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Evening star., 1911-08-27
VAN SCHA|CK FREE
Captain of III-Fated Steamer
Gen. Slocum ParoIed.
LEAVES SING SING PRISON
Attorney General Wickersham Hon
ors Petition Signed by Fami-
lies Of Victims.

NEW YORK. August 26-Capt. Will
liam n. Van Schaick. who was COM
mander Of the excursion steamer Gen.
Slocum when 1t burned in He'll Gate June
10, 1904. with loss OF a thousand lives
was paroled by the United States gov
ernment today and returned to his home
in this city tonight from Sing Sing
prison.
1t was q surprise to his wife and fam
lily and the captain himself for the old
man was almost overcome when Warden
John s. Kennedy OF Sing Sing told hin
today that parole papers had arrived
signed by Attorney General Wickersham
Capt. Van Schaick packed up his few be.
Iongings, and. after bidding farewell tc
the officials and some of the convicts
walked to the railroad station and board
ed the train for New York.
Charged With Criminal Neglect.
Following the historical catastrophe, the
captain of the Slocum was made fed
eral prisoner on a charge of criminal
neglect Of duty for the failure to have
provided worthy fire protection and life
preservers on the steamer. A consider
able time later he was convicted in New
York and sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment. He had served two and a
half years when the parole was granted
today.
At the time Of Capt Van Schaick's S
conviction there was considerable popu-
lar sympathy for him because all the
punishment for the terrible accident fell
on his shoulders.
Victims Families Sign Petition.
Even the families Of tho victims came
to feel the seeming injustice Of his bear
ing the burden alone and many Of them
signed petition for the captains par
don. which was sent to Washington.
Capt. Van Schaick. who Is now sew
enty-two years old. said tonight that
he was SO overcome with his new fortune
that he had not decided what he should
do in the future, but expected to remain
with his wife and family.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
WHOLESALE ARRESTS Of
CITIZENS Of SEATTLE
Warrants Against Partici-
pants in Meeting That De-
nounced Judge Hanford.

SEATTLE. Wash. August 26.-Charged
with conspiring to obstruct the admins.
tration Of justice In q United States
court Oliver L. Erickson. member OF
the Seattle city council; Leroy Sanders
editor Of the Seattle Star: B. c. Can
field. publisher Of tho Star. and manager
Of a string Of newspapers on the Pacific
coast; John p, Perry. attorney for Can
field and Sanders: Deputy Sheriff Hugo
Kelly: Paul X. Mohr. q labor leader
Thomas Horner. attorney and Will At
kinson, a real estate dealer were ar
rested today on warrants sworn to by
United States District Attorney Elmer E.
Todd.
A warrant for A. v. Fawcett, who was
ousted from office OF mayor OF Tacoma
in a recent recall election, was issued
and sent to Tacoma for service.
Erickson. MOhr and Kelly refused
bail. and were sent to the county jail
Atkinson was released on $1,000 and
the others on $4,000. Preliminary hear.
ing was set for next Wednesday.
The warrants were issued as the re.
suit Of the hanging OF an efigy OF
United States District Judge Cornelius
H. Hanford. and the utterance at q mass
meeting last night OF infiammatory
speeches denouncing~ the court for hav.
ing issued an injunction restraining the
people OF. the Rainier valley from in:
terfering with the Seattle, Renton and
Southern railroad. which is involved
in a dispute with its patrons.
The information charges all the lead.
ers Of the mass meeting with conspir.
Ing to arouse the people to disobedience
of the injunction. II also charges Can
field, Sanders and Perry with re-
sponsibility for the hanging In efigy
Of Judge Hanford
Evening star., 1911-08-27

