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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
BALLOON RACE BEGINS
American Entry Reported Land
ed-All Others Aloft.

Berlin. Oct. 2&-The American balloon
Million Population" piloted by John
Berry. is reported to have landed at 4
o'clock this afternoon at Grambin. near
Ueckermuende. In the vicinity Of Stettin,
on the Baltic Sea. Grambin Is about
ninety miles due north Of Berlin.
All the balloons participating in the
international race for the Gordon Bennett
Cup, which started yesterday from Stuff
CART, are still up. According TO dispatches
received from various points at o'clock
this afternoon they were generally head
ing to the east after sailing northward
during the night. They were all about
the latitude of Berlin.
1t is regarded as probable that the win
ner will be carried again to Russia, IN
which direction they were being driven
this morning by q brisk west wind.
Among the twenty balloons there were
three American competitors. as the COM
mittee at the last moment allowed John
Watts to compete regularly In the balloon
Dusseldorf, which takes the place OF the
Kansas City II. which exploded yester-
day.
The American balloon, Million Popula-
ton. piloted by John Berry, was the only
representative of the United States to re-
port during the day. A message was
thrown out near Halberstadt saying, All
WELL Slow progress"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
UNITE AGAINST POLLUTION
City and Croton Lake Residents
Oppose Hospital.

Through it's Water supply Department.
the City OF New York made vigorous pro-
test yesterday before State Commissioner
OF Health Eugene II. Porter, at White
Plains, against the proposed tuberculosis
hospital at Croton Lake. A petition,
signed by 2eS residents of Croton Lake
and Yorktown, and another from town
board Of health. opposing the project
were also submitted.
1t was contended that the hospital mem
aced the Manhattan water supply. be-
cause two streams which flow through
the proposed site empty near the new
Catskill Aqueduct intake. A representa-
tive of the Merchants Association OF
New York also alleged that flies would
carry the germs and spread the disease.
The Griffen farm is near the country
estates of several New Workers. r. C..
Shading, a real estate broker, testified
that II the hospital was built property at
Yorktown and Croton Lake would be
practically ruined.
Theodore Coffin, sanitary engineer for
the City of New York. and T. C. Colyer,
assistant engineer In charge Of the water
shed. declared the hospital would pollute
Croton Lake.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
0. |. MILLS SPEAKS TO 1900
Republican Candidate for Con-
gress Talks for Straight Ticket.

An enthusiastic Republican rally Of
about 100 was held in the Bohemian Ma
tional Hall, No 31 East I'D street, last
night ogden L, Mills. candidate for Con-
gress in the 18th District, was chief
speaker.
Mr.. Mills said:
l have done my best 10 meet the voters
OF my district, for / felt / owed IL to
them that they should know the man, as
well as the principles they are asked to
support. My opponent has sat In Tam
many Hall waiting for the machine to
pull him through; IL win ! ask that 1t
shall be NOT by political machinery but by
The Progressive party can't win; vote
for Il is a vote thrown away. and In
these times II Is the duty of all to use
our votes. and not to waste them. We
must draw a line between the aims OF the
Progressives and their methods; all right
thinking men agree with their aims
social Justice and reform-but no right
thinking men can agree with the means
by which they would attain those ends.
The Progressive attitude on tariff and
trusts is precisely the same as the Re
publican, and these are the only vital
questions before the country. All that
is left OF the Progressive platform, then,
is a Capitalization OF government and a
destruction OF our constitutions. They
would centralize the government, ana 80
make Il unresponsive 10 local needs: they
would destroy our constitutions by sub
jectlng them to the within OF temporary
maiOrities
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
S. R. O. SIGN OUT FOR T. R.
Progressives Plan Whirlwind
Finish After Big Meeting.

