Semi-weekly herald., 1910-09-05


come with grief. Arrangements are
being made to allow him to attend the
funeral under guard.
LONGMONT. Colo. Sept North
ern Colorado turned out In crowds to-
day to help Longmont celebrate her
annual pumpkin pie feast. Visitors
came from the north, south, east and
west. They came on special trains.
automobiles and buggies, on horseback
and some OF those who live in the
nearby farming districts walked into
town. At noon fully 10000 visitors are
in the city Special trains over the
Colorado & Southern and Burlington
railroad began arriving at o'clock.
cations were first to come. The visit.
ors from these two towns and inter
mediate points filed dozen railroad
coaches. Large crowds from Denver
and other southern towns arrived at
$3.50 and added to these were hosts
from Greeley, Lyons, Erie and many
other places. Thousands of pies were
eaten, and big time generally had.
CLEVELAND. o., Sept Glenn H.
| Curtiss of Hammondsport, N. Y, es-
tablished a new record for over wa
ter from Euclid beach, nine miles east
of this city, to Cedar Point. o.. approx
imately sixty miles distant The an
nounced time consumed in the pas.
sage was one hour and eighteen min
utes. The aviators own estimate of
the time was one hour and nineteen
minutes. The average speed was for
ty-five miles an hour, although one
stretch of twenty miles was covered
at the rate of u mile minute. Cur
tiss used a bi-plane of his own con
struction in which he made his recent
| flight down the Hudson river from
Albany to New York.
1t was ~ o'clock when the bi-plane
was taken from the aerodrome. At
| 1:3 p. m, after 1t had been ascertain
ed that the twelve mile breeze from
the northeast prevailed in Cleveland
and Cedar Point alike, the motor was
started. At :06 p. m. with the cheers
OF 10000 people ringing in his ears,
the aviator swept out over the lake
After reaching height of 200 feet the
machine turned to the west At 1:13
It had passed over Cleveland harbor
where 100000 people were grouped
along the lake front and on top OF
buildings. and three minutes later had
faded into the mist beyond Rocky
river, the western extremity of the
city's eighteen mile water front. A
crowd of ten thousand people gather
ed on the beach and went wild when
Curtiss landed. They rushed down
on the aviator, lifted him from the
machine and carried him on their
shoulders to his hotel. Curtiss imme-
diately telephoned his wife here of
his arrival
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. lone
thousand singers and many musicians
from all parts of the Pacific coast are
in San Francisco to take part in the
Saengerfest which opens tonight. One
feature OF the Ave days festival is
the competition among the German
singing societies for the $4,000 gold
cup presented by Kaiser Wilhelm. An.
other contest will be for the $4,000
trophy given by the emperor OF Aus
tria for the best team of tyrolese sing.
ers. This morning a reception was
given by Arthur Claasen, one of the
chorus conductors. Many visitors from
the east and thousands from the coast
cities come to hear the concerts.
OMAHA, Sept. 2.-Omaha today
kept Colonel Theodore Roosevelt busy
and the colonel, on his part. turned |
Omaha just about upside down. Big |
crowds were out to greet Mr.. Roose-
Welt at every turn from the time he |
climbed out of his special train into a
driving rain at o'clock this morning |
An automobile hustled him to the |
Omaha club Immediately upon his ar.
rival and he had breakfast there as
a guest of the club. He then took |
an automobile ride and looked over |
the town. At noon he returned to the |
club for luncheon, an informal affair |
at which 400 guests were present The !
Roosevelt speech today was
delivered at big meeting held at the
late this afternoon. He |
was introduced to the audience by Sen.
ator Burkett of Nebraska
For the first time on his trip the
colonel at last disappointed crowd |
that wanted to hear him speak. He |
went to bed Immediately after leay.
Ing Kansas City, Mo, thoroughly tired |
out with the days doings Shortly |
after midnight the Roosevelt special |
pulled into St Joseph. Mo-, where for |
hours some 500 people had been wait |
ing at the station 10 get a glimpse |
of the colonel. The train stopped for
about half an hour and the crowd
yelled, TEDDY, come out" and begged
him to get out of bed every minute
of the time. Bue he was evidently
sound asleep and did not appear The
crowd gave vent to its dissatisfaction
by pounding the sides of the car and