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HERO Ov HERO COMMISSION
Albert ;. Barr. ACArneGbe Fund Manager,
nlsked I.Ire 10 save Another.

nlsked Life 20 save Another.
PTTTsBURo. May 70.-Ths Carnegie
Hero Fund Commission, which had been
investigating a thrilling life saving cpl
sode Of last Wednesday, wherein a man
az the risk oG his life saved an oil
spattered chauffeur from burning %
death. has ERASED ia labors on finding
that the hero was q member Of the com
mission and a warm personal friend Of
Andrew Carnegie. Albert J. Barr. pro-
prietor Of two Pittsburg papers. ia the life
saver who slncs last Wednesday has been
trying 20 conceal his connection with the
heroic act.
AZ s.aS last "Wednesday morning while
Mr. Barr was passing a garage two cans
Of Easolene exploded. Part 81 the burr
ing liquid fell on a chauffeur. who dashed
from che garage aHame Mr.. Barr
Erasped the man with one hand and with
his umbrella beat out the flames and then
assisted in extlngiishmg the Ere m the
garage. though warned that thers was
much gasolsno there. likely 10 explode Of
any moment
A humorous feature Of the affair was
that Mr.. Bars afternoon paper printed
2 glowing account q thr tayasnriaE .
rescuer's work without knowing that the
owner Of the paper was the horo.
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SNAKE HUNTER BARBER BrrTEy
Artist Takes Place % shanS Wheeler n,
aehAghtlcohe and Gets Nlppsa

BRIDGEPORT. May 20.-The annual ~,
Of the SchaghtioOke RattlssnAks Club |.
the Indian reservation al Kent. Com
to-day was thrown into a panic wheo /,
was discovered on arriving al the dem,
in South Kent that Shang Wheeler, curaio,
OF the club. was missing.
The snake hunters for seven year. hsr.
depended upon Wheeler 20 supervise 4.
most important part Of the task Of ON.
turing the reptiles. that Of picking ,h,p
from the ground and tossing them inio
burlap sacks.
Andrew v. Barber. a newspaper ar,r
came 10 the rescue Of the crsstfaH..
hunters. announcing that he felt fully
qualified 10 take charge Of the dslica,.
job. Barber proved a capital substi,r,
and transferred a score OF snakes from
under the prOnged fork Of the na.,
hunter into the buriap sack. But dunn,
the powwow following the scaling Of IL,
rattlesnake den Barber became more bog
and taking a desperate chance with b,
belhgerent RATHER be received what b.,
for prompt treatment might have been A
fatal injury.
Sewing the RATHER just hack u the sav
he gave the reptile enough play 10 tun
and drive lie fangs into his right ham
Rarber anAtohed up the reptile. toaas
Il into the bag % prevent further dAmAr
drew his pocket knife. ripped open d.
tiny wound and sucked the poison aWsy
DR.. Herman Schulz then administered
antidOtes. Though BARRIERS hand swsIlsd
rapidly he declared tonight that n,
wound was trivial
Before tho hunters made their annual
Ascent 90 the snake den Barber. AZ chap
lain Of the club. delivered eulogy a. he
grave Of Jim Pan. VINO died last winter
at a ripe old age. In recognition Of me
services a. scout Of the club since IL
organization the rattlesnAke hunters
put a wreath on his grave inscribed With
the simple word Chief and as TIA
seventy members gathered about il with
barred heads Barber pronounced the
eulogy.
The hunt was unusually successful
twenty rattlers being captured within
two hours.
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In a second. Fromlihe Battery il did no,
seem az II Curtiss had changed the speed
With which he had come down the river
People were still running into tho park
from all directions. Policemen too wers
ho,fOo,ing IL for theIsea wall TO see that
there were no accidents. Before they
got there Il was all over. however. II had
lasted only a cOuplelof minutes. but soms
people still looked into tho air hardly
able TO realize that'the fight was over.
THE GOVERNORS ISLAND ORKETRO.
With the Commander ca the Depart
msnt Of the Fast Brig Gen. Walter Howe
Major HoH and other army officers. a
delegation from Curtiss's home town.
HammOndspOrt. vas waiting 20 tell ham
he could have the town any time he
wanted 90 60 for t. Thers wers TIRES
in the delegation. Joseph c. Freide n
A. u. Chew and Charles l., Kingsley,
Major Hot was the first 10 shake hands
with Curtiss and then Gen. Howe greeted
him warmly. They had watched with
real amazsmsnt how easily be had
alighted.
He brought the machine to the ground
in q series Of gentle reflections. step by
step. A the wheels touched IL ran along
the surface for twenty-five or thirty feet
aud then stopped dad. curtiss saw that
the aeFOplane was stabbed and then he
joined the officers in COrbin Hall. Il was
not until later that Mrs. Curtiss, greatly
disappointed at having missed the land
ing. arrived.
Curtias received his prize early in the
afternoon in the editorial rooms Of the
World. ]. Angus Shaw. cashier Of the
publishing company. stepped up TO Curtiss
and passed over the $4,000 slip with few
words Of congrRtulation.
Pretty quick work said the aviator.
One Of the things he attended TO in the
afternoon was sending . telegram TO his
mother In Buffalo. She didn't know, he
said, that he intended to make the fight.
and he wanted the hrst news she got to
he that be had made il successfully.
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HEMPsTEID PLAINS FLIGHTS.
capt Baldwin Makes FSuF Circuits %
the Field others Make TRIES.