Inc mass meeting AT ha1lbOH DQudTc
Garden tomorrow night. at which Col
onel Roosevelt will deliver his first ad-
dress since the Milwaukee shooting, is
to mark the climax of the Progressive
campaign. Progressive leaders were busy
yesterday planning whirlwind wind-up,
hoping 10 keep Progressive sentiment at
the record mark TO which they expect II
10 rise after Mr.. Roosevelt's final appeal
until election.
All tickets for the meeting have been
sold. and there is not one seat undis-
posed OF In the largest meeting place In
this city. Overflow meetings are to be
held around the Garden for those who
might come despite the assurances that
they cannot be accommodated.
The speech Of Colonel Roosevelt to-mor-
row night will be his last one In this
campaign, according to present plans.
The other speakers at the meeting will be
Governor Hiram Johnson OF California:
Oscar suaus, candidate for Governor.
for Lieutenant Governor. william II.
Hotchkiss. chairman OF the Progressive
State Committee. will preside.
The announcement was made yesterday
that no reservation would be honored
after o'clock. and that at the stroke OF
that hour all unoccupied seats would be
thrown open 10 the public.
Those holding admission and gallery
tickets will be admitted from 8 o'clock
on through the 18th street entrance. Box
holders and those holding tickets for the
floor, the arena and the two balconies
will be admitted through the Madison
avenue entrance. Those with guest or
platform tickets can enter by either en-
trance.
The Progressive campaign will be
wound up by whirlwind tours by Governor
Johnson, Senator Clapp and Oscar Straus,
while an army Of speakers will be turned
loose in Manhattan and The Bronx.
Governor Johnson and Senator Clapp
will 10 upstate on Thursday. and though
their itinerary is not definitely arranged.
they will speak in Buffalo, Rochester.
Syracuse, Schenectady. Albany and other
larger cities OF the state. Mr.. Straus viii
devote his energies to Greater New York
and Long Island.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29

ROOM HUNTING IN AN OFFICE.
Consult Tho Tribuns's Room and
Board Register-Advt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
JURORS ON BALKY LIFT
Car Sticks Fast and Ties Up
Supreme Court.

One Of the new elevators in the County
Court House, which were put in at much
expense Of time and money. became as
balky as South Carolina mule a little
before o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
wouldn't move upward or downward.
1t happened few minutes before the
time for the reconvenins OF the Supreme
Court for the afternoon session. The car
stuck between the second and third floors.
with nineteen passengers-5urora. clerks,
lltigants and lawyers. Several parts Of
the court were tied up. In the part where
Judge Bischoff was presiding over . suit
for alienation Of affections, there were
two Jurors missing, and after walt court
attendants went In search for them. They
finally traced them to the obstinate ele-
vator, from which place the jurymen an
swered Present" and saved themselves
possible fine for contempt OF court.
The cause Of the trouble was the blow
ing out OF fuse. After delay OF twenty
minutes, a new fuse was put in and bust
ness went on as usual.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
GRAMAPHONE HIS TEACHER
Ruffo Says He Corrected Faults
in Voice with It's Aid.

Signor Titta Ruffo. the well known
italian barytone. engaged by Andreas
DIPPED for the Chicago Opera Company,
arrived in New York yesterday on the
George Washington. and later received
reporters in his rooms at the Hotel Knick-
erbocker signor Ruffo said he would
make his only New York appearance on
November 10 In Thomass Hamlet" and
among other things asserted that his
real teacher was the gramaphone.
II am thirty-five years old. and have
been on the stage since I was twenty,
but though I have had several teachers
my real master was the gramaphone,"
was the wav he put It. when / first
heard my voice In the gramaphone l
realized that It possessed some faults.
These at once set out to rectify. After
the third lesson found my voice was
perfect, iawlsss rom top to bottom.
II have number Of favorite parts
Hamlet, Iago. Rgoletto, Figaro. and
In all OF them I try to make my dra-
matte impersonation as important as my
singing l am a great lover of Shake
speare, and 1t was because of that that
became interested in Hamlet the
only opera in which I am to appear In
New York, though may also be heard
in concert"
Among the other singers who arrived
on the George Washington was Miss
Lucrezia Bort, q young Spanish soprano,
who two years ago sang Manon Lescaut
with the Metropolitan Opera Company
during its season at the Chatelet In Paris.
Miss Bori is pretty and only twenty
three, and in reception at the Metro
politan Opera House during the after
noon she expressed her pleasure at being
in New York
II have sung at La Scala In Milan for
the last two seasons, and also In Buenos
Ayres," said Miss Bori. I'm Milan l
created the Goose Girl in 'Konigskinder'
and also the soprano part in Richard
Strauss Rozenkavalier.' Among the
parts ! am TO sing at the Metropolitan
are Manon Lescaut. IN Puccinfs opera,
and Antonia, in Les Contes d'Hoffmann.'
Miss Bor is accompanied by her father.
a retired colonel In the Spanish army,
who fought under Weyler In Cuba.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
BROWNSVILLE FREE TO VOTE
Threats Of Arrest Made, League
Hears-Harding and Bede Attacked.

