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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15
EARLY MORNING
RAILROAD HORROR.
Fix Responsibility for the Wreck
Upon the Engineer and
Flagman
THIRTEEN PERSONS KILLED
Mrs. F. A. Wilcox, Tower Operator,
Made Frantic Efforts to Flag Mail
Train and Avert Disaster

Chicago, July 15.-Responsibility
for the fatal wreck on the Burlington
Railway at Hinsdale, where - were
killed and 25 seriously hurt wien the
fast mail crashed into the overland
express, Sunday, telescoping most OF
the latters sleeping cars, was placed
today between Engineer Bronson of
the mail, and Flagman John Wood
ruff of the express by P. S. Eustis,
passenger traffic manager, of the Bur-
lington. A dramatic feature of the
wreck was frantic effort made by
Mrs. F. A. Wilcox, the tower operator
nearest the scene, who vainly tried to
flag the mail. She had thrown the
semaphore against it, but, fearing the
signal might not be seen in the dense
fog that enshrouded the tracks was
tryil.%. to light red lantern when the
mail passed. Had it been a minute
later she could have tagged the train.
Flagman Woodruff insisted that he
went far enough back to flag the mail,
which he knew was coming, and as
serted that he also placed torpedoes
on the track. Fireman H. O. Grain,
who jumped from the mails engine
Just before the crash, declared that
when they hit the torpedoes there was
not time enough left to stop the train.
He declared the signals were clear
and after the torpedoes exploded En-
gineer Bronson ordered him to jump
but stuck to his seat in q vain effort
to prevent the crash.
There were numerous pathetic IN
cidents of the wreck. Mrs. E. G. Pohl
man, bride of Santa Rosa, Calf,
refused to permit doctor to attend
her until he had first treated her hus-
band. Her spine and both legs were
broken and she died later in the hos
pital.
That many of the bodies of the
victims were robbed by ghouls was as
certaincd by the police. Much jew
elry is missing and none of the dead
had more than q few cents in their
clothing, although it is certain all had
plenty of money prior to the crash.
Detectives are working on the thefts.
Three separate Investigations of the
wreck were in progress today, one by
Coroner Huffman, one By the railroad
and the third by the State Railway
Commission. Herbert Hease, assist
ant general solicitor of the Burlington
declared he was convinced tire wealth
err was the real cause.
"Tha fog was so dense the engineer
could not see the signals until too
late" he declared.
Of the dead, three, two-middle- aged
women, and a girl, of about II years,
are still unidentified. A boy and
woman, whose identity was not at
first known were found today to be
Mrs. G.. w. Tudor, so, and Louis Tud-
or, 6, wife and son of G.. W. Tudor,
the Lacey, Iowa, travelling man who
was also among the killed. 1t is be-
lieycd all of the injured will recover.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15
HONEY FOR SALE.

Nice comb Honey, 15c one pound
section, in lots of five of more deliver
ed in Alexandria. Send me postal.
R. D. LEWIS, R. F. D. No. 3, Alex
andria, Va. st.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

Friday, the 18th instant
on Mount Vernon road, near Huntlng
Creek, a SORREL HORSE with
star in forehead. The finder will re-
turn animal to the Standard Oil Com
panv and receive reward. st.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

A general meeting of the Sunday
School Baseball League will be held
at the Young Peoples Building at 8
o'clock tonight for the purpose of con-
sidering a constitution and bylaws.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

Four person lost their lives IN
dramatic drowning accidents yester-
day, three going down within mo-
ment or two of each other in Jam
aica Bay. One of these, a boy, per-
ished while his father was going 10
the rescue OF other swimmers. A
father lost his life in trying to save
his daughter, whom others finally
rescued.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

LOST-Ladies gold watch and pin
on June II, at Union Station or IN
Rosemont. Owner is anxious to re-
cover same for sentimental reasons.
Liberal reward if returned to Ga
zette office. July 13-3t.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

LOsT-Aionday, July Is, somewhere
on Prince Street between Royal and
Lee Streets or on Lee Street between
Prince and Wolfe, two small lathe
chucks in paste board box, dropped
from buggy. Finder will recei i've
suitable reward by returning same to
J. and H. Aitcheson, Machine Shop.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

HEALTH DEPARTMENT NOTES.
There was but one birth reported
today-a girl TO Samuel and Mary
Johnson, July Is.
Two hundred end fifty thousand
flies have been killed since Saturday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

The last dollar lost y u. J. AS
tor in Bridge games IN the Titanic
f.as been contributed tv Ms. Archi-
kald Forbes, society leader TO help
hiild the proposed Titanic memorial.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15
LOAN WANTED.