Capt Baldwin Makes FoaF Circuits %
tlle Field Others Make Tries.
Capt Thomas g. Baldwin ma de several
asroplans fights AZ Hampstead Plains
yesterday afternoon. the longest Of
which was four circuits Of the field. IL
was estimated that he remained up twelve
minutes and rOss 20 an altitude Of % feet
lie few his machine on a fairly even keel
and skilfully negotiated a number Of
turns.
Clifford B. Harmon made two Efforts
10 ny. but didn't get very far. az his engine
didn't work properly. He had his machine
trlndled back 70 the shed. Joseph Sey-
mour in a Curtiss biplane made several
short jumps. but didn't get high from the
ground. The work Of Seymour, however.
Is much improved.
Il was diiiicult 20 keep the big crowd in
checK ana within the danger line Har.
mon had a rope drawn around his tent
10 that hi machine could be rolled out
without the interference Of the sight
seera.
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and Mr.. Wettsreaus place is seventy
ave miles from Albany
The Geld in which Curtiss landed was
long and level. with a gently slOplng
surface nicely grsssed. Il was about
q nile inland A dozen automobiles we're
standing there aud a few bicycles, but
few men were about the place, Thoy cams
In = rush though pretty soon until their
numbers somewhat bothered the aviator.
Who was afraid that something might hap
pen 10 the aeroplane.
Two cows looked up IN mild estonish-
ment aud moved toward tho machine
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ally il would take a dip % the right or
left a. q vicious cir carrsa;'s,ruCk cue %
the wings; or Il Soild buck straight into
cross currents and Jar its driver to the
backbone Near old Storm King he had
the most unpleasant, e1psrlsnoe 81 HE
career
THE MOMENT 90 rRouhi.E
There had been trouble with the airs.
but he thought h. had brought bic ma b
chine 10 a level low enough 10 dodge dan
ger. Suddenly the aeroplans dropped
forty fest
1T felt said Curtiss. 'sIacily a. 10 an
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The Rev. Christian p Reisnsr. ID.
pastor of 0raCe Methodist Church in West
10th street, gave every one Who entsred
the door II the church. last evening a
small American flag In hia asrmon.
the subject OF which vas Does the United
states Need MOrp SOLDIER be Enid that
the country needed millions " goldiera.
with rlghiepupness and religion On
The prsvioua Sunday Nc Rsiangr nave
away rOsea instrad ~ haHa
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The Wall Street edition Of TBB EvuS1NG
sUN contains an the financial news and
the siOck and bond quotations n the CLOSE
81 ne market. The closing quotat6na.
including the hid and asked priogsi with
additional nswn matter. are containst Ia also
10 ths night edition u TuE EVENNlo Sun.
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Aviator Dural. Thrown at VeronA. Has
SeriOas Injuries.
sD,siai caOls Ds'pa,cA 10 THS SrS

sDsfiai Cabls DsfBaicA 70 TH1 St'N
VERONA. May 20 While Aviator Duray
was starting On a fight here to-day the
wheels II bis biplane struck an obstruc-
ton on the ground.
He was thrown out u HE seat and the
machine passed over him, the propeller
striking him On the chest and breaking
two Of his ribs and otherwise iniuring
him.
His condition il serious
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American MsIans. q I.sna IN M.,l..