Voters in the Brownsville section OF
Brooklyn an In East New York have
been told that II they vote more than one
ballot next Tuesday they will be arrested,
so the campaign committee Of the Inde-
pendence League was told last night. II
was decided that the league should in
form voters this was not so. and that
they were privileged TO vote the national
and state tickets, and the ticket relating
TO good roads. II was decided that 10000
circulars be printed and distributed in
the thickly settled districts of Brooklyn.
so that there might be no mistake.
The committee also adopted resolutions
protesting against the language used on
the slump by j. Adam Bede and by Ex-
Governor Harding OF Ohio. II was the
sense of the resolution that the shooting
OF Roosevelt was the result OF Just such
language. and It was decided to send a
copy OF the resolutions to the speakers in
question, 10 President Taft and to the Re-
publican National Committee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
ALL SIX SPEAK AT ONCE
Ben. Franklin Hears Claims of
Rival Political Parties.

Persons passing p. Franklin's statue.
which stands opposite the Tribune Build
ing. saw the unusual spectacle yesterday
of six orators, representing as many par
,,es endeayoring 10 show their followers
Shv their cause was better than any
other at the same time. The speech
making was loud and boisterous. each
speaker trying to be heard above the
others.
The disturbance was so great that the
police OF the Oak street police station. de-
tailed to see that none OF the speakers
were interfered with, at last decided II
was I'D to them to prevent personalities.
From then on. instead of punctuating
their remarks about the speaker for the
Republican, Socialist, Bull Moose, Pro-
hibition or other party. each speaker de-
voted his time to pleading his own party
cause.
II was soon after II o'clock that the
National Society for the Suppression OF
Strife man pitched his camping stool
under the wing Of B. Franklin and began
his dissertation in support OF the Bull
Moose party. He no sooner had his crowd
in good humor than the Socialist speaker
arrived OH the scene. Others quickly fol-
lowed. and by 1890 o'clock six speakers
were going at one time, each trying TO
outdo the other.
The crowd seemed to enjoy the fun
An elderly man. who apparently had come
TO listen to political talk, said later that
the affair was as good as circus. and
that he had been repaid for his time.
Instead OF the hundred or more who
generally gather there every day. Frank
Inns statue was fairly swarmed with peo-
ple, After the speech making. one OF the
orators casually remarked:
..I guess that little argument among
the speakers didn't hurt"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
BOY BURGLARS COMMITTED.

Raymond Beck and his pal. John Chris
tian, were committed TO the Dobbs Ferry
asylum, by Jude Ryan, in the Brooklyn
Children's Court, yesterday. AS the boys
we're being led of they began to cry
about the cruel treatment they had re-
ceived before their escape from that place
ten days ago. Judge Ryan said he did
not believe the stories. but would hold
Raymond Beck to give the detectives
chance to recover some OF the stolen
goods. John Foley. charged with having
received some OF the stolen goods, PLEADED
guilty, and was remanded to thu Chill
dren's Society, pending inYestigauon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
AVIATION TOURNAMENT NOV. s.

The Aeronauticai Society will hold an
aviation tournament at its new aviation
field, lakewood Heights. Staten Island.
Election Day, November 8. Among the
aviators who will take part are George
W. Beatty. Harry Bingham Brown. Cecil
Paoli, Captain Thomas Baldwin. George
Dyott and Ruth Law. To this list other
names probably will be added later. The
grounds are within walking distance Of
the lakewood Heights station, and are
readily accessible from Manhattan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
ITALIANS FOR STEINBRINK
Newspaper Editors Circulate Indorss-
ment of Candidate.

Many italian leaders are making a Wig
orous campaign for Meier Steinbrink. Re-
publican candidate for Attorney General,
In all parts Of the state, especially In and
about New York City. The Italian news
papers have taken special interest In
his campaign and many Of opposite politi-
cal faith have come out openly for him.
Seven Italian newspapermen have got
ten up an Endorsement OF the Republican
candidate which they are circulating
among their fellow countrymen. The
signers are Nicola GRILL. Frank l.. Fru-
gone, business manager OF II Bollet-
tine Della Sern: August Pasanini, Ercole
Cantelnno, editor Of II Giornale Italiano:
Benedetto NJ. Cantelmo, Enftco Palcidia
and Egidio M. Grella.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
Brave Private Bled 10 Death.

