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The Washington times., 1912-08-12
BARK ROUNDS HORN
IN 1OS-DAY TRIP
Captain, Peeved BY Delay, Reaches
Port With Mate Confined
To Cabin.

NEW YORK, Aug 12-After a voy-
age of 1oS days, during which time not
a vessel was sighted, the Mangareva,
a four-masted bark, has arrived In this
port from San Francisco. Captain Town
send was peeved over the length of the
trip, as he expected to make the voyage
in not more than eighty-five to ninety
five days. There were days, he said,
when the vessel did not gain a single
mile on account Of the calm or unfavor-
able winds.
When the Mangareva was nifty days
out Of San Francisco Captain Townsend
said he had a spirited discussion with
s. Leonard. the first mate. Leonard had
been in temporary command of another
vessel on a previous occasion and had
some ideas Of his own about sailing
q ship.
Captain Townsend said he was obliged
to relieve the mate from duty and send
him to his cabin for the remainder OF
the voyage. He was allowed exercise
and provided with books. The skipper
who Is a strict disciplinarian and part
owner of the vessel. stood the mates
watch.
The Mangareva is one of the few sail.
Ing vessels now in the trade between
San Francisco and the east coast of this
country. She was built in England, but
was admitted to American register after
an accident in. the Southern Pacific
Captain Townsend was anxious to heal
about the political situation and par.
ticularly the result OF the Democratic
convention in Baltimore.
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GIRL AGED TWENTY
SW|MS nine MILES
IN DELAWARE RIVER
Same Day Sees Western
Miss Safely Cross San
Francisco Bay.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12-Miss
Katherine Diver. a pretty twenty-year-
old girl, emerged like a mermaid from
the Delaware river at Riverton yester-
day after accomplishing the feat of
swimming from this city to Riverton,
a distance of nine and half miles.
"It was much easier than expected"
she confded. II feel strong, and believe
that could have gone much farther" 7"
This statement was confirmed by the
manner in which she chatted with the
occupants Of boats accompanying her
while she was in the water.
Miss Diver left Market street wharf at
sl3 o'clock in the morning and reached
her destination at noon. This Is the
longest swim ever attempted by any wo-
man in this part OF the country, and
is the more wonderful through the fact
that Miss Diver has only been SWIM
ming for a short time.
Despite this fact she has already es-
tablished a reputation as a long distance
swimmer. A few weeks ago she swan
to Gloucester. a distance of Ave miles,
IN ono hour and twenty-three minutes.
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EIGHT DROWNED AT
NEW YORK BEACHES
Warm Sunday Drives Many To
Seek Relief In the.
Water.

NEW YORK. Aug. 12-The warm
weather yesterday made the waters
about New York inviting to bathers,
and thousands visited the beaches.
rivers, and lakes. With SO many per-
sons in bathing. there was more than
the usual summer holiday toll Of
drownings. Eight persons are known to
have lost their lives by drowning, and
scores who ventured beyond their
strength were rescued. The bathers
drowned were all men and boys. Three
rescues of a thrilling nature occurred
almost simultaneously, following the
collision of a row boat and a gasolene
launch on the Hudson river in the aft
ernoon.
Ann Bushard, a ffteen-year-old girl.
who was one Of the passengers in the
rowboat thrown in the water, grasped
her thirteen-year-old brother, William
by the hair and chung to the bottom Of
the capsized boat until reached. She
could not swim a stroke, but heroic
efforts managed to save both her owr
and brothers life.
After the launch struck the smaller
craft Carl Steiner. fifteen years old. q
third occupant Of the boat. had the
presence of mind to leap for the flag
pole of the former. He caught 1t and
Robert Wenck managed to grasp his
legs. both being saved.
While this was going on a man named
Hughes from the launch, dived into
the water and brought the remaining
member of the boats party, Nellie
Phelan, sixteen years old, to safety
A defective steering gear caused the
accident
The Washington times., 1912-08-12
Chicago Grain Market.
John DIS Candidate
May Have Opposition