in the vestibule with me. and we tried
the door, but 1t would not bulge. The
glass panel had been broken, however.
and we climbed through, the waiter
going first. My hat and the napkin l
had pinned around my neck were gone.
but took the walters apron and applied
1t to the wound on my head, which was
bleeding profusely.
Il walked down the tracks to the car in
which I had been seated before enter
aid treatment and located my luggage.
Then I started back to look for Keeler
and found him sitting on an embank-
ment. His first words were. My God.
0ursler. I thought you had been killed
There were number of persons at
| tending him, binding up his wrist, which
had been severely lacerated, SO I made
for a telegraph Office with Amherst w.
Barber, who also had attended the con-
vention. He was uninjured.
News Announced From Platform.
1.-THE telegraph office was closed. and sc
I got to a telephone and got Gen. Thom-
as J. Stewart at Rochester on the wire
and gave him the first news OF the ac-
cident. He had 1t announced from the
platform Of the convention. Ialso asked
him to send a message to my wife. which
he did.
81 then drove In au automobile, the
use Of which was offered me, to store
and got a cap. On returning to the
scene of the wreck l was told Keeler
had been removed on a stretcher and
taken to a hospital at Rochester. /
boarded a train that had been made up
and intended to go through to Phila-
delphia, but on the advice OF q physi-
clan Of the road, got off at Bethlehem,
where j was taken in an ambulance to
a hospital and had my wound properly
dressed. I was not allowed to leave the
hospital until o'clock this morning, and
then went to Philadelphia and from
there came here"
Col. Oursler said he was told all bag
gage had been sent on to Philadelphia.
but he was unable to locate 1t there He
was assured 1t would be forwarded on to
him here as soon as it was identified.
According to Commander Ross, who
saw Col. Keeler after he had been placed
in the hospital at Rochester. Mrs. Keeler
was not on the train, having remained at
Rochester to participate in the delibera-
tions of the Woman's Auxiliary. He
said Col. Keeler. in addition to being in
jured. had lost his watch and the wallet
containing his money In the wreck.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
MEETINGS BIGGEST DAY
Large Attendance Is Expected
at Services at Great
Falls Today.
Special Correspondence Of TIE Star.

special Correspondence or T1e Star.
GREAT FALLS. Va, August 26 1911.
Tomorrow will be the big day at the
camp meeting evangelistic services here
Rev. ]. Howard Wells, pastor Of the Noun
Vernon Place Southern Methodist Church
OF Washington Is to be the preacher al
the IL o'clock service, which is expected
to have the largest attendance OF an,
service Of the meeting.
Church Of Washington will preach. while
in the evening Rev. R l. Fultz will bt
the preacher. Miss Jennie Smith, rail.
road evangelist Of Washington, also viii
make a brief address on her evangelistiC
meetings conducted during the last few
months in West Virginia and Pennsyl-
vania.
Experience Meetings.
The meetings Of the day will open with
devotional service at o'clock. and.
following thereafter at and 9 o'clock.
there will be special services in the big
tent. These latter meetings Will be on
the order Of experience gatherings.
The sermon Of the occasion this even
ing was preached by Rev. Mr.. Hout
and the one in the morning by Rev. H.
NJ Canter. Rev. DR.. Forrest J. Pretty
man, presiding elder of the Washington
district, Southern Methodist Church, pre-
sided at the experience meeting at y
o'clock.
The camp meeting will como to q close
Monday.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
MORE HELP FOR MRS. DENNIS.
Additional Contributions to Fund
Have Been Received.

Additional contributions to the fund
for the relief Of Mrs. Minnie Dennis,
the widow Of Lieut.. L. r. Dennis, who
arrived in Washington from Panama
with her six children little more
than q week ago. penniless. were re-
cetved by The Eter yesterday. one Of
50 inclosed in a letter signed "L. H."
and another OF 81. contributed by q Mr..
Fauth.
At the Confederate Memorial Home,
1922 Vermont avenue. where Mrs. Dem
mis- is stopping. II was announced last
night that her condition is steadily i'm
proving, and that her health probably
will be completely restored In the course
Of q few weeks.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
Flames Blind Him.
FUN AT THIS GAME,
Eagles and Knights Of Columbus to
PLAY Base Ball.

