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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05

LUCY TRIP POE, 81.
YEARS OLD, IS DEAD.
Pioneer Succumbed in Denver
To Pneumonia after
Weeks Illness.

Mrs. Lucy Trip Poe, 50 years old,
and for many years a resident of Cape
Grardeau, died at her home in Denver
last week, after an illness Of less than
q week. Her demise was due to pneu-
nonia, which she contracted while out
driving with friends.
Mrs. Poe, VINO had divided her resi-
dence between Cape Girardeau and
Denver for many years, spent the past
spring and early summer at her home
On South Spanish street. Her husband,
Edward NJ. Poe, died in early June
after a lingering illness.
A few weeks after he was buried,
Mrs. Poe departed for Denver, where
she told her friends she would spend
her declining days. When she left this
city she was in good health and active,
despite her advanced age.
She lived in her own home on the
outskirts of Denver, and her niece kept
house for her About ten days ago she
went riding with friends, and the
weather changed from almost summer
heat to autumn before they returned
home. The next day she complained Of
feeling i'll, and two days later, her
physician stated that she was suffer-
ing from pneumonia.
She failed rapidly, and when she re-
allied that the end was not far dis
tant, she dictated a message to be sent
to Mrs. George Gordan of North
Sprigg street, stating that her last
thoughts were Of her friends in Cape
G.rardeau. Before she had finished the
message, she expired.
Mrs. Poe had many relatives in this
city, and for moro than half a century
she had been member of the Baptist
Church in this city. Although she
spent more than half of her time in
Colorado, she maintained her church
membership in Cape Girardeau, where
she first became actively affiliated
with that denomination.
The body was buried in the Den
yer Cemetery. Eugene Poe of Egypt
Mills, a brother of the dead pioneer,
did not learn of her illness, until he
was notified of her death. Il is said
that she left considerable property.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05
AL DITTLINGER IS BURIED

Friends Of the late Alphonse Dit
linger from every section Of the cour =
ty were at his funeral yesterday afte'-
noon to pay their last respects to the
pioneer, who died at St. Francis Fo.-
pital Monday afternoon. L was oEc e
the largest crowds to attend q fUnfr
in this city in many years. The scr
ices were in charge Of the Odd Fellov g.
Of which order he had been a member
for many years. The ceremony too i,
place at his late residence and burisi
was in the new Lorimier Cemetery.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05
HOWARD IS TEACHERS HEAD

As predicted in Saturdays Tribune,
Prof. J. F. Howard, superintendent of
schools in Charlottesville, was chosen
president yesterday of the Southeast
Missouri Teachers Association, and
Cape Girardeau was named as the
meeting place next October.
Prof. A. c. Magill, of the Normal
faculty, was made secretary 10 sue
coed himself; George Doyle, Of Jack
son. was again elected treasury. and
Prof. Douglass, of the Normal School,
continues as railroad secretary
Prof. c. f. Burton, of Wayne Coun-
ty; Prof. f. T. Ford, of Doniphan. and
A. S. Boucher, of Dexter, were elected
vice presidents in the order named.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05
JOHN CRAFT HURT
AT FRISCO SHOPS
Throws Flaming Gasoline From
Motor Car and Gets
Bad Burns.

When 10 seized . fIan,ipo. fwo-paI-
lon ran Of gasoline IN his ba,,o bapds 70
sav, motor-nassennor car from fire
dest -.,,oti ion in tba Frisco sbops NV +oss-
:,,.r ;,o fro h,.,rd ont , window Iol,,
era { Yesterday afternoon was burned
DANGEROUSLY on the left hand and arm.
r.,f+ u-bo i ,,,ac1,;nis+ o,,,rIo,-od
~ ~ Frisco sbons had bcor ,vo,ly;no,
,,,,s4 Of tbo da,. ~, tho n,o+o,. co,. Got
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05

custody of their children and $75 a
north alimony.
Ley is q carpenter and owns prop
erty in the south end OF town. The
wife declares in her petition that he
owns at least $500 worth Of property
and has an income Of $125 month.
The couple was married Dec. %
1905, and have been separated since
Scpa. 1G, 1913. She charges him with
descrtjon at the time Of their separa-
ton and alleges that he refused to
kec-. her when she offered to live with
him to take care of the children at any
plaC, he named.
For some time. he has been giving
h.. so a month for the support Of
Their children. They have two chill
dron living, Helen A. Lacy, : years
old, and Capitola 3. Lacy, /. 4 son,
Elmer T. Lacy, died Jan. ., 1915.
In telling the fact about her hus-
bands allowance Of so a month, Mrs.
Lacy in her petition red.tes that her
husband told her specifically that the
money was for use in making provi-
sior for their children and not for her
owl use.
She says that she had been partly
dep 2ndent upon her parents for sup
porting herself and the two children.
She asks for the return Of her maiden
name, Lutte c. Taylor.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05

J. B. Taylor came up from Chaffee
on business.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05
PARK ELECTION
JUDGES NAMED
BY The MAYOR
Twenty-four Officials to Pre-
side Two Weeks From
To-Day
ELECTION TO DECIDE
FATE OF FAIRGROUNDS
Daughters of Revolution to Erect
Monument to Mark Kings
Highway Route.


Mayor Mage last night nominated
l"ch'y-ioHr men to act Is election
Judges At me. special e.ection' NoTcm-
Def 49, to decide whether the city - to
'<Sne 94o'0o0 bonds Tor The purchase
o. the Fairgrounds and other PARK i'm
nfoEeh.ants' and the CITY touncit "p-
proved the appointments.
The judges for each OF the wards are
to select their own clerks and that VIII
virtually make arrangements for the
special election complete.
Tho Judges viii receive $50 each
for the davis work. The names o. tho
various iudres are as follows:
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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05

Mrs. r. NJ. Slaughter of Frederick
town IS visiting a few days with her
daughter, Mrs. Albert Mueller.
Adam Yeakle of Chatawa, Miss,
yesterday was in the Cape on business
and visiting friends.
A. o. Cook of New Madrid yester-
day was business visitor in the Cape.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-11-05
TO COMPROMISE
WOODEN BLOCK
PAVEMENT SUITS
City Sued Kettel River Quar-
ries Co. to Look
After "Blisters"
HUMPS IN STREETS
CAUSE LEGAL ACTION
Details of Settlement to be Taken
Before Council For
Approval.

That suits filed by the city against
/ the Kettle River Quarries Company to
make that concern maintain repairs in
I the wocd-block pavement on downtown
streets, will probably be compromised
within few days, last night became
known.
! The details of the compromise have
not yet been settled Or announced, but
! lhe men who are interested in effect
/ ing the agreement between the city
and the paving concern, describe the
{ arrangement as "entirely satisfac-
tory"
Many Of the downtown business
streets, about fly cor six years ago,
were paved with the wooden blocks by
The Kettle River Quarries Company
Main street, Independence, part of
Spanish. part of Themis, Broadway
and part Of Water street, on the west
side of the Frisco railroad tracks, were
paved with the blocks.
The fight in the City Council at that
time to get the paving bills passed
was historic, and many taxpayers sub
srouCrtIr opposed the payment of spe-
cia' tax bills to dcfray the expenses
Of the work
Through some engineering error in
/ laying the pavement, the wood blocks
have been the cause of a great deal of
trouble for traffic and have caused
much comment by business men and
others in the Cape.
The blocks are so laid that in wet
weather. the water that falls upon the
streets s allowed to seep in between
/ the blocks. Instead of being run off
( in the cutters at The side of the pave
mcnt, the water is held in the block
( pavement and quickly sweIls the blocks
50 that large humps are forced up in
the center Of the street.
These have been the cause Of a great
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28
HITS KNKEAD AND MARTIN.
Democratic County Chairman Says
both Are Traitors 70 Party.

County Clerk John J. McGovern, chair
man OF the Democratic county commit
tee OF Hudson county. New Jersey. made
an attack on Sheriff Eugene +. kinkead
and Secretary of State Thomas +. Mar
tin Yesterday for what he called their
attempts to disrupt local Democracy.
He said that they were working with
the Republican machine men in the at
tempt to recall Mayor Patrick n. Griffin
and COMMISSIONS Bernard +. McFeeley
of Hoboken.
Just as we are approaching a cam
paign in which the life Of the Demo-
cratic party in the nation is at stake
said Mctiovern. "these two %repudiated
officeholders have entered into collusion
with the Republicans to inture the party,
The Governor has invited both of them
TO the conference. Such conduct as
theirs. which Jeopardizes the party,
merits exposure and denunciation. and
call upon all Democrats to repudiate
them"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28
CAR DRIVER HALF A
CENTURY TO RETIRE
Tom Donovan Accepts PEN
sion, Though Still Hale
and Hearty.
WATCHED CITY EXPAND

Tom Donovan, after ffty-one years
as a horse car driver and street car mo-
torman, is going to retire on a pension
on December 81. And II Is not because
lie feels that he is getting old that he is
soing to quit. for his grip on the reins
is as Arm as ever. but the company has
offered him a pension Of 500 a month
and horse car driving is not what 1t used
to be during the '7os and sos.
Donovan's step was firm and his
cheeks ruddy when he entered his fiat
ut 404 West Fffty-sixth street last night
after five hours work on the Chambers
street line.
Yes, It's a long time and I've seen a
good many changes in the city," he said
with a cheerful smile Of welcome. Be
fore l took up the railroad business I
was a mailer in THE SUN office. That
was In 1853. the year OF the graft riots.
Many's the time / took bundles OF SUNS
to be sent no New Jersey down to the
Cortlandt street ferry in a w~heelbarrow.
My stepfather. Jimmie L4anigan, worked
In THE Sun Office. too. He was the best
counter in the city.
MY first experience In the street car
business was driving a stage car, as they
called them then. on the Ninth avenue
road about this time of the year In "a.
We ran Town Ninth avenue from Fifty
fourth street, and the line ended in front
OF the old Astor House. Around Fifty
sixth street and Ninth avenue then there
nothing much but little frame
houses with big vegetable gardens. The
city WAS just reaching up the island TO
about F~orty-second street then.
About 1871 they started the l25th
street line-hve one horse stage cars
they ran-and I was one of the drivers.
At that time the letter carrier used to
go around Manhattanville OF horseback
the houses were so far apart. ! worked
on a good many lines. on the old Green
road. the Third avenue line and a good
many others. They used o horses
In those days. and on the Third avenue
line we used to drive from City Hall
to Harlem in an hour and 20 minutes.
The fare was q nickel to Sixty-sINth
street and a penny more to Harlem.
I'VE had more trouble keeping the
tracks clear in winter time too. My reg
ular job during Billiards was TO go over
the lines with a plough drawn by eight
or ten horses. That was real work :
in the blizzard OF 1855 | drove a plough
over the old Green road that ran from
the Forty-second street ferry TO Grand
street down Avenue \. The drifts in
some places were high over the heads
of my ten horses and | had to force
them to plunge right through. ! got
down and back In fou hours. but the
four horse ear that followed me got
stuck In q drift AZ Avenue \ and Thir-
,eenth street and didn't get back for
three days.
I'VE horsecar drivers had a hard time
when the elevated was built. Tho horses
would fight so hard We couldn't hold
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28
TRUTH" PROMISES MUCH.
New Paper. Ont Next sunday
Would beat Others by Hours.

On Sunday. January 2. 1915. will ap-
pear the first issue OF a newspaper which
In a prospectus that It vii,
live up to the name OF Truth. The
prospectus says it is needed, because nc
New York newspaper is devoted to the
task OF telling the truth. the whole truth
and nothing but the truth"
Al the outset Truth is to be a two
edition sunday paper. The first edition
containing all the worth while news
now published by the other Sunday
papers and much that they suppress"
and the afternoon edition giving ''all
the news that il contained in Monday
mornings papers"
The new paper that 1t will
little advertising because adver-
Users don't like truthful papers and
there IL no truthful advertising anyway"
Also Truth will have stories about
scores OF ordinary human beings who
live under conditions so inhuman they
be permitted to exist in this
~riotously wealthy country. All this Is
quoted from the prospectus.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28
Golfers Await End Of War.

LONDON. Dec. 27.-George Duncan. the
professional golfer OF the Hanger Hill
club, who toured the United States a
few seasons ago. declared to-day that he
does not intend arranging another Amer
lean tour during he coming season for
the purpose of turning the net receipts
over to benefit the war relief funds,
Duncan also said that II is very unlikely
Harry Vardon. J. H.. Taylor. Edward
Ray or James Braid will accept any en-
gaRements TO play exhibition games out
side of Great Britain until the war Is
over.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28
MUST LABEL PATENT DOSES.
Goidwntcr RcGistry Law Goes Into
Effect With New Year.

Three hundred inspectors from three
bureaus of the Health department
0arted yesterday morning TO canvass the
2.4oi drug stores in Greater New York
and place labels on 5000. 900 packages
Of patent medicines for sale. This is an
enforcement of what has come to he
known as the 'Goldwater registry law"
II covers many points that tde pure food
law ovcrlooks. Patent medicines manu-
featured in the state, for instance, ca1
Be sold in the same State without de-
claring the contents on the outside OF
the package.
The ",ioldwater law" however. makes
Il necessary for all Of these medicines
either to have a proper declaration label
on the outside or for the seller to de-
clare the cO'.tents 10 the Board OF
Health. Tbs law goes into effect the
lst of the year.
DR.. l.ucius =. Brown, head OF the
bureau of food and drugs. said yester-
day that he expected the canvass would
be complete by the last day OF the year.
He urges all druggists TO cooperate with
the department inspectors.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28
U. s. AND PLANFIELD CONFLICT.
Government COntests City's Right
on Federal Building Worker.

PLAiNr1ELD. n. j.. Dec. 21.-The at
tempt on the part of the city health de-
PARTNERS TO prevent Fred Grengrown. a
plumber. from working on the new
Federal building here because he did not
have a local license was temporarily
halted to-day when the Government
through the United Sta,es district court
at Trenton Obtained an injunction re-
straining the city from any interference.
The matter will be heard in Trenton on
Monday.
Giengrown was arrested upon COM
plant OF the health authorities. who
claimed a violation. ). II. Nelly. super
intendent in charge of construction
sought to interfere with the arrest and
he too was cited TO appear In cour..
He claimed that Federal authority ex-
ceeded that OF any city law. Then fol-
lowed tine injunction. All local plumbers
are required to have licenses and the
health authorize. say that no exception
should be made in the case OF Gren-
grown.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28

them rather than go under the tracks
when a putting engine shot by"
Sixteen years ago Donovan was trans
fericd to "a trolleA car. and despite his
and long years of horse car driving
he soon got the hang Of the trolley
and drove one for fourteen years. Two
years ago, when he was SO years old.
he was transferred back to the horse
cars on Chambers street. and ~ driven
them ever since.
Although slightly stopped by the pull
OF the horses Mr.. Donovan. who has
iron grey hair n mustache. does not
appear to be more han so or S..
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28
PAINTS HER HUSBAND GREEN.
Swedish spouse FIees To Police
From His Irish Wife.

ELIZABETH. y. j., Dec. 21.-Mrs. WAR
ina Paulsen of ROselle told Judge Roosa
this morning that because the blood of
IRISH kings courses through her veins she
attempted to celebrate Christmas Day
b. painting her kitchen floor "A shamrock
Grcen.
Her husband. Eric Paulsen, a Swede.
objected. and Mrs, Paulsen admitted she
generously applied the paint to her hus-
bands face and head. Paulsen FASTENED
10 police headquarters, where he an
nounced he would not return to his home
until hts rights had been established by
the court.
Judge Roosa directed Mrs. Paulsen 10
pay the court costs and condne her
%.v9iEiinI ~ W." Kitchen floor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28
NEW JERSEY NOTES.

Mrs. Jame, Roach. ~. OF Passaic, mother
Of elever children. gave birth yesterday 10
twin gi.is n the Passaic General Hospital,
She has been married twenty years. She
and the twins are in excellent health.
A $4,000 IRE wrecked silvers Opera
House and damaged several other build
ings at Railway early yesