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NAVY IS PROUD OF HIM.
Chief Electrician Essig Helped Save
Santa Rosa Passengers.

''It makes our navy something to be
proud off, wrote the district inspector OF
steam vessels in San Francisco to the
Navy Department. in describing the con-
duct of Chief Electrician William T. Els
sig, L. s. n. in connection with the saw
ing OF the passengers Of the Ill-fated
steamer Santa Rosa, which went to pieces
off the coast Of Lower California. the 7th
Of this month.
Essig Is attached to the submarine
Pike, but happened to be q passenger or
the wrecked steamer. According to the
inspectors report he rendered most val
liable assistance in landing the pas
sengers, and won the aom1ration OF all
Acting Secretary Winthrop has extend
cd to Mr Essig the congratulations and
thanks of the Navy Department for the
RaIlantry displayed by him..
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DOG RUNS WILD IN WOODS.
Chinese Chow Canine Alarms Ma
tives of Connecticut Towns.

STANFORD, Conn.,, July S.-A Chi
nese chow dog. owned by Mrs. John ii.
Tyson of Riverside, has caused no III
tie terror in Sound Beach and Riverside
The dog escaped from its kennel June :
and has been leading a wild life ever
since. Recently it took refuge in Hendrie's
woods, near Sound Beach, and Scum
Beach man, coming upon it suddenly
mistook 1t for a bear and fed.
He gave the alarm and neighbors arme1
themselves and went in search of the
bear" When they finally came in sight
of the snarling animal and found 1t was
the missing Tyson dog, they made vain
efforts to catch 1t. Mrs. Tyson has Of
fered a reward of 500 for the return OF
the chow, which is unusually large, has
very long black hair and looks not unlike
a. black bear.
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WILLIAM J. HOOPER DEAD.
Brother of Ex-Mayor of Baltimore
Succumbs After Long Illness.

BALTIMORE. Nd, July 29.-William ].
Hooper. one Of the founders Of the w.
J. Hooper Twine Company. brother Of ex-
Mayor Alcaeus Hooper and for many
years one Of the best known business men
of Baltimore, died about 1920 o'clock last
night at his home, 1904 McCulloh street
after lingering illness due to the in
firmities of age.
Mr.. Hooper was born about seventy
years ago and was q native Of Baltimore
He was twice married, his second Wife
who survives him, having been the widow
Of former pastor Of Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Mr.. Hooper received his early education
In Baltimore and later he was sent to g
college in Pennsylvania to take q special
course in business.
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The collier Neptune has completed a
successful trial trip. to the great graft
fcation Of the naval designers. who were
interested in the workings Of the new
turbine reduction gear, for the nrst time
installed in q naval vessel. A telegram
from the inspection board at Rockland.
Me-, to the Navy Department states that
the vessel made l492 knots per hour on
q Standardization trial. whereas the con-
tract guaranteed speed was only Ii knots
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WEATHER.

WEATHER.
Fair tonight Sunday probably showers; little temperature
changes
CONDITION OF THE WATER.
Temperature and condition of Great Falls
Temperature 80; condition. Dalecara
condition south
49, Georgetown distributing eservo-Temperature 49, condition
nhuen gatehoue condition eh1uent gatehouse
UP-RIVER WATERS.
Special Dispatch t. The Sta.
HARPERS FERRY, W. Va, July 2o-Boh Potomac and
Shenandoah rivers clear.
TOMORROWS TIDES
Low-5:51 m. and 6:12 pm
am.
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Killed by Poisoned Candy,

NEW YORK, July 0.-Au. Mary nve.
tls ate three pieces Of cofUred candy,
which she found last night upoa her
Kitchen table. thinking her daugAAsss
had made II and died an hour O. two
later in terrible agony. The candy wac
rat poison, handed to her son BY the jsnI.
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Publishing Business Wanss.

EUOl10010& 0u61uo00 " 0AA0os
In yesterdays Letter the ofdctal returns
Of the census bureau were given to snow
that Boston has lost its prestige as q
publication center. but the comparison
was limited to Chicago alone. II the hg-
ures for New York and Philadelphia were
given, they would emphasize the fact.
In 1905 New York produced 1920. 357
worth of all kinds Of literature: Chicago
S4s,s14, TOT; Philadelphia, $31. .446, $50. and
the Athens Of America, $26. .874, ,SO3.
The same year New York produced
s47. 7.253,436 worth of books and similar
publications: Chicago, s26.243.s22: Phila-
delphia, $14,O43, 2s7, and Boston. So. 753. .314.
The same year New York produced
S2,O61 GOO worth of music: Chicago. $579.-
All; Philadelphia, s423.736 and Boston.
S5O5, 5,9O9
The output Of the book and job printing
establishments of New York increased s.
per cent during the previous five years;
those of Chicago increased Al per cent;
Philadelphia, 80 per cent, while those OF
Boston fell off per cent.
The output of the music publishing
houses of New York increased 163 per
cent from 1900 to 1905; that of Chicago
increased 1O5 per cent; that OF Philadel-
phia increased is per cent, and that of
Boston increased "a per cent.
There is no use in. rubbing 1t IN Bos-
ton has great deal to be proud OF, but
should not claim to be more important
than she actually is.
In comparing the statistics of manufac-
lures, the census bureau has divided the
country into districts for convenience.
The districts Of Chicago, Philadelphia and
Boston have areas Of 500, sol and 5O2
square miles respectively. and substan-
TALLY the same population-abOur 1,5OO,-
600. And the returns are for the year
1909. compared with those for 1900. The
following table will show the number of
establishments, the capital invested. the
number of employees, the value Of the
products. and the largest items that make
up the total of the output:
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town exposition grounds during the week
Five homes, formerly state buildings.
were entered. A revolver was removed
from under the pillow Of Turner johnson
Nhila bh Slapk -.-----.
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is the manufacture of boots and shoes,
produced SCI, 7,345, 1873; the second, which
Is rubber boots and shoes, produced w.
4O2. .6O4, and the tanneries produced So,-
OH, 15S of leather.
PhiladeIphia also has several industries
which are not found to any extent in
Chicago or Boston, such as sugar re-
fining which is credited with products
valued at $31 .1S2, 5O4; petroleum. $2S,2G,-
165, and shipbuilding. $14.O51 6SS.
Unique School Essays.
The literary taste Of the people Of
Boston is developed early. as well as their
interest in natural history. The teacher
Of one of the public schools showed me
two compositions written by children un-
der her Instructions. One was entitled
1.-The Monkey" and read as follows:
There are many kinds Of monkeys be-
sides those that live on hand organs;
some are found in Asia and some In
and he threw little stone at the mon
keys and they threw back large ripe
sweet cocoanuts, and this teaches us a.
great moral lesson. We should behave
like the monkey. / saw a monkey at a
circus and it pulled a lady's bonnet off
and tore it all to rags and tied the strings
around it's neck and grinned.''
Another composition written by one
who Is not SO accomplished speller read
as follows:
"Bares are Of many sighses and all big
The chief kind is the grizzly bare, which
Is black; the sinnermOn bare which is good
and gentle; the white bare which bleech-
es its skin to hide in the snow and makes
a rug, and the black bare which is COM
mon and is careful of its cubs Bares
fight bees for honey. which is mean, be-
cause the bees are little. Once a bare
found some currant Jelly sitting on a
garden bench to dry, and he ate it, and
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USED DEAD MANS URN
IN Mixing GIN R|CKEy
Quarantine EmpIoye Says Col.
Warnings Ashes Were
Dumped on Floor.

