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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29
OUTLOOK NOW FOR
LOWER TAX RATE
Estimators Won't Need To Pare Very
Hard To Make Levy Under Last
Years Figure.

The total city budget to be raised
by taxation, as 1t will go to the
board of estimates, is S8,173, 29912.
Compared with last years tax levy
of $685., 63S.57, the estimators will
have to pare of S1,335, 660.55 to get
the budget down to that of 1910,
which would not seem to be 80 diff
cult task. The increase in proper
" valuation this year will be about
$l2,OOO,0O0, 80 the outlook is now
more promising for a lower tax rate
this year than it was a few days ago
when the council committees were
showing a disposition to treat the
various departments with great gen.
crosby.
With tax levy the same as last
years and an increased valuation of
Sl2,O0O,O00, the tax rate for 1911 will
be in the neighborhood of $17.55.
The council, sitting as a commit
tee of the whole, completed it's work
on the estimates, Monday afternoon,
with the exception of the report OF
the committee on streets and some
minor items which went through
Tuesday night.
The general road fund suffered
most at the hands of the aldermen.
The committee on streets, headed by
Aid. Theisen, chopped of s1,250,000
from the total estimate of $S,744,000.
so that the fund now stands at ST.
$4,000. This report undoubtedly will
go through at Tuesday nights ses-
sion of the council without question.
The estimates, as they will be sub
mitted to the board of estimates from
the council, are as follows:
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29
AS QUICKLY AS WATER
DISSOLVE SUGAR
About the Time Il Takes for a
stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet to Work
On the Food and Bring Relief.
TRIAL PACKAGE SENT FREE.

There is no long wait between the
time you take a Stuarts Dyspepsia
Tablet and the feeling OF relief 1t will
bring to an overloaded stomach. II
gets busy in jiffy and quickly sets
things to rights I'm that tired and dis
ordered stomach. II goes right at
the work OF digesting the food 1t finds
lodged there and In no time at all has
things on the move-the gases cease
forming, the breath Is sweetened, the
coating on the tongue disappears and
you are no longer conscious that you
even have stomach.
That 10 one Of the chief recon-
mendations for Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets--that they don't take forever
to accomplish the purpose for which
you need them. II is just as IL you
put an extra stomach or two to work
when yours needed help. You can't
continually overload your stomach
and expect II to always smile. Ii is
going to get rebellious and sulky az
ter awhile and refuse TO go on being
driven to do double work. You must
rest Il ccasionally-not by starving
and thereby weakening yourself ply
sicaliy-but by uslng Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablet to do the work OF
dfgesting your food.
These tablets contain all the active
elements of the natural stomach
juices and will alone and unaided d.
gest food just the same as the gastric
juices. And nothing could be more
harmless than these tablets. They do
not effect the system in any way--do
not cure any ailment except as they
digest food. Use them freely.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are sold
by all druggists everywhere. Price, 90
cents per box. A trial package will
be sent II you will write +. A. Stuar;
Co, 1so Stuart Bldg, Marshall, Mich
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29
REV. J. H. BOYD GETS CALL.
Church In Portland, Ore, Wants Him
For Pastor.

The Rev. John III. Boyd, pastor of
the First Presbyterian church, has re.
ceiyed call to the First Presbyterian
church, in Portland, Ore, and Is con-
sidering the offer. DR.. Boyd came to
Detroit from Evanston, ILL.,, three
years ago. 'The call from Portland
has many lures, the greatest of which
is the climate, which would be of
great advantage to Mrs. Boyds
health" said DR.. Boyd, Tuesday. The
First church there has membership
of 1900, and is erecting a $4,000
building for institutional uses. can
not say what my decision will be at
this time as 1 will give the matter
most careful consideration"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29
CREIGHTON CONVICTED.
Guilty Of BursIarizing East Lansing
Postoffice, Says Jury.