TARRYTowN. N. Y. Aug. l2.-Inter-
est is being taken In the school election
to be held at Pocantico Hills on Tues
day when Mrs. Ellen Milton, John D.
Rocke feller's candidate, will run to sue
ceed herself
In the May election Irving L. Bryant
farmer, sprang a surprise and defeat
cd Mrs. Milton by one vote because the
Rockefeller forces were taken unawares
Mr.. Rockefeller carried the election tc
the state department at Albany and had
II thrown out on a technicality. He Is
not taking any more chances and Tues
day night a large number or voters
from his estate will be on hand.
No opposition is expected from Bryant
who has sold his place to Rockefeller
and will move away.
Mr.. Rockefeller recently bought sew
eral tracts Of land which the Catholic
Foreign Missionary Society of Haw-
thorne wanted for new home. and
they may resent this action by putting
up candidate.
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Odd Will Provides for
Sons Annual Vacation

MoRRIsTowN. N. j.. Aug 12.-one
Of the oddest wills ever offered for pro-
bate In this place is that of Edwin s..
Wilson. Of Hanover township. which
was filed yesterday.
After directing that the income of his
estate, the value of which is not stated
be paid to his widow. the testator pro-
vided that after her death $500 be set
aside each year for a vacation for his
son. William, which he must take unac-
companied by his wife or any other rela-
tive.
1t Is further directed that d certified
statement as to how the vacation money
Is spent be filed with the trustee before
certified statement Is not furnished or
shows that the cash was not spent as
directed. the amount Is to be divided
among three churches which are named.
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FORMER OFFICIAL
OUT FOR ROOSEVELT
DR.. Layton Declares He Would
Rather Join Democrats Than
Boost Taft.

WILMINGTON. Del, Aug. 2.-The
action Of DR.. Caleb R. Layton, an en-
thusiastic Roosevelt follower, in refus-
ing to attend the meeting of the George
town Republican Club during the past
week. was a plain notice on them that
he intended to stand by the new Pro-
gressive party.
DR.. Layton was approached by one of
the opposition leaders. who said to him:
Doctor. come In with US and make a
rousing speech for a Republican victory
this fall. We will be glad to have you"
The former Secretary of State and for
mer Auditor Of the State Department in
Washington declined.
He replied: mo. will not go with
you. would rather Join a Democra.
tic gathering than to be with your
crowd"
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Good Gains the Rue--Sreet Is In Cheerful Mood
GENERAL STRENGTH IN STOCKS,
WITH MODERATE TRADING AT
THE ADVANCES.

NEW YORK. Aug. 12--There seems to
be a very general idea on the Street
that stocks are In for a sharp rally.
That the business of the fall months,
winter, and spring will be something
enormous. The Continental-Co Commercial
National Bank Of Chicago has added to
the story Of an excellent harvest by it's
returns, carefully prepared, giving an
aggregate value Of better than 100000
to the 1912 crops.
So bounteous, SO much more bumper, -
such general distribution Of wealth to
the agricultural districts, that the
traders have Just about decided that
they will ignore politics and cut loose
from the Presidential bugaboo. and set
a pace co-equal and warranted by the
harvests.
In reaching this conclusion Wall
Street finds a few grains of sand in the
machinery, and 10 greatly disappointed
thereat. The public is decidedly slow
In responding to the bumper stories; to
the steady advances, and to the theory
that the market can ignore probabilities
In the political world. This is the sore
spot In Wall Street
Last weeks orders for steel rails
were 200. 900 tons. Unflled steel tonnage
Of the United States Steel Corporation
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for July ke67,o7s tons. Brooklyn Rapid
Transit asks tenders on 10000 tons
structural and other steel shapes.
The money market is offering some
matters for consideration. Fourteen
banks In this city were down to legal
reserve and q little bit below last Satur-
day, but there Il no reason to look for
any stringency 30 long as the country
and city banks generally are carrying
such heavy reserves and employing
such large part Of their funds in short
term notes and In good marketable
bonds,
London responded to better marke,
here and comment was generally favor.
able over there.
The chief buyers Of the morning were
Harris, Winthrop a Co., Ladenburg
Thalmann a Co., and Henry Clews In
Steel, with Amory e. Waddeli sellers. 1r
Reading, Clews q Co.. and Newburg
Loeb g. Co., We're buyers Guthrie q
Co. was a good buyer of Union Pacific
During the first hour there was good
trading, a let-up followed in the firs,
half OF the second hour and then the
market came active all around the room
again with average gains " to y Other
than in Reading, where the advance
was less important.
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Explaining a Mystery.

