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Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-06
Earthquake and San Francisco

SEVERAL of the San Francisco newspapers made light Of the e
cent earthquake that visited the coast 1t "a no small matter, it va an
odfashoned quake win plenty OF motion, and it shook up the entire
coast. San Francisco. which unfortunately seems to be in the heart OF
the earthquake belt, went through another experience. People rushed
from their homes. and the business section of the city was filled with
anxious merchants and patrons. The quake made the people think
On the other hand rebuilt San Francisco stood the testw well. No
great damage was done. The reinforced concrete and steel buildings
stood the shock and 10 n wen down in the vibrations OF the earth.
This is the kind of news that San Francisco should send to the world
Let it be known that they have built an acknowledgment city. That
the city is safe and that the movements of the earth are there II hat
the modern city is built to withstand the shocks and bufets of the
earth's agitation. This would be far better than sending ut censored
kilograms for fear OF hurting the big fair Of 1915.
The people of this coast are not children and are no him-hammed
by phony kilograms. People throughout the yes exchange letters
kilograms and greetings. Such al event Is took place a few days ago
calls for the interchange of correspondence. The facts are discussed
and put down where they belong.
The San Francisco papers would have made a better deal had they
fully described the affair and also shown that the quake had n o damag.
ing effect on their lev and modern buildings The new San Francisco
is supposed Ito be built or quake proof plans. The teth has been made
and the city stands. Let this kind of e be m broadcast. 1t is
good enough to scatter to the four winds.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-06
A Good Plan

SEVERAL cities in Nevada took up the safe and n cry for the
past Fourth OF July. The result was no damaging fires 10 accidents
have been reported and several thousand dollars we're not burned up
in useless noise Another season Carson should get into harness and
try the plan. 1t is true that no fires came from yesterdays explosion Of
powder, O any serious accidents reported. That was luck and not
science.
Several very expensive fires have occurred here in the past by the use
of fireworks Nearly a third of the business section of Carson went up
in smoke n Fourth. The Orphans Home a destroyed some years
ago from a like cause. while a score of accidents and deaths have result
ed from the useless making of noise by gun powder
Reno cut out the trouble this year, Is did Goldfeld, Manhattan,
Searchight and other small and Prosperous cities. 1t is worth trying,
as the above results show. The entire easter section of the United
States has taken up the call and within a few years the only place such
demonstration will be tolerated will be in the country where danger is
eliminated as far as possible The reports from over the Union for the
next ten days will make grewsome reading
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When in need Of printed stationery
Of any kind call at the Appeal Office,
leave your order and be suited. We
are better prepared than ever to do
the work.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-07-06

Nearly every consular report to the
state department brings the same.
story, that, with a few unimportant
exceptions, American canned and
and preserved meats, fruits and veg
tables are not to be found in the
stores Of Central and South America.
This. condition of the markets
which should be ours indicates one
of two things;....Eithe that Amer
lean goods cannot meet European
competition, or that the manufact-
urers Of the United States have not
made a sufficient and determined
effort to overcome this rivaly.
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MEETING

STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
American Mines Company-Notice
is hereby given, by order of the
Boad of Directors that a special meet
ing of the stockholders of American
Mines Company will be held at Room
906, Mechanics Institute Building,
81 Post Street, San Francisco, Cali
%fornia, on Thursday, June n, 1911, at
the hour of 2 o'clock p. M, for the
purpose of dissslving the American
Mines Company. pursuant to that
effect of a resolution adopted by the
Directors Of American Mines Com
pany, at a special meeting held at
Room 906, Mechanics Institute Build
ing, 81 Post Street, San Francisco,
California, on the 10th day of May,
1911 G. H. WAGGONER-
Secretary American Mines Com
pany. MO st
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New-York tribune., 1911-11-26