Wanted loan of $11, 100000 on first
class Real Estate security. Address
replies to REAL ESTATE.
Care of Gazette.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

The Holy Name Society of st.
Mary's Parish held meeting last
night at the Young Mems Sodality
Lyceum Hall, at which time prelm-
mary plans were made for the or
ganization of a band.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

Four persons lost their lives in
ton, III, yesterday by cloudburst
which destroyed 2 miles of streets,
wrecked six buildings and the gas
plant of the Alton Gas and Electric
Company, with total property loss
of $250,000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

Cane Nav. n. !. -"t.o'e Joe Can
.cn swept puhl:c;tr waen !e joined
with Edgar Page. IT singing the auth
..r's fayor::e hylnn, "Bculahland."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

Standing on the edge of SWIM
ming pool in the southern section of
Philadelphia last night, 14-year-old
Abraham Slitzeski hit an electric
light switch with wet towel, and re-
ceiyed shock which knocked him
headfrst to the bottom of the marble
basin. When he was taken out he was
dead. and it was found his skull was
fractured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

F. E. Crowley was arrested in
Washington last week on charge of
forgery. He is alleged TO have uttered
a worthless check in this city a few
days ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

Soft shell and deviled crabs a
Rammel Cafe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

The Retail Merchants Association
has secured souvenirs to be distribu-
ted to delegates to the State Asso-
citation which meets in this city on
Wednesday. They are in the shape
of attractive watch fobs.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

A crisis in the seamen's strike was
reached at Antwerp yesterday, when
seamen set fire to the steamer iceland
as she lay in her dock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

The clock in the City Hall steeple
came to stop about half-past twelve
o'clock this morning. 1t was started
several hours later.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

Six young white men have been ar
rested, and one other is being sought
by the Washington police in connec-
ton with an investigation into the
murder, Thomas Cole, colored, of
Bladensburg Road, who was found
dead in ditch off Bcnning Road,
early yesterday morning. The
police say Cole was attacked with
heavy palings torn from fence by
the roadside and also with knife.
Cole is said to have cried for help. He
had but two dollars in his pockets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

While alone in their home, near
Dougherty's mines, s miles north of
Altoona, Pa, Saturday, William
Dare, s years old, miners son, killed
his 5-year-old brother, George. They
were playing "William TelF' with
baseball for an apple, but they didn't
know the shotgun was loaded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

The Chamber of Commerce has Sc
cured a supply of the new maps of the
city of Alexandria which were refer
red to in the Gazette several days
ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-15

Unsettled tonight and Tuesday;
not much change in terperaturc;
light to moderate variable winds.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-08
TROLLEY EXTENSIONS.

The communication received by Mayor Murphy to the effect that the Connecticut company will start work in the spring on the Boswell avenue extension means that success will crown the efforts of a movement started a half-dozen years ago. This will mean the serving of a section of the city which never has had any transportation service and with it will come the development of that section of the city to a greater extent than ever before It will in opening up a new section to trolley service give an opportunity to the company to watch the benefit which will steadily accrue from the investment and with it there should be impressed upon the company the other points to which trolley service should be extended.
 It has been years now since Norwich has had any extensions of the trolley lines and those extensions which were made have proved their worth. It is time that the extension of the West Side line to Maplewood cemetery should be put through. It is impos- sible now to get there without a long walk or drive. Each year shows an increase in the number of burials there and a corresponding increase in the number who go there almost every day in the week. Just beyond is an- other cemetery where many from here are buried and along the entire route there are many dwellings and new
 
 ley accommodation could be had There should be no relaxation in the effort 10 secure the Maplewood exten- sion. It is needed and would open up q large territory to new business.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-08
ONLY A YARN.

That was only an ingenious story
 concerning Germany securing a coal
 ing station in the straits of Magellan,
 which was calculated to stir up the
 anxious ones, but 1t took but little to
 suppress it. There is no doubt that
 Germany might like one there, and, in
 fact, other countries might be desir-
 ous of it, alsO but there is little like lihood of their desires being obtained. Chilli has control of all the islands in
 that part of the world, and she would
 not listen to this country, even, some years ago, when it was desired to get
 such a location there.
 It didn't take long to set the rumor afloat. and it was as quickly checked. It appealed to the state department as l a joke, while the Chilian minister de- clared there was no truth whatever | to the tale. It takes considerable of | yarn to creat feeling of unrest
 when foreign encreachment is involv- | ed in this hemisphere. The policy of this country in that regard is well 1 known. so well known. in fact, that | nothing of that sort is liable to be at | tempted in times of peace. The fact | that the story ended with the denial of it's truthfulness indicates that it
 was without foundation and started | evidently for the purpose of a new sensation. Had it concerned England 1 instead of this country it might have | caused big stir, for every move that
 Germany makes is carefully watched l by England.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-08
Norwich, Friday, Nov. 8, 1912.
THE PRESIDENTS VOTE.