Jack" Creighton was found guilty
Of burglarizing the postoffice In East
Lansing. Mich. by jury In the Uni.
ted States district court, Tuesday
afternoon. Creighton probably will
be sentenced during the afternoon
His defense was an alibi. The bur
glary occurred on the night OF May
4, 1910. Creighton was afterwards
found in a barn near Plymouth. A re
volver bearing his initials. together
with a quantity of stamps and a BIZ
OF cloth OF the same materials as an
apron that disappeared from the post
Office, the night of ,he robbery, were
found In a hollow log nearby.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29

ers would kill him before the guards
could interfere. Don Giro Vitozzi, the
Camorrist priest who sits in front of
the cage ION the Left, is also allowed
the freedom OF the lawyers table be-
cause he is nearly dead from heart
disease and will probably, In fact, not
outlive the trial. The woman beside
him is the wife OF prisoner.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29

laneous criminality all over the prov
ince Of Naples
The Camorrist prisoners. "a in num-
Der are in the big cage surrounded by
soldiers. The little cage at the right
hand side of the photo Is occupied by
Gennaro Abbatemaggio, a Camorrist
who turned informer. and has to be
boxed up separately for fear the 9TH
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29
WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH.
Mrs. David Fellows, Formerly Of De
troit, Meets Tragic End.

OXFORD, Mich, March 2S.-While
carrying lighted lamp upstairs in
her home, near Metamora, Monday
night, Mrs. David Fellows, formerly
Miss Martha Nelson, of Detroit, lost
her balance and was burned to death.
Her husband rushed to her aid and
succeeded in extinguishing the flames,
but Mrs. Fellows died from her in.
juries.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29

The bonds allowed by the council
total s2,516, 6Os.ss, made up as fol-
lows: Schools. 100000: sewers. ST.
Dol ,6OS.SS: library sites, s216.000,
hospital. $4,000; art museum, $780,
900. The bonds and liquor moneys,
the latter being estimated at $3.50. 900,
make a total OF s2766, 6OS.Ss, which
must be deducted from the total esti-
mates.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29

torney, who has been under fire for
some time, was before Police Justice
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29

Stein, Tuesday morning, on a charge
of larceny By conversion. He was dis
charged. Grossman was accused by
Louis Silverstein OF borrowing 5000
diamond stud and selling Il for $3.50.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29
ss.I73,2ss ~

s14,O5S.1O4 o. S10.93s, 90s 90
Less bond issues and
liquor moneys ........ 2.766,6Os IL
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29
No Evidence Of Epilepsy.

In redirect examination by Prose
outor Van Zile, DR.. Ives said he knew
of no testimony to show that DR.. Boya-
jian had an epileptic seizure In the
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-12-16

" mn nc, aI pretty TODD 1rt nU- This sr,c
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the hp Ut ana mr. @.ffr fgmuc .
pg.wh~g "h GROUND their mum~ a@ t- TmnnhT % ue comic ht
Claude for unupr nn~ 49,. .E. r" vc mNf p- ana M@. Place The
hWuEhS r uatnr a. WrE w.. snM do 1Wd W- push hm 1'ait~ and mno head
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

have capsized, but again It was lost to
view.
The skipper. after waiting in vain for
It to show itself again, ran to his little
steamer, stocked up the fire and with his
son Wilbur, another son Harold and
Peter Peterson, a fourth volunteer, went
off to the rescue, through the hurricane.
which held them In peril throughout the
run But altough the immense seas
nearly filled their little craft. and almost
smashed in it's cabin doors and windows,
thew kept on until they sighted three men
desperately clinging to the keel OF the
overturned yawl. Only after terrinc pat
tie were the men taken aboard and along
with the brave shippers gold medal came
three others, in silver, for his piucky
crew, who, with bulldog tenacity, nad
stood by him throughout the battle Win
the angry elements
Our scene now shifts down to the
Panama zone, where gold medals were
lately earned by two fearless employees
Of the canal commission. Some months
ago, while a gasoline boat was exchang-
ing "a little army Of thirty-two workmen
from a tug to a dredge off Perur Island.
the helmsman suddenly pushed the rud-
der hard over, causing turn so sharp
that two men sitting on the thwarts were
the other sank like a stone and the un-
dertow was so wicked that when he came
I'D for the first time he had been washed
some twenty-five feet from the launch.
With such a current running and with
the water known to be infested with
man-eating sharks, the case looked hope
less, but while the other occupants OF
the little boat looked on. chapfaHen.
Fitzgerald Wiltshire. a Granadian negro
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

