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The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
Ex-King Sully Bids
Adieu to Valuables

said his conscience cost him millions.
Something's got to give way when a man
has a brain and heart both. hope he'll
come back'-but doubt IL"
That sI,oOo.oOo Poker Table.
We were sitting on a pile Of Oriental
rugs worth thousands. A foot away sits
an inlaid poker table. Round this. I'm
many a miilionaire's game sat Henry
Frick. James Stillman. and others who
don't have to worry about the gas bill.
There is 1900 water color by Sig
norini, a $4,000 one by Lesur. a dozen
others of minor value that drew q major
price from the cotton king. There is an
embroidered screen, purchased by Mrs.
Sully, daughter Of Buchan, whose soap
sign was once the biggest glitter on the
Great White Way. The Japs who made
the screen got 5000 for IL. boarding
house lady could probably buy 1t now for
an off-key song.
Mr.. Sully's library Of editions de luxe
are ready TO be hammered down to any
one who bids. Marbles. bronzes. drap-
cries. and glass are stacked amid piles
Of curtains and heaps OF rugs. Delicate
carved ivories. solid gold Indian Buddhas
grinning Chinese dragons. and sweet-eyed
statucttes OF babies stand cheek by jowl
in a tumble OF wonders.
Had Fancy for Gilt Chair.
Agents all over the world bought when
ever and whatever they liked. Daniel ].
Sully liked pretty much everything. He
liked rugs with pictures of dogs on them
and ships inside of bottles. He had rath-
er fondness for gilt chairs, onyx tables
and bead portieres. But he wanted the
best and he bought the best, spending his
millions with the reckless prodIgality Of
the true American. Who but a citizen of
the u. S. A. could hold the cotton market
of the World in his hand one minute and
be a bankrupt the next?
In 1904 Dan Sully's position in the cot
ton market was impregnabie. Powerful
merchants came and knelt to him, Plead
ing for mercy. Operators cursed and
raved. A man stamped into his Office one
day, tore a handful OF yellowbacks into
smithereens and flung them on the floor
They are the last I've got,' he roared
in a frenzy. They might as well go with
the rest
Today you can see them-s50O worth
framed In a nest OF cotton from the prize
bale crop Of 1903 sold at the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange auction for 500. Sully
picked the torn money on the floor and
kept 1t as a souvenir. II is one Of the
curiosities OF the collection to be sold,
along with the initiated linens, silver,
paintings. and home furnishings OF Dan
Sully. cotton king and Rhode Island
farmer,
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
Man Who Once Ruled Cotton
Market Must Let Even His
Wife's Lace Fan Be Put Up
at Public Auction.
ny MARIE LOUISE WRIGHT.

lin New Yofk NALL
Auction rooms have hearts. They grow
sorry, sometimes, at the stories Of life
wreck their great salesrooms represent
Then they surreptitiously sneak few oi
the pitifulest personal relics that arr
swept I'm along with the effects to be solo
and forget" to put them up. After
ward they are quietly sprung as a sur
prise upon the broken-fortuned man ol
woman to whom, and to no one else, they
are of value.
Whether this is to happen IN the case ot
Dan Sully's things. 1 do not know. But
/ do know that II walls could weel
there'd be a high chorus Of sobs COINS
on at Darling & Co.'S auction rooms ir
Thirty-third street, for everything the
fifty-million-dollar cotton king possessed
from a ten-thousand-dollar teakwood
cabinet to a lace fan he once gave his
wife. is going-going-and will presently
be gone to a hundred men and women
who never knew Dan Sully save as they
read of his famous bull campaigns" and
envied him his millions.
VIII Not Get q Dime.
The man who. ten years ago. put cot
ton up seventy points in a few minutes
directed the sale OF 10000 900 bales in fu.
ture cOnIfdClS, Win a Ndlue OF SGOU.Vb,UU
is today working a little farm at Watch
Hill, r. l., bankrupt. with broken spirit
and silent mien.
Roughly estimated. the Sully goods are
worth close to half a million. If they
bring 1000. il will be only enough to pay
of odds and ends of debts-storage
charges, insurance, interest, etc.
''Sully won't get a dime out OF it," said
Manager Van Brink. 1T goes into the
estate for the benefit of creditors. When
man auctions his household linens, his
table silver. his curio cabinets. his wife's
little souvenirs. his children's books-alI
the intimate personal stun that has meant
home and happiness to limits the end
OF the end. Ny! It's tough.
No wonder he don't talk about it. No
wonder he hasn't any plans for the fu-
ture. When a mans spirit is gone. life
has nothing for him. How old is he? oh,
should judge about fifty. Too young
to give up: Well. maybe, but he always
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
JEROME DEFENDS THAW CHASE
Prosecutor Replies to Attack Made
by Clergyman.