More than earnest fanatic has written in to
know how ball club able to win so per cent OF
its games through the first half of the schedule should
be pressed to win 80 per cent of its in the
naming half-as the Giants today. Here's the
The Giants played last fall up late October
Two weeks later they were in Cuba, where they CON
tinued playing and training until midDecember Last
spring training conditions in the South were bad for
all clubs but the Giants, having played through the
greater part Of fall and winter only required week
or two to get back into shape. Where other clubs
needed hve weeks work and got but one or two the
Giants formed their playing edge a much brieer
margin. When the April campaign opened the Man
haitian battalion in what is technically known as
"midsummer FORM" to wrench on new one. They
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SEEK SOLUTION Of !.
HERM|T'S DEATH BY
Dose OF POISON
Harrisonburg Police Find
Rich Farmer Living in
Squalor.

HARRISONBURG, Va, Aug. 12.-The
death from poisoning Of g. M. Nicho-
las. wealthy farmer and Confederate
soldier. has brought to light a remark
able condition OF affairs In the Nicholas
home. Hermit, miser, and eccentric,
Nicholas accumulated a fortune Of
S20O,0o0 and yet lived In squalor and
flth without the ordinary necessities
of life.
For twenty-five years his aged house,
keeper, Miss Jane Hopkins, was the
only other occupant of the big fifteen-
room mansion on the Shenandoah river,
located on the magnificent 49o-acre
farm.
Nicholas kept his fortune distributed
In fifteen or twenty banks In Virginia
and Maryland, a goodly portion being
In Baltimore, Washington, and Rich
mond. 1t is.reported. He was always
afraid that one Of the banks would fall
and did not want to be caught.
He had a disdain for check books, but
used blank pieces Of paper. Once he
wrote a large check on the margin Of
an old newspaper.
Hermit Slept On Floor.
The finest blooded horses died Of old
age on the Nicholas farm because he
could not get his price for them. His
machinery fell to pieces from non-use.
He himself slept on the floor. He cared
nothing for friends, finery. fashion, dis
play.
The inside of the old house was as
bare and dreary as a beggar's hut. In
one of the largest rooms OF the house
was found a pile of seed corn, practi-
cally destroyed by rats. Carpets and
pictures were not to be seen. The floors
had not seen a broom for quarter Of
a century.
Made Own Wooden Leg.
In the war Nicholas had his leg shot
Off. Later he manufactured a crude
wooden leg. which he wore the rest OF
his days.
His death came last week. His broth
er. with a threshing outfit and six OF
eight laborers, were harvesting his
crops. Last Monday morning poison
in coffee killed Nicholas and made three
| others desperately i'll.
and the mystery OF this community
Nicholas stomach is with Chemist Tay'
lor, of Richmond. The grand jury Is
| awaiting the report of the chemist. Ir
the meantime there are many rumors
| but no arrests have been made.
The fact that Nicholas left no will
| complicates the situation. He never
| married. but has four brothers living.
The Washington times., 1912-08-12
LOCAL SECURITIES
AGAIN NEGLECTED.,
BUT HELD FIRMLY
Bonds Furnish the Greater
Part of the Limited
Trade.

