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The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-25

Ostrich bands are often used to cover
the high crown with q finish Of up
standing French tips at side or back
Coque feathers are again the mode and
are being wired and braced into all
manner of outstanding cocade effects.
Paradise feathers. too, are again
high style, and will therefore no doubt
be even more expensive than formerly.
Very few flowers are used, though
one sees a few velvet pansies and
clusters of velvet fruits. Some huge
peoples and roses are employed to
form the entire crowns Of high hats,
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-25

least, for it may prove a revelation.
These old-fashioned bonnets are some
times edged about with fringe, a
trimming in perfect harmony with
their lines. They are usually made of
velvet, and the sheltering brims are
lined or faced with taffeta, or satin.
Velvet, by the way, is the material
par excellence for the fashionable
winter hat. It is used both on pressed
and handmade shapes. alone and in
combination with satin, taffeta, hat
ter's plus and fur felt. Uncut velvet
is a novelty, both for hats and trim
mings. very rich in appearance, but
more resembling cord silk than ordi-
nary velvet.
All kinds of silks and velvets are
employed IN the fashioning of winter
hats and bonnets, satins, corded silks,
moires, and plushes having been rein
forced by the advent Of taffeta, into
the millinery field. The vogue of taf-
feta gowns, trimmed with fringes,
which took Paris by storm during the
late summer, has given an impetus to
this fabric for winter millinery. Hats
of felt and velvet are faced with taf-
feta, and taffeta is sometimes pressed
upon the upper sides Of hats with felt
or velvet facings.
French crepe is new as a material
for hat facings, and affords a delight
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-25

fully soft and becoming background
for the face. The head sizes of the
new hats remain large, and though
bit closer than of late seasons, they
still allow the hats to sink well over
the face.
For all practical purposes this will
be quite a ribbon season, as very wide
plain and fancy ribbons are used ex-
tensively as trimmings for hats of all
kinds. Particularly is this true of the
new, high-crowned, narrow-brimmed
hats, which are very generally trimmed
with ribbon. Ribbons show some
very handsome new, double-faced eff
fects, the reverse side Of brighter hue
side of darker color. These ribbons
are trimmed about the new high
crowns, fold upon fold, with these
bright edges at each fold, and meeting
in a bias seam in front The crown
is thus entirely covered, and at the
back rises a wired crest Of ruffied rib
bon, in plume effect, very full and
fluffy, and outstanding to an even
greater height than the crown of the
hat. Velvet and silk are also arranged
on these hats, in the same fashion as
ribbon, or in short, sharp, outstanding
bows, covering the crowns and simu-
lating wings.
Wings, fancy feathers, and aigrette
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-25

the petals extending downward upon
the brims. These mammoth flowers
are all Of a foot across, and in uncut
velvet they are decidedly handsome.
Wool embroideries and wool ap-
plique, In soft, bright colors, are
sometimes applied on handmade hats.
They are especially pretty on the deep
brim of the quaint, old-fashioned poke
bonnet.
As to colors, hats are quite gener-
ally modest, purples, prunes, browns.
greys, navy and black predominating,
with touches of royal blue, emerald
green and coronation red, a deep GER
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ise,-in the trimmings. Many smart
hats are all In dark, dull tones. all
black, grey, navy OF navy and cisy
combined, and plain taupe. Some few
hats are developed In the pretty, dull.
brownish grey mole-slEin itself. though
these, of course, are very expensive
and a novelty. All white hats, or
dark hats. with trimmings OF white.
are both popular and becoming. With
50 much variety In color. shape. and
trimming. It should be an easy matter
for every woman to find her affinity IN
a hat,-something which entirely suits
her type, her color, and her purse.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-25
Copyrighted. lsll. Dy !. J. Robinson.

