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Arizona republican., 1912-05-18

One of the pictorial exhibits is a series of photographs and diagrams showing every locomotive constructed for the Georgia Central railroad from the beginning to the present day The first is tiny engine erected in 1832-3. It weighed about five tons and was called the Chinkapin.
 But the gem of the collection, no doubt, to the minds of most of the vis- itors will be the old De Witt Clinton train, the first ever run in the state of New York, with it's quaint. old time coaches, modelled after the horse drawn vehicles of the time it's high stack wood burning locomotive and the other features which have disappeared in the development of railroadng. There are few relics of olden times more interest ing than this train.
 The illustration sets forth the rell- tive sizes of the De Witt Clinton train and giant passenger locomotive of today.
 What the sailing vessels of olden days were as compared with the pres ent great ocean liners the De Witt Clinton, the first steam railroad loco motive run in the state of New York. is to the giant Pacific type of passen-
 
 New York Central lines The De Witt Clinton. with it's original pioneer train of three coaches. made it's first regular trip between Albany and Schenectady on Aug g. 1881. attaining a maximum speed of fifteen miles an hour. The Clinton was built at the West Point foundry, foot of Beach street, New York. It's four driving wheels were four feet six inches in diameter, the cylinders five and one-half inches in diameter and sixteen inch stroke. The weight of the engine and tender was about six tons. The boiler had thirty copper tubes two and one-haf inches in diameter. The engineer mounted small seat attached to the rear of the tender and gave the signal for starting by blowing d tin horn. The fuel used lon this trip was dry pitch pine. coal having been tried previously but found not to work satisfactorily.
 As there was no spark aTrester on the stack the smoke and sparks poured back on the passengers in such a vol ume that they raised their umbrellas as shields. The covers were soon burned off these, and each man whip ped his neighbours clothes to put out the fire started by the hot cinders. When a stop was made at the water station an attempt was made to rem edy the disagreeabe jerks resulting from the slack between the coaches by wedging rails from a neighboring fence between the cars and tying them fast by packing yarn. This plan succeeded land the train arrived at the inclined plane at Schenectady without accident. After the party had partaken of re- treatments in Schenectady they re- turned to Albany and thus completed the first regular trip of a steam loco motive and train in New York state.
 WALTON WILLIAMS. Il
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ward with the distinction of having more clothes than any other man at tLc university" He has had his rooms lu CldyeTiy hall, one of the most eX- peusiNe of the gold coast" dormitories Ill Cambridge. IL is considered unlike ly. however, that he will retain his place at Harvard. He is no longer the heir to the Astor fortune. estimated at $l.5, 900 900. but its possessor. and the direction of his estate, if he follows In his fathers footsteps. will take up all Of his available time
 Son of First Mrs. Astor.
 William Vincent Asto Is the only son of John Jacob Astor by his first wife, who divorced the millionaire in 1909. There is a ten year-OId daughter, Mu- Tiel. placed by the court in the custody of her mother. The first Mrs. Astor was Miss Willing of Philadelphia. Un- der the divorce decree Vincent ASt0r remained with his father. The amount of John Jacob .AstOr's settlement on his first wife was not made public, but it was said to be $1OOO0.00O, with the provision that this fortune should re- vert to MurieI. Since then there have been various rumors to the effect that Mrs. Astor, who retains much of her youthful beauty. was engaged to Eu- rOpean noblemen and wealthy Ameri- cans. but none of the rumors has been confirmed.
 Colonel Astor's marriage last year to the youthful Miss Madeleine T. Force brought sensation. It will be remern- bered that the couple had difficulty in finding clergyman to unite them, ob-
