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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-08

arrival of a tugboat from Queenstown.
The storm had abated TO such an ex-
tent that the Welshman steamed away.
y arrived tugboat Capt Dickinson
took the first uninterrupted, eomforta
bic sletp he had enjoyed III more than
10 days, then suddenly fresh gale,
more ioi. mt than the previous storm.
swept the three vessels before it, The
traWler VAS Obliged To cast Loose from
the SnoWdon Range, and even the tug
boat could not live with tic - :"ft cf
the big steamship dragging at her
stern. The crew refused to abandon
the vessel
The plight of the SnoWdan Rang
was more terrible than ever. for Size
was close to the rock bound coast Of
ireland, and The storm drove iier stead.
ily snoreWafd toward the dangerous
cliff Great anchors we're cast. but
they dragged as though they were NOT
there. and in the utter black darkness
Cspt. Dickinson could rot even see the
TIC White Of tho line of breakers which
doomed deafcaingly ahead. Is III
Suddenly the searchlight from CAM
den Fort Wis TUNED full upon her.
ard seeing her pfi"fil The men at the
fniiit. ~ station Gsed the light toagullc
the akipper into port. There was rlt
tie he could do save To drivesthe, cen
gines at low speed and guide tine vessel
somewhat by means of heavy anchors.
TIE steamship literally drifted into
port. missing Harhor Rock by inches.
touched Il mud bank below the fort.
I,n I'M
ON the Curlane Bank, well inside the
barber. -
Next morning she was safely lowed
eff and taken to the Passage Docks,
while thousands lined the shore, sing
ing and cheering, and the Lutine bell
to!led JOYFUL news.
While the SnoWdpn Range was battl-
ing her way toward Queenstown anoth-
~ steamship of the same line. the Nor
folk Range. was proceeding. badly bat
tered toward i New York, through
storms ana weather seldom equaled on
the Atlantic. The Norfolk Range arriv-
I'd il. New York fourteen days late.
Her rudGer was damaged. rails were
twisted and bent, and many of the
cabins were Watcr-soaked
There is 4 tale of heroisn of three
coast guardsmcn. who saved eight men
from a wreck near the mouth of the
river Tyne. The Russian bark Califor-
ria, which LETT Shields harbor on the
night If January "a. bound for Eotter-
dam. encountered Il hurricane, and was
driven ashore on st. Mary's Island,
near the mouth of the Tyne. The
rocket brigade from Seaton SlGiee made
&. t-.ll inAF4ptnp1 1ftaInhtS n Gunfir
linns to the bark when the crew saw
that tie ship WAS going to pieces ana
leaped into the foaming water. Eight
of sixteen men were drowned, and the
others were saved by the heroic work
Of James Ingram, Charles Major, and
another coast guardsman named Har-
mer, who entered the exhausted men
ashore. The shin was in pieces twenty
minutes after she struck.-Ncw York
Herald.
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Americas Camcls.

Few but special students Of extinct
races know that the camel originated IL
America and used to roam its deserts.
dispensing to Asia in recent times, se-
oloSically speaking. from the western
portions Of This continent. \ group OF
fossil American camcls has been in
sra.led in the Peabody museum at
Iale-part of the fruits OF the Yale eX-
petition to eastern Wyoming and Me-
braska in 1905. Professor Richard
Swarm Lull, of the Peabody museum,
who collected these remains, says i'll
the Yale Alumni Weekly:
In strata from late eocene until the
glacial period are found camels in con-
tInueus evolutionary series, ranging IN
size from that of a jack rabbit To that
Of the largest modern dromedary. The
maine line Of descent led to perfec-
ton for grazing habits and finally 70
that marvellous adaptation to life in the
arid wastes. the ship of the desert
There were, however, at least two sid
lines, one of browsing camels, remains
of which were also secured in 1898, Gull
Ulinating in curious extinct creature
whose length OF neck and limb is 50
lrresistibly suggestive of the old world
giraffe as to argue similarity OF habits,
that is, browsing on the growing tops
Of trees in semi-deSert iegions.-NeW
York Times.
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A MEMORIAL SERVICE
For Late J. p. Morgan, in Church Of
ST. Paul's at Rome.

