly abate
the volume of human pain. misery and
DEATH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24
Naval Academy Visitors Named.

Senators Wetmore of Rhode Island and
MeEnery of Louisiana were named yes
terday by the Vice President as members
of the board of visitors at the Naval
Academy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24

Representative Allen of Maine has made
public a letter received from Secretary
Kettle of the Royal Geographic Society
OF London expressing great interest in
the attitude Of Congress toward Civil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24
SECOND G|FT'0F PEARy
TO DONATE LECTURE PROCEEDS
TO ANTARCTIC FUND.
Lieut.. Shackleton, Aboard Lusi-
tania, Thinks South Pole Expe-
dition Should Succeed.

NEW YORK, March o4.-Civil Engineer
Robert E., Peary has announced his fnten-
ton of turning over the entire proceeds OF
his lecture before the Philadelphia Geo
graphical Society April as a second con-
tribution toward the south pole expedi-
ton fund, according to a statement last
night by the civic forum lecture bureau,
which is managing his lecture tour. The
Philadelphia society will present its gold
medal for the discovery of the north pole
to the explorer at that time.
Mr.. Peary started the south pole fund
by contributing $4,000 he received as a
testimonial in the Metropolitan Opera
House February s.
Lieut., Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Brit
ish explorer, who got within nlnety-SeVen
geographical miles of the south pole, now
on his way to this country with his wife
on the Lusitania, thinks that with proper
equipment the proposed American south
pole expedition, to which Peary has con-
tributed so literally, should succeed.
Opinions of shackleton.
Although the Lusitania is not due in
New York until tomorrow, the World
prints today an interview with the ex-
plorer, obtained on shipboard and sent by
wireless to Halifax. He is quoted, in
part, as follows:
with fair luck and proper equipment
there is no reason why an American eX-
petition should not reach the south pole
believe, however, that everything favors
the success Of Capt. Robert Scott. who
will head the next British antarctic ex-
pedition. Scott will travel the route OF
| former expeditions, including mine, while
| the route of the American expedition will
| lead into an UNEMPLOYED area.
"Tne success of the American expedi-
ton will depend greatly on its equipment
| The dogs which Commander Peary took
| to the arctic regions will be less valuable
| in the antarctic because OF the low-nyins
| drift there. which will get In the dogs
| ewes and render them powerless The
| Americans will have greater success with
ponies, such as 1 took. than with dogs"
| Royal Society Upholds Peary.
Representative Allen of Maine has made
public a letter received from Secretary
| Kettle of the Royal Geographic Society
| of London expressing great interest in
| the attitude Of Congress toward Civil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-24
FOR BETTER HEALTH
Senator Owen Pleads for New
Federal Department.
MORTALITY Is TOO GREAT
More Than coo, 900 Die Annually Of
Preventable Diseases.
BUREAUS DECLARED FUTILE
Oklahoma Statesman Says They
Work Observation-Disclosures
Societies Approve Bill.

The conservation of the great natural
resources of our national wealth is of
great Importance, but the conservation
of the life Of our people is of far greater
Importance. and the conservation of the
vitality ard efficiency of our people is
problem of the first magnitude. demand
ing immediate intelligent attention.
Thus spoke Senator Robert J.. Owen of
Oklahoma in the Senate today. in urging
his bill for the establishment of q de-
partment If public health
The people Of the United States suffer
a loss Of more than 100000 lives per
annum." declared Mr.. Owen in beginning
his address. This terrible loss might
be prevented by reasonable safeguards
under the cooperation of the federal and
state authorities. each within strict con-
stitutional limits.
These deaths are caused by polluted
water. imnure and adulterated food and
drugs. epidemics. various preventable dis
Observation-Disclosures. typhoid and malarial
fevers. and SO forth-unclean cities and
bad sanitation.
Money Loss is Great.
American citizen at $1,7UO, this prevent
able loss by death is one thousand mil
lions of dollars annually, equal to the
gross income of the United States gov
ernrlent.
There are 100000 people in the Unit
ed States on the sick list from prevent
able causes. of whom 100000 are IN the
working period of life: about three-q,iar-
tiers of million actual workers losing
on an average of 500 per annum, an APP
proximate loss. from illness Of five hun
0ro0 millions and oddinr n
allowance for medicine, medical attend
ance. special food and care, q like sum
OF five hundred millions, these losses
would MA another thousand million
dollars of I.reventabie loss to the people
OF the Unire.. States
Declaring his preference for a depart
ment rather than for a bureau OF
health, Mr.. Owen continued:
The National tribune., 1910-01-20
ST. CLOUD VETERANS COLONY.