Brave Private Bled TO Death.
TWO men were hit while the Amer-
can troops were forcing their way
through the brush. One Of these was
Private Bobbit, Of Company b, who
was wounded Just after the columns
entered the woods. One OF his COM
rades improvised a tourniquet and
bound II around his leg. He was told
to wait until the men came back
When the troops returned they do not
find Bobbit on the spot where he had
been left. He refused TO sit out. His
body was within a hundred yards OF
the rebel trenches. His efforts TO get
into the fight cost him his life. He
had bled 10 death.
Not all the courage was on the side
OF the Americans. The Nicaraguans
left fifty dead in the trenches. There
were only three hundred OF them to
six hundred Americans at the point OF
attack. OF course. If they had been
good soldiers they could easily have
held such a strong position against an
even larger force. but they were not
good soldiers and did not pretend to be.
The rules of warfare are somewhat
different In Nicaragua. Rum is con-
sidered Just as Indispensable an ammu-
milton for soldiers as bullets.
once they had been dislodged from
their position on the hill they were
at the mercy of the federal cavalry.
Their countrymen pursued them all
the way to Mesaya and into the streets
OF the city. American officers were
rushed to the spot to see that the VIC
torious Nicaraguans played the game
according to our rules. By the time
they arrived. however, there was no
supervising to do. Practically all the
rebels within reach had been killed.
Woman Fought in Trenches.
"They found one woman in tho
trenches up there on the HILL" said
Lieutenant Martin. II saw her before
I was hit. She was firing a Remington
rife and helping load the one-pound
gun. There was a one-pound shell in
her hands when they found her."
"A beautiful young woman" some
one suggested.
NO" answered Martin, AN old and
homely one"
1t was intimated that perhaps Mar
tin himself was hero, but the sugges-
ton made him almost as angry as an
attempt to take his picture.
who picked you up when you were
shot?" he was asked.
Lieutenant e. p. Moses" he an
swered. He was loyal to his friend.
please don't call him hero either.
He wouldn't like 1t. He just carried
me away from the trenches back into
the woods. That's all"
Lieutenant Martin Is In a good deal
Of luck from some points Of view, though
he himself does not seem to have had any
great amount Of fun out Of his wounds.
He has not been in the marine corps
long and 1t was the first active service
which he had ever seen. II is not every
man who gets wounded In his first
fight. He Is a second lieutenant and
his home Ia in Somerville, Mass.
An ambulance from the hospital OF
the Brooklyn navy yard was waiting
for him at the pier. and so was his
wife. The hard-hearted navy surgeon
ma rted them and Lieutenant Martin
went away In the ambulance.
ROOM HUNTING IN AN OFFICE.
Consult Tho Tribuns's Room and
6oard Reo;star-Adyk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29

Continued from first page.

company Of bluejackets were hurried
across the front OF the enemy's lines to
the base Of Coyatepe Hill. It was
barely dawn, a dark day, with poor
shooting light, when the marines and
bluejackets received the word to start.
They went with empty stomachs.
breakfast when It's all over" was the
word passed out, and this may have
had something to do with the quick
time IN which the task was accom-
plished.
Surgeon Hoyt had long range view
of the thirty seven minute engagement.
This Is how the battle looked to Lin:
Il was In charge Of the field hospital
We had II rugged up in three boxcars
on the railroad line, about thousand
yards from the hill. Pretty soon a one
pound gun on the hill began dropping
shells around us and we backed up
few hundred yards. We couldn't see
quite 30 we'll, but II was a better hos
pital location. The men started out In
two columns on opposite sides OF the
hill, and they played the game just as
the textbooks say it ought to be played.
Rush firing think you call it.
First one group of four would run
thirty or forty yards and then they
would. lie down and puff away at the
fellows on top of the hill. Then an
other group would take 1t up. The
rebels didn't begin to shoot until our
men were within a range Of 500 yards
] couldn't see what effect the firing or
our troops was having, but the rebels
were wasting ammunition.
None of our men was wounded here
IN the open space. Presently they hit
the brush, and then the fighting was all
on one side I could see the smoke OF
the firing from the top Of the hill, but,
OF course. I could not see what results
the rebels were getting. 1t wasn't
much fun watching a fight Ike that
Then all at once our lines got out into
the open. There was considerable
smoke for a moment or two and then
a Iull in the firing. l reckoned they
had forgotten the textbooks and were
rushing 'em. Pretty soon there were
bugle calls. Then they began bringing
the wounded down TO me, and | quit
watching and got into the game my
soISD
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
Meets Reporters Again and
Saws He Feels as if Nothing
Had Happened.
STARTS NEW LIBEL SUIT
Receives Offers to Testify from
Men Who Served Under Him
Nearly 1000 Letters and
800 kilograms in Grist.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