There was nothing approaching ac-
tivity on tho local exchange and yet
there was a fair trade and no DISPOSE
tion to shade prices.
This Is really the entire feature OF the
market-this tenacity with which hold
ers await better markets before realiz-
ing, and the fact that scarcely anything
on the list Is offered at reduced figures.
fractions were In three bod issues,
but one of each. Railway as, s5%; Trac-
ton SIS, 111h,. and Gas SIS at 110h.
Eastern Light and Power brought III,
and Mergenthaler 225.
The call disclosed good strength in the
bid prices Of all the old favorites.
The Washington times., 1912-08-12
Kills Infant Brother
Initiating the Movies

AUBURN, N. Y, Aug. Eliminating
what he said he had seen in moving
pictures. four-year-old Leo Avery, son
of Merton Avery, picked up a revolver
he found lyong on a mantelpiece in his
home and fired a bullet into the brain
of his two-year-old brother. Floyd. kill
ing him instantly.
The father of the boys, who is a night
watchman at factory. left the revolver
where he thought 1t out of reach, Leo,
however. climbed on a chair and spied
the weapon. AS his little brother tod
died into the room. the boy playfully
pointed the revolver at him and pulled
the kitchen and died almost instantly in
his mothers arms.
The Washington times., 1912-08-12
Secretary Meyer on Way
Here to Resume Duties

NEWPORT, r. l.. Aug. 12.-Secretary
OF the Navy George Won l.. Meyer. ar
rived here yesterday on the dispatch
boat Dolphin from his summer home In
Hamilton, Mass, where he has been
recuperating from an attack OF typhoid
fever, The Secretary planned to start
later for Washington to resume his
duties.
with Rear Admiral Osterhaus on work
TO be undertaken by the battleships for
the next several weeks The ships will
leave Newport August II. and Mr..
will be held In New York In October.
The Washington times., 1912-08-12
New York Cotton Market.

Frank Chance has predicted that he and Clark Grit
fifth will have entire charge the selection of slabmen
the world SERIES John McGraw believes this
duty will fall to himself and J. Garland stah In the
meanwhile the rest Of us will sit back and observe
which Of the prophets carries the correct hunch
The Red Sox in a better psychological posi-
ton than the Giants They forged steadily to the front
time ago, and after securing healthy lead have
played steadily and evenly enough to maintain the
without any serious deficit at any time
The Giant position s quite different. II you play
golf tennis poker, you know what 1t means
to have the game apparently sewed upand then sud
denly discover that have booted away your wide
advantage. To have big lead chopped away brings
rout and disaster quicker than other factor Of the
game.
The Giants started West early in July with lead
of sixteen games They have slumped badly, but still
returned home after cleaning up the Reds with a
twelve-game margin They expected then that after
winning out Of eight the road at the finish OF
their to forge further ahead and end all doubt
In place Of which they have barely broken on a
long home stand while the Cubs rushing the
hostile trail 800 clip Now they start West again
with their lead Of July cut down to about
games and the morale Of the club considerably
depressed result II they get away badly in Chi
this trip they likely to return home around
September with their entire margin wiped away beset
by futerng duck fits and badly UP in the cool autumn
ozone.
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Railroads in Alaska.

Those who debate the question of
railroad construction by the Govern
ment in Alaska, will be able to get con-
issued by the Geological Survey en-
titled Railway Routes IN Alaska -
The report. which Is by Alfred H.
Brooks. summarizes all the data bear
ing on the location Of q railroad which
with one of several possible terminals
on the coast
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Flees to Europe to
Avoid Doped Food

NEW YORK, Aug 12-Bad food drove
Pierre Humbert, jr.. a native of New
York. who is an engineer by profession,
to Europe yesterday with his wife and
little daughter. He said he was all
but a physical wreck from eating adul-
terated foods served in this country.
THE food Is SO bad in New York" he
said, that no man can safely eat 1t for
a long time. In California one finds the
only food that Is At to eat. and 1t is so
there because they do not store II for
ages. This is becoming a nation of dys-
pepticsn
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Slept on Third Rail,
Laborer Killed by Car