Concerning the defeat of President Taft for a reelection, and the fact that the returns show him getting but a small part of the electoral and likely third in the popular vote, it is a result in which the true situation is not told Mir. Taft is not in that position be- cause the people disbelieved him or the party principles for which he stood The figures do not record the attitude af the people on that score, but rather show their determination that Roose- welt should not be elected. Rather than to take any chance of his getting by. thousands of republicans voted the democratic ticket. when it was realized that the Reflections to the third ticket would not allow the republican ticket tO win.
 The New York Times, in reference 10 the president said:
 He did not deserve it. These are the words that are on the lips of null titudes who were opposed to MT. Taft 8 election, and they are spoken with earnestness and sincerity. His defeat under any possible conditions in his own party COuiu ndIOlE nave b6th avoided, but his pitiful showing in the electoral college is not the result of forces that are not to his discredit- quite the contrary.
 Never were more incongruous ele ments more ingeniously interwoven for a less worthy end than those rallied by Roosevelt to execute the mandate of his mingled spite and greed At the last a curious force was directed against Mir Taft on which no one could have counted in advance. MT, Roosevelt went so far, in his dema- gogie hunt for votes, in his appeals ts the passions of the ignorant and the minimizing, that very many who sup ported Mr. Taft's election, seeing it to be impracticable. voted for Governor Wilson 10 defend the nation from the possible calamity of Mir. Roeseyelts success. It was. apparently, these votes that brought the number of Taft cleo tors so strikingly low
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-08
NEw LonpoN,s cRossINe.

How great the need of better pro- lection to the public, at the railroad crossing in New London, is indicated by the order of the public utilities commission. which recently investigat- ed the situation and gave a hearing upon improving conditions there. That danger to life and limb which has been maintained has resulted in many deaths at the several'crossings, but for tunately at the ferry crossing no catas- trophes have occurred. This does not signify that none will occur and the hazard there is great. The condition was one which the city should have long ago taken steps to overcome. It is an improvement which New London has toe long neglected, preferring to take the chances to the expenditure of what would be necessary to insure safety.
 It is the residents of Groton who are going to be greatly relieved by the new order. The requirement that an overhead bridge across the railroad tracks be constructed at once will overcome the danger to pedestrians, while the order for regulation of rail- road traffic and the stationing of guards and crossing tenders at the danger points will protect the busi- ness traffic which has to use the crossings. It is not surprising that the public utilities commission reached such a decision, the only surprise be- ing that it wasn't done before. Both railroads are affected by it, and one of the worst grade crossing situations in the state will be overcome.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-08

they wish to serve in war. They must serve. The time has come for draft upon the women of the nation to serve the nation and themselves in every way in which citizenship can serve and ex- alt democracy, and to serve themselves in every way in which citizenship can magnify and enrich the life of woman hood. as democracy has greatened the life of men,
 We women have not always looked upon voting in just this light. The meeting was closed by an interesting summary of what the women of Con- necticut are doing to gain the fran chise, by Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard.
 The convention opened Friday at 9.30 with a pleasing address by the presI- dent, Mrs. William Hincks, and follow ed by an eloquent appeal from Miss Pierson for funds to carry on the work for the coming year. We know that Governor Baldwin is right when he says there are women in Connecticut who do not want to vote, but he should
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-08

have heard the rapid pledges to sacri- fee feminine love for finery to give the money for suffrage work-silk stockings, silk umbrellas, beautiful hats. fine gowns were all laid as a sac riffce on the altar of sacred convic- tions. When we remember that the wise aid witty Sidney Smith said, Don't tell a girl that pretty hat is of no consequence to her, for it may be the winning of a husband.' we feel it does mean something to sacrifice pretty clothes. Those who have the husbands need them just as much to hold their husbands admiration. Men may laugh and scoff at women's clothes all the same there is naught in this world that a man loves as much as good looking woman; so they have evidence in this sacrifice on the part of suffagists that they want votes for women" tremendously. Those women who had an abundance of this worlds goods and did not need to run any such risk, gave for theIr children, hus
 bands. friends. and one man valued his mother -in-law at S15, which touch ed his wife's pride and she raised it to 325. The individual pledge added to the leagues amounted to $7,500. Mrs. William T, Hincks was reelected as president by a rising vote. The rest
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-08

