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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
TELLS OF CHILD SAVING
BY CLEARING HOUSE,
DIR. Schlapp Illustrates Success
With story Of Boy Made
Normal Again.

The work Of the clearing house for
leading article OF the current Medical
Record by Dr. Max q, Schlapp, its direc-
tor. This unusual institution was
started while Michael J.. Drummond
was COMMISSIONS Of Charities in this
city. The interest of Mrs. William X.
Vanderbilt and others in the Children's
Cour had much to do with its found
ing. After JOIN kingsbury became
Commissioner of Charities the depart
ment's support Of the WORT was with
drawn, Commissioner Kingsbury not
not liking DIR, %Schlapp's appeals for pri-
vate subscription to widen the work.
DIR. Schlapp contends that the clear
ing house does valuable work in classi-
flying deficient children. He says that
frequently a child thought to he feeble
minded is found to he suffering only
from some physical defect when can
be mended. He cites the case or a boy
Of "a who had suddenly stopped grow
ing at IL and had complained Of head
aches. This boy became ~incorrigiblc.
After three years OF retarded growth
he was examined at the clearing house
and found to he suffering from a chronic
abscass of the frontal sinuses Ithe
cavities in the skull bone, above the
eyes), When his la been attended To
he gradually became q normal boy.
From this case Il can he seen that
conditions exist which simulate feeble
mindcdness and which will result dis
a~strously II they are not recognized
and corrected says Or, Schlapp.
Although Mr.. Kingsbury has with
drawn his departments aid the clea ring
house will continue its work as here.
tofore Al the Post-Graduate Hospital
the doctor says.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
WARDEN OSBORNE HAS
A DOBBS FERRY RIVAL
Electric Fan for Each Prison
er's Cell-Star of Hope,
Please Copy.

Dopps FERRY, n. Y. Aug. 22.-Lieut.
Johnnie Howell Of this towns police
force Is a tender hearted man. To see
one of his prisoners uncomfortable sad
dens his soul. and he has been known
to sit up all night with a man who a
the ~toothache. During the hot weather
his heart has been touched by the sight
OF his charges sweltering in the horrid.
hot cells provided by the town. Even
Warden Osborne is not more considerable
OF the prisoners under his charge.
Yesterday Lieut.. Johnnie spent the
day rigging up an electric fan out
side the door Of each Of the cells in the
lookup and then waited for his reward.
He had IL when Salvation Bestelman
came along. Salvation has been hitting
the road all summer and II has been hot
walking. SO when he lost his way in
Dobbs Ferry and was arrested for sit
ting on the lawn OF the president OF the
village he was moved to tears by the
reception he got from Howell.
As the cool breeze blew into his cell
Salvation vowed to Howell that he
would never leave him n that " lie
had known about it sooner he would
have come TO pobbs Ferry the first THING
this summer. And even while Salvation
was radiating JOY in came Michael
Lowry. who had made the mistake OF
leaving his wife. Michael said that II
home had ever been as cool and com
Portable as the place Howell led him 10
he would have been "A model husband,
SO now Howell can sit back Of his
desk n feel perfectly at ease until
winter comes along and he has to install
a gas heater for the benefit Of his
dodgers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
Swinging nop position the new double deck bridge of the Third avenue elevated overt the
Harlem liver ION the ld). The od bridge son the right

by a mass Of timberwork which just
The eide was beginning to rise. q most
important factor In the business begin
ming. The downpour of rain and gusts
Of wind during the early morning did
not In the least interfere with the deli
cate work now going forward. h
consisted OF jacliing up the timberwork
OF the barges and wedging II until II
strained against the under side OF the
centre span. As the tide kept rising
the old span was lifted of the stone
piers. At s in the morning the patient
onlookers had their first real thrill, when
they saw the displaced span move slowly
down the river out Of the way.
At tina time the tide. which rises
nearly five feet at this point. was not
yet high. This one high tide had to
serve the double purpose of helping to
move the old span and floating the new
one into place. II was to guard against
delays and make sure that the one tide
would serve the double purpose that
Jacks and wedges were used to hasten
the floating of the old span. w. l..
cline, general superintendent for the
Terry 4 Tench Company. who was In
charge Of the big job. figured that by
the combination Of tide and Jacks two
hours were saved In the whole opera
ton.
As the old span moved dow the river
at 6 A. VI. the new span. with an Amer
lean nag dashed to its top girders. began
moving from a point a little above the
bridge downstream and into place.
Now the watchers felt repaid for their
patience. The new span moved gently
managed to slip under the steel floor OF
the bridge.
down stream until it was poised pre-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
CONKLIN BUS In DITCH;
HORSES CAN'T MOVE IT
Motor Land Yacht Party Goes
to Hotel Pending Work
Of Rescue.