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|" ~ ULLOM when l die and you
 H die and Frye dies and one
 G 4 or two others this senate
 ~ will not amount to much, will it?' said Senator George Graham Vest of Missouri few days before his death. as quoted in Senator Culom' $ book of "reminiscences. Vest is dead; Frye is dead. the "one or two others whom the Missourian had in mind are dead or retired. Cullom has lost his seat But the senate lives There are other younger men in it on whom the heat and burden of the day have fall en. How much they amount to Is a matter of individual opinion. Vest was weighted down with years and ill., ness when he spoke to Cullom.
 But Cullom is going Illinois Repub- licans have rejected him at the polls. Next March Lawrence '. Sherman will take his place among the legislators under the big dome. So politics writes 'hnis' to the public career of the man who has held office longer than any other man in American history.
 Almost thirty years long has been the term of Uncle Shelby M. Cullom in the United States senate-five full terms of six years each. Before he entered the senate wing of the capitol he served in the other section as a member of the house of representatives Between times he was governor of IT. linois, and before his service in the na- tiOnal legislature he learned the ins and outs of laWmaking as a member of the Illinois legislature. He was speaker of the lower house in his state for two terms.
 It is a record that stretches beyond the days before the great war. In one sense Senator CullOm is link with the earliest years of United States his tory, for he was born when Andrew Jackson was president. in 1929. and Jackson fought in the Revolutionary war
 Since the time of Lincoln. whom Gull lOm knew well and whom he resem- bles, the Illinois senator has been ac- quainted with every president. Some of them he knew intimately. and they urged him to enter their cabinets. But he refused consistently, preferring his seat in the senate to a seat d the coun- cil table over which he might have pre- sided had the plans of his friends sue Ceeded. It is recorded that at least twice he came within reach of the Re- publican nomination. But others prov ed more powerful than the tall, spare man from Illinois who knows politics intimately. has the qualifications of a statesman. but is not self assertive when there is a question of his own advancement
 There IS in Senator CuIlom's retire ment an element to refute those men who hold that personal honor is an extinct quality in American politics
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are to be believed desires for a duke dom, d marquIsate, an earldom or per haps even barony.
 But William Waldorf Astor Is no longer young. He was born in 1S4S. and it may well be that he has relin- quished his hopes of breaking into the peerage in favor of his only son, Will liam Waldorf Astor. Jr. The latter Is thirty-tWo years old and is married to Mamie Langhorne Shaw. one of the three beautiful LanghOrne sisters of Virginia. She was divorced from her first husband. They have one son and one daughter. William Waldorf Astor has daughter also, the former Pauline Astor. married in 1904 to an English man of good family, Captain Ii. Spend er-Clay. Two daughters have been born of this marriage Mrs. William Waldorf Astor ST. died in 1895. She was Miss Mary Dahlgren Paul.
 Cousin Richer Than J. J. Astor.
 The ground of American dislike for William Waldorf Astor is his choice of a home in England instead of the coun-
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number of visitors. All sorts of sources have been drawn upon for original ex- hibits. for models of those which it is impossible or inconyenient to move and for photographs and plans of others. Among those agencies which have CO., operated to furnish interesting material are the Smithsonian institution, the United States governments scientific museum in Washington: the navy de- partment. railroad and steamship com panies and traffic clubs.
 The Smithsonian will send models of early steamboats. including FultonS s Clermont, Stevens Phoenix John Fitch's boat and the Savannah. the first steam vessel to cross the Atlantic ocean. Tn addition the government will send a large model of the Panama ca