of the early subscribers
after after personal examination have bought property thereby increasing
This success of the Colony an assured fact
$50 dwelling business houses have been
by printing office has been erected and machinery for
being installed and the St Cloud Tribune ned St Cloud will be
putting
building with vaults safes and everything complete The
The machinery has been purchased eectrghtng system
waerors and the building have been and
of
these improvements will help to make ST. Cloud of the most important
towns Florida Locations and lots have been selected for the building of
Methodist Catholic
population of from within the years
St Cloud
colonization
project by The National Tribune land many
National
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who lots and 500 fveacre tracts
of land will prominent
serving the right to reject the subscription and return the money of any sub
Cfor s1oo had , c1nsed m nt o the oTorinr tayn n f n
receiving their asking
originally
make the
ing land the basis the
last proposition $780, and in order that all may be treated alike we
additional who subscribed to the third
necessary
subscriptions have been received there
lo
for $780, lots and fvea tracts for $500 We
limit the number of town lots and fva tracts that be subscribed for
under lots and feacre
provemens necessary to make this successful town. and the statement
ground is
colony has ever started with such a promising outlook.
aIn will be to act oieEiy as we believe from past experience
that subscribed within the three
in F, L.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
The National tribune., 1910-01-20
FOR GOVERNOR OF PENNsYLyA-

Editor National Tribune: Can YOU
say something to advance the candi-
dacy of Hon. John NJ. Reynolds. of
Pennsylvania. for Governor? The old
soldiers never had and never will have
a better friend than Mr.. Reynolds. He
has done more for the old boys in his
Congressional district since he has been
in Congress than all his predecessors
combined.-J. II. Barney, Clearville,
Pa.
We shall be glad to add our testi-
mony to that of our correspondent. We
have known Judge Reynolds since he
was Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Department. At that time his rulings
and decisions were strongly in favor of
justice to the veterans and their de-
pendent ones, and he was the only real
friend to the soldiers in a hostile Ad-
ministratiOn. Since he has been in Con-
gress he has kept up the good work.
and our correspondent does not give
him too much praise for what he has
done. He has been Jealous. sympa-
thetic and faithful in the interest of
the veterans and always willing to do
whenever there was the slightest Op-
portunity for it. We sincerely hope
that the Republicans of Pennsylvania
will select him as their standard bearer
in the coming Gubernatorial campaign.
The National tribune., 1910-01-20
MONUMENT TO GEN. RosECRANs.

Hon Washington Gardiner. Repre-
sentative from Michigan and who was
one of the splendid soldiers under Gen.
Rosecrans. receiving a severe wound at
Mission Ridge, has introduced the fol-
lowing bill in the House of Represen-
tatives:
That the Secretary of War be, and
he is hereby, authorized and directed
to erect over the grave of Maj.-Gen.
William Stark Rosecrans, in Arlington
Cemetery, a suitable granite monument
to his memory. and the sum of $1,000
is hereby appropriated out of any
money now in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated"
The astonishment about this is that
the work has not been done before and
at the modesty of the sum asked. 1t
will pain all the survivors of that gal
liant army which loved and admired
"Old Rosy to learn that he has been
lying for years in an unmarked grave
at Arlington.
Gen. Rosecrans was a man whose
memory should be held in the highest
esteem. He came nearer being one of
the very great men ol llt Wal VI any
of those who failed to reach that PIN
nacle of eminence. He was man of
the highest patriotism and fiery zeal
for the cause and soldier of remark
able ability. His splendid management
of the battle at Rich Mountain. which
he fought out with his brigade unaided
by the rest of the army, made Gen. Nc
Clellan Commander-in-Chief of the
United States Army. He won the de-
cisive victories of Iuka and Corinth,
and defeated Bragg in the bloody bat
tie of Stone River. The strategy by
which he forced Bragg out of his
stronghold at Tullahoma and secured
the important position of Chattanooga
has never been surpassed in history.
He barely failed Of highest success in
the awful struggle at Chickamauga, and
later he drove Price out of Missouri.
Such achievements as these entitle
Gen. Rosecrans to a high place in our
Hall of Fame, and it seems wholly in
adequate to ask the Nation to give, as
little as $1,000 to mark the last resting
place of a man of such abilities and
achievements. The bill should be
amended to make the amount treble or
quadruple and pass by acclamation.
The National tribune., 1910-01-20
col. JaQUESS'S VISIT TO RICH
MOND