has a most familiar ring. although it
was q decade or more ago that he was
being repeatedly thrust into the spot
light by chroniclers of his daredevil res
cues. Eleven men, women and children
owed their lives to him in those times,
principally while he was captain OF the
Coney Island Creek volunteer life-saving
station. and for pulling them out of the
crashing jaws Of the demon death, Con-
gress, by a special act. in 1903, voted him
q silver medal of honor.
1t was while plying his trade as
foreman on the Brooklyn sewer depart
ment, some time since, that this hero
heard a cry for help which once more
unclaimed the lion that has ever reposed
within his stout bosom.
This wall that awoke his old-time spirit
came from the East river, where a sud
den wave had washed lad. unable to
swim. from log on which he had been
padding
Running at top speed to the nearest
dock the foreman dotted his coat and.
with his old-time form, dived into the
water. But his good angel was not how
ering so near as in the days Of past
deeds, for his head on parting the water
struck hard upon some water-logged
drift that f1oated just under the surface.
Unmindful, however. of the fact that he
had lacerated his face, he darted 80
feet through the waves to the point
where the helpless child was making his
last frantic efforts to defy the peril OF
the third sinking" But here a new
danger threatened the rescuer, for the
boy with both hands clutched his throat
in the dread "death-lock." Despite this,
however, Doherty kept his charge afloat
and after swimming a long distance with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

quarter mile to where hundreds Of pleas
ure seekers stood helpless and hopeless
upon the esplanade, their eyes fixed upon
the mere speck that bobbed In and out of
tho foam several hundreds of feet off
shore. Without waiting to recover his
breath after his long run, or delaying to
enlist aid, Mr.. Doyle bravely fought his
way through several hundred feet
of strong currents and broken water
to swhere the drowning man, caught
in the clutches of "sea pass,
was going down for the last time. But
after another desperate struggle against
sistance, brought the victim safely to
shore, although his own strength had
been expended to the degree that he could
not stand after reaching the beach. His
reward is the golden medal, as Is that of
the star actor in the next of these thrill
ing scenes to be described.
On Sunday In October, Capt e. J.
Dodge and his son Wilbur were standing
near Their home on South Bass Island.
Putrin-Bay, Ohio. and were gazing out
over Lake Erie. whose waters were being
dashed to foam by an angry nor wester.
The steamer Wayland, Of which Capt.
Dodge was skipper, lay under shelter
nearby, to hide from the fury OF the
storm. 1t was not fit day for any small
craft to venture out, and the two men
scanned the water with their glass to
look for chance venturers who might be
less fortunate than themselves.
Suddenly they saw rise upon huge
wave small yawl. which seemed to bear
three men, and as quickly as 1t had bob
bed out of the water it disappeared within
a trough Of the angry waters. Ele-
waited upon another wave, 1t seemed to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08
Tinksie Twinkletoes' Opportunity


lima often had been heard to declare.
quite audibly, during the run OF the
piece. "This Twinkletoes proposition OF
course is a never-was and CLEAN. but
I'm not taking any chances. wouldn't
care if my understudy was the house
scrub-woman, it's my little system not to
let any understudy waltz on and pull her
stuff, not unless somebody hands me
couple Of broken knees, and nothing like
that is going to happen while I'm awake,
take it from your little playmate Ina"
AS matter Of course, lima Felina made
things just as warm and stuffy for Tink-
sic Twinkletoes as she possibly could.
and Ina possibly could a whole lot. She
made 1t her business to have the stage
manager, with whom she had a pull, keep
Tinksie way back in the backest part
of the chorus line, and whenever there
was a chance for the stage manager to
sock fine onto Tinksie for some little
remissness. why. Tinksie found her
weekly envelope shy just the amount of
said fine, owing to the wary machine
lions of Ina Felina. the star.
Not only that, but lima, whenever she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