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try from which his revenTe Is derived. He is richer even than his late cousin was It is q matter Of common knoWl- edge in New York that the Astor hold inss of real estate in the American me trDpo!is exceed in value those of any other family. Very seldom indeed is any parcel alienaIed from the estate. With the intention of conserving the fortune the first American AstOr, son of a German butcher. decreed that the fortune should descend from father to eldest son. The others, with their de- scendants. are provided for. of course.
 The New York home of the Astors. which has now become the property of Vincent Astor. is situated at the corner of SiXty-fifth street and Fifth avenue. It is a handsome residence. built of
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nal. Admiral Peary will exhibit some of his sledges, and there will be model of the Gjoa. in which Amundsen dis covered the Northwest passage.
 Motorboat devotees will find much to interest them in the first naphtha launch ever built. with it's engine. They were constructed twenty seven years ago and were the forerunners of the speedy motorboats. with the internal combustion engines which have now superseded those of the old type.
 The progress of land transportation will claim large share of space in the show. John Browns old stage coach used by the man of Osawatomie in his campaign trip through Iowa. and the original Deadwood state coach will arouse memories among the old timers.
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politics he knows the game from the time the cards are shuffled until the last jack Dot is won. Many men in H. Iuois and elsewhere have been deceiv
 ed by Uncle SheIbys simple. kindly manner into thinking that they could snatch away his senatorial toga and leave the old man bare to the winds of diversity. But t was not to be. It is an old story. b-l; worth repeating. that Governor Tanner once. when desired by his friends to try for Senator C"l-
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generation, and not Mrs William Wal dorf AstOr of the younger. should Wield the scepter
 The strained situation between the two ladies came to the knowledge of the public when some Wag addressed d letter to Mrs. AstOr, New York" with no street address. Mrs. William claimed it because she was the oldest living Mrs Aator. But Mrs William Waldorf couteaded that her husband was the head of the older branch of the family. and she was therefore the only genuine, simon pure Mrs Astor" When his wife lost the campaign Will liam Waldorf Astor came to the conclu- sion that England was a better place for him. with his numerous millions. than America.
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jection being raised on the ground that Colonel AstoT was divorced man. His widow, who escaped iron. the Ti- tanic, is in her twentieth year and Is younger than her stepson.
 How the Astor Fortune Grows.
 The story of the growth of the Astor fortune may be told in a sentences: The first John Jacob Astor bought New York real estate with his earnings in the fur business. and his descendants have not sold New York real estate. The line of descent from John Jacob AStor 1st to Vincent runs thus: Will liam BackhOuse Astor, son of John Ja- cob, was the father of William Astor, who was the father of the late John Jacob. Another son Of William Back house Astor was John Jacob Astor Sd (the second John Jacob was a son of John Jacob 1st and died without issue). The only son of John Jacob Sd is Will liam Waldorf AstOr, cousin of the late John Jacob and head of the English branch of the house. He is the man who has been attacked so fercely in the English and American newspapers and magazines for expatriating him. self.
 Many Englishmen of high social and political position do not like William Waldorf Astor and some of them have not hesitated to say so. although of course, there is certain element, titled and untitled, which eats his dinners and professes friendship for him. It cannot be said that he is man with out a country" for he has become a British subject and he has, if reports
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What Sent w. w. Astor Abroad.


He retires from his senate seat Witk less money than he had when he en- tered it thirty years ago. He has busted himself with the affairs of his state and his country. but not with his own. out side of drawing his salary. He has lived on the salary and on little else. But on this point he ought to be quot ed again. for his own words tell the story better than any one else could:
 "l have been getting a little poorer financially every year l have been in
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Photos by American Press Association.
By CHAkLEs \. LUBE.

R MAD the Titanic taken down
 ..@ with her Ihe head ot q reign
 ing Jy.asty. mighty i1l pcit- A A heal power and With branches controlling the destin.es Of nations, tho loss could hardly have caused more excitement than J-e uutine2y t4@InS on of the American head ys tLe house Uf AstUr John Jacob AsJor went to his death as gail-lJ gentleman should go. After the tribates of regret and praise were l4id 10 his memory. atteH- ton turned to the former crown prince and present head of the American Astors. The great name ia the Astor family councils is ION William Yin .ert. fourth iu descel, from the Origi- hal John Jacob AsJor. founder of tae fortune.
 What manner ot man William Vim cent Astor WilI become it Is too early to say lie has not yet reached lis majority He was born Nov. l5, 1891. Although some newspaper attention hss been paid to him, of course, ever since his birth since he Was the pros ptcJiVe heir 10 the bulk of his father fortune. the policy of the family has Leen aimed al keeping him out of print if possible. In his early youth he was sickly and had several attacks of illness. He is tall. like his late father, but he has not yet rounded out or broadened into the latter's athletic pro- portions. The younger Astor has taken to some forms Of sport and is very fond or autOmobning. His speeding has brought him into trouble with the po- lice on a few occasions, but he is an expert handler Of the wheel and has escaped very serious trouble.
 For a short time John Jacob Astor thought Eton, the famous English school, a good place for his only son. but the English did not take kindly to young Astor-peThaps the unpopularity of John Jacobs cousin, William Wal dorf Astor, was visited on the latters second cousn-and the young man re- turned to America to finish his prepar- atory school course at St. Georges in Newport. Last fall he entered Har-
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office. have less property today than l had when I left Springfield. nearly thirty years ago. to take my seat in the senate. Perhaps that is my fault. Some men think of investments and have good business sense. I never thought of things of that kind"
 But it must not be inferred from MT. Cullom's simple thoughts on the sub ject of amassing cash that he is equally simple in other things, No. indeed. In
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" HOW far man has progressed in
 z.u the furtherance of his desire
 10 cover the greatest amount "A A of distance in the least pos sible time is to be demonstrated at a travel and vacation exhibition" in New York. It Is long way from the row boat to the ocean liner. from the OK cart to the compound locomotive, but the distance will be brdged at the show. In addition, the intermediate steps will be traced. and the exposition, the first of it's kind to be held in Amer ica. will be interesting to the never homes" to those who travel occasional ly and to those who remain a home.
 The exposition will have numerous features. but it is expected that the historical section will draw the largest
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graystone. with an air of belonging to one of great wealth that impresses sightseers
 This palatial house was the home of Mrs. William Astor, the Mrs Astor' who was the leader of New York society until old age forced her to seek quiet and retirement She was the mother of the late John Jacob Astor. She died in 1908.
 What Sent w. w. Astor Abroad.
 Older members of New York society recall the fuss which followed the death of Mrs. John Jacob Astor wife of the third bearer of the name. She had been the undoubted leader of the social world. and her death caused an interregnum until it was decided final ly that Mrs. William Astor of the older
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lom's seat, pointed out graveyard and said. That place is full of men who thought they could Oust Cullom.
 Among the high places in Senator CullOm's senatorial career are his au- thorship of the interstate commerce law and the chairmanship of the for eign affairs committee, which he still holds. He has always been a conserV- atiVe Republican in politics.
 PIERCE E. DAVIDSON,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-07-20
DENVER MAN SHOOTS
GIRL FOUR TIMES
AssaiIant's wife Says Victim
Had RypnOtlzed Him.

Denver, July 20.-Eugene Miller,
twenty-three years old, married, shot
Miss Georgia Liehtenwalter, who, the
mans wife says, had hypnotized him
into an infatuation with her. Miss
Lichtenwalter. who is nineteen years
old is not expected to live.
Miller shot the girl twice and
walked away. He wheeled, saw her
rising, returned. shot her again and
left. A second time he looked back,
saw her getting up and returned and
shot her.
The victim is stenographer at the
Y. NJ. G. A, where she became &C
Quainted with Miller when he was en-
ployed there in similar capacity un-
til he took a position in a railroad Of
fce.
Miller, after shooting the girl, mott
fed the residents of house rear by
that young woman on the sidewalk
needed hell and then fed
The young mans mother declares
that she wrote Miss Lichtenwaltei
several times and asked her to droI
the friendship. Miller's wife, who 1:
OF the same age as the victim, thinks
that her husband has been held undel
a hypnotic spell by Miss Lichtenwaltei
and that he has been unable 10 do any
thing but what she has dictated.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-07-20
SAYS CAMPAIGN
COST TOO MUCH
House Committee Votes to
UnSeat MiSSonrian.
PARTY LINES ARE DRAWN