What commissions do executors re-
ceive?" Mr.. Elder was asked.
An executor in New York gets 5 per
cent on the first 1900" he replied, '215 per
cent on the next $1,000 and 1 per cent on
the remainder of the estate"
What do you mean W the rake-off of
the family lawyer" he was asked
'As executor, the family lawyer employs
hk dearest legal friend as his legal adviser
and pays him in accordance with the
strength Of his friendship. 1t is very diff
cult TO prove now said old family lawyer
gets his half of the legal fees" said Mr..
Elder. himself an executor of estates that
are valued at several million dollars each,
but there is a mathematical certainty
about the result.
IF there is any room for doubt as to
the terms Of the villas to, for instance,
whether the testator knew what he was
talking about when he put his bequests I'm
plain English, and reiterated the same a
dozen or fifteen times-then the old family
lawyer engages his dearest legal friend TO
bring a suit for the construction Of the will
In the Supreme Court. where the extra al
lowance 10 the legal adviser will be S2000
and costs.
No continued Mr. Elder pleasantly,
"the executor Of many-time millionaire's s
viii does not have TO run many chances
Of losing sleep. If there is any doubt about
the legality Of claim, il is a very simple
thing to have his alter ego. the legal friend,
contest it for a fec or. If there is no good
fee in sght-the matter being too simple
he can simply pay the claim for pa is rich
and ma don't care "
THE larger the estate the easier it looks. /"
interjected the reporter.
1T is a much easier Job 20 be a great man
than a small one" Mr. Elder replied.
Most Of our learned divines would be
fred from a country parish in six m m7nths.
Most Of our great lawyers could hardly
tdl a subpoena rom a gas bill Such de-
tails arc for the 'lo-a-Vcok clerks; 50 the
c,ocmor OF largo estate haa 10 cxcr,is.
fer -Ieater ability in getting around the
tcstator before death than hc docs in car
ryne out the terms OF the VIII.
"The executor does not feel called upon
to bother with either the bookkeeping or
the other details OF the management of the
estate. There Is plenty OF money with
New-York tribune., 1911-11-26

Of the Pulitzer estate. But Justice Hughes
might easily have turned over a large part
Of the work TO other executors or his old
law firm.
However, he preferred to be above sus-
picion, like C8sar's wife, and while many
may regret the sacrifice. all will approve
the lofty motives"
The fate OF an executor who is obliged.
out Of friendship, 10 take an estate which
is chiefly debts and administer it according
10 the terms of a homemade will. is very
hard indeed There is usually not enough
money 10 pay for advertising for absent
heirs or to hire a good lawyer to have the
ambiguous nightmare construed by the
court.
The executor has to go ahead in a case
Of this kind and take his chances with the
result that he gets no thanks from any
body, and IS very lucky If he is not charged
with embezzlement. His position is as
mirth provoking as cry for help.
Often, dozen years after the executor
thinks everything has been all closed up
some young man. who is twenty-one years
and three days old. enters the executors S
office. wearing cigarette, and demands an
accounting from the lawyer friend Of his
father. for his alleged share Of some out
lawed claim, which the young man thinks
the poor unfortunate executor should have
collected many years before.
Possibly the executor may have con
unued improperly 10 run the testator's
one-horse business in a hopeless effort TO
feed the widow and seven starving cnil-
dren The bread gained, if any, Is con-
sumed by the widow and children. the
debts are the perquistes Of the executor
But there is sometimes a brighter side
TO the story" said John T. Elder. a
lawyer, at his office, No. IS Park Row. the
other day. Mr. Elder is a deacon in the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, OF which
John D. Rockefeller IS a member.
when a man worth many millions Of
dollars do his cxccuto.s try 20 keep a
solemn co1ntcuanao as u, calculate how
much per cent of hs estate will amount
10" Mr Elder continued
III there are not more than three eXccu-
tors thcv divide the three commissions
among themselves. This IS usually abso-
lutely clear profit for the executors. and in
many cases the family lawyer gets very
handsome rpke-otf In addition"
New-York tribune., 1911-11-26

way is, until they reach about their TWEEN
ty-ifth year Other trusts are during the
life of a widow, and then 10 divide the
principal among children.
Sometimes when the testator has little
confidence in his children. he gives the in
come TO them for life, and the rest to their
ISSUE II any. Under the laws of the State
of New York he must not accumulate the
income except during the minority of the
children, nor must he tie up the principal
for more than two lives in being
These trustees, as such, again receive
the 5, 2i2 and 1 per cent They also re
ceive the same compensation on the income,
and II they so desire may account every
year and receive the 5, 21a and per cent on
the income Of the previous year.
The work Of trust estate is compara-
lively light for the trustees and the prob
lens are not so numerous, although they
have their little troubles sometimes to tell
whether to charge an expense to principal
or income and as to whether the stock dlvi-
dends are income or an increase of princi-
pal.
ALSO, who shall lose the bonus which has
been paid for valuable bond over and
above it's par value, when al maturity only
par is paid for it?" asked Mr.. Elder. These
matters can all be Strengthened out by a
good lawyer
But the more serious problem that con-
fronts the trustees is the construction of
the will" he continued. MANY Unforeseen
contingencies arise
THE testator usually has it all carefully
planned as to who shall die first, but the
best laid schemes Of testators and lawyers
oft go astray and the trustees are suddenly
confronted with a condition OF affairs never
contemplated by the testator"
Asked what trustees usually did in such a
situation, Mr.. Elder said that nothing but II
suit for construction Of the will could
dear the atmosphere, The court tries 10
hnd out what the intention of the testator
was by a consideration OF the will as a
whole and the general scheme thereby In
dicated. and by an examination OF the sur
rounding circumstances, and his family ties
and the claims OF kindred upon him.
Many testator tries to keep a hold on
his money after he has gone. and directs
future generations as to how they should
New-York tribune., 1911-11-26