RRlARcLIFr. y. Y. Aug. 2e.-Roland
r. Conklin's motor land yacht, carrying
him and his family to San Francisco.
got into a ditch two miles north OF here
this afternoon and stayed there. A
dozen horses couldn't pull 1t back on the
road again. and so the eight members
OF the automobiling party were taken In
two rescue cars to Briarclin Lodge for
the night. although Mr.. Conklin started
from New York with the announcement
that all Of the sleeping during the trip
would he done In the bus-no hotels
The gypsy van. as its owner has called
il. was travelling Albanyward at a
goodish pace when the chauffeur turned
to the side OF the road to allow another
car to pass. The edges of the road were
soft and water filled on account of last
nights rain. and as the van left the hard
middle road and the front wheel went
into the soft earth aud water.
Tn Chauffeur'S effort to get the car
out on the road again resulted in a rear
wheel sinking into the ditch then both
front and rear wheels sank deeper. IL
was feared that the big ear. with a body
twenty-onc feet long and seven and a
half feet wide, and with its extensive
roof garden. might turn over. MIR. tonk-
lin and the others III the car got out
AS quickly as they could.
Word came to the village OF the gypsy
vans plight II half a dozen teams
went to the rescue. but they were unable
10 haul the van out Of its rut. Then II
was decided that the motorists should
nut up at Briarrliff Lodge while the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
Work on Harlem River Struc.
turc Done in Little More
Than Six Hours.
AIDED BY SAND JACKS

A thousand tons Of steel. the centre
span Of the Third avenu Elevated rail-
roa bridge over the Harlem River at
l2sth street. slipped into place at 6
o'clock yesterday morning n at l2 AZ
o'clock an empty Third avenue train
crept across the new span while every
whistle on the Harlem River blew.
Hundreds of persons to whom a feat
Of engineering appeals irresistibly had
lined the other Harlem bridges from
before midnight Saturday till after noon
yesterday. Perhaps they weren't all the
same hundreds. but the supply OF
standees never diminished. Those who
began to stop and look at midnight
could only glimpse black shapes in the
river and a great fare Of lights. At .
In the morning they could discern barges
moving up to the old bridge and gliding
to a standstill under the ancient centre
span. These barges were surmounted
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
SEVEN LOSE LIVES IN
WATERS AROUND CITY
Six Men and Boy Lost: Pas
scnger Falls Overheard
From Steamer.

Seven persons met death in the
waters of the metropolitan district
yesterday. Six OF them were men and
the other was a boy of II. The bodies
Of several of the victims Of the Sum
day ocean and river bathing were not
recovered.
An unexplained accident In Pelham
Bay. off City Island. yesterday caused
the death by drowning Of Rudolph
Weisker. Al, a cafe owner OF 265 city
Island avenue. Weisker went out TO
his motorboat. the Edunio, in a row.
boat alone. Soon the rowboat was seen
bottom up. Albert Hull found Weisker's
body floating and brought II ashore.
The body OF an unidentified man about
so years old. dressed In blue o~vcralls
and rubber boots was found yesterday
by the harbor police in the East River
off Oak Point. A metal ring bearing
the words anna to Amelia was on
his finger.
The body OF Charles Simon. a hotel
keeper OF 1892 Richmond Terrace, West
New Brighton, Staten Island, was found
yesterday near the iron pier at Mid
LAND Beach. He went in swimming on
Saturday and disappeared.
IdiDn " w W. ~ Eti'Niilhhs ~
lived at 742l New Utrecht avenue.
Brooklyn. was drowned yesterday af-
ternoon while in bathing of Occanus
avenue, Rockaway beach. Clermand
was several yards from the shore when
he was heard to call for help and then
he threw up both hands and sank.
Several young men wen to his aid,
but he did not come to the surface
again, They made every effort TO re-
cover the body, but failed.
John O'Ncill. IS. of III East Broad
way, was killed yesterday when he dired
into four feet OF water at the foot of
Rutgers street, a River. His neck
was broken. His son Thomas was
watching him at the time. O'Neill dived
from a distance Of ten feet. When ne
came to the surface he began to scream
for help.
His son summoned Patrolman Peone
of the Madison street station. The pa
trolman pulled O'Neill from the water
and called an ambulance from Gouver-
neur Hospital. The man was dead he
fore the arrival OF DR.. Murphy,
LAKE H~oPATCoNG, y. J., Aug, 2e,-Ar-
thur Bland. II. OF Brooklyn, who went
swimming in the lake last night with
several other boys. drowned before his
friends could help him. Miss Lillian
Gordon, a school cache OF Brooklyn,
made several unsuccessful attempts to
recover his body. but the boys father
John Bland, and several others had to
drag the lake for several hours before
the body was found.
YoNKERs, n. V. Aug, 22.-James Nc
Tague. 20, OF AS West Fifty-seventh
street. New York. was drowned In the
Hudson River opposite Mount st, Vim
cent early to-day when he fell overheard
from the steamer Twilight, owned by
Herman Antonious Of this city. The
body has not been recovered.
McTague was a member Of a party of
forty young men and young women
who boarded the Twilight at Dyckmar
street last night for n moonlight triI
on the river. At the height of the merry
making McTague fell overheard.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
WIN AT
AEROPLANE MEET
Put Spectators to Flight and
Make White Hose Into
Polka Dots.
BOYS DISPLAY GENIUS