Arrangements have been completed fol
the base ball game between teams repre-
senting the Fraternal Order of Eagles
and the Knights Of Columbus that will
be played Tuesday afternoon at the Ma
tionai League Park for the benefit of st.
Vincent's Orphan Asylum for Girls.
Preliminary to the game. the 10Th Cav
airy Band will give a concert at o'clock.
A number Of persons have subscribed to
boxes. among them being Mgr. William
T. Russell, pastor Of St Patrick's Church
Very Rev. j. R. Meagher, o. p, prior of
William III. Rapley. Edward ]. Walsh and
William Fowler Of the Washington Base
Ball Club, which gave the use Of the park
free; NJ G. Mccormick, Judge William
II. De Lacy, William F. GUIDE, e. J. Muir
ply, J. T. Moffett, p. ]. Haltigan. Rosa
F. Downing, p. T. Moran. Harry Win
ninger. William p. Normoyle and q num-
ber Of others.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
ATTORNEYS SAY GATES
MADE A LATER WILL
New Document Gives Son
$1,00O,0O Outright, With
$2,OOO,OOO in Trust.

NEW YORK, August 26.-An announce
ment that the Will made by John w.
Gates In May. 1910. which was made
public on the day OF his funeral, We'd
nesday, by ex-Supreme Court Justice
Henry A. Gildersleeve. had been revoked
by a will in March. 1911. was made to-
day by attorneys who drew the later
will.
The 1910 document left all but about
$1,000. 600 in trust fund for his widow and
son. forbidding the sale OF any of the
securities for ten years. So far as tho
attorneys statement shows. there is no
provision OF this sort in the new will,
which gives the son a million dollars out
right, with $2OOO0OO I'm trust, and tho
widow the remainder of the estate, with
the exception of about 100000. which
Is divided among relatives and friends.
The attorneys statement adds that Mrs.
Gates, 'in pursuance of the wish Of her
husband. has arranged to turn over to her
son a part Of q portion of the estate he
queathed to her sufficiently large TO make
their shares approximately equal"
The estate has been unauthoritaively
estimated at $30.O00,0O0.
Declines to Talk.
Charles G. Gates tonight declined to ba
interviewed as to whether the new Will
permitted or directed the immediate dis
position Of his fathers large holdings.
Judge Gildersleeve. in announcing the
previous will, said that the ten-year
trust provision had been made because
Mr.. Gates wished to protect friends who
had put money in the same projects and
whose holdings might be deprecated IL
such an amount OF securities was thrown
on the market suddenly.
Mrs Gates and her SON only are named
as executrix and executor OF the new
WILL which VIM shortly be presented Tor
probate in jefferson county, Tex, where
Mr.. Gates resided. A hundred thousand
dollars to the Mary Gates Hospital at
Port Arthur is one of the charitable be-
quests OF the will
Evening star., 1911-08-27
WORKING FOR GOOD ROADS.
Meeting Of State Highway Commis.
sioners in New York.

NEW YORK, August 26.-State high
way commissioners of several states. en-
gineers and others interested in road inn
provement In different parts Of the coun-
try, attended the annual meeting OF the
American Road Builders Association
here today. A number of changes in the
organizations constitution and bylaws
were made and plans formulated for ex-
tending the work Of the association
throughout the United States and Can
ada. The following officers were elected:
Harold Parker. chairman Of the Massa-
chusetts state highway commission, presi-
dent; r. L Powers OF New York. secre-
tary; Maj. Walter w. Crosby, chief en-
g1neer OF tho Maryland state roads COM
mission, treasurer. -.-
Evening star., 1911-08-27
WILL SAVE ON FUEL.
Central Heating Plant Completed fol
Three Schools.