The 27th annual convention of the New England association of colleges and preparatory schools brought sev eral hundred representatives of the larger institutions to Yale university last week. Prof. Charles Henry Forbes of Andover, Prof. Henry T. Fowler of Brown university, President E. c. Sanford of Clark college were among the speakers at the first session. At the dinner of the association in Memo rial hall the speakers were President Meiklejohn of Amherst, who advocated a liberal cultural college course as op- posed to professional specialization. President Mary E. Woolley of Mt Holyoke said there were too many dis fractions in modern college life. Pres ident Butterfield of the Massachusetts Agricultural college, President H. A. Garfield of Williams and President Hadley of Yale were the concluding speakers. The honor system was dis cussed at the final session by Professor Phelps of Yale, Maxwell Chaplin of Princeton and others.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-08
rHE cRoss-TIEs MARKET

To the lumbeTman the sale of cross ties and poles is an important part of his business. A ready market is usu- ally offered for the sale of such tim Der in the maintenance of steam and trolley roads and in the construction of new lines It is for such a market that much of the woodland through out New England as well as in other parts of the country is cut off. Dur ing the year 1911 the purchases by steam roads showed a falling off of cross-ties by nearly nine per cent. in comparison with the year previous. Nevertheless, there were 135,O53, 900 bought by both steam and electric roads, the latter showing a gain of three per cent. in the number used
 This has characterized the past few years, the extensions in new work be- ing confined chiefly to the electric lines, the steam roads in 1911 having used three million below the average number in the past five years. The use of steel and concrete cross ties has not accounted for that decrease, though such equipment has been tried DS @Ai"HJ i'HiS' ~ ID oOuDlluI II SuCn will seriously hamper the lumberman's business for some years to come.
 In ths shape of wood, oak is the leader for such purposes. with south- ern pine, Douglas fir. cedar and chest nut coming in order, Gum, maple and beech are coming into greater use for this purpose. They are cheaper and by the use of p;.eservativs ars found to fast as long if not longer than the standard ef0ss-de timber. This year is expected ts show much greater use Of eross-tiss because of necessary ex- tensions te take care of the business, New England as well as ether see tiens having large amount ef raii- road and FaiiRsF construction,
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-08
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Woman's Suffrage Convention.

Mir. Editor: The forty-third annual
 convention of the Connecticut Wom-
 ans Suffrage association was held at
 the Hotel Taft, New Haven, Oct B.
 The large ball room of the Taft was
 hlled with delegates representing most
 of the counties of Connecticut One could not but be impressed with the
 fine physiques and radiant counte-
 nances of many of the delegates They were fighters for ideas, for principles. Spirited reports from officers, chairmen Of the five organized counties and preS- idents of leagues made the session of the first day one of great interest and gave evidence of the hard, solid work done by these ardent suffraglsts. Tho corresponding secretary, Mrs. Edward Porritt, reported that 29 new leagues had been added to he IS of last year, which included the Wide-Awake Mems league ogranized at the Taft last April. Mrs. Mary J. Rodgers, the treasurer, reported that s9,500 had been paid into the treasury during the year 1911- 1912. Miss Emily Pierson, state organ izer, made our heads fairly whirl with the account of the prodigious amount or work done in the trolley crusade through every town in Fairfield. New Haven and Hartford counties between January "A and March 2S. and also the auto trip through New London county during July, Miss Pierson has spoken in every part of the state, before clubs and organizations of every description
 All this would seem to be enough for one woman to put into one year, but she had energy enongh left to assist Ohie in its last months fight for sui frage, The great treat of the eonven- ten was the masteFiy address in the evening by Rabbi Stephen s, Wise oi
 New York, His keen, logical argu- ments fer the enfraHchising of women and witty sailies called forth repeated 1 applause: He euesed his address with
 the worlds If this nation is to be | truly and completely democratic, then | it must be ruled by all the people, net
 half of the people her the male people
 but all the people. Ne state charter of democracy In eur time Is complete thai does net demand citizenship for wem en. It is net question whether wem. en want suffrage ST net. There come: ] time when We are net asked whethe