The young person In the purple dress
and the white silk stockings who fdseted
n~ervously about on Hampstead Plains
yesterday mad o m there TO see he
model a~eroplane contest OF the Aero
club. But not even the busy tanning
of two solicitous escorts and the efforts
OF her two little hands could make her
take any interest In anything except the
pesky little taubes from the nearby
swamp. Slap! Slap!
As the stocking changed from white
to a certain polka dot effect and the
escorts hoped llvclier and ~liyelier. ie-
voting as time went on much OF their
attention to themselves, 1t became harder
and harder to keep track of the futter-
ing models. Occasionally one would whiz
up to a height that threatened broken
records when an enemy with a pro-
boscis hat seemed a yard long would
pierce the onlooker between the shoulder
blades and he sort OF lost interest in
aeroplancs.
The contest was one OF many
held yesterday in different parts OF the
country to encourage the boy makers
OF model machines. Some day the Will
bur Wright or Glenn Curtlss OF the
future will develop from the experience
gained in these flights. the Aero Club
members hope. and the contests also
help settle the question OF supremacy,
Aided by a stlff wind two of the ma
chimes flew nearly n mile yesterday,
further than similar machines have ever
flow before. II was said.
me that more of them did not the
quitoes. for how could one give ones
machine a proper start when Just as II
was swung forward n ten inch torpedo
was thrust into ones leg and exploded
Even the machines seemed affected and
dived about In an alarming manner and
after George c~avanagh's machine hit
q pylon and dropped to the ground a
ruin, George vowed that just before II
swerved he saw a mosquito sting II In
the rudder.
After II was all over the fact was
learned on the run that Alfred X. Barker
Of the Harlem Model Aero club had
sent his machine 1000 feet and J. =
Barker OF the same club had made a
distance OF i.609 feet, and then one
Joined the crowd Of refugees who rushed
wildly for the high road pursued by q
buzzing, nipping cloud And far In the
distance the white stockings. now very
much dotted. twinkled madly in the van.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
JOKE ON ME- WRITES SUICIDE.
Hotel Maid Finds Young Man
with Bullet In Head.

NEWARK, Aug. GA young man
from Boston was found dead with a bull
let hole in his right temple at I O'Clock
Tonight by a maid in the Holland
House, l56 Market street, He left "A
note which read SORRY to trouble
you, but the joke seems to be on me-
TIE man when he arrived at the hotel
on Saturday night registered as William
T. Wood. Boston, Mass, He said he
was investigating certain matters for
his father. He was alone much OF the
time. He was last seen alive at noon
yesterday. when the maid saw him
asleep In his room,
A ealed letter addressed to Mrs.
Miriam Wood. care bonding department,
National City Bank, So Wall street, a
silver watch bearing the initials u. II.
A." S56.5i and two school pins were
among the things found In the room,
Before going to the Holland House he
was at a boarding house at llil Broad
street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
BROKEN WIRE PUTS
AUTOISTS IN PERIL
Rubber Tires Save Four From
EIectrOcutbn-Man Walk
ing in Rain Killed.
OTHER MOTOR ACCIDENTS

-Su. ....a,,r aor,r n
-" 80 -
MIL In iolst street near sher'uan avenue
The Bronx. yesterday afternoon ran
afou, Of a broken trolley wire. The
,i,.. n, tho chauffeur and three other
~ . ..,.s ~, ,h.
persons III the car "e,e "
Insulation provided by the rupoer tires
The machine. owned by Alfred s.
Klein. ess Keller avenue. The Bronx.
- - q. -. or,m, ,,. c,,u,.
u" u'r'eh w ' m -.
feur, contained Mrs. Athana Da9,uson,
klein's mother-in.'aw Mrs, Anoe,u'
Klein. mis- wife, ana ter'ruue prin'h' '"e
sister. a..
Inc TOP OF the car was uown "nen nv
oansling troiey wire struch u piinIn
rpeeoeu aneau III az enoi. W ~ ",
the WIRE ihs'eau' 'iaeeu
scross 'ne Iaces ~ ans s ~
IN tne 'o,nesu. ny ue
was .reeo VI nv Ivy 49,
were nse,ef'' anu q $3.50 a.,
J. ou,nS n p"a,e 49,
ea y 81 w. ao 1rnans,.
ehrVI.Ls, Aus ,in osSt,u,.
eo. care'aker oi e wv,
es.a.e ne'e. u'.u ou - ,nn r,So
aI.er no was run o,er - Sos .e
party from fatcnogue. ruscnus was
~aikIns III 'ne rahh Mneelns y '''!'Io
at MOSCOW street ana baheiahu avs
nue.. P~atchogue' When ne WAS strucN
from oehinq.
Inc passed on ana leit
him lying at the roadside. a rev min
utes later Lawrence Behan, driving
to Sayvillc from Patchogue. disentan-
Eled Fuschus from his bicycle and drove
him to the office of Or. +. G. Merritt,
where he died fifteen minutes later.
Selah Hunsteir of Patchogue was
arrested In connection with the accident.
He told Coroner Moore that part OF the
bicycle became entangled in his motor
70 that he could not stop the car. The
~,nouest was adjourned until Wednesday.
OYSTER BAY. L. l., Aug. 22.-Elmer
Greene. a real estate broker, living at
eb Fast Thirteenth street. BROOKLYN. and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
NUN TO HAVE GOLDEN JUBILEE.
Celebration Planned for Sister
Mary Rose Of Flushing.

The nuns OF the sisterhood OF ST.
Joseph are planning a celebration ON
August 30 to mark the golden anniver-
sary of the entrance to their order OF
Sister Mary Rose, mother superior Of st.
Joseph's Home, Flushing.
The celebration will include a mass
- thanksgiving N "A dinner at which
Sister Mary Rose will he crowned with
a wreath, Next Wednesday the order
will observe the hftl ninth anniversary
Of lis entrance into the Diocese of Brook
lyn, Beginning with three nuns the or
der low has soc II Is Identified with
eleven academies, one industrial school
one commercial high school and thirty
four parochial schools,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
Mass Of Steel Drops on Piers
Within Five Minutes Of
Schedule Time.
WHISTLES MARK FEAT

cisely In place. but with it's IGOR hover
ing several feet above the right level
and an up and down gap between the
end girders and the stone piers.
'They will wait now for the tide to
fall and then the end Orders will sink
into place on the piers" explained the
amateur engineers and self-constituted
lecturers present in every crowd in the
ratio OF | to so.
Wrong. all wrong. The gallery" gave
n little gasp of amazement and ad-
miration as they saw the new span,
once poised properly. sink easily down
and rest on the piers at five minutes
after s o'clock. This was due to the
use of sandjacks.
The new span had been supported on
these sandjacks. which in turn rested
on underworld built on barges. When
the spar was In the right position the
fine sand was allowed to escape in an
even, steady flow from these jacks. and
as the Jacks shortened the span came
down with them.
The new span was in place only five
minutes after schedule time.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
JERSEY TO GET ''SPENDER."
Robert Robertson Arrested and
Held for ExtraditiOn.

PATERSON. n. j., Aug, 22.-Police
Captain Tracy is ready to welcome back
to Paterson Robert Robertson. a young
man "a years old, who rented a house
in a residential section Of Englewood
last June. ingratiated himself In promi-
nent families. displayed about town an
nouncements Of his engagement to a
well known young woman, bought $500
worth OF furniture and then fled.
Capt. Tracy has been notified that
Robertson has been arrested in Canton
Chic, where he is being held for ex-
tradition to New Jersey.
A check for $500 witch Robertson is
said TO have given for the furniture
lie bought was returned IN, c." but the
furniture was not recovered.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
FIRE NEAR 800 IN HOSPITAL.
Panic tmOnK Patients Prevented
by Drawing Down shades.

Three hundred patients in ST. Cath
crimes Hospital were terrified last eve
ming by the spectacular destruction by
nre OF the cooperage plant and ware
house belonging TO Morris solomon at
1877 Morgan avenue, near Stage street,
Williamsburg. Pan,c in the hospital was
prevented by drawing down the shades.
The cooperage plant stood alone in a
lot. The Waterman, Frank Cody, 1856
knickerbocker avenue. in attempting to
save the office papers was injured upon
the head and was taken to ST. Cath
crimes Hospital. The loss is estimated
at SIS, 900. The cause Is unknown. The
police are making an investigation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
FRUIT SHIP REPORTED ASHORE.
The N%Rrowijn- Believed to he ON
the Cuban Coast.

HAVANA. Aug. 22.-The steamer
Marowijne of the United Fruit Line is
believed to he ashore of Pinar del Rio.
near Cape San Antonio. She was due
last Monday At this port. but has not
been heard from.
A ship reported ashore at Pinsr del
Rio answers her description, and the
steamer A~bangarez, which sailed to-day.
was ordered to investigate
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
ELoPERs WIN FORGIVENESS.
Mrs. Jasper Lynch R~rconriIed Ia
Dnuphter's Runaway Marriage.

SPRING LAKE. Aug. 22--Mrs. Jasper
Lynch has forgiven her daughter
louise. who several weeks & eloped
with Thomas O'Sullivan, son Of the late
Supreme Court Justice Thomas O'Sulli-
van Of New York city and an as
sistant to Joseph p, Tumulty, secretary
to President Wilson, Mrs, Lynch to-
night dined with her daughter M SON
in-law here.
At the time Of the elopemeut Mrs.
Lynch said her daughter had deceived
her. When Mr.. Tumulty anne to the
shore to spend his vacation at Avon the
couple accompanied him, They live at
the O'Sullivan cottage in the South End
OF Spring Lake,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
SHIP DELAYED BY CANAL SLIDE
krooniand Here with sos After
wait at PanR ma

The sEde in the Gaillard cut OF the
rdIiama Canal brought the kroonland
into New York yesterday from san
Francisco tive days late, While she was
held up at Panama the passengers found
no inconvenience In the delay. They
spent the time In seeing the bullhghts
at Panama and going to the DANES at
the Y, NJ, G \, In Pedro Miguel.
There were bo5 on board, among them
T.. \ Rig.low, Lr,, I.aurons NJ. Hamil-
ton and NJ. J. Sanders.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
TELLS CHESTNUT EGG STORY.
Jersey Farmers Chicken Must
Have Climbed q Tree.

SUSSEX. n, j., Aug. 22.-Here's a
chestnut
william Bennett. a farmer, who has
always enjoyed a reputation for in
tegrity and honesty of speech-in fact
who has never been known to eXaG-
gerate-found an egg yesterday which
one OF his own fowl company had laid
Bennett. in explaining the thing, said
II was a regular egg and all that, but
II looked large TO his egg experienced
eyes, Also being of an inquisitorial
frame OF mind Bennett opened it, And
inside IN found a whole Chestnut
Yes. But Bennett never told one in
his life,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
SCHOONER WRECKED; 8 SAVED.
Oscar G.. Went Down on Hayti--
Crew Landed in Havana.
Special cabie Despatch 10 TIE St,

HAVANA, Aug. 22.-The schooner
Phineas Sprague arrived here yester-
day with the captain and crew OF seven
o! the schooner Oscar e., which was
wrecked off Hayti.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23

: The Oscar c.. was a schooner OF 1875
tons. She was last reported when she
sailed from Mobile on July 80 for Zaza.
Cuba.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-09-09
FIVE MORE ENTERED
IN THE BABY CONTEST

Up to noon today there were TWEEN
ty-eight entries in the better baby
contest to be decided at the Chamber
,of Commerce rooms next Saturday
afternoon, FIVE of them hving been
made this week. The names OF the
latter. which are the only ones unpub-
,ished. are, Donald w. Tyner, Clifford
Henry Gould. Charles Henry Ed.
munds, Stanley Field Porter and Ma
dean Culp.
Any baby between twelve and forty.
eight months Of age may be entered
for the prizes. but all registrations
must be made before 6 o'clock Friday
i'ternoon. when the books will be
closed.
The Chamber of Commerce rooms
will be fitted up with rocking chairs
for the comfort of the mothers while
the babies are being judged and the
J awards made.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-09-09
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