Representative catIln In Danger of
Losing His Seat on Secount OF Evi-
dence Showing His Campaign Ex-
penses to Have Beer So Great as
20 Make the Election Appear
Corrupt.
Washington, July 20.--By strict par
ty vote the house election committee
No. voted to unseat Representative
Theron f. Catlin Of St. Louis, Repub-
lican, and to seat former Represents
tive Patrick Gill, Democrat Mr.. Cat
Inns campaign expenses were so great
that the committee held his election
to have been corrupt 1t also held
that Gill would have been elected but
for the use of money by Catlin's man
ayers.
Testimony in the contest hearing
brought by former Representative Pat
rick GIL, developed that Catlin's faith
er, through a firm of lawyers, spent
more than $4,000 In having his son
elected. II was eontended by Theron
Catlin that he did not know his father
was spending the money.
The engagement Of Mr. Catlin to
Miss Laura Merriam. daughter OF
former Governor ". r. Merriam of
Minnesota, recently vas announced.
On the motion in the committee to
unseat Mr. Catlin. Chairman Hamill
of New Jersey and Representatives
Korbly of Indiana, Br0ussard of Louis
lana, Linthicum of Maryland, Jacoway
of Arkansas and Alien of Ohio voted
aye. Representative Switzer of Ohio,
Anderson of Minnesota and Nelson of
Wisconsin, Republicans, voted no.
II is understood that Mr.. Catlin will
make another race for congress and
carefully scrutinize all expenditures.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-07-20
TAKES JOB HILLES LEFT
Thompson Quits Interior Department
to Personally Serve President.

Washington, July 20.-Carmi Thomp
son of Ohio succeeds Charles ID. Hilles
as secretary to the president.
Mr.. Thompson leaves his position as
second assistant secretary of the in
terror 70 take up the job left vacant
by Charles ID. Hilles, who will manage
the presidents campaign. He has long
been prominent In Ohio politics and
was al one time speaker of the Ohio
assembly Later he served a term in
the Office of secretary of state. Mr.
Thompson is forty-fve years old.
l.. c. Laylin, who was in charge of
the presidents preconvention cam
paign in Ohio, will succeed Mr.. Thomp-
son in the interior department Ralph
Cole, former representative in con-
gress from Ohio, will be appointed
confidential legal adviser to the comp
troller of the currency.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-07-20
POLICE NAB EIGHT WOMEN
English suffrasettes Annoy Premier
In Ireland.

Dublin, July 20.-Eight English wo-
men have been taken into custody by
the police in connection with the out.
RACES perpetrated here on the arrival
Of Mr.. Asquith by suffragettes, who
constantly have been dogging the
heels of the British premier since he
left England.
The women are charged with COM
plicity In the attempt to burn down
the Dublin theater, where Mr.. AS
quith was scheduled to speak. A blaz-
ing chair was thrown into the orches-
ira from a box occupied by two
women, who then set fire to the box
curtains. Their act caused panic
among the audience. One of the
women was arrested.
The eight suffragettes also are
charged with completely in the at
tempt to injure Mr.. Asquith by throw
ing a hatchet at the premier's car
riage as the party was proceeding
from the wharf to hotel.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-07-20
BOTH MEN FATALLY SHOT
New York Gang Suddenly Fires on
Pedestrians.

New York, July 20.-As two men
passed One Hundred and Sixteenth
street and First avenue several men
leaped at them from a doorway. Ten
shots were fired and one of the passers
fell. His companion ran.
When policemen came the shooters
had disappeared. The injured man,
Vincent Kaldi. was taken to the Har.
lem hospital
Hardly had be reached the operat-
ing room when Joseph Russ, his
friend and neighbor, staggered into the
building. He had a bullet wound In
his abdomen.
The same gang which shot Galdi had
come upon Russ a block or two away
and fired upon him also.
Both of the injured men will die.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-07-20

ships. Rear Admiral Aaron Ward
said after the battle:
"The submarines picked us up when
do a thing with them. Yet the at
tempts of our destroyers were well
timed and perfect"
What will be the future defense
against submarines?" Admiral Ward
was asked.
I'VE will have to run away from
them" replied the commander.