Rome, April "A memorial service
To the late J. Pierpont Morgan was
held. Sunday. in the American church
OF St Paufs of which the mosaics,
designed by Sir Edmund Burne Jones.
t1cre largely the gift of Mr.. Morgan
The church was filed to overflow
ing. many of the American colony
| cling present. including Ambassador
and Mrs Thomas J O'Brien. The
rector Rev. F. E. Nelson, eulosized
Mr. Morgan. describing him as one OF
the great mon of America and one OF
the most interesting and influential
personalities OF the time. The pre-
dominant trait was his belief in his
country He had been highly favored
BY Providence and with a great des-
tiny. Mr.. Morgan had maintained
lifelong faith with the world. Prof.
Jesse Benedict Carter, director of the
new American Academy in Rome. al
SO delivered an address.
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Our Diplomats Abroad.

There are two reasons why AmSri-
can diplomatic representatives abroad
are at a disadvantage from q financial
point of view as compared with the
colleagues in other foreign services.
one is that the American diplomat re-
ceives a lower rate of pay, and the
other is that the foreign governments
own their embassy and legation build
ings. while the American representa-
live has to furnish his own residence.
This requirement is extremely burden
some, ard in some cases the ambas-
sador's salary is largely spent in
house rent. When Charles H. Sher-
rir was minister to Argentina his SAL
airy was So 000 and his house rent was
the same amount. The Argentine
post is probably the most expensive
ministerial post in the American SER
vice.
The salary of an American emhas
sador is SIT 800 Il year. The salaries
of the British ambassadors at Vienna.
Rome, St Petersburg, Berlin and
Paris range from $4,000 to 200.
The German government also is gen
erous in the treatment of its diplo-
mats. The German representatives at
these capitals receive $4,000 to $751;
500 annually. The salaries of the
French ambassadors range from $24,-
coo to $4,000. The italian. Russian
and Austro- Hungarian representa-
tives receive similar amounts. and in
s EDITION an official residence is pro-
vided.
The American government always
has been surpassed by other countries
in the matter of official residences.
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PREHISTORIC CITY.
Discovery in Mexico of Ruins Of
Third City Below Two Others.

\ sensation has been created in Brit
ish scientific circles by adviccs receive
cd from Sir Martin Conway, Prof. Will
liam NiVen and Senior Ramor Mena, OF
the discovery OF absolute monaghan re-
mains only a couple Of hours walk
from the City of Mexico. thereby con
firmins the hypothesis that has long
beer held that the most ancient civili-
zaiion of Mexico and Peru, preceding
that Of the Toltecs and the Aztecs, Was
of Monaghan origin.
Close to and partly beneath the ruins
CT The ancient city OF Tootihacan.
about nineteen miles northeast of the
City of Mexico the scientists uncovered
the still iaorc ancient city of otumbia
Which aourished With d Wond,ous civil
lizatioli centuries before the .Aztecs or
To1tccs rose to power possibly even be-
fore Babylon and Ninevah swayed the
deStinioS OF western ASid.
With the financial assistance OF the
Mexican gcve rnment, the expedition
began the remot al Of Il siX-fcot layer
Of earth, representing the dust and de-
trtus of more than twenty centuries.
THIS soon brought into view many evil
dences OF a vast and populous city OF
Il XtlY high order OF civilization Chief
among these was Il great pyi amid. It
is 100 feet square at the base, and its
apex Is ISL feet high, While many OF the
giant blocks of stone IN its massive
walls must have required extraordinary
engineering skill to handle. This pyra-
laid also has its riddle, for the axis Of
the main gallery is coincidental with
the magnetic meridian
Near the pyramid was found another
remarkable building called the Casa
rintada. or painted house on the
ground floor are six rooms, with
smoothly polished floors of "hite ce-
ment. The walls, which are composed
of cay naked with fragments of stone.
are thickest at the base, and slope
slightly upward. They are also smooth
ly finished with a thin coating of plas-
ter, which is painted Indian red. On
these walls are paintings representing
human beings in elaborate garments
and head-dresses. The colors used in
the paintings are green, red. pink and
orange brown. The workmanship is OF
high order, the figures being boldly
drawn and carefully colored.
Then came the greatest discovery of
all. While excavating near the base Of
the great pyramid. Prof. Niven UNI
earthed the remains of yet a third civ
ilization beneath the ruins of ancient
Otumba, making three great cities of
a high order, the figures being boldly
the other.
In what appears to have been tomb
of the lowest city, whose aSe SO far
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-08
THREE PERSONS INJURED
BY Bomb Explosion in House Door
way at Bridgeport, CT.

Bridgeport, Conn, April Three
persons were injured, one perhaps
fatally, by the expl sion of bomb
in the doorway of Jacob X. Leinberg-
or, a Water street clothier, early sun
day night Warren Lewis, Young man.
who was walking down the street
with two companions, saw fuse
burning in what appeared to be Il
giant fire cracker. He stepped to the
doorway TO investigate and as he did
so there was an explosion that knock
ed him IL the ground and set his
clothing afire. He is in a hospital
in serious condition. His compan :
lens were blown from their feet and
their clothing tUrr t. snreds.
Several stores were partially wreck
CT and windows for u block around
were broken. The police have so far
found no clues kleinberger can as
sign no motive for the attempt to
blow I'D his store
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-08

The United States owns its embassies
and legations only in few instances
OH clal residences are owned BIZ the
powe"s IL almost all the Europeans
capitals. At London. where the Aus
tro- Hungarian emhassa dor receives a
salary of St5,c01. thee is furnished IN
filcial residence win ch cost 'apsjrayTaa
mately s2Se00e At Berlin. where thu
French ambassador is paid $4,000, tha9
re sidcnce is valued at 100000. In4
Paris the British ambassador receives
a salary of $4,000. and has had IN.
liical residence there since 1914
Another disadvantage is the expense
t which American diplomats are put
in furnishing their homes When ~
fere'sn diplomat enters his country's
ser vice he is given sum. usually Il
Ihalf or Il quarter of his first years
pay as a bonus with which to pay fer
lI1is outfit. The American represcnta-d
tive must pay out of his own poeket3
1.-THE expense Of furnishing his house,
. Senator Bacon of Georgia, chairman.
Df the foreign relations committee,
/ etrane s. urges the acquisition Of suit
a;,b'e homes for American dlplom1ftcs5
1 Representatives in foreign capitals. He
thinks this would go far toward get
ting men of moderate means into the
service. In 1911 law was passed ant
thorizing an appropriation of S50o,boe
! to b. expended under the direction OF,
itlc secretary # state in acquiring.
homs for American diplomats. w.
was reported that no building and site
should cost more than S150.000. Th..
appropriations never we're made.
During the last few years CongrPssp
frequently has appropriated $4,000
and s60.0o0 for public buildings ~
towns which have less than 10Mns
people. In the last bill 100000 cache
was given to Jasper. Ala, to Dous-s
las. Ariz. and to Globe. Ariz., all
towns of small OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ton Post. g.
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PRESERVING WILD ANIMALS.
Yellowstone Park Gives Safety and
Shelter to All Kinds.

The Yellowstone park is iUstifying
ITSELF III ways not thought of perhaps
10y its procedures. When Gen. Wash
burn, Lieut.. Doare, y. F. I.angford,
end the remainder OF the Washburn-
Doane exploring expedition returned to
Hell ma Mont. in 1870. with the report
of Their Wonderful discoveries. the gey-
sers mud volcano. Yellowstone Lake.
and the marvellous Grand Canyon and
falls were the objects that most obses-
sad them. While these features of the
park gre still predominant ones. the
wild game found there is rapidly be-
coming not only matter of interest
to bark tourists, but valuable item
to the country otherwise.
There are 800 or more antelope, the
same number e deer. more than 500
moose nearly 200 bulfaioes, zoe noun
tain sheep, amy number of black and
grizzly bears, and 10000 elk by actual
count, that make Yellowstone park
their fieme under government protec-
ton.
These animals are HOW being used is
nucleus herds for other parks national,
state, and citN-and for geological gar
dons. by the government. In the las,
TWO wears many of them have thus
been Quietly taken captive and ship
ped away in various parts of the coun-
try AS showing what the government
has done, the following instance will
prove interesting: In 1911 twelve ante
iope were shipped to the Montana ma
tonal bison preserved to the Moniana
national bison preserve and eleven II
the Wichita game preserve in Kansas.
The funds Cor these shipments were
supplied by the Boone and Grocket
Club of New York. IN 1912 three car
loads of elk, numbering 1877 in all. Were
shipped to various parts of the coun
try, and FIVE carloads were captured by
the State of Montana Just outside the
park and shipped to a few ranges In
western Montana. The expense OF cap
turing and shipping the three carloads
ranged from s. to SO a head.
The many shipments of game animals
indicate that Yellowstone park. the
Oldest, largest, md most wonderful na-
tional park i'm the world, may become
4 most valuable. indeed, an invaluable,
medium in preserving TO future genera :
tons the old wild animal life of the
plains and mountains. Properly man
aged, it may be the source OF supply
and propagation Of these various ami
mails. which otherwise would soon pass
away. and, 20 years hence, be known
to our posterity and to history only i'll
name and by pictured illustration.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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the door. two of his ncighboihJatl
friends. d Pug and little terrier. ask
ing admission
IN the face of the cruel cold it was
granted them, and they were made
welcome to share tie comfortable
auarters of the two household dogs In
the morning they took their leave; but
great was the establishment of the
Georgian 10 see them return the follow
ing cold evening, this time accompa-
MED by large Irish setter, who like
wise wagged admission to the warm
quarters of which he seemed TO have
knowledge.
If there were any doubts as to wheth-
CT these hospitablc night lodgings were
discussed among the shelterless dogs
OF tie ncighborhood.s the doubts We're
removed on the thifd night. when the
three tramps returned their number
on old pointer The mute but eloquent
language OF their waggins tails. tho
humble appeal in their eyes, were 1t
once amusing and pathetic
With his own two pets and these five
tramps the Georgian had now seven
dogs stretched out comfortably before
his dining room CRATE; but tfeir ire
proachable behavior and many ingra
t;at.Hg ways had insured for them a
welcome DIT his house as long as thr
cold wave lasted, which Was II week.
After the cold subsided they returned
no mofe.-Harper's Weekly.
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Mississippi River Swelling
Will Reach Highest Stage in
History--Ohio River Receding

Memphis, Tenn, April with the
Mississippi river swelling toward
what will probably be the highest
stage in its historY, the only report
from the lcVee workers. Sunday night.
that might be regarded as unfavorable
came from Biggs, Ark, south of this
city, where Boil developed sun
day. officials of the st. Francis lcvee
board who have supervision over ia s
section of the levce expressed tho
opinion. however. tina, the situation
there was not serious.
United States Engineer Hinton. di-
recting she fight along Re"lfoot levee
below Hickman. Ky.. reported to the
headquarters, late Sunday, that the
embankment was withstandng the
strain well Similar reports. came
from Charlottesville, Mo.
The gauge ut Memphis sunday
night showed a stage of it.3 fee
within one foot of the record stage of
last year when several levces gave
way. The rise during the day. was
sixsteiiths of u foot The crest of the
flood is, not expected for at least five
1aNe, szsf.sra.H4
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EXCLUSIVELY TO RESTORATION.
Red Gross to Spend Every Dollar for
Flooded Country.

Washington. April The Ohio Red
Cross Relief Commission has decided
that not a dollar of its funds shall be
expended for public works of any char
actcr, but shall be devoted exclusively
to restoring stricken families to normal
life. National Director Bickncll in
charge of the situation in Ohio. advised
the home Office here, Sunday, that Il
supervisory audit will be kept over all
expenditures and that eventually all
accounts will be audited by the war de-
paltment The Red Cross. upon Mr.,
Ricknells recommendation, Sunday.
telegraphed $4,000 each to Peru, Law
renceburg and Terre Haute, Ind,
which cities have received a like
amount from the Governor of the
state. One thousand dollars was sent
to Piqua. Ohio.
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Rudolph Warren OF New York
Dies at tlayana=-ShOt in Duel with
Hannibal Mera, Wealthy Cuban.

Havana. April Rudolph Warren,
son of Jere Warren. ii prominent Am
erioan sugar planter, diel in a hospi-
tai here. Sunday. from pistol wound
in the abdomen. which he received IN
a duel, Saturday. With Hannibal
Mesa. 1t member of a wealthy Cuban
family.
The two Young men recently had
several physical encounters and are
reputed To have been rivals for .
woman's affections. AS a result Mesa
challenged Warren. which, ACCORDING
10 the Cuban code. conferred the
choice of weapons on Warren.
The duel was at 80 PAGES. Warren
fell at the first fire. Mesa was not
harmed. Warren was taken to a hos
pital, where he made Il statement To
the police that ne had accidentally
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-08
EMAINEN DEFEATED.
Opening of Outdoor Season at New
York-QueaI Wins Smile Run.

New York, April AT the opening of
the outdoor athletic season ut Celtic
Park. Sunday, William Queal of AleNan-
lria Bay, y. Y, won the 5-mile profess
sional running race. beating William
Kohlemainen of Finland by 16 yards.
George Hooey finished third and James
Lee of Boston fourth. Time, 1871 20.
In the one-mile professional race VII
liam Kohlemainen won in IA 3-5: j. =.
sullivan of New York was second, and
Harvey Cohn of Brooklyn third Lee of
Boston failed to finish in this event.
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poas Told Their Eriends.