NEW YORK, July 29.-Stories of night
orgies at the quarantine station were told
yesterday by Arthur Denyse. a witness
at the quarantine investigation in TIE
county court house. The climax of hts
remarkable tale came in the account of
one drinking bout in DR.. Doty's private
Office after the health officer had left for
the night. when ashes which were sup
posed to be the incinerated remains OF
Col. George Waring former street clean
ing commissioner of this city, had been
taken out of a crock on the mantelpiece
and had been thrown away. the crock Il
self being then used to mix drinks In
DR.. Doty characterized this report last
night as an absurd fabrication
Denyse is the son of a Staten Island
saloonkeeper. who was employed i'm the
Associated Press office at the quarantine
for eight years up to 1905. and who did
odd jobs for DR.. Doty around tae quaran-
tine station at SO additional month.
Women Frequent Visitors.
Women frequently came from other
parts of Staten Island at night to partici-
pate in orgies with quarantine employees.
he testified before Commissioner Charles
N. Bulger. The women would arrive
II.
the employees would take them up to Dr..
Doty's handsomely furnished office on the
second floor, which we called the green
room / took part in these affairs my
self. One night fifteen Of us. including
two women, went up to the room a.
usual. l was asked to mix some gin
rickeys. l didn't have anything TO mix
it in. So used the crock containing Col.
Warnings ashes. which was standing Oh
the mantelpiece."
1t was explained to Commissioner
Bulger that eX-Street Cleaning Commits
this city in 1907, had been sent to Cuba
the following year by the United States
government as sanitary commissioner:
that he had contracted yellow fever
there, and that. returning to this cnIn-
try with the ailment, he had been taken
to Swinburne Island, where he had died
Of the disease and where his body was
cremated.
Threw Ashes on Floor.
You took a dead mans ashes out Of
their receptacle and used the receptacle
to mix drinks in?' exclaimed the COM
missioner.
''Oh. yes. ] threw them on the floor.
and they either were blown away by the
wind or We're swept up next morning.
answered the witness, who seemed to
be rather proud of the impression he was
making.
The witness said that the crock was
made of stone and was about a foot and
ha.f high.
1T wasn't labeled with Col. Warnings
name, but the employees at quarantine
have always known that 1t contained his
ashes," Denyse went on. After he died
and was incinerated the ashes were car
ried over to quarantine and placed in
the crock"
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the lady hadn't any more. whieh WIS
greedy"
- the following epitaph:
Haro
Lleth - Body
Of Alice, ye wife Of Dobt
Woodbridge who died
the 27th Of May, 1140,
Aged a years.
The world 10 a round thing
And full Of crooked streets,
Death 10 . market place,
Where all men meets.
If HE q thing
That money could buy,
The Rich would live
And the poor would die.
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Is Evenly Distributed.

The foreign-born population is very
evenly distributed throughout Massa-
ehusetts, which is due to the fact that
nearly every town and village in the state
has factories requiring operatives. Native
sons and dughters do not work in the
cotton and woolen mills or in the shoe
factories, or in other ordinary manufac-
turing establishments You will still find
them in the machine Shops the watch
factories, the jewelry factories and other
Industries which require a high degree OF
skilled labor. but the great majority of
the factory hands in the villages, as we'll
as in the large cities, are French-L Jan
adams, Italians. Poles, Hungarians anu
Bohemians. with few from France and
the northern countries of Europe.
In the fishing towns-New Bedford,
Gloucester, ProvincetoWn and other
places along the Atlantic-are many Por-
tuguese who come from the Azores and
other islands along the African coast.
and there are many Greeks in the cities
selling fruits and confectionery and keep
ing soda water stands. The Armenian
colony at Worcester is large and there
are groups of Syrians here and there.
The number of Jews is limited: there are
comparatively few in Boston and other
New England cities. which is strange be-
cause they naturally drift to trade and
manufacturing rather than agricultural
districts.
AA AShNSb "h'Nh - d CcltOH I1llIl LOW II,
has the largest PERCENTAGE of foreign in
habitants in the state. 46.OS per cent !;
Fan River comes next. with 1886; New
Bedford. AZ. 20; Lowell. 4173: Adams. 40. 40
and Holyoke. 40 No other town has
more than 40 per cent foreign born, al
though Quincy. the home of the Adamses,
has "a. 26 per cent. Plymouth, the home
Of the Pilgrims. has $50 per cent.
Springfield has the smallest proportion
of foreign born of any of the large cities
in the state-21-3S per cent-and Wey-
mouth. fishing and boat building town
near Quincy, has the smallest of the
minor towns-16.63 per cent Old Green
field, of which / wrote you the other day.
the original settlement in the Connecti-
cut valley in Massachusetts. has 1876
Per cent, and Newburyport has 1901 per
cent
The amalgamation of the foreign popu-
lation is more rapid in New England
Evening star., 1911-07-29
GOVERNMENT TO APPEAL
HARTMAN MERGER CASE
Department of Justice Hopes
to Win in United States
Supreme Court.

The government Will appeal to the SUI
preme Court the Hartman merger suit,
which was decided in favor of the rail-
roads by the United States circuit court
at st. Louis.
Attorney General Wicl.ersham today
directed c. A. Severance, the govern
ment's special counsel In the case, to
prepare the appeal and file it as quickly
as possible.
Although the government has a year
in which to perfect it's action to the
highest court. the Department Of Justice
intends to hurry the suit.
Government Hopes to Win.
Opinions have been expressed in some
quarters that the governments appeal
would be only routine matter to have the
questions involved decided by the high
est court. At the Department Of Justice
however. 1t is said the government Is
appealing the case in the hope of winning
it. Mr.. Severance had reported to the
Attorney General that he believes the
government has a good chance
1t has been suggested to the department
that the outcome of the Hartman merger
suit might have some bearing upon the
great holding company, which, 1t has
been reported, is to be organized for the
New York Central lines. Attorney Cen
eral Wickersham, however, said the pro.
posed New York Central Company has
not been called to his attention, and
would express no opinion.
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Percentage of Foreign-Born Is
About 35.23.
FIGURES NOT COMPLETED
City Is Losing Its Prestige as a Pub
lication Center.
BOOT MAKING BIG INDUSTRY
Specimens Of Remarkable Compost
tions Handed Teachers by Pub
lie School Children.
By WILLIAM E. CrRTIS

By WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
BOSTON, July 81. 1911.
The figures for the census of 1910 have
not yet been made up, but in 1905 the
population Of Boston was 3S5,633 native
born, and 200. 747 foreign born. which is
s5.2s per cent. BY the census of 1900
there were 36s,76S natives and 1912
foreign born. This same proportion has
been maintained for many years. In -,75
the foreign born were 34.22 per cent Of
the entire population; in 1885 they were
"a IA per cent: in 1895 the ratio ran up
10 $3.50 per cent, so that 1928 per cent
or thereabouts may be expected when the
returns for 1910 are available
This does not include native-born chill
dren of foreign-born parents, who are
even more numerous The 34.22 per cent
Of foreign birth who were here in 1915
have married and have had larger fam
lilies than the 60 IS per cent of native
born. The same is true in every place.
The emigrant population is not afraid to
have children, and 1t is prOverb that
the poorer the man the larger the family.
Very nearly the same ratio that prevails
in> Boston may be found throughout the
state. In 1905 3Oo6 per cent of the popu
1ation of Massachusetts, were foreign born
and 69.44 per cent native born. In the
cities the proportion was $3.50 per cent
foreign born to &C. 40 per cent native born :;
in the country, including the towns and
villages, the proportion was 22.U9 ger
cent foreign born to 1871 native born.
The ratio of foreign born in the entire
state has increased only 80 per cent dur
ing the last thirty years; in the cities
II has increased only SEQ per cent. and
in the country { per cent From those
figures you may judge as to the number
OF the children of alien parents. The
total number of foreign-born persons in
Massachusetts, in 1915 was 41S,9O4; the
total number in 1900 was 91SO44. The
total number in the villages and rural
districts in 1919 was S2,1S5, while in 1870
1t was 147, 100
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Barcelona Called
Chicago of Spain

the streets and buildings of Seville and
other old-fashioned Spanish cities as those
of the best laid-out city In the American
middle west are from the quaintest vii
lage in the oldest part Of New England.
The city is as large as ST. Louis and
the adjacent towns that may be in
cluded in a Greater Barcelona would
give it at least 100000 inhabitants A
civic beauty propaganda is engaging the
attention Of the Catalan metropolis, and
it Is proposed to do for 1t what Baron
Haussman did for Baris and Pierre
L'Enfant did for Washington.
Barcelona has been called the Chicago
Of Spain by disappointed tourists. who
expected to hnd 1t "typically Spanish" +"
but its business men do not resent the
appellation. II the traveller is looking for
quaint old cities with Moorish palaces
and Gothic cathedrals the country has
enough Of them to occupy his time as
long as he wishes to stay. The Cataionian
Chicago has other and more practical
aims. It proposes to eclipse the fairly
modern and fairly Tive" city Of Madrid
as an important center Of population,
and cares not at all that Seville and
Madrid have Murilla paintings to show
to the foreigner. while Il has nothing
more interesting than factories and uner-
camille houses and q deep water har-
Dor entered by 1000 ships every year.
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than elsewhere. This is attributed to
close contact In the factories with those
who have been on the ground for several
years and have acquired the Yankee
habits It Il also due to the educational
facilities and particularly to the trade or
vocational institutions that are 1ound In
every town or y,idllaGe.
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Spain is a protectionist country which
has shipping laws that aim at protect
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Andalusia is the only province that pro-
duces surplus of grain. The great grain
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DECLINES ID
 GIVE TESTIMONY
ROCKEFELLER AND GATES DE- CLINE INVITATION OF STEEL
 TRUST COMMITTEE.
Win Not Appear and Deny the Story of the Merits on the Ore
 Land Deal.