had reached a height which seems to
have convinced Kaiser Wilhelm that some
thing must be done. The students had
arranged d beer party near Ruengsdorf,
and when it was finished they naturally
started for home roaring drunk. They
stormed their special train. smashed all
the windows, slit up the cushions and set
about uncoupling the locomotive. Next
they set going the steam whistle. destroy
ed the electric lights and hurled fat con-
ductor through broken window. Only
after fight with several score policemen
was order restored.
Members of the "Palatia,' "Teuton,"
Rhine and "Hansa" corps were brought
up for trial, the Borussians being ex
empt, because they were already sus-
pended for still more serious excuses"
Railroad men swore that the service was
endangered and that only the resolution
of fireman prevented serious accident.
The students had committed what in
German law is the heinous offense of
"assaulting an official while in the dis
charge of his duty" All got off with light
fines Had they been workingmen they
would have gone to Jail for a year.
The culprits claimed that they should
be let go free because they already had
been punished by their own corps All
corps, indeed, claim to have Independent
sovereignty. Kaiser Wilhelm was much
angered by this incident, and spoke to
the father of one student. who Is a palace
official, asking him sharply why he had
not taught his son better manners. Tile
radical newspapers demanded that the
students should be sent to jail. But the
time has not come for that.
1t was shortly after this occurrence
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

its crew of Japanese fishermen around
the pier to safe landing upon the beach.
But no sooner had he delivered this
crew than another boat, containing two
Russians, was seen to be swamped. So
Freeth ran this time to the breakwater,
and leaped again into the waves. The
swamped boat was q half mile out, but
before he had gone half this distance he
met with another imperiled Japanese boat
which he boarded. Taking the tiller
from the helpless helmsman he piloted
this craft through the surf at railroad
speed and landed 1T safely on the beach.
And meanwhile the Russian boat had
drifted near enough to be reached by
ropes thrown from pier.
Freeth was now hurried to his quarters,
but his crew had only commenced to rub
him down when the sirens call caused
him to break from them and hurry again
to the beach, from which he saw two
more swamped boats struggling for life
among the rocks far out. Once more ne
dived from the pier and ploughed his
way through the tempest-tossed sea.
Reaching one crew he placed about each
man a life belt which kept them afloat
until a boat later picked them up.
A summer bather was the provocauon OF
a similarly plucky deed which earned the
next reward on the list The scene of the
little melodrama of real life was Spring
Lake, n. j.. and the hero who earned his
place on the forefront of the stage
was William s. Doyle, a citizen of Tren-
ton. Upon hearing the cry that the
bather was drowning, Mr.. Doyle ran a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08
Necessary Differences.

JUDGE WILLIAM H. MOORE at one
} OF the horse show dinners In New
York compared the London and the
American horse shows.
Both are admirable" he said. There
ale differences. Of course But these
differences reflect neither on one show
nor the other. They are necessary dit
ferences, like"
Judge Moore smiled
Il went into a stationer's shop in Lon
don one day and said to the shop Is.
sistant:
Do you keep mucilageT
No, sir. the young woman answered.
We try to take in all the papers, but
there are so many new ones coming out.
Still. l can order muciage for you, sir.
Which number did you wantr
II learned afterward that l should have
asked for gum. They don't have the
word 'mucilage' over there in England
But an Englishman travelling Oh ono
of our railways stopped q train boy and
said:
Have you got any gumr
mo, don't use II, boss the boy re-
piled in friendly fashion; but I can let
YOU have a chaw of this here plug
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