New York. March 1s.-william Travers
Jerome, chief opponen; of Harry X.
Thaw in tho latter's fight for liberty. is
sued statement in his own defense to-
day in reply TO charges made by DIR.
Charles ii. Parkhurst DR.. Parkhurst in
ali interview had said:
Il think the relentlessness. and | might
almost say .vagery. with which Jerome
has persued Thaw. has created a degree
OF sympathy il: the public mind for
Thaw."
There seems" said Mr.. Jerome in his
reply. to have been almost design in
certain quarters to induce a public be-
lief that some personal or private mo-
tive entered into the effort made by the
state of New York to have Thaw re-
turned to Matteawan. and il has been al
most directly charged that was the
hired agent of certain persons. not
named. who have a personal enmity to
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17

various educational institutions the gov
ernment Is preparing a unified education
al exhibit that will show the progress
Of the country in education during the
last decade.
Panama Canal. the completion of which
the exposition is to celebrate. and a five
hundred-foot model of the great ditch will
be shown. II is said by government ex-
perts that a person may gain a great deal
better idea of the canal by a visit to this
exhibit than could, be obtained by actual
ly passing through the canal The sys-
tenn Of hygiene practiced in the Canal
Zone will receive special attention in the
national public health display. 1t was
the scientific work of DIR. Gorgas that
made possible the construction of the
Panama Canal
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
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The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
LORD LONSDALE
WRITES Welsh
Nobleman Gives Views on
Much-discussed Weight
Question.
LIKE EARLY WEIGHING
Voices Sentiment of English Sports
men-1erald Expert Takes
Opposite View.
By ANDREW r. O'CoNoR.

The subjoined letter written to Freddy
Welsh. British lightweight champion.
by Lord Lonsdale should be of interest
to every boxer and boxing promoter for
the reason that he seems to have en-
tireIy overlooked the fact that boxing
divisions were not made TO accommodate
boxers who are trying to remain in a
class to which they do not belong.
Lord Lonsdale is opposed to ringside
weighing in. as he considers il danger
Gus. for he says. boxers struggling TO do
a weight at which they were unfit to
box
Continuing, Lord I-onsdale says. by
weighing in six or eight hours before a
contest il enables a medical officer to as
certain that a man is in fit and proper
condition to box"
The proper place for medical eXamina-
tions arc the training quarters, where
the physicians should see the boxers
weighed. and the examinations should
be made while the athletes are going
through their training stunts. II boxer
must be punished to make a certain
weight even IL II is eight hours before
the contest. II is impossible for him to
perform in a satisfactory manner: the
extra weight which he takes on is not
solid muscle. and outside or restoring a
certain amount OF moisture to his dried
and exhausted system, which makes him
feel good temporarily. the extra weight
Is of no benefit.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
AMERICAN IN Tolls
AS LA CEIBA FIREBUG
Benjamin Lee. Formerly of Jackson
vile. Fla. Under Arrest on Charge
of Starting 100000 Holocaust.
HONDURANS THREATEN HIS LIFE
special to The Washington HarsId.