The fact that dogs have "A way of
communicating news to one another
was demonstrated in a very singular
and amusing fashion in Il certain dis
trict in south Georgia, where as Yet
little provision is made for the comfort
OF domestic animals.
One bitter nightr such as cold
waves frequently bring to that local
ity. a Georgian heard at his front door
the unanistakable sounds of scratching
and Whining. He found, upon opening
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shot himself while handling a revol-
yer. Immediately after the duel,
Mesa sailed for New York ON the
steamer Havana.
Mesas seconds are reported to be
the Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives and a major of the Cuban
army. but the utmost reticenee is b.
ing maintained on all sides regarding
the affair.
The extreme range at which the
duel was fought is said to have been
arranged for the purpose of minimiz-
ing the danger, but Mesa is an expert
shot at all ranges, and Warren was
not accustomed to firearms.
The Cuban government is taking
measures to secure the arrest and ex-
tradition of Mesa on a charge of
homicide upon his arrival in New
York
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Government experiments show that
rats can live an indefinite time without
water Three of the animals We're put
on IA diet consisting of bread. meat and
cheese but no water, and all were alive7
and we'll 90 days after the experiment
was begun. ON the 18th day one was
given an opportunity to drink. but made
no attempt to do So. When kept without
food, but with water. one arat lived
three days, and ofCsixs "a ~ deprived Of
both food and watersql died within Pc Pc
riods ranging from two TO. hve days 80
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TWO MEN INJURED
During Rioting, Sunday, in Garment
Workers Strike at Boston.

Boston. April 7.-One man was stabbed
and another was badly beaten during Il
riot, Sunday between strikebreakers and
pickets in front of garment shops IN
Harrison avenue extension.
Juros Gilalis the dubbed striker, was
arrested later at the union headquarters,
charged with assault and battery with
ii sharp instrument on Thomas Murphy,
said to be strikebreaker
The disturbance attracted large
crowd of ehurchgoers. Ten policemen
who were rushed to the scene dispersed
the rioters
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lie loaded with provisions for food
sufferers below Evansville. The boat
left At noon for JnIontoWn. X,
Shawneetown Ills. Caseyvilie. Ky.
and Golconda, I'll. Another relief boat,
the seioto, is expected to arsiNe from
Lon isSille. TUESDAY
Capt. Taller. the United States army
'f.icer in charge Of relief work here
Shipped = car Of provisions - Mount
Werner. Ind, sunday. for rel cf work
ut that point. y ear of lime was tax
en- along 10 be used as a disinfectant
and prevent Il scourge of disease fol-
Lowing in the wake of the flood
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Dangerously High at Cairo, III.

Cairo, ILL.,, April Conditions at
Caror emained practically unchan2-
ed. Sunday, although the river
shows. slight rising tendency. The
weather torecaster predicts that the
river will mark a little over - feet be-
fore toe crest is reached and that for II
week OF more the rise in the Mississ-
ippi Wlil help hold the river at above
tie dangerously high stage Of over ii
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OHIO RIVER FALLING.
Three. Tenths of a Foot Below Crest
STAGE

tUFC6' Y CTTtffS OF r UUt IV'VVs " Wv
Stage.
Evansville, Ind. April THE Ohio
river, Sunday night. showed Il fall of
three-tenths of foot below the crest
flood and the weather bureau predicts
that the fall viii continue all If this
week. The stage. at ! O'Clock. was As
feet
The government relief boat, Ken
lucky. arrived Sunday. from Louis
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-27

HAMILTON, Bermuda, March 81
The Yankees walloped the Skeeters
in the final battle of the exhibition
series here yesterday by the score of
to ? The Jerseys sailed today for
home. Yesterdays battle was hard
fought all the way. Jack Warhop,
who started for the Yankees, allowed
but three hits in six innings. Hof
then took up the mound and the
Shelters punched a home run by
Purtell a triple by Larry Schlafly
and a sacrifice fly in the ninth in
ming, for pair of runs. Mains
pitched the first four rounds for the
Pests and allowed but two hits. Jack
Doescher was not as puzzling as in
two previous games. Birdie Cree was
not in the lineup of the Yanks yes
terdayA owing to slight attack Of
illness.
BEAUMONT. Tex. March 27.-The
1918 debut of Rnbe Marquard came
about yesterday. when he pitched the
final three innings for the Giants
against the local club. He struck
out six men, allowed hit and passed
man. He let up in the ninth In
ming and Third Baseman Hauser, of