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New-York tribune., 1912-12-30
He Also Denies Rumors of Hos
tiIity from New England LegiS-
Iatures Toward His Road.
WON'T HEAD N. Y. CENTRAL
Director Ridicules Boston Story
: That New Haven President
Will Resign to Succeed
w. G.. Brown.
fBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune. ]


New Haven, Dec. 29.-President Mellen
OF the New Haven Railroad tonight de-
| MED that relations between his lines and
tho legislatures of New England were in
| any sense strained. insisted that the New
Haven line has done for New York City
commuters more than any other railroad,
| asserted that steel cars had been ordered
to replace the wooden ones on all express
trains, set July / as the finish of the cleo
| trihcation of the road to New Haven and
stated that the New Haven road had done
| nothing whatever toward delaying con-
struction of the Grand Trunk system ex-
| tension into New England.
Speaking of the condition of legislation
he said:
$50 far as have heard. the relations
of the New Haven road with the icgis-
| latures and the people OF Connecticut have
been and are very satisfactory. / can tell
you nothing about any lobby at Hartford,
for my personal knowledge thereof is COM
pdTalhcIN SIlSNt. i SHOuIu, iHilh' INV
| ever be notified If important matters af-
fecting the railroad interests of Connecti-
cut are under consideration. for the man
ager of any property would be unfaithful
to his trust il he did not arrange to keep
posted concerning propositions Affecting
Its welfare.
Il can give no more information regard
ing the trouble in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island over the Grand Trunk mat
ter than / have already given in my let
ter to the public Of December 20. I be-
lieve those charges are based on an
erroneous opinion, which has been given
to the public by certain newspapers which
L do not care TO designate particularly.
and that the misnformation they have put
In circulation has directed public opinion
against the New Haven road as the insti-
gator Of the Grand Trunk financial plans
1 have before denied having anything to
do with the Grand Trunk construction
plans, and have nothing further TO say
other than to persist In that denial as en-
pbatically as words can make It"
President MeIlen stoutly denied that he
had any intention of resisning from tho
presidency Of the New Haven Railroad
system. director Of the railroad to-
night freely expressed his mind relative
to tho story published in Boston to-day to
the effect that President Mellen will re-
place President Brown OF the New York
Central. He said:
President Mellen will remain at the
head Of the New Haven system IL the
united directorate can keep him. and, as
his health is good, expect that he will
continue to remain many years. The d.
rectors have not discussed his retirement
to go to the New York Central or any
where else The source Of these men
dacious reports relative to President Mel
lens retirement is clear. and We expect
many more stories emanating from Bos-
ton tho next few months. The story
printed to-day Is entirely without founda-
ton"
New-York tribune., 1912-12-30
BOY AND SISTER DROWN
Brother Skates Through Ice az
He Drags Girl on Sled.

Concord. Mass, Dec. 29.-Dragsing
his sister Margaret. three years old,
on a sled. John Brown, seventeen.
sksted through ice on the Strathmore
Mill pond here to-day and both were
drowned.
The brother and sister Of the two,
James and Katherine. who were wait
ing on the bank for their turn TO ride,
went to the rescue and fell into the
water Mill employees saved James and
Katherine.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-30
NEW HAVEN PROBE UNCERTAIN
Rules Committee to Dispose Of House
Resolution Late This Week.

Washington. Dec. %. - Whether the
House Committee on Rules will recon-
mend q rule to bring up in the House
the OShaunessy resolution to authorize
q special committee TO inquire into tho
alleged monopoly Of transportation facili-
ties in New England will bs determined
probably next Friday or Saturday.
The indictments returned IN New York
against of1cials Of tho New Haven and
Grand Trunk systems for alleged viola
ton Of the Sherman antitrust law have
added a new phase to tho situation.
Chairman Henry, on this account. Is op-
posed to prscipitats action by the Rules
Committee.
New-York tribune., 1912-12-30
METROPOLITAN Hesrs Ss":.