MEXICO CITY. May % Statistics con.
piled by the Government shOE thar
Amer lean farmers own approyimaiev
5000 acres Of land On the States Z
Tamaulpas and San Luis POtosi.
In ADDITION IN this. several million Afu
are under lease On Americans tor oil 10
vel pment purposes.
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elevator was letting me down too fast.
There was a sinking az the pit Of the
stomach. cant tell what caused tho
drop. but actually it seemed for a few
seconds as Il there Was absolutely moth
ing under the machine. not even air She
tilted sideways sharply but rsgained her
balance almost Immediately. No. I WASH Z
scared. bat Il was a kind Of nervous mo-
ment all right
From then on he few lower. because
he found that the quietsst going was
No feet or W above the river and land
3 took a lot Of experimenting 10 avoid
a shaking up but there was little trouble
after leaving Storm King Sometimes
'urtiss dropped the machine to within
fifty or sixty feet Of the water A such
times he could hear plainly enough the
greeting he was getting from small boats
an from folk along the shore
He went by Ossining az 1918 and Dobhs
Ferry az 1925 Y0nkers got look az him
AZ lO.SO and so did a lot of people who were
watching from the Palisades. New Workers
who have country homes along the Hud
son in the country between Garrison and
Nonkers got a splendid view Of Curtiss
Many had hesn told by telephone about
his coming
PiCETNG STOPPING PLACE
lie was getting 30 near n Manhattan
and that $1,000 that he began 10 figure
on a landing spot Re was undecided AZ
first a. 60 whether 10 keep straight on
down the river 20 Governors Island.
where his aeroplane lives. or whether 70
conform merely 10 the conditions Of the
contest and stop az Spuyten Duyvil
lie had noticed that the oil pump was
behavng worse than ever as a conse-
guenre. no doubt. " the TREMENDOUS
sp-ed he had developed and he feared
that the bearings Il the engine might get
helted aud cause him a lot Of trouble
4 little mOrp oil wouldn't do any harm
and he thought he knew where he could
get &C. Just before reaching Spuytsn
Duyvil he turned away from the Hudson
and shot over eastward. passing between
the wooded euinence Il Inwood on the
right and Williamsbrdge on the left
People were watching him from every
vantage point and he was flying low
enough b. h. seen clearly. Apparently
h. was ~ cool and unc0ncerned AZ II he
Was driving a cart.
THE EIRsT LANDING.
FCirtiss followed the Harlem River Tor
about half a mile and then struck out for
the lsham estate. where he had decided
. land John 4 Schrsfer. me manager
u motor company and friend Of Cur
tiss. was on hand ito meet him The hy-
ing machine swooped like a hawk. the
motor humming briskly. and dropped
easily On "a terrace not far from Tower
n tho New York Central and seven miles
from KinEshridge. The time was 1875 and
II had taken Curtis- Just hours and ~
minutes 10 make the trip from Albany.
including tho hours stop AZ the Gill farm
near P0uRhkcepsie His actual flying
time was hours and % minutes.
The machine dropped bctWesn a biR
elm and a button ball tree. running a
few feet only on No three wheels horse
and a COW that were browsing peacefully
ia a nearby pasture suddenly decided to
move They kicked ~ their heels and
galloped away in a great hurry.
Hello. John. Enid Curtiss 60 schrefer.
a. he climbed osIt of tho machine.
-is that you. Olonn7- said Schrsfer
didn't know you were going % drop
IN
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ERANKE. CAnPREt.I, ssl,ssa y. ga .. :.
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SrgpmFN Is. HOHE Bnnouuoe1 tbs -,.', i,
a hh Law OfFiCE iron % Wal atfelt =
81 az. 'rhuna iz5t Mndl1Jl Sluara
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Carpet 6 Rug Cleansing

Dirt anu Dust Eliminated not nom Sufiacs aE
but Throughout he Fabac
N'ch Brown Co 's 20 -; 81 s = so n !.
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Before people had their eyes fairly
well hxed on the bla6k object u had as
guEned definite shape and you could SEQ
the man In Il. Under him az he few was
an EXCURSION crowd on a steam lighter.
They were out with handkerchisfs and
Oh with their hats a. QUICKLY a. Il vas
possible. hut hardly before they could
wave a Handkerchief the man and his
flying machine were gone. But Curtias
must have heard those yeIls Es was
up about 80 feet on the Battery. and
ssomsd q DO about midway bstwesn
the Aquarium and the Statue Of Liberty.
Il guessing was any good lie was head
ing directly for the island rhs side
view of tho man and his machine was
somewhat like that N = man riding q
bicycle IN the air. Then Il vas seen that
his cOuras had altered and vas downward
He's going N land yelled some d
ire crowd The final swoop was over
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Hs looked ahead and saw the great
caH'IIevsr bridge over the Hudson just
north ~ Poughkespsie. 4 freight train
vas crawling over Il and q brakeman
Tarsd a red signal hag At him He vent
@.-r trr bridge almost az its centre al
Ggl then circied over the lower part
81 Pplghksepsie, trying ~ find the spot
b. had selected several days before a.
. good plac" 10 land he found II with
OIL difficulty a. be dropped the aeroplane
- an easy IN feet u was Bill Wetter.
eaus front yard that VI Curtiss chose.
but hIh vas aslsen whsn tho aeroplane
dropped gently down and came 20 the
earth without O. iar This vas az 50
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
unlookad.For Consolation.