We are indebted to Capt Henry A
Castle for a copy of Chapter VII OF
the History of the 7Sd ILL.,, which deals
in full with the much h-discussed visit of
Col. Jaquess to Richmond in July. 1864.
in the interest of peace. Col. Jaquess
entered the service in September. 1861.
as Chaplain of the 9Th Ill. Cav. and
learning at Paducah of the proposed
attack upon Gen Grant at Shiloh, has
tened thence, and arrived just in time
to do good work upon the field and
receive bullet hole thru his hat. Real
izng the desperate nature of the strug-
gle. he asked and secured the privilege
of raising and commanding n "Metho-
dist regiment for the war. He did
this. and it became the T3d ILL.,, which
he comnlanded with distinction at Stone
River and Chickamauga. lie was con-
vinced that the real men of the South
desired peace, and with President Lin
coins permission went to Petersburg
where he met q great many Confcder-
ates, who admitted that they were
weary of the war, hopeless of success
and ready to give up slavery to secure
peace, but were held in check by a
despotic Government at Richmond. He
reported this to President Lincoln. but
the report did not reach him for some
time and Col. Jaquess went back to
his regiment to take part in Chicka-
mauga. When President Lincoln final
ly received his report he was much i'm
pressed by it, and thought that the
time was more ripe than ever Tor an
other effort. Therefore, he allowed
Col. Jaquess and ]. r. Gilmore to pass
thru the lines and attempt to reach
Richmond. After great difficulty he
succeeded in having an interview with
Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet, where
he behaved with dignity and courage,
upholding the Union cause strongly
against Jefferson Davis and his Secre-
tary of State, Mr.. Benjamin. Col ia
guess succeeded in getting from them
a declaration that they had left the
United States for good and would not
return Davis said they wanted to rid
themselves of the despotism of maJori-
ties" Col. Jaquess assured the Confed-
crate leaders that their dream of sepa-
ration could not be realized, and there
could be no peace without restoration
of the Union. The value of this was
immense in its political influence upon
the elections of that year. 1t paralyzed
the Peace Party in the North, and grad
efforts to prosecute the struggle to vic
tory.
The National tribune., 1910-01-20
TlIe 9Th MS

Editor National Tribune: / wish you
would give me a short history of the
5th Wis. where organized and the bat
ties it took part in.-Geo. H. Keyes,
Wisconsin Veterans Home. Wis.
The 5th Wis. one of the fighting reg
iments. was organized at Madison July
II, 1851. for three years The original
members were mustered out as their
terms expired and the veterans and re-
cruits consolidated into a battalion OF
three companies. to which seven new
companies. organized to serve one year.
were added oct. /. 1864. These seven
were mustered out June 20. 1865, and
the remaining companies July IL. 1865.
1t was commanded by Coils. Amasa Cobb
and ThoS. 5. Allen in succession. The
career of the 5th was unusually bril-
liant 1t took part in the superb action
of Hancock's Brigade at Williamsburg.
was one of the picked regiments COM
posing the famous Light Division of the
Sixth Corps; in the Storming of Marye'S
flights May s. 1868, it took a leading
part and sustained the heaviest loss Of
any regiment so engaged, and in the
gallant affair at Rappahannock Station
il shared with the 9Th Me. the glory OF
the successful charge in which Mai.
Horace w. Wheeler, of the 5th, fell.
Its battles were Pickett's Mills. Lees
Mills, Williamsburg. GOlding. Gaines's
Mill. first and second Fredericksburg.
Rappahannock Station, gunboat service
(detailed). Wilderness. SpOtsylvania.
Cold Harbor. Opequon, Petersburg. fall
of Petersburg Sailors Creek, and was
present at II others. It belonged to
WriShts Division. Sixth Corps. and lost
l9o killed and 134 from disease, etc.
Its total of killed and wounded was
i4S.-Editor National Tribune.