NEW YORK, Aug. 12-Louis Borkar-
sky, a lnborer, thirty-four years OLD.
Of Winfield, L. l., was killed when a
westbound electric train OF the Ions
Island railroad. proceeding at high
speed. knocked him from the wooden
sheathing OF the third rail. upon which
he had lain down to sleep, at the Bur
roughs avenue crossing.
How the man happened to choose
the third rail covering for a bed was
not explained The police refused 10
arrest the motorman.
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Soda Water Tank Bursts,
Proprietor Is Killed

PASSAIC, N. j., Aug. l2-As Barnet
soda water fountain today. one Of them
exploded, killing him almost instantly.
Julius Rosonsky, who was sitting out
side the store, was cut by flying glass.
he ran half a mile to the office Of a
physician, who closed the artery in time
10 save his life. The store was
wrecked.
The Washington times., 1912-08-12
BINGLES AND BUNTS
By Grdntldnd Rice

started flying and the hide and heart from all
points, ahead In Julys debut Now the reaction
ary effect driving finish last fall. world series.
winter campaign in Cuba driving rush through April
keen edge By July Fourth the irresistible McGraw
machine had grown STALE while the Cubs just swinging
into their stride began to toss on all brakes and hit
up the dirt There isn't question but that early
condition. driven at top speed by McGraw re-
sponsibe for the Giant rush There isn't any question
but that the Giant machine is a badly tagged outfit
You can't have your cake and eat It, too, earlier
philosopher remarked A team can't be in pennant form
in April and August The long siege baseball which
fell to the lot Of the Giants primed them for dizzy
start but 1t has undoubtedly curbed them for late
summer finish.
On the other side of it. the Red sox started easily
and without any great fourish-worked into even,
than extended sprint The Red sox like the Giants.
are under the disadvantage Of having set the pace
long. Both Stahl and McGraw will find nothing short
Of rugged resistance will hold the Cubs, Senators,
and Athletics safely through late August and
September But, we suggested above, Stahl has
an easier task to handle than McGraw McGraw must
break up ve weeks slump to handle the proposition,
while Sahl has only to keep plugging at his present
speed At the rate Red Sox and Senators going and
have gone the Red Sox will win At the rate Giants
and Cubs have been going for five weeks. the Cubs will
win by fve-game margin.
The Red sox have been outbatting the Giants for
we'll over a month, and Stahl has a dependable
pitching corps stahl knows about what Joe Wood
do while Marquard of the pitching mysteries
of the epoch. One day they can't hit him with gatng
gun At his next start the bombardment starts early
the Rube is forced to duck about the fourth round
to save his noble beam Marquard winning nineteen
straight, and Marquard winning less than half his
games form two entirely detached propositions And
outside of Marquard and Mathewson the pitching
strength isn't there to face nerve-wreckng sprint
through the stretch. Stahl has a star in Wood, and
dependable workmen in Collins, Hall, Bedent, and
OBren Against other clubs beyond the famished Reds
McGraw has drawn but little help from the rest Of his
stan. although Jeh Teserau has pitched we'll but un-
luckily.
II the Cubs wrench three out of four in this next
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Sales Today on
The Local Exchange

Washington Gas 5's. S5o0a11oh.
Washington Railway and Electric 4's,
81, ,000dS5%.
Eastern Light and Fuel, 259121.
Mergenthaler, 106225
After call-Capital Traction 5's. 5000
11lh
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manager local branch. Colorado Building.
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II the Cubs wrench three out of four in this next
SERIES which gets under way Thursday, therel be
patch of gloom the Giant tepee large enough
to Asia and dark enough to make indigo gleam
like the unpearled dew Of a roselit morning. This
next series will be decisive factor in the struggle
After long delay drag back the crucial series
more and permit this same to stand
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SPECIAL NOTICES
Non-Medical Healing.

FIRST let me say to YOU that Al NOT
AFTER the business that belongs to YOUR
family Physician, but AM AFTER THOSE
CASES that have passed beyond the reach
Of medicine and their skill. II MATTERS
NOT WHO THEY ARE or what school they
practice.