10 many lovely creations, large
and small, quaint and
- smart, have the milIiners
designed for our delight
during the last two seasons
that it seemed almost out of the ques-
tion that even Paris could offer any
thing new for Fail. Yet here they
are with us,-the new models, seem
tng, as ever, smarter and more bravely
6ne than the old. Also, alas, they are
80 unlike any former fashions that
Femodelling last years hat for this
year is altogether out Of the question.
The most radical departure from all
recent millinery precedent is the very
high, pointed crown, narrow brsm,
s'Pierriot'' shape, which is the real
style note of the day. These crowns
are rarely less than ten inches in
height, and very often more They
are very narrow, even at the base, and
taper to a rounded or fattened conicaI
top. The brims are usually pinched
an poke across the front, or at the
back, and sometimes they are poked
at both sides, being plain, back and
front. This high, narrow, comic or
rPierriot" shape is a very practical
one, as it fits the head well. 1t is de-
signed to be worn without rats, puns
or any distended, artificial coiffure ar
Fangement.
The high, narrow hat, while pre-
dominant, will not, by any means, en-
tirely displace the picture hat of ample
brim and generous curves. This type
Of chapeau is altogether too elegant
and too becoming to a large number
Of women TO permit OF it's being has
tily relegated to the limbo of things
past and forgotten The ultra-smart
large hat viii be Just as large as ever,
e not so ubiquitous, and will be flatter
than ever, with crown barely raised
above the bFim, by the scantiest al
iowance of inches.
Some medium large hats are being
fashioned with high crowns, but they
win scarcely have the appeal of the
hatter, wider models. The large hat
IS now looked upon as exclusively a
dress affair, and not for the highways
and byways" of the market-pIace.
This il as 1t should be. and a wei
come innovation 30 those who have
suffered from it's expansiveness in
public eOnveyances, elevators ana the
crowded streets
Old-fashioned poke bonnets are
modish still, and this is fortunate. for
they have { certain quaint prettfness
well in keeping with demure. youna
or round faces. The woman who looks
well in them usually looks amazingly
well, better, in fact, than In almos
any other type of headgear. Befor,
passing by the old-fashioned poke, al
too extreme. one should try 1t on. a
The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-25

} many lovely creations, large
and small, quaint and
smart, have the milliners
designed for our delight
during the last two seasons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
TOGO HAS ARRIVED.
Japanese Great Sea Fighter viii Go
to Washington This Afternoon.

New York, Aug admiral Count
Heihachiro Togo, sea fighter and con-
queror of the Russian feet in the
Russo-Japan war, made ready today
for the formal amenities of his twelve
days visit to the United States. Ad-
miral Togo reached hare late last
night from England on the Lusitania
and was welcomed down the bay by
representatives of the government at
here and brought to this city on the
derelict destroyer Seneca
when / have seen a little more of
your country | may have a little more
to say" said the admiral, az he made
ready to receive an official visit from
Mayor Gaynor. The admiral will later
visit Mayor Gaynor at the city hall
and this afternoon will depart for
Washington, where on Saturday he
will meet President Taft and be enter
tanned by him at dinner. Admiral
Togo will make a hurried trip to An
napolis and Mount Vernon, returning
to this city on August IL making
stops at Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The Mayf1ower will take him to West
Point and after a peep at Boston and
Niagara Falls he Will set his course
for the northwest. where he will board
the Pacific liner Tampa Maru for Yo-
kohama.
doclxed today. told of several incidents
of the voyage in which Togo figured.
Not the least interesting was the Civ
ing of his autograph to a little girl,
who asked him in English and re-
ceived the coveted prize through the
secretary of the admiral. Admiral Togo
had the misfortune to drop his purse
in the washroom of the ship one day
It contained valuable documents and
G10o. The purse was found by a trav-
eler. who returned it at once. The ad-
miral was intensely pleased that his
papers had been returned.
Escorted by one hundred mounted
policemen, Admiral Togo went in an
automobile from his hotel to city hall
this forenoon to visit Mayor Gaynor
With him was his aide. Commander
Taniguchi, Third Assistant Secretary of
State Hale and Captain Potts of the
United States navy. An immense
crowd which thronged the city hall
park gave Admiral Togo and his party
a hearty cheer as they alighted from
their automobile.
The admiral was dressed in a full
white duck uniform. He nodded a
smiling acknowledgment of the recep-
ton The party was escorted to the
reception room in the city hall building,
where after a delay of several minutes
they were taken to Mayor Gaynor =
private office. Mr.. Hale presented Ad-
miral Togo to the mayor and after n
brief visit Admiral Togo and his party
returned to their hotel.
Mayor Gaynor, at o'clock, left the
city hall to return the call of Admiral
Togo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
COLT SUIT IS FILED.
Young Millionaire Served With Papers
in Ethel Barrymore Case.

New York. Aug. 4.=Although un-
usual efforts were made to keep the
fact a secret. some of her friends 60
ing so far as to assert that reconcile
alton was likely, it is announced that
Ethel Barrymore has served Russell
Griswold Colt with papers in a suit for
absolute divorce. The suit is under
the laws Of New York, which recog-
nize only one ground for a decree.
It was reported that more than ore
correspondent had been named: but
their Identities have been kept secret.
The only clew lay in the repetition of
the story that a society woman had
been specified.
Colt was surprised in his rooms in
the Yale club late Tuesday night when
the service was effected. Mrs. Colt had
come here from Quebec. where she is
spending the summer. to sign the final
afidavits this afternoon. Up to the
moment she signed the documents
even her own lawyers were in doubt
4 s to what course she would take Her
family was as much at q loss as her
friends and Mr.. Colt. who had been
making efforts for a reconciliation. was
the last to expect that the action would
come at this time But W hen he had
recovered from his surprise. he read
ily agreed to the suggestion that the
whoe affair be gone through with as
quietly as possible
MISS ISiifIN I'ipie spent no more tlnle
in New York thGn necessary. She was
informed her husband had been served
and the object of her journey accom-
plished, she left again yesterday morn
ing.
Friends made an effort to have Miss
Barrymore consent to meet Mr.. Coli
again before her departure hoping hat
an eleventh hour reconciliation miShl
ne brought about. She declined the plar
I'm q characteristic manner. She ha6
only one thing tc ask. she said. aud
that was that Mr.. Colt, as well as 9th
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
COURT HOUSE FLOODED.
A Thirty inch Water Main Bursts in
Chicago.

Chicago. Aug. 4.-By the breaking
of a thirty inch water main. the court
house, one of the principal hotels and
adjoining skyscrapers received food
ing today that did thousands of dol
lars worth of damage and attracted
hundreds of persons to the scene
Randolph street, part of the socalled
Rialto here, suffered the worst from
the torrent. Most of the damage was
done to the costly rugs and other ac-
cessories of a fashionable restaurant
which occupies a basement.
One of the picturesque sights result
ing from the food was in a hotel
where many employees, chiefly wom-
en-, were kept busy at property rescue
work in water which rose above the
shoe tops of the workers. It so hap
pened also that the person in com
mand of the force was the assistant
chief housekeeper, a woman.
The feminine brigade, apparently in
different alike to the flood and to the
cheers of enthusiastic onlookers, kept
out in the tide until after an hour and
a half a gang of men arrived from the
city pumping station in distant por-
tion of the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
KANSAN KILLS HIMSELF.
Lieutenant Brilliant, Z. S. n. Com
mits Suicide in New York.

New York. Aug 4-Lieutenant
Charles E. Brilliant of the United
States navy. was found dead from q
bullet wound in his room at the Hotel
Astor late yesterday. There were no
circumstances to contradict the corp
ner's immediate opinion that the case
was one of suicide. In one of his
hands, which were crossed over his
body, as it lay in a chair. he clutched
32-caliber revolver. with all hut one
of the six chambers loaded. The bullet
from the empty chamber had struck
his right temple. made its way through
his head and was found on the floc~
behind him.
To Mrs. Charles E. Brilliant who $
said to be his bride of but eight
months. the naval lieutenant had seal
ed, addressed and stamped a letter
which the coroner forwarded to her
without opening. at The Cairo. Six
teenth street and Q street y. w
Washington, D. c."
Lieutenant Brilliant was a native OF
Kansas but was appointed to Annapolis
( from Pennsylvania
An autopsy showed Tat Lieutenant
Brilliant was suffering rom menin-
gifts which the physicians say probab-
ly created a morbid state of mind and
| caused him to kill himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
JACKSON, HIS PLAN
Kansas Congressman Asks Taft
to Call a Congress
OF All the Nations to Meet Next
Year.
FOR WORLD ALPHABET
To Consider Universal Method
Of Expressing Ideas
And a Graphic Sound Notation
for Every Language.
FOR WORLD ALPHABET

Washington, Aug. A congress of
nations to adopt "a world alphabet
is asked for in a bill introduced by
Representative Jackson of Kansas Mr.
jackson wants the president to invite
all nations to send delegates to Wash
ington in 1912, Ito consider the pos
sibility, desirabllity and feasibility of
recording all elementary sounds OF
the human voice. which may be used
in human speech or expression CT
ideas, and of formulating a graphic
sound notation or alphabet for all such
sounds, which alphabet shall be adapt
ed to the use of every language, dia-
lect and form of human vocal express
sion, and shall be suitable for writing.
printing, engraving and other forms OF
presentation
In preparing this universal scien-
tific alphabet" Representative Jackson
particularly asks that the views of all
"linguists, phoneticians. philologists,
photographers, orthoepists. ortho-
graphers, translators, transliterators.
teachers of language, artists. ocuhsts,
physicians, neurologists, missionaries,
printers, typists, linotypists, stenog-
raphers and tpye founders be taken
into consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
SOLDIER MONEY CAME.
So An Pensions Were Paid Promptly
Today.

Late Thursday evening A. w. Smith
received a telegram from the St Louis
subtreasury stating that funds for the
payment of the August pension claims
had been placed to the credit of the
Topeka office. A total of S4,5OO,OOO
was announced in the telegram. which
amount was more than sufficient to
meet the payment due the 103, 900 old
soldiers and their widows.
When the federal building opened
this morning, several hundred aged
men and women stood IN line await
ing an opportunity to claim their
vouchers Many of the people in the
crowd did not realize that only the
most prompt action on the part of the
government had made possible the
payment of the pensions at the usual
time.
A few days ago. whom it was an
nounced that Colonel Smiths appoint
ment had been confirmed by the SEN
ate, the government withdrew the Of
fee checking account until new bond
could be filed. Then Uncle Sans GUS
tomary red tape tangled things up
and each day the payment of the old
soldiers was a little nearer. The Of
fee needed S4,300,000 to pay the vet
Grams. That was more money than
Smith cared to advance from his pri-
vate account and relief seemed to come
only by freight. Finally the depart
ment sent word that It had ordered
the subtreasury to meet the Topeka
Offices checks. But there was no con-
f1rmation of this from the St. Louis
Office Another tedious wait. Just as
the Office was closing for the day,
Colonel Smith received a telegram to
the effect that the Offices account had
been credited with s4,5oO,O0O.
So this morning the clerks in the
pension Office began issuing vouchers
the same as though nothing had ever
occurred
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
" Bh Wbk VHauR
Franchise Is Accepted by ChenO-
Weth Firm.
Surveys Out Soon for Fuel-Oil in
Topeka.
MUST BEGIN AT ONCE.
City Places 3 Months Limit on
Company.
Guaranty of 81 900 Is Required
Cost of Oil.
.UST BEGIN AT ONCE.

The fuel-oil franchise passed by the
city board of commissioners has been
accepted by T. N. Chenoweth OF Kan
sas City. Mr.. Chenoweth has inform
ed the city officials that his company
will begin the surveys at once and a
plant will be planned r. supply To-
peka with fuel oil this winter. The
acceptance was received in a letter last
night.
The city commissioners have con-
sidered the acceptance and have sent
word to the Chenoweth company TO
begin work at once The franchise is
acceptable to both parties of the con-
tract.
Surveyors will be here soon and the
proposed pipe line viii be laid out and
the estimates made for the company.
Land will be purchased for the erec-
ton of a pumping plant and every
thing placed in readiness for the
pumping of fuel oil over the city.
The franchise agreed upon states
that the company shall begin actual
construction work in three months
after the acceptance. Within year
after the franchise is signed the com
pany shall be prepared to furnish fuel
oil to all consumers on not less than
twenty blocks of mains.
Guaranty of 81 900.
As a guaranty that the constructing
company will make the improvements
the city has required that deposit of
$1,000 be made with the city treasurer.
If they do not fulfill their agreements
after the time mentioned above, they
forfeit the thousand dollars. Further
more. If the company fails to deposit
the money the franchise will be de-
clared null and void.
The price of fuel oil in the franchise
is as follows: To consumers using
thirty or more barrels month a profit
of not more than 10 cents a, barrel can
be charged: consumers using less than
thirty barrels shall pay not more than
a profit to the company of Is cents a
barrel. The cost of oil is based on
the market price at the wells in car
load lots plus the freight to Topeka.
The company shall pay 800 for the
franchise.
After this first payment for the
franchise proper tie company is re-
quired to pay to t1e city I per cent
of the gross receipts of the company.
This is to be paid every six months.
In case a special election has to be
called to accept this fuel-on franchise
the city has declared that the petition
ing company shall pay the cost of this
election. The cost must be paid to
the CITY before the election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
WHITE SAYS HE LIED.
Lorimer Witness Undergoes Singing
Cross ESxamina ton.

Washington. Aug. with a sting
in nearly every question counsel for
Senator Lorimer again today subject
ed Charles A. White, confessed bribe
taker in the Lorimer election, to q
rigid cross examination before the SEN
ate Lorimer committee.
You deliberately lied when you
wrote to Senator LOrimer on Deem
Der 4, 1903, that you had finished your
story, didn't you?" asked Attorney
Elbridge Hanecy.
es, SIR
when you wrote the senator You
had been offered approximately $3.50
word, you told cold bold lie?''
1T was falsehood."
What are you smiling at?" sudden
" demanded Mr.. Hanecy.
AT the way you put it,
White said he had been "coerced in
a degree to let the Tribune print his
story because they had turned it over
to the states attorney. White refer
red to a socalled contract between. him
and the Tribune.
80 you did not regard a contract
any more binding on you than the
truth, did you?" inquired Mr.. Hanecy.
White did not reply.
You knew you violated your oath,
made yourself infamous under the
Illinois constitution and disqualified
yourself for holding any office when,
you say, you took these bribes % asked
Mr.. Hanecy.
Yes, and I knew those who were
paying me were doing the same thing
and so were the special interests who
were putting up the money to do it
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ers, say nothing about the proceedings.
Then she boarded the train to return
to that blessed baby as she calls
her boy, who is less than years old.
Although Colt is wealthy himself and
is the son of the millionaire head Of
the rubber trust, Miss Barrymore has
asked no alimony- She demands the
custody of the child and asks that ar
order for its maintenance be issued. 1t
is probable that Mr.. Colt will not fight
the suit, but his family is desirous that
some arrangement be made whereby
they may occasionally have charge Of
the boy, who is named after Col Sam
uel Pomercy Colt. his grandfather
Miss Barrymore had been in Quebec
only about a week when she made her
hurried trip here. She smuggled her
self through New York on her way
from the west and declined to say a
word about tire report that had come
from Los Angeles. where she was play
ing at the time. that she intended to
separate from her husband. She cross
ed Colts trail the day she arrived at
st. Johns, a little village near Montre-
al He had been there to see the child
about an hour before she arrived. She
purposely avoided meeting him in Mon
treal when he stayed over for the pur-
pose although during the time since
the first report ad come out many Of
her friends were denying the story
that she would really quit him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
COTTON BILL PASSES.
The House Measure Cut the Duty 21
Per Cent.

Washington. Aug. 4.-Supported by all
the Democrats and by thirty insurgent
Republicans. the Democratic cotton tariff
bill. the third of the big tariff revision
measures brought forward by the Demo-
cratic house of representatives, passed
that body by a vote of 202 to 81.
The bill cuts the average tariff on cot
ton manufactured goods from 4S to q
per cent ad valorem, a 81 per cent reduc-
ton in duty that the Democratic leaders
estimate will reduce revenue to about
s., 600, 900.
Not an amendment was offered to the
bill, although the Republicans attacked
it vigorously on account Of alleged in
creases in certain items over the rates of
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
Scarcely had the cheers that greeted
the passage of the cotton revision bill
subsided when Democratic Leader IN
derwood, calling up the free list bill as it
passed the senate a few days ago, ac-
complished a strategic move which sur
prised the Republicans.
He asked for a conference on all the
amendments to the free list bill except
that of Senator Gronna, of North Da-
kota, putting cement on the free list He
urged that the house accept that amend
ment, adding to it lemons.
Pacific coast Republicans made ineffect-
ual attempts to stop this sudden and un-
expected putting on lemons on the free
list
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-04
BASEBALL WEATHER.
WEsTERN LEAGUE.

Sioux City at at st. Joe. clear, s:45
p. m.
Des Moines at Omaha, clear. s:45
p. m.
Topeka at Denver, clear, $3.50 p. m.
Lincoln at Pueblo, clear, $3.50 p. m.
%A r1ONAL l. LEAGUE
New York at Pittsburg. clear, $3.50
p. m.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati. clear, 3
AMERICAN LEEGUE
Cleveland at New York. cloudy. 4
Q. m.
Detroit at Boston, clear, 3:15 .. m.
st. Louis at Philadelphia, clear, 1 go
and $3.50 p. m.
Chicago at Washington, cloudy. :
and 4 p m.
MEXICAN ASSOCIATION.
Louisville at Columbus.
Indianapolis at Toledo. $3.50 p. m
Kansas City at Milwaukee. 3 p. m.
Minneapolis at St. Paul, .. M.