was very poor, except in innocence In
"beseeching modesty."
He was quickly in love. and so was She
but there were the prejudices Of his rela-
tives for him 70 consider. for one thing
Mr. Bulkley had three ssters-NIrs. Pres
colt Lawrence. Mrs. Reginald Rives and
Mrs. Roland Redmond What would they
say 10 their brothers determination TO wed
his nurse? For he was fully determined
long before the day for his departure from
the hospital arrived He gave Miss Stewart
the intelligence of his infatuation for her
in the course of a final treatment of cool
hand TO fevered brow. She had long been
thrilled by the tone OF his voice. The day
was set for the wedding.
Mr. Bulkleys three sisters hurried TO
Newport and the nurse as hurriedly de-
parted for her home i'm Canada. On the
day named for the ceremony, October 6,
1906. the marriage had been indefinitely
postponed on the ground that the intended
bridegroom had suffered a relapse. Gossip
Of the smart set said the nurse was piqued
by the opposition of the Bulkley family
and herself had broken the engagement at
the last moment. But Ned" Bulkley was
well enough to keep the wires hot between
Newport and New Brunswick, and In a
few days the nurse returned to him. She
was introduced to the three sisters. Her
victory over them was complete. That IS,
they were won Immediately by her girlish
dididence and the appealing modesty in her
dOwncast look
For two. years he had married life that
seemed ideally happy. Then Mr. Bulkley
died.
Received as an admired guest in the OK
elusive homes where she had once been
employed as trained nurse, Mrs. Bulkley,
New-York tribune., 1911-11-26

Charles Teets OF No. 1853 Fifth avenue
testified that Dr. Delabarre had declared
he would fix It so that his widow could
not get any Of his money" DR.. Charles
H. Farmer, Of Ridgewood, n. j., with Dr.
Teets. a subscribing witness to the VIII,
swore that DR.. Delabarre was not under
any restraint, but, on the contrary, die
tated the terms of the will TO him. This
trained nurse. therefore, although the total
return for her labors was less than that
OF Miss Peregrin. was, however. rewarded
at a higher rate per diem. What other
avocaton open TO women yields such snug
returns?
Three months ago James Kennedy.
known to sporting men all over the United
States as big jim" Kennedy, died In
Roosevelt Hospital He left an estate
valued at nearly $4,000. 1t seems that
this fortune may not go to Mr.. Kennedy
bride. who had been his nurse, without a
contest There is an old adage, you re-
member. that says, Where there's a Will
there's a way-to break IT," Mr.. Ken
nedy's sister. Mrs. Maher. was his house
keeper during the last twenty-five years OF
his life. He was about seventy when he
died: she was somewhat older Mrs.
Maher never permitted day to pass with
out paying visit of devotion to the
Church Of the Blessed Sacrament at list
street and Broadway Frugal and austere,
she devoted her life TO her brother and
her Church. In spite OF her brothers s
wealth, she was the only cook ever in his
apartment.
1t was not to her, though, that Mr. Ken
nedy left his fortune. 1t was to another
nurse, a younger one, to whom he was
married a few days before he went to the
hospital When this nurse from the South
bathed the fevered brow she met no balmy
weather, because Mrs. Maher could not
give up her devotion of a quarter Of a
century without a struggle 1t was hard,
for instance-wornen have their peculari-
ties-for Mrs Maher to see the food that
she had prepared for her brother taken
out of the sickroom by the susceptible
beneficiary of his will, with a remark by
the latter that it was not properly cooked.
Rubbing the fevered temples infuses new
blood into the bank account OF the rubber
sometimes The rewards i'm this line of ef-
fort have been very good indeed Take the
case of Miss Anne Grace Kellogs who
willed her entire estate. valued at 100000,
to Mrs Mary Jeanette Scoville, SYRIA
New-York tribune., 1911-11-26