New York, Dec. 9.-Jonn D. Rocke- and the Rev. Frederick T Gates. for- mally declined today the invitation of Chairman Stanley of the coagres- sional investigation committee to ap- pear before the committee if they cared to make statement concerning the testimony recently given by Leoa- idas and Alfred Merritt. MT. Rocke- feller's letter is dated at Pocantico Hills. December 9 and adressed to Chairman Stanley. reads:
 Dear Sir: The narration of Leon- idas and Alfred Merritt before your committee was Al substance the rep etItion of the statements made by them in a controversy closed fifteen
 years ago. The statements are false. They were so dsc,nred by me at the time in sworn testimony and upon cross examination. Before t.;;. ..s;.. ;;-ccccc.:r.. 3. Of yenr Invitation had repeated my denial in a statement generally published in the press. Their one sided retraction is before you.
 T deemed it therefore unnecessary to avail myself of the opportunity
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STOMACH DISTRESS.
Gas and sourness vanish.

Whats the use Of always feeling miserable just because your stomach isn't behaving itself?
 Don't you know that scores of thousands of people have changed bad stomachs into perfect working ones by the simple method of swal- lowing one or two little Ml-O-NA stomach tablets after each meal?
 MEDINA is compounded from tho formula of what is probably the best prescription for indigestion and upset stomach ever written. Sorrells Drug Company guarantees it.
 It relieves distress in five minutes, but better still. it removes the cause of misery in few days.
 Large box 50 cents at sorrell's and druggists everywhere.
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FiNANcIER SUICIDES

Philadelphia, Dec. 9.Peter Boyd 57 years old. member of the Philadel- phia bar and president of the Trades mems Trust Company of this city, who went into the hands of receiv- CT two months ago, shot and killed himself today. His body was found by scrubwoman in his office this afternoon. There was bullet wound in his head and near the body was found a revolver. Worry and anxie- ty occasioned by the failure of the trust company. is believed to have mentally deranged MT. Boyd.
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RED CROSS STAMPS.

Wilmington. Dec. 9.-Postmaster General Hitchcock today suspended until January 1st the postal regula- kion forbidding the transmission through the mails of matter bearing upon the address side Red Cross Xmas seals or other charity stamps. This suspeIiii0n wsisi caused caused by pre-. ests from business men and bankers
 through the Red Cross, as important business mail had been delayed with serious consequences. From now un-
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now offered to appear before youl committed
 Yours truly,

committee.
 Yours truly,
 JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER"
 MT Gates letter is dated from 26 Broadway, N. r., Dec. g. and is as follows:
 "Sir: | have received your letter saying that if care to do so, l may appear before your committee.
 "Sixteen years ago the Merritts swore to these charges just as pos itively as they did before your com mittee. Then they signed retrac- ton of the whole thing. They now acknowledge that retractic.l.
 By those who believe in me, no denial belbre your committee is needed By those who believe in the Merritts, no testimony from me is needed to substSLtiate the MerrittS own acknowledged retractica.
 "The story of the Merritts was con tradicted by Mir, Rockefeller and my self in the United States Circuit court in Duluth, under oath and upon cross examination, and with the support Of many documents and many witnesses. The record of that case is duly filed in that court and includes the Mer- ritts' retraction of every charge My sworn testimony was true then, it has never been retracted; it Is true today. It is available for the purposes of your committee.
 We did not wait for your invitation. Immediately on the publication of the Merritt story. Mr. Rockefeller de- nied and published the Merritt re- traction, and as soon as i came home followed directly with detailed statement of the Merritt loans, show ing that MT. Rockefeller had never called any loan made to them. Your
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ed from custody this afternoon, fol- lowing her examination trial. The Kirby girl was found dead at the Dowell home with the charge from shot gun in her body. There was no evidence introduced at the trial to disprove the testimony of the Dowell ghl that her playmate was accidentally killed while playing with the shot gun.
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EIGHT woRkMEN KILLED.

Monterey, Mex, Dec 3. Eight workmen were killed and twelve bad ly injured last night when two hand cars on which they were riding ere rnn don by a freight train between Torreon and Gomez Palacios. The collision occurred near Talia. The men on the hand car were returning from their work ca the line, one of the divisions of the National Rail ways.
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LOUISIANA FIRE.

Morgan City La, Dec. 9.--A dis astrous fire swept the town of Pat terson, seven miles west of here to- night. destroying ten buildings. tn cluding the opera house and several business houses and residences. The loss is etimated at $20O,000.
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committee is simply means of reach ing the publics It decides nothing snd could decide nothing. in respect of this mater. I prefer to reach tho public direct. Very truly,
 FREDERICK T. GATES. . ,