n T last Tinksie Twink1etoes'
~ great opportunity had arrived.
~ She was to play. II only Tor
Il u one night, the leading part IN
the most successful musical
comedy Of the season!
How she had longed for that chance!
For months Tinksie. as the under
study of the naughty. catty leading
woman of the production, Ina Felina,
had been hoping almost against hope
that something-oh. any old thing
would happen to give her her cherished
opportunity to step into the shoes of
the leading woman. il only to show
that Mean Old Snip how punk ano
coarse her work was.
Tinksie had been in the chorus Tor
several years, but this was her first
season Of understanding.
She had hoped from the beginning OF
the season. when the musical comedy
had achieved what the press agent
called a colossal success. that some
little thing like bubonic plague would
watt lima Felina. even II only tempo
rairly, from the stage, thus giving her.
Tinksie. her panted-for chance to
grab the center and the spotlight and
show 'em out in front that lima. for all
of her Wanted ability. was the merest
crumb of frontage de brie In the part
in which She had achieved such con-
spicuous success.
xfk
Unfortunately for Tinksie, however,
Ina Felina, despite her induratc habit or
dredging into Holsters and things at
and 3 o'clock am. had never SHOWN
even a symptom of missing a perform
ance A fragile little thing in appear
ance. lima had clearly indicated the pos
session Of the physical constitution OF a
tunnel worker, and. as hitherto stated.
she was on the job month after month
during the long run Of the production.
and gave Tfnksie not the least encour-
agement that she ever would execute q
flop Of sufficient gravity to cause her to
miss a performance.
In addition to being naturally rugged.
despite her frail appearance. Ina had an
time She didn't believe In that under
study stun. She had seen it work out
like a bad number on several occasions.
She had cut her eye-teeth in the business
a long time ago, had lima, and on quite
a number of occas ons she had seen I'M
derstudies hop in. when the star had been
temporarily laid up and just eat up the
parts alive and run away with the show.
Not infrequentiy lima had seen these
in the stars parts that the stars had got
their little two-week notices and the un-
derstudies had been signed up for forty
two weeks to hold the center OF the stage.
None o. that kind O. number I
pinhead work for little Ima," Miss Fe-
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fronworker, without stopping to protect
himself by removing any OF his clothes.
dived into the angry torrent and swim
ming under water toward the point where
the drowning man had sank the second
time. managed. by dint of skiilflh sub
marine graphing to seize him and carry
him to the surface. By this time Robert
Mellon: an American calker. who had
jumped Off the launch when 1t was sixty
feet from the struggling man. swan to
Wiltshirc's assistance. and after an ex-
hausting struggle against both undertow
and heavy seas aided in lifting the VIC
tim into 4 rowboat, which returned him
to the launch. But let us get back again
to our good old continent
On an August afternoon q rowboat was
swamped by a rough sea raging off the
Prison point, San Quentin. Cal, and two
of the five men clinging to its sides be-
came demoralized when the angry waves
commenced to wash over them. Attempt
ing in their panic to climb onto the up
turned craft. they rolled it over, knocking
not only themselves. but their companions
into the water. where fearful struggle
took place
one OF the I'VE. Quartermaster Guy w.
Beck, U. s. N, kept cool. He called in
structions to his companions. but his
efforts were In vain and the two who had
unwittingly caused the catastrophe sank
out of his sight, only to come UP far
apart in the waves However. he made
of for the more helpless of the pair and
by Titanic efforts managed to keep him
up until a boat from the prison arrived
and took rescuer and rescued out OF the
water, in which the three who had looked
out for themselves met their death. Beck,
for this, gets the medal in gold.
So much for our new gold brand heroes
of the water.
Two cit zens in the past year earned the
Presidents priced railway medal, which
seems to mean that the iron steed Is q
more terror-striking foe than the great
deep.
The first modern st. George of this
pair to brave the fury of the steam
dragon. was George Karsten. switch
man employed by the Chicago and North
western railroad at Allis Station. Milwau-
kee.
At the grade crossing where he is sta
toned there are twenty parallel tracks.
and cross this death trap. upon a Sep
TENDER day. a woman .ventured. unmind-
full of the fast approach OF a locomotive
that was backing toward the crossing.
Confused by chorus OF warning SHOUTS
from terrified bystanders. she hesitated
at a point where a string OF freight cars
blocked her view of the rails on which
the engine approached, but instead OF run
ming back in the direction whence she had
come she stepped forward in the very
path or deatn. harsteh' WIN hau e.ovu
by, leaped to her rescue. but when ne
seized her she mistook his purpose and
commenced struggling with him. Being a
heavy woman weighing 200 pounds. he
had difficulty in dragging her, and as a
result of the encounter both were struck
by the backing engine.
The switchman fell directly between the
rails and the whole of the locomotive
except the pilot. passed over his BODY.
But when the crowd rushed forward 10
drag him out they were dumostruck 20
learn that although his clothes were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

and wrinkled brows who had not drop
of beer or duel blood in their veins.
X aiser Wilhelm awoke to the fact that
universities are not brewery annexes ano
have no inherent antagonism to razors
and soap. From this inspiration-and
backed by his consort, Augusta-he con-
ceived the plan to reform the fatherland' 8
twenty-one universities on American
lines. That means, says the student, to
rob them of their romance. picturesque
ness and hlarity. The luckless 'Bursch
of the future is to be neatly clad. with
clean finger nails. with patchless
breeches, with a passion for sports ana
an unshakable affection for lemonade.
And, of course, the predestined victim
blanches at the prospect and feels as
frightened as his natural allies, the brew