o,,ster BAY. Oct 2S-'T feel as though
nothing had happened to me. by George!
calculated Theodore Roosevelt, after ne
had administered a perfectly. good ieiI-
handed shake to eight newspaper men In
bls den at Sycamore Hill this evening
lyon know. II Is bully to see you all
again. II makes me feel as though were
hack in the regular channel of things
Colonel Roosevelt, with a countenance
,riea less bronzed than usual, yet as
stout and stalwart as though he had not
heen the target Of an assassin's bullet
three weeks ago tonight, sat down ~
his desk and kept up a lively conVersa-
ton with his friends, to whom he hasn't
GIVEN an audience since he went to Mercy
Hospital, in Chicago. All the time, now
ever he kept his right arm close 10 his
side.
There is a soreness in the chest due
10 the bruised muscles outside the chest
cavity" the colonel explained carelessly'
"Tbe doctors say that the injured rb las
apparently healed. but it refuses 10 be
good, especially If l take deep breath.
am hardly in form TO enter a hill-climo-
ing contest" he said, with a laugh.
THE soreness is like rheumatism, isn't
II colonel? some one asked. the eX-
President grimaced.
lust like that-only a lot worse" he
said
The reporters explained that they
hadn't come prepared TO lombard the
colonel with questions on politics. They
said they assumed ne had kept middling
good track Of the progress Of his cam
palgn. and the colonel smilingly affirmed
their assumption. He said he had nothing
TO say. however.
The talk drifted to Colonel Roosevelt's
plans for speaking in New York, and
that brought up the matter Of crowds.
The colonel explained that his chief con-
Germ about speaking anywhere was that
he would not be permitted to shake hands
or get mixed up in the rush of excited
persons.
Might Turn Anarchist.
you know" he said in all his oldtime
effective falsetto. some perfectly well
meaning persons are sure to think when
they see me in some meeting that the
psychological moment has arrived TO
pump handle me and then clinch the
efrusiyeness of their greeting by clapping
NE over the shoulder. And-and that. by
George, makes it almost necessary for
me 10 resist the impulse to be an an
archist myself he ended in a hearty
laugh
Suting the action 10 the surgical re-
quirement Of the season, Colonel Roose-
welt tucked his right hand carefully into
the pocket Of his brown kakhi suit. 1T
rests my rib" he explained dryly
The candidate is as enthusiastic az a
child about his appearance in Madison
Square Garden Wednesday night. He IS
going 70 New York in the afternoon on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29

after lasting a month. OF the 1900
strikers $500 registered at the factories ,
and returned to work, and 1t is expected
that the remainder will resume shortly.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-10
soUsA's BAND OCT. 22.
One of Biggest Musical Attractions Of
Season Here.

The appearance of John Phillip Sou
sas famous band of sixty pieces. at
the Calumet theater for matinee and
evening programs on Oct. %. is her
aided as one of the biggest musical
events of the season. The afternoon
program will be of a lighter vein than
the evening program, but both viii
doubtless be very interesting.
Fifty of the sixty members OF the
band were with Sousa on his famous
tour around the world which closed
last year, as were the three soloists
of the troupe, Miss Root soprano Miss
Ieddler. violinist. Herbert l..
Clarke. cornetist The latter is
admitted to be one of the ablest
cornet soloists i'm the world.
George NJ. Loomis, the advance man
for Sousa's band was in Calumet to-
DAY and stated that the programs
70 be rendered in Calumet are first
class in every particular