SPECIAL to The Washington Harald
New Orleans. La, March IG.-That the
recent fire which destroyed Ceiba. Hon.
duras. with s5.OoooOO damage. was Of in
cendiary origin and that an American Is
under arrest charged with the crime was
learned here today from Gen. Juan Ris
Rivera, a wealthy Honduran. who has
just arrived from that country.
The American under arrest is Benja-
min Lee. formerly OF Jacksonville, Fla.
drug clerk. The fire is said to have
started in the drug store where Lee
worked. So intense was public feeling
against Lee. Gen. Rivera said. that he
would have been killed had he not been
arrested.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17

TEaw and desired to keep him confined
for life.
Il have always believed and still be-
lieve Thaw of unsound mind. that his
release might be a source Of grave dan
ger TO the public and possibly to him
self"
Jerome asserted that the efforts to re-
turn Thaw to Matteawan were efforts to
vindicate the laws of the State of New
York and show that no lunatic may
h. the corrupt use Of money. defeat the
laws of the State"
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
WILLIE MACK MEETS M'C0Y.

Baltimore, Md. March 17.-Willie Mack.
the speedy Philadelphia bsntamweight
boxer. has been matched with Young Nc
Coy at the Monumental Theater next
Tuesday night in a fifteen-round go.
These boys are two of the cIeverest lit
tie fellows in this section. and a mill
worth seeing is looked for.
Manager Bletzer. of the American Ath-
letic Association. which will stage the
bouts. plans TO put on a strong card for
this show, and will more than likely
book Willie Reinig. the Country Kid,
against Terry McGraw in the semi
windup
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
CALLS SNAKE "ST. PATRICK. g"
Green Bon Constructor from Colon.
bian Jungle Reaches New York.

Green Boa Constructor from Colom-
bian Jungle Reaches New York.
New York. March LIST Patrick" a,
green a boa constructor as ever left the
Colombian jungle, reached New York to.
day in the care of 'Snakey Jake Smith
who had captured II the night before
while II was battling in the forward hold
Of the steamer Graecia with an s0o-pound
cayman.
''Snakey Jake" spends his life in the
jungles OF South America in pursuit OF
snakes, birds and wild animals fol
American geological gardens He brought
with him today four boa constructors
four deadly poisonous snakes vet to be
given names, one cayman. five water
hogs, three spider monkeys and many
parequets
''Snakey Jake" opened box, gave st.
Patrick" prod and let the constructor
coil itself round his body and neck
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
RESCUED CREW REACHES PORT

New York. March 16.-Twenty MEM
bers OF the crew of the Norwegian
steamship Cecil, which stranded on the
Bahamas, were brought to this port to-
day by the German steamer Graecea
which arri' ed from the West Indies. The
Cecil was from Baltimore to Dalquiri.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
Lord Ionsdalc's Letter.
I.Owther Castle, Pen

l.OWther castle, PenTlth.
Dear Welsh: I beg to acknowledge the
receipt Of your letter. which has reached
me here. and | have gone carefully into
letic Commission with regard to the uni
versal standardization a weights.
We have gone very carefully into these
matters before and that the committee
of the National Sporting Club have most
fully considered the question. and after
considerable discussion. long and careful.
We have come to the conclusion that We
cannot alter the weights We have already
adopted in this country. as they have
worked admirably and given great salts
faction.
Moreover. from what | hear. rather
fancy that the American Boxing Com
mission has been at times unable to en-
force their rules with their own men. as
often when boxers have secured cham
pionships they have turned round and
dictated thir own terms as TO weight and
time OF weighing in.
I myself am. and | know the commit
tee Of the National Sporting Club are,
totally opposed to ringside weighing in.
for we consider it dangerous: boxers
struggling to do a weight at which they
were unfit to box, whereas by weighing
six or eight hours before a contest il
enabls the medical officer to ascertain
that man is In a fit and proper condi-
tion to box. And ! am quite certain that
YOU of all people and others interested
in the noble science will agree with me
that this is a very lateral and impor-
tant rule which really should not be al
tered.
Thanking you for your letter. believe
me. Yours truly. LONSDALE.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
LayfEne Battle Cited.