Municipal Architect Snowden Ashford
yesterday inspected the central heating
plant which is being constructed for the
M street high school and the Simmons
and Douglass schools. He said that the
plant practically has been completed and
that 1t will be ready for use by the OPEN
ing Of schools, September IS.
The three schools are located In the
block bounded by 1st street, NJ street,
Pierce street and New Jersey avenue, the
heating plant being located between them.
Previously the buildings have been
warmed by Individual furnaces.
1t Is the belief OF the municipal archi-
tect that the employment Of the new sys-
tenn will result in a saving OF approx
mately $500 year IN fuel alone. The new
plant cost about $4,000.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
DR.. PHILLIPS GUEST
Of PYTH|AN KNIGHTS
Farewell Dinner Given Him by
the Members of Rathbone
Superior Lodge.

Praise OF his work In Washington. both
| in educational and fraternal circles. was
the dominant note OF the speeches deI
livered last night at q farewell dinner
given to DR.. w. r. R Phillips, formerly
dean Of the medical department OF George
Washington University. by members OF
Rathbone Superior Lodge. No. q knights
OF Pythias.
DR.. Phillips has accepted the profes-
sorship Of anatomy In the University or
Alabama and viii leave Monday for Mo,
bile. Ala, his future home. Twenty-Five
members of Rathbone Lodge. of which ha
has been the chancellor commander. at
tended last nights banquet. which was
given at the Fredonia Hotel.
FL C. Snyder officiated as toestmaster.
Among the speakers were Samuel 8. BaS-
sett, grand chancellor Of the District: T.
A. Bynum. supreme representative OF the
District; Benjamin A. Harlan and ID. n.
Hoover. Ir Several other members spoke
appreciatively Of DR.. Phillips services To
the lodge.
In q speech responding to the compl!-
mentary things that had been said about
leaving Washington. He was presented
with a travelling bag by the lodge
Has Been Practicing Medicine.
DR.. Phillips held the position of medical
climatologist IN the United States weather
bureau for nine years prior to being made
dean OF the medical department Of George
Washington University. He resigned the
latter position two years ago and took up
the practice Of medicine. He is a MEM
ber OF the National Geographic Society.
tho Philosophical Society of Washington.
the anatomical board OF the District OF
Columbia and the American Climatologi-
cal Association.
Those who attended the dinner includ-
ed D. N. Hoover. ST.. d. n. Hoover. jr.,
w. r. Scott, L. H Troutman, w. o.
Owen, Benjamin A. Harlan. H l..
Thompson. T. K Plant. w. c. Dean. ].
Jones. l. NJ Darrough. M. Thompson.
Percy Daniels, II. A. iVeth, ]. Nuss-
baum, B. r. Harrah. 8. H. Bassett, w. ].
CONN, Il. c. Snyder, Isaac C. Ellis. w.
w. Suder, T. A Baynum, Gus Schults.
q. q. Dennisn. g. Barnard. II. Hunt J.
M. williams. W. w. Kirby. DR.. Boyntons
r. J. Foudren and DR.. eraser.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
MANY VIEW BODIES HORRORS OF WRECK
Identification of Wreck Vic COL Ourser Gives Vivid Story
tins Proceeds Rapidly. of Railway Disaster.
SIX STILL ARE UNKNOWN COMES HOME IN BANDAGES
Injured Veteran Smiles Bravey
Put at SeventySix Greets Members of Family
DEBRIS BEING CLEARED AWAY CAUGHT IN DINING CAR
ou andC Is
Col. 0ursIer Gives Vivid Story
of Railway Disaster.
COMES HOME IN BANDAGES
But Veteran Smiles Bravely as He
Greets Members Of Family.
CAUGHT IN DINING CAR
Had Just Ordered Meal When Crash
Came as Train Left the
Tracks.