Here is a measure of consolation
from an unlooked-for source for those
of us who have been lamenting the
unkempt condition of our thorough
fares. The following from the Lin
coin Journal would lead us to believe
that Omaha has company in its
misery:
A stranger has written it down that
Omaha has the toughest, the n~astiest
and fllthiest streets in the west" He
evidently hasn't visited Lincoln. Only one
thing can be said In explanation and that
is the wholly unprepared condition of these
cities for such a winter. When snow and
ice pile up several feet deep on o street,
Lincoln has no machinery for clearing
things up. All it can do is to wait for a
thaw. And when the thaw does come it
leaves things In a very nasty state for a
Tact.
All of which may make US feel a lit
tie better, but still is not to be taken
as an excuse for inactivity on the part
OF the street cleaning department, If
Lincoln's streets. are worse than
omaha's, all we car do is to tender
sympathy borne Of our own expert
ence
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
HAS ouR nxprRIMENr rAILED :
P~sIefsce on the Lament OF
an Indian.

PsIeface Comment on the Lament Of
an Indian.
81. Louis Times.
Hiram Chase Of Fender, Neb. mas ut
tered an authoritative word on the condi-
tlon Of the red man In America.
Mr.. Chase is an Indian who has gone as
far, perhaps, In the direction OF the white
mans destiny as IL would be possible Tor
any man OF his race to go. lie Is de-
scribed as an eloquent and successful law
vera calling which, Il would appear. Is
as alien TO the red mans characteristic
as possible.
This student Of American as we'll as IN
dian ways said that the government made
a terrible mistake in trying to extract the
Indian from his environment and his own
civilization.
The people Of the United states may be
charged, perhaps, with the frequent pos
session of bigotry, and also with a determ-
%ination to make the best Of bad bargains.
II would be difficult to say which Of these
Characteristic has been most in evidence
in their attitude toward the red man.
We have tried to supplant the Koran and
the teachings OF Confucius with the Bible,
though we ought to know that a printed
creed as helpful mainly In proportion to
nv diNi INV pidStu III IT.
Without going out OF the way to tread
upon questionable ground, however, it may
be suggested that we have fondness for
bringing other around to our way of think
ing-as, doubtless, all peoples have. Tho
father who wants to make a minister of
his son, who manitests a lively interest In
nothing but toy soldiers, is common
enough; and our Industrial systems have
made Of many a man a laborer who might
have been a comic actor or a painstaklng
surgeon.
The biography Of one Of the great naural-
lists tells how he was a hopeless pupil in
school,, and how one teacher after another
failed to create in him an interest in log
arithms or Greek. But finally a new
teacher found the boy studying. with shin
ing eyes, a tiny insect he had captured on
the compus, and by asking a few questions
learned that the boy had discovered by
himself an unheard-of number of facts
about the object Of his study. That teacher,
being a man Of wisdom. encouraged the
boy-and thus the world had an Agassiz.
While we have been trying to take his
blanket away from the Indian, a family of
people named Duncan. after long years in
Greece, AVE been trying to persuade us to
abolish our coats and other conventional
garments. on the ground that they lack
beauty and real ~serviceability.
1t is too bad We could not have permit
ted the red men to live their lives in their
own way. We brought muskets before we
brought missionaries to their forefathers,
and in the long run, the Indian has prob
ably been fair with us oftener than we
have been with him-despite our superior
morality.
But the beef barons, who nov have got
us by the throat, needed the Indians lands,
and we had to plan a new existence for
him.
If 1t may be said, in criticism of the In
dian, that he would not work. It may be
claimed that, in the most relentless fash
ion, he has been worked"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07