This was evidenced in the interna-
tionaI championship battle between
George Lavigne. of Saginaw, and Dick
Purge. of England. They weighed in
at 1SS pounds at o'clock.
Lavigne was legitimate light
weight. and tipped the beam at 1870
pounds. Burge just made the weight.
He Immediately repaired to Jarmins
and ate great porterhouse steak.
drank a few bottles of ale. then went
to bed and slept until half an hour be-
fore the contest. Lavigne lounGed
around. played a few games of bill
lizards, and when the men stripped for
action Burge weighed 1iS pounds, La
vigne 131 pounds. The betting was
10 to > on Burge, but the second
round Lavigne drove his left glove al
most into Burgess backbone. via his
stomach. and kept IL up until the
eighteenth, when Burge went down in
a heap. a beaten fighter. and. believe
me. when a boxer remained in the ring
with Lavigne for an hour or so he
never amounted to much afterward as
a fighter. Had Burge confined his ef-
forts to the middle-w.ight division he
would have done better.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
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The Washington herald., 1914-03-17

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The Washington herald., 1914-03-17

Except for varions government de-
partments. police and fire stations, etc.
no telephones exist in Constantinople.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17

ago by British sportsmen. Originally
there were the following divisions: Ban
tam. H.: feather. IL; light. lSj; middle
l54; over 154. heavy; fighters to weigh
at rlngside.
In order to make classes for odd
weights. American sportsmen created
classes for ''lOo pounds liz pounds
welter-weight. IL pounds; light-heavy-
weight, between middle and heavy
weights. or about 1ss pounds.
The Marquis Of Queensberry rules which
were formulated TO govern amateur box
irg contests came into popularity after
the real thing was prohibited by law.
A scale of weights to govern amateur
contests were arranged in England. and
they were. in every division, several
Pounds over the scale which governed the
professional contests. and they also pro-
vided for the 'eighinE in several hours
before the contest. and it is from that
system that the old scale of weights have
Eeen mixed and tangled to such an ex-
tent that fighters dictate to the pro-
mOters about the weight question. and
rot only that. they get away with T."
There is no reason why the old scale OF
weights should be changed in order to
accommodate certain fighters.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
Original CIa.sIncatIons.

The weights which formally governed
championship battles in this country
were agreed upon more than a century
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17

New York. March lS.-At the Office of
the Herald it WAS stated tonight that no
information had been received to confirm
the news report Of Mr.. Bennett's illness
sent out from Cairo. On the contrary,
it was said. a cable message had been
received from Mr.. Bennett today. dated
Port Sudan. which is several days journey
from the Suez Canal. II is therefore not
believed at the Herald office
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17
JAMES GORDON BENNETT I'LL.

Cairo. March 1s.-James Gordon Ben.
nett. proprietor Of the New York Herald.
is seriously i'll of fever on board the yacht
Lysistrata, at Suez. He is reported 10
he delirious and an additional doctor has
been summoned.
The Washington herald., 1914-03-17

Thanking you for your letter believe
me, Yours truly. LONSDALE.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-29
CHILDREN HATE OIL,
CALOMEL AND PILLS
"California Syrup of Figs" best
for tender stomach, liver,
bowels.

Look back at your childhood days;
Remember the "dose'' mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel. cathartics.. How
you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different:
Mothers who cling to the old form Of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The CHILDREN 3 revolt is wellfound-
ed. Their tender little "insides' are
injured by them
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing. give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs. - Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless '.fruit
laxative handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweeten
the stomach, and that teaspoonful
given today saves sick child tomor-
row.
Ask your druggist for 50-cent bot
tie of California Syrup Of Figs"
which has full directions for babies,
children Of all ages and for grown-ups
plainly on each bottle Beware Of coun-
terfeits sold here. See that IL is made
by California Fig Syrup Company"
Refuse any other kind with contempt.
(Advertisement.)
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-29
PRESIDENT WILSON
MAY RAISE EMBARGO

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-The ever
recurrent appeal of the Mexican con,
stitutionalsts that they be permitted
TO purchase arms in the United States
on an even footing with the Huerta
government may soon be granted. AL
though President Wilson and Secreta-
ry Bryan have reached no final deter
mination on that point, the Washing
ton government today is strongly in
clned to such course as the next
step IN its Mexican policy.
Informal inquiry among prominent
administration officials today disclosed
the fact that practically the entire cab
met, many members of the senate for.
elgn relations committee and many of
the leaders in congress are ready to
support the president should he raise
the embargo on arms by proclamation.
The recent defalcation by the Huerta
government of the interest of It's bonds,
the growing anxiety of European ma.
tions about the financial affairs of Mex
leo and the declared intention of the
constitutionalists to carry the fighting
into the thickly populated cities Of CEN
tral Mexico are said to be underlying
reasons for some further DEVELOPMENT
of the American policy
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-29

the Huerta regime. There is feeling
evident among the proponents of the
plan, too, that the Washington govern
ment's intention to raise the embargo
would have the effect of weakening
the HueTta government throughout Mex,
leo, Before finally passing on the
question, it Is believed the American
government will seek assurance that
the lives and property of all foreigners
not be permitted to fall into the pos.
session of irresponsible bands.
Official Washington gossiped consd-
erably to-day about published stories
that the Huerta government was get
ting arms from Japan and that this
phase of the situation was discussed
at the conference on Monday between
the president and the senate foreign
relations committee.
Sc An old story revamped, was the
White house view expressed through
Secretary Tumulty, while Chairman Ba-
con of the senate foreign relations COM
mittce issued blanket denial saying
he was authorized by all the members
of his committee to pronounce infor-
nation purporting to be authorized by
them on the subject of the conference
to be "pure fabrications.
Published reports that Japan, through
the trip Of the officers Of the cruiser
JdZumo TO Mexico City and their ac.
ceptance of tive-day celebration at
tho hands Of the Huerta government,
was perpleXing the administration
brought no formal comment. but un-
officially it WAS learned that the admin
istration regards the incident as not
different frorm the visits Of tho British
and German naval officers recently TO
the Mexican capital. Nor does the ad
ministration credit reports reaching
here from Mexico City TO the effect
that Japanese officers accepted especial
functions in their honor with the idea
that such a step would affect the Cali
fornia alien land law controversy.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-29
Embargo Helps Huerta.

That the president is giving serious
consideration to the question of arms
is apparent from the evidence which
daily has been coming to the Washing.
ton government, of the disadvantage
to which a denial of arms has put the
constitutionalists. The latter have ar.
gued that whatever might have been
the sympathies Of the United States
toward the Mexican factions, they have
by forbidding expectation of arms into
Mexico helped Huerta
The chief argument being placed be-
fore President Wilson is that the Hu.
erta government has experienced little
difficulty in buying munitions of war
in countries other than the United
States, while the constitutionalists have
been cut OFF from their only external
source Of supply-the American border
and that in this respect the Ameri-
can policy is one of partiality instead
OF neutrality,
The reason for the presidents re.
fusal of arms to both factions, as stated
in his address to congress last August.
was, desire not to add to the blood,
shed.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-29
STEALING OF MANY
GLOVES is CHARGED

James Morton. alias James Jordan,
whom the police say is really +. a. VIII
son. a former prisoner OF the Utah state
prison, is In the city Jail, and VIII he
given a chance to explain to the federal
authorities how he came into possession
OF 1000 pairs OF gloves.
The gloves were found in Wilson >
trunk at the office OF an express COM
pany yesterday by Detective c. G. Cars
tensen. When asked what was In the
trunk. Wilson insisted that it contained
his personal effects and that he had re-
Gently shipped II from where he bad
been employed at n sheep camp In Nc
vada. According 10 Detective Carsten-
sen. the gloves were recently stolen from
2 Western Pacific box car ct Shaftcr,
Nevada.
Tom Moore. alias The whistler" so
named because of the fact that he
brea tines through silver tube in his
neck az the result of AN operation for
throat trouble, was arrested also and IS
being held on suspicion OF being impli-
Gated In the theft Roy Waite, who WIS
arrested Tuesday By Detectives Clevo-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-29
ANNOUNCEMENT MADE
BY SENATOR BRISTOW

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 2S.--J. l.. Bris-
tow. United States senator from Kan
sas. will be a candidate 10 succeed him
self In the senate on the Republican
ticket.
This announcement was made tonight
when n friend made public letter from
Senator Bristow containing his declara- :
tlon.
Senator Brlstow'a letter says in part:
II will be a candidate before the Re-
publican primaries next August for the
nomination Of United States senator
The third party movement. In my opin-
lon, will not succeed There arc, as you
know, thousands OF good men who In
their sentiment are thoroughly progress