In making his nurse his residuary legatee
Mr.. Duryea wrote:
"I hereby make Eleanor Peregrin my
residuary legatee, in manifestation OF my
appreciation and esteem for a faithful and
true friend, loyal and unselfshly devoted
for many years to my interests The Will
was drawn six weeks before his death at
home in Montclair.
1t was in 1899. while diving at Oyster Bay
that Mr.. Duryea broke his neck. Miss
Peregrin had charge of him for the twelve
years OF his invalidism. After his death
last May she took possession of the Dur
yea home in Upper Montclair, where she
has since continued to live in retirement on
what she is pleased to term a modest COM
petence one of the sisters Of the dead
man also lives in Montclair, but i'm rented
house To protect the nurse. there was a
clause in the Duryea will which plainly
stated that should any of the benehciaries
contest the amounts they were to receive
they would forfeit their right to share IN
the estate by 80 doing.
Miss Peregrin is plump, comely woman,
between thirty-five and forty years old.
She is reported to have said that she had
frequently tried to bring the crippled man
and his sisters together, and regretted that
she had failed. There were some things
that Mr.. Duryea could not forgive she
said by way of explanation.
In this case, therefore bathing the
fevered brow commanded remuneration at
the rate of approximately $4,000 year and
keep" for twelve years. Enough 70 enable
a woman to retire.
Another kind of situation. also Of very
recent date, is easily recalled. The first
case, the patient reader will please remem-
Der, concerned a nurse who twice married
fortune; the next, nurse who. besides
having always remained single, denies
that she is engaged. We now approach
the sort of situation possessing side that
many may consider peculiarly unfortu-
nate. The widow Of the man received moth
ing, while the trained nurse received the
entire estate. valued at 100000
DR.. Walter f.. Delabarre. Of this city,
died less than a year ago in his country
house at White Plains. Under his will
Miss Anna Severa Sees. who was a trained
nurse for DIR. Delabarre during his illness.
received all the property. and the widow
was not mentioned. Mrs Delabarre pro-
tested, a natural but more or less hopeless
thing, perhaps. for her to do, because DR..
New-York tribune., 1911-11-26

the pride OF manhood. that softens the
heart and brings II back TO the feelings Of
infancy. Perhaps this busy man has al
ways If the truth were known. been lonely.
This is the first time he has had to lie
still in bed since the days when he had the
chickenpox and his mother administered
to his helplessness.
Some office friend. or the clerk Of his
expensive hotel, calls a nurse. She sits
for hours by his bed, watching him as he
sleeps. Weeks crawl by Waking from a
restless dream one afternoon, he sees her
there-patient, soft voiced ready with "a
hundred tendernesses. OF the sordid dis
/ tinctions of bank balance and the things
that it can buy the sick man thinks moth
| ing. Her life has been blameless; her mod
| esty is alluring. He has never before had
time to get acquainted with a refined
young woman Nothing in his life ever so
touched him or made him so rapturously
happy as when every little while she
bathes his fevered brow.
These are among the ways, no doubt.
that such results are brought about. But
there are still many things TO try to ascer-
tain in this interesting question.
A few high moons ago wedding bells
sounded the second time for a young wom-
an who on the occasion OF her first mar
riage within the last five years was Miss
Margaret Stewart. Her latest marriage
was to a Scotch pickle manufacturer. Both
husbands We're wealthy,
AT her first wedding ceremony the late
Edward II. Buckley Of Newport. was the
bridegroom. She was reputed to have
pulled Ned Bulkley back from the edge
Of the grave. She had only recently gone
to Newport from her home at St John.
n. 3. Mr.. Bulkley was very wealthy; she
New-York tribune., 1911-11-26

I act, instead of taking II for granted that his
grandchildren will have better idea per-
haps as to the course which should be pur-
sued amid the circumstances of their gen.
Grafton than could their grandfather by at
tempting TO cast his prophetic eye over the
future
"Old men," said Mr.. Elder. are apt 10
marry squads, and then put in cast-iron
provisions preventing their widows making
some other man happy. Unfortunately,
most states will sustain such provisions in
regard to widows. but a general prohibition
regarding the marriage of children is
against public policy and not favored by
most states.
"One old gentleman drew up directions
for all future generations, and submitted
them TO his lawyer, who advised him TO
tear them up and take II for granted that
the next generation would have some
brains of their own.
The old man replied. quoting King Solo
mon How shall | know but that he who
shall come after me shall be fool?'
ITO which the lawyer replied: Well
that will be great deal better than that
you should give him such ample cause to
say you were
Another thing that annoys executors is
that almost every state In the Union takes
"A crack at them for taxes. Take the mat
ter Of transfer tax. Various railroad cor
porations. for INSTANCE, are incorporated
under the laws of various states. Each one
OF these states claims 10 have the right TO
tax the shares of stock OF a New Yorker
Before they will allow the transfer OF these
shares on their books they will exact tax
from the stock standing in the name OF the
deceased the books OF said state.
For illustration. the State OF Kansas has
jurisdiction over the Atchison. Topeka q
Santa Fe Railroad; the State OF New Jer-
sey has jurisdiction over such companies
as the Standard Oh Company OF New Jer-
sey, the Pressed Steel Car Company, the
American Wooden Company and hundreds
OF other corporations The State OF New
York claims the right to tax on Pullman
company stock. Wisconsin on Chicago. Mil
waukee & St. Paul. etc. Not only. there
fore. do these states claim the right TO tax
on the companies formed under their laws.
but also some OF them Will tax shares or
stock in companies incorporated In New