Tonight at 7:t5-Tristan und Isolde.
Gadski, Homer; Burrian, We'll. 0riswold.
Conductor. Toscanini.
New Years Evs-Specisl--Doubis Bill
Butterfly. Farrsr. Fornia; Martin, scottL
Bada- Cond-. Toscanini; Ballet Coppelia.
Adeline Genee. NJ Volinine. Prices 81 70 s5
New Years Mat. at 1-Parsifal. Fremstad:
Burnan. Well. Witherspoon. Goritn. Cond- Hertz
Wed. at S:80-Barbiere di Siviglla. Hem
pei; Macnsz (debuD. Amato. Segurola, Pint
Corsi Bada- Conductor. sturani.
Thurs. at S-iuguenots. Desttnn. Hempel
Alten; Caruso, Dldur. Gilly. Cond Polacco
Fri. at S:15-Trovstore. GadsiSi, Homer
Slezak. Amato. Rossi. Cond. Sturani
Sat. Mat. at 2-Toscs- Fsrrar: Caruso
Scotti. Pini-Corsi, Rossi. Cond. Toscanlni
Next Mon. at 6-Otello. Aida. Maubour.;;
Slezak. Amato. Segurola. Cond.. ToscaninL
HARDMAN PIANO USED
New-York tribune., 1912-12-30

We take no poets license
even though we might well
sing SonnetS to our overcOatS.
We're satisfied to let you
Iaud them or bring them back
and get your money back"
any time you grow dissatisfied.
Every good sort of over
coat from the least expensive
to the most luxurious.
But always a dollars worth
Of overcoat for every dollar.
Winter overcoats, S18 to
SIS.
Double" shoe days.
To the eye-smart business
shoes.
To the foot-protection not
only from wet feet but cold
feet.
Black calf or tan, Sc.
ROGERS PEET COMPANY,
Three Broadway Stores
Warren ST. 18th St 34th St
New-York tribune., 1912-12-30
OPENS TOMORROW
TICKET OFFICE

| Choice Seats forl 1A3I BY. Entrance 40 ST.
! ALL OPERAS Phone T522-slss Bryant.
| Subscriptions Purchased and Exchanged.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
The Spy System In Europe.

The latest instance of the European
spy mania comes from Italy. The
German consul general at Trieste and
his colleague from Peru, having decid
ed to spend the week end at Cividade,
Just across the Austrian frontier. were
stopped on entering Italian territory,
but allowed to go on after having
shown their passports. A few hours
later they were arrested as spies and
detained for several hours by the mill
tary authorities, who refused to honor
their papers and. moreover, treated
them with marked discourtesy. Not
withstanding their protests the two
officials were ultimately sent back to
the frontier under military escort. The
incident throws vivid light on the
strained relations between Austria and
Italy, members though they both are
Of the triple alliance.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
SELECT CULils.s.o()SS
Queer Deep Sea Fish.

The Prince of Monaco presented re-
Gently to the Academy of Seizures in
Paris some notes about cephalopods
captured by him at an average depth
of about 1900 feet. Cephalopods are
octopuses, cuttlefish and squids. These
deep sea creatures, he said, have such
transparent bodies that all their in
ternal arrangements can be seen dis
tinctly, and even the course of the
nerves through the head and tentacleS
may be traced. Several years ago
the prince described y. q rephalopodS
which had searchligh,s fixed upon
their heads. He now describes a
species with eyes Of which the lower
half Is luminous, SO that the eye serves
both for seeing and for lighting. ANY
animal that inhabits such depths as
these do must have artificial light. for
the suns rays cannot penetrate. and all
is absolute darkness. So the eyes OF
these cephalopods are perfectly adapt
ed to their environment.-New York
World.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
Venice to Have a Subway.

The gondoIiers' occupation will be
gone to great extent when the city
Of Venice builds an electric railway,
as 1t proposes to do, to the famous
Lido beach, where all the fashionable
world congregates. The Lido is bath
ing resort on long narrow strip o.
island facing the Adriatic, a couple Of
miles out in the lagoon, and it is pro-
posed to run an electric train through
a tunnel some twenty-five feet below
the bed of the Grand canal, whereby
the time 1t now takes to get from St.
Marks square to Lido beach. the best
part of an hour under present condi-
tons, would be reduced to five min
utes. By providing easy and quick
means Of access the city fathers hope
to attract visitors to the Lido in great
er numbers, although to many the
idea of subway station in st. Marks
square will seem a dissertation. and
the journey itself will be shorn Of all
romance-Argonaut.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
Chief Asked Too Much.

A woman who claimed to be a palm
list, fortune teller and finder of lost per-
sons recently went to the office of Chief
Henry thinner of the Kansas City
(Kan.) police department to ask for
free license to follow her calling in that
city. She said that, although she
charged small fee for her services.
she was nevertheless public benefac-
tor.
"Can you really tell where any one
is that l might ask you aboutT the
chief asked.
The woman replied afirmatively.
aHow long will it take to find some OF
these7" the chief asked, throwing upon
his desk the photographs Of half a
dozen criminals for whom the police
have been hunting high and low with.
out success.
"About ten days" the woman replied
.All right; go ahead" the chief said
'sIf you can find any of them you will
not only get your license free, but
will put you on the payroll at $50
month"
That was month ago. The woman
has not been back yet.-Kansas City
Journal
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28

produces ready cash. And ready
money talks! 1t spells opportunity.
| The time may come when a little
ready cash will set you up in business.
The margin between success and fail
ure often is the margin Of ready CAPT.
| tai
John Wanamakers first wages
amounted to the sum of $1.2O per week.
He saved part of 1t!
Old John D. Rockefeller shows his
book where he put down his first earn
ings. Always there was the margin of
good savings.
E. II. Hartman. son of poor
preacher. always spent less than he
earned
James A. Garfield taught school at
S12 per week and saved the money to
take him through college.
In his early days James J. Hill al
ways kept little ready money in bank
to make first payment on, something
he could buy at bargain.
"Oh," you say, "I'm tired Of reading
such examples. Times have changed. -
The times have changed, but the
method of getting on in the world has
not changed. While stinginess and
parsimony may be next door to mean
ness and greed may lead to graft, yet
| Stinginess is one thing: prudence Is
another. Even a virtue may be ex-
tended to the extreme and become a
vice.
Save some money. The habit will
make a man Of you. Self reliance
self control-these spell manhood.
| Save some money. Get the habit
You will need the maitland the
money.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
SAVE MONEY. YOUNG NAN.

Coined money is fat IN shape: there
fore let it ROLL says the spendthrift.
Coined money is fat in shape; there
fore pile it up" says the miser.
Which is it? Both.
Money was made to be spent wisely.
1t was made to be saved wisely.
There is a halfway stopping place be-
tween the miser and the spendthrift.
Do you blow your money? Is your
roll no bigger than weeks wages?
And you despise a .'tightwad?"
Well, there is reasonable compro-
mise between stinginess and prodigali-
ty It is the way of frugality. Econo-
my Is a real virtue. Thrift is real
blessing.
Suppose you should try to save q
per cen. OF your earnings? 1t will not
easily be done. On every side there
will be tugs at your purse strings. But
n you are strong enough to make mon
ey you can be strong enough to save it
Saving Is wise policy because Il
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
Paris Rsxixes thu Tattoo.

"After twenty years" says Paris
letter, 1.-THE tattoo has been revived in
this city. To one VINO has not seen its
effect this bit of seemingly unimpor-
tant news is nothing. The tattoo Is the
parade at 3 o'clock in the evening OF
the military bands, custom which
was once upon time one Of the pleas
ures Of the Parisians. They were taken
by surprise when the old custom was
revived. and they were enthusiastic as
only Parisians can be. Men and boys
by the thousands marched with the
playing bands. They sang and shouted
'vive rarmeev and when 1t was all
over gave great shouts of JOY as II in
ecstasy over the return Of long lost
friend"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
Wooden Railroad Tracks.

Florida has curiosity in the line Of
railways. Between Avon Park and
Haines City the country is level and
rails are wood. half imbedded in the
sand, and are held in position by wood
en- pins. while the ends are connected
with plank couplers. Not pound of
metal is used. and most of the rails
have been donated. A steam dummy
furnishes power. and the cars are Of
the most primitive type. but the busi-
ness over the route is already large
enough TO nav q dividend Exchange
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
LIVING $50 YEARS.

There is no good reason" says a
recent writer, why Il man should not
live to be $50 years DID,
Beg pardon! There are many rea
sons. ~
Much is being said nowadays about
longevity and the art of living. and
many exaggerated statements are
made. OF that sort is the statement
quoted
There are reasons why one, even
though he should be able to keep soul
and body together for $50 years. should
not desire to do SO. The reasons are
inside the man-in the web and wool
of his spirit.
Seldom does the man who reaches
the age Of ninety years have any great
desire to live longer. He would be
appalled, at future stretching out
sixty years beyond. He would be un-
able In spirit to accomplish such
thing.
Why?
He is built that way. In spite Of
the primal desire to live, he would
grow tired Of mortal life. Having suf-
fered 'the stings and arrows of out
rageous fortune" he is weary-in the
very knot and center of hisa being
weary as little child ut eventide.
The aged man must necessarily be
a lonely man. OUTLYING his genera
ton, he Is out Of touch with the world
His dear ones have gone before-play-
mates Of his youth, friends of early
manhood, companions of middle life
all gone.
In the very nature of things he can
not make new friends like the old
ones Youth must consort with youth.
Lacking the stimulus OF normal as
sociations and friendships, his spirit
droops within him. Ii must be so
Moreover, the aged man must neces-
sarily have lost the fine flush of en-
thusiasm and the fine edge of endeavor
which go with youth and early man
hood His spirit is dulled.
The aged man is disillusioned. Once
he could build his beautiful castles in
Spain They have tofafied at his feet.
Once the mirages of life allured him
on, He has seen them rise. dissolve
into nothingness.
Tired, lonely. disillusioned-that is
, why men die when they die of '.old
age Like certain trees they begin
| their decay at the top.
| 1t is well that mortals should live as
long as they can liye-usefully and
| happily. But
Better. infinitely better. than mere
stretch of years is the life. that worth
lily spends its Scriptural span and then
when the shadows lengthen. lies down
to pleasant dreams.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
Two Great African Explorers.

Funds are being raised in Great Brit
ain for the erection Of striking
monument to Mungo Park and Richard
Lander. who accomplished epoch max
ing Journeys in West Africa. the for
mer about the beginning OF the nine
teenth century, the latter thirty years
later AS the main object of their
travels was to discover where the
Niger joined the ocean the site chosen
for their monument is Forcados, at the
Niger mouth. 1t is proposed to erect
an obelsk of similar design and d.
mansions to Cleopatra's Needle on a
projecting point where it will both at
tract general attention and serve as a
landmark to vessels approaching the
port
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28

young woman a great secret. The se.
cret contained only two words. but II
was fraught with significance. These
i were the words:
! "Everybody's lonesome"
The girl took the saying to her heart.
! She said the words over and over in
her mind. She pondered them until
and unlovely she was. She began to
use the secret. and it became potent
charm that transformed her life.
The secret of it?
Simply this: When you come to re-
alize that everybody. regardless of con-
dition, is Just like you; that everybody
Graves companionship, sympathy, en-
uragement-why, you ought no longer
to envy any one or hate any one or
withhold your help and sympathy from
any.
Do you seer
This is the way the charm works
when put into service: When you give
out smiles and sympathy and charity
you forget your loneliness; when you
lose your selfishness In charity you
lose your envyings; when you make
yourself friendly you make yourself
popular; when you make others happy
you make yourself happy.
Everybody's lonesome.
The girl found 1t to be so. When she
understood she was no longer hateful
or morbid. Her dissatisfaction left
her. She became generous. cheerful
and popular. She was sought out for
her charm Of mind and heart and be-
cause of her sympathetic understand
ing Of others.
Everybody's lonesome.
Everybody's built that way.
Do you realize how true 1t is, my
friend? Your father. mother, sister,
brother, friend. the one who works be-
side you in shop or store or office or
field, your next door neighbor. the man
or woman in the street. the stranger,
everybody-everybod lonesome
Say the words over.
If you will ponder them in your in
most soul they may give you a new
point of view.
To understand that crerybody's lone
some ought to foster charity, teach you
appreciation of the need of others, en-
able you to get closer to the lonesome
hearts Of humans and-thats the Sc
cret- put within you the potency of
power.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
Heart toHeart
= I alks.
By EDWIN A. NYE.
A STORY-.SERMONETTE.,

When the Union Pacific railroad was
first butt the highest point in the
mountains was at a station called
Sherman.
Upon this eminence Cakes Ames, the
real builder of the road. pup up gran
fte monument to perpetuate his mem
CRY. 1t was much admired.
Years passed.
Cakes Ames died. and the worms
gnawed his bones. The track of the
railroad was Strengthened to shorten
the route and avoid heavy grade, sc
that today the massive rock pile built
by Cakes Ames stands fourteen miles
from the present track.
Alas for the pride of man!
You may see the monument far away
on the rim Of the horizon. In the tan
gled wilderness the artificial heap Of
stones as seen through the tourists
spyglass appears a mere speck-pathet-
tc reminder Of mans puny attempt
Ito project himself into futurity.
But Oakes Ames Is remembered.
He is remembered In another way
as an inventor and manufacturer. He
made the Ames shovel. His "Ames
No. 2" or railroad shovel. was built
for getting under the sides and ends
of the railroad ties. His ''tamper."
made for tamping ballast, and other
tools are used everywhere In the rail-
road world.
Seldom is the lone rock pile called to
the attention Of the traveller Cakes
Ames is best remembered by the men
Of today because he gave the world
something useful.
Not every man can build monuments
to himself with entablatures of brass
and craven words of eulogy. But he
can be useful.
He can open new road or make
farm or build a house or dig we'll or
plant tree.
He can train ups child for useful
ness.
He can write or say or picture some
thing that will help men to bear their
burdens
He can fight the dragons of Satan
away from the homes and haunts of
men.
He can brighten lives made risera
bic by the constant danger of misfor-
tune.
lis not that better than a pile of
stones or shape of bronze? Who cares
now who grayed the pillars of Luxor,
or built the cities of the plains of
tMesopotamia, or fashioned the vases of
.Thehes2 -rss...
Cakes Ames shovel No. 2 is greater
than his costly granite memorial
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
YOUR hOTHER.iN-LAW.

The mother-in-law joke is silly.
Mother-in-law criticism is unmanly,
Eand mother-in-law hatred is danger
GUS.
No chivalric man should permit him
self to feel or act other than as gen.
SfIeman-if not son-toward the moth
Ter Of the woman whom he has made
his wife.
What If you cannot precisely see all
things from your mother-in-law's point
'Of view or that you sometimes feel
she may be indiscreet?
Never mind.
| Be kind Just the same to the woman
who bore in pain she wife you love.
BE generous and courteous.
/ II your mother-in-law has little weak
inesses your wife knows them better
than you. And IL you are manly and
hrge hearted and ignore these defects
the woman you have married will feel
that you are big and fine. and in her
heart she will worship you.
You are in debt to your wife's
mother.
If your wife Is helpful and sympa-
Ifhetic, If she is good mother and a
good housekeeper. she got those quail
ties and that training from her moth,
er. What she is to you her mother has
made her.
If you do not respect your wife's
mother it may be doubted whether you
love your wife.
Certain it is that If you continually
icriticise her mother in the presence
iof your wife the first thing you know
You will lose the love and respect OF
your wife.
And you ought to lose it.
The shafts of censure or of sarcasm
you level at her mother go straight
through the heart of the daughter. She
may not resent it openly. but she keen
~ feels that slight offered the moth
er is q fling at the daughter.
Moreover
If you are too tactful for open crit
icism, yet at heart are jealous of YOU
iwife's family. you cannot entirely hide
the feeling. and your wife will thfnl
Less of you.
What sort of woman would You
wife be if when she married you shs
should turn her back on her family2
Could you trust her?
Are not the qualities in your wifi
which bind her to her mother the quail
lfties that bind her loyalty to your
This Is plain speaking.
Is 1t not true?
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-04-28
chloroform Versus Hanoina.

Chloroform as substitute for the
gibbet in the, administering of capital
punishment to murderers was recon-
mended to Chicago newspaper by
John Galsworthy. English author and
dramatist ana student of penology.
The English novelist talked OF penal
laws and customs in the United States
and in England at length. killing a
man by hanging him by the neck Is
most certainly barbaric," he asserted.
"If capital punishment is to be melted
out why not do it by the use OF drugs;
Chloroform. for instance, could be used
to end the life of condemned man as
effectively as breaking his neck"