made with the American are so much
more favorable to the railroad as to
offset any possible loss to It az part
owner Of the displaced express com
pany. The most plausible guess would
be that all three Of these express com
panies are IN the deal and that own
ership OF all three has become prae-
tically identical, although they may
continue to be separately ohicered and
operated. Only two other express
companies doing a large business in
this country remain, namely, the
Adams and the United States. and a
working arrangement with these
would not be out of question.
The merger of the big express COM
panies and the recent cutting Of big
melons by their stockholders have
drawn attention in their direction and
shown that the express company bust
ness requires regulation similar to
that which has been applied to the
railroads. In fact, the express COM
BnhiCo haNV bVVh NhhA sou WIN NdAlhS
the cream Of the railway traffic with
out bearing many Of the burdens. Ex-
press companies have succeeded so far
in keeping the government out of the
parcels post business by playing the
country merchants against the cata-
logue houses, and they have also. with
few exceptions, the most noticeable
being Nebraska, escaped reduction of
their charges by Legislative mandate
OF railway commission order. A far
larger part of their stock and secuTi-
ties represent nothing but capitaliza-
ton Of exclusive contracts with rail-
roads. Whether the merger becomes
effective or not, the express companies
will soon be up for a reorganization
Of their methods and a revision of
their classifoations and charges.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
The Danbury Hatters.

The verdict of $222,000 against the
Danbury hatters for damages to the
business Of a boycotted hat manufac-
turer brings this famous case C
more to the fore. The Danbury hat
ters' case was the one which, when
carried to the United States supreme
court, precipitated the ruling that the
Sherman antitrust law appliedVsthe
same to conspiracies and combinations
in restraint Of trade by trades unions
as to conspiracies and combinations in
restraint of trade by producers or en-
ployers. The jury found the amount
Of damage sustained to be $4,000
and under the antitrust act the victim
is entitled to recover three-fold COM
pensation, which in this case accounts
for the full verdict of $222,0OO.
It was the Danbury hat case prob
ably more than any other that In
nstigated the attempt made in congress
to exempt labor unions from the opera
lions of the Sherman law, and still
later the effort made by the labor
representatives to commit the great
political parties in their platforms to
grant them this immunity. 1t goes
without saying that when the Sherman
law was passed no one had n idea
that its penalties would be called down
upon the trades unions, but the highest
court in the land has neld that there
is no difference, except in degree, be-
tween a deliberate and systematic boy
colt to injure the business of an en-
ployer and a combine of big corpora
tions to drive a smaller corporation
out of business. If the Sherman law
can be invoked by the employers
against boycotts. of course it must be
linvocable, too, by the employees against
blacklists and loekouts, although that
point, so far as we know, has not
been adjudicated.
Presumably the present case will
again go to the higher court and the
final decision will denne more closely
the limits Of warfare in industrial con
niots waged between capital and labor
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-07
ALL WITH THE PRESIDENT.
Republican Divisions Unite on Adj
mi~nistratIOn Measures.

Tnllhdeipnla freSS,
The Insurgents in the House of repre-
sentatives are an active and aggressive
force, but the object Of their hostility is
not the republican party and it is not
President Taft or his policies. There is
opposition to the house rules as enforced
by Speaker Cannon, and II this proves
strong and persistent enough 1t may lead
to a modification of those rules. But the
country is less concerned with this than
1t Is with the success Of the vital policies
which President Taft has made his own and
has proposed legislation TO carry out. The
recent conference of the so-called insur-
gents, foliowed by that of the New York
delegation, shows that the administratio
and its policies are backed by a strong
majority in the house Of representatives.
This makes practically certain that meas
ures embodying the presidents suggestions
on the subject OF conservation, interstate
commerce, the injunction, postal savings
banks and other matters will have a ma
jority Of the house behind them. There Is
still. of course, the chance Of disagreement
about details and a failure Of the senate
to cooperate in all respects. The senators
are very independent. on the postal saw
ings bank. for instance. there is a good
deal OF Individual dlsSenti unrelated 70
party and fractional lines. In the main,
however, the president has congress with
him and the first half Of his admlnistra-
iton will not be barren. The policies which
he has urged in public addresses and Of
ficial papers have commended themselves
to the people. and in large part. at least
they seem destined TO be embodied in stat
ute law.
There never has been much reason fol
doubling the readiness OF the republican
majority In congress to give loyal supper
to the administration. There is republican
dissent In both branches from the present
republican leadership, but the president
policy is the party policy proclaimed In
It's platforms and advocated on the stumE
during the campaign. The success Of tn,
republican candidates was a popular in.
dorsement OF the policies which they rep.
resent. and those republicans who antAgon,
lie the policies are putting themselves out
side OF the republican breastworks. Their,
seems to be very few disposed to take thu
step, Perhaps in the final test taere vii
be none.
Republicans In congress may differ with
each other, but nothing has happened L
justify them In organizing these differences
into opposition 70 President Tart and hi
legislative policies and It is al entirely
safe prediction that this win not be done