With his head swathed in bandages
but smiling bravely, Col John r. Ours
ler who was passenger on the tll-fated
Lehigh Valley train on which more than
twenty-five persons lost their lives and
over three score were injured when 1t
was ditched by a defective rail near Man.
chester, N. Y. Friday afternoon, last
night greeted members Of his family and
friends at his residence, 1341 Monroe
street.
Another G.. A. r veteran to return to
Washington yesterday was George c.
Ross. commander of the Department of
the Potomac, and with him he brought
the recital of the heroism OF Col Edward
A. Keeler. News dispatches yesterday
were to the effect that Col Keeler's arm
had been so badly crushed that it had to
be amputated, but both Commander Ross
and Col Oursler deny this.
According to Mr.. Ross. who arrived on
the scene of the disaster within a short
time after 1t occurred, Col. Keeler. who
lives at 1860 Newton street northwest.
escaped from the tangled mass of wreck
age uninjured save for severe 1arr1ng.
Col. Keeler helped pull several people out
Of the debries, but in attempting to ex-
tricate a woman who was pinned De-
meath car he gashed his wrist against a
piece of broken window pane and severed
an artery. The flow Of blood was stop
ped but Col Keeler was removed to a
hospital in order that he might recuper-
ate his strength.
Friends at Station to Meet Him.
At the station to meet Col. Oursler, who
arrived shortly after o'clock from
Philadelphia, were his son-in-law. George
C. Shoemaker, the well known Washing
ton patent attorney: Rev. DR.. Donald G.
Macleod, pastor Of the First Presby-
terian Church. of which Mr.. Oursler is a
member: DIR. Lewis ]. Battle and Daniel
NJ. Goodacre Of 2618 University place
northwest.
After answering the f1rst anxious In
quirtes as to the extent of his injuries,
Col. Oursler told Of the disaster.
Il WAS seated in the dining car, about
three tables removed from Mr.. Keeler.
The car was crowded. had Just handtd
my order to the colored waiter when the
crash came What followed was terrible,
worse than anything l had ever encoun-
tered, either during the war or In the
riots in Pennsylvania In the seventies
The grinding dishes and glassware added
to the noise, and above the din could be
heard the agon1zed cries Of the wounded.
I made for the door, but just then the
car settled as 1t slid down the embank-
ment, and I found myself on the nat Of
my back, with my feet higher than my
head. It required some effort for me to
get to my Feet The colored waiter was
Evening star., 1911-08-27
WILL ENFORCE ORDER.
Vigilantes Will Patrol Disturbed
Mountain Counties Of Kentucky.

JACKSON. KY. August 26.-A mass
meeting Of the adherents Of law and
order OF all Kentucky mountain counties
where feuds, moonshining and other
forms OF lawlessness exist has been
meeting preparations will be made to
enroll wg1lantes to patrol all sections Of
the counties where violence has occurred
Practically every paper in tho mountain
districts and ministers and prominent
citizens favor the plan.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
FLIES 748 MILES.
French Aviator Makes Record fol
Single Long-Distance Flight.

MOURMELON. August 26.-M Helles,
a young French aviator. today broke the
record for a single long-distance flight
in competition for the Michelin cup.
He covered 1900 kilometers GAS miles)
IN fifteen hours. The previous record
for the Michelin cup was made by
Jules Yedrines last year, when he COW
cred 500 kilometers (496.S miles) in
Z hours So minutes SO seconds. Heilea
few over q measured course. and landed
at Chalons-sur-Marue,
Evening star., 1911-08-27
BIG FIRE IN DEs MONIES.
Half Block Of Buildings in Whole
sale District Burned. 80

DIES MoINDS. Ia. August 26.-F1re.
which broke out in the Wholesale district,
between Vine and Elm streets on ID. at
midnight. destroyed the buildings Of half
tho block. The remainder Of the block
and tho adjacent square IL threatened.
The entire irs department II lighting the
damoa.
Evening star., 1911-08-27
SAYS HE SLEW THREE
William Lee, Aged %, Con-
fesses to Triple Murder.
GIVES DETAILS OF CRIME
His Father, Mother and Young
Brother Victims-Sets Fire to
Parents Home.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, August 28.-Wil-
liam Lee. twenty-five years of age. con-
fessed late today that he murdered his
father. Richard Lee. his mother and
younger brother Clarence and then set
fire to the house in the hope OF con-
cealing the crime, at Boonville, early
Thursday morning. In verbal and writ
ten statements to Sheriff Davis in the
jail here Lee said he was angry because
his parents would not consent to his mar
which he had planned for Thursday even
ing, and would not give him money with
which to set up housekeeping.
When the confession was made pub
lie officers started with Lee in an au-
tomobile for the state reformatory at
Jefrersonville to prevent possible vio-
lence here.
First Claimed Self-Defense.
Lee first made a statement that he
had killed his father in self-defense
with an axe after the father had muir
dered his wife and younger son. but
Sheriff Davis all of today pressed the
prisoner for "the true story" and this
afternoon, asking for pen and ink.
Lee wrote haltingly worded confess
sion and afterward pieced together, in
AHSWcTS 10 QueSClOnS, d QcSCT1nIlOn OF
the horrible butchery In the three-room
cottage at Boonville.
Lee said he went Wednesday night to
Newburg, where he called on his flancee
and they talked OF the arrangements for
their wedding. He had had 500 in the
bank. but had spent 1t, and he knew his
parents had $50 in the house. He re-
turned home late at night and his mother
reprimanded him, he said. He told her he
was determined to be- married the follow
ing day and she answered that he should
not, that he must stay at home.
Out Of His Mind.
sGoing to his room. Lee said. he brood
ed until he was out Of his mind" Sud
denly he rushed into the room where his
father, mother and brother slept.
Il grabbed an axe by the door," he
said. land struck for my father. but hit
my mother. My brother raised up and
struck him. Then my father, who had
been outside, ran in and started to grab
I was scared SO bad did not know what
I was doing. What scared me was that
my father had threatened my life, and I
was angry at what my mother had said"
what he had done and. overcome at the
sight, dropped the flaming stick on the
bed where his mothers body lay.
Flames Blind Him.
Tho flames flashed up and blinded
me-" he went on, "and I jumped into
my room. put on my trousers and ran
to alarm the neighbors. would not
have done this thing for anything If
I had had any sense at all"
The fire in the Lee home was put
out before the bodies. the skull Of each
crushed. had been more than scorched
and william Lee stolidly helped carry
them out to the lawn, insisting that
he did not know how they came to
their death.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

Slick or Mr.. Moncure. but she does know
q Mr.. Mclean
Detective Evans said last niglt that
Miss Boss has been identified by 4 wit
ness in one OF the other cases.
Others had dealings with her IN con-
nect!on with checks. and will he on hand
in Police Court. Miss Boss will probably
be given a hearing tomorrow.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

presented by the special session. ana IN
the desire to play politics and crafty
what was supposed to be popular de-
sire for the reduction OF duties, they DID
not hesitate to adopt all the alleged de-
fective methods OF previous tarin re-
vision which they had denounced, and TO
reject as entirely unworthy of considera-
tion the suggestion of delay until investi-
CATION by an impartial board should De
had.
Evening star., 1911-08-27

ne public will have ample time calmly
70 consider and decide whether they de-
sire 20 put into power gentlemen. leading
q party. who. while processing a wish
for facts and information so as to make
tariff legislation as just as possible, no
sooner have the opportunity than they
adopt measures with the old ignorance
OF the facts. with the same political mo-
uves and with the same Indifference to
the exact operation OF the duties imposed.
az they themselves SO severely criticised
in others responsible for previous tariff
legislation.
"Never in the history of the govern
ment, 1 venture TO say, have important
public interests been dealt with In such
i light hearted way. with such absolute
ignorance OF tho effect of legislation and
such willingness to sacrifice business in
Jerests to political exigencies as In the
present legislation which has just been
defeated
Under these conditions. men of Massa-
chusetts. il seems TO me that the slogan
~ your party should involve a national
cry and not be confined to mere state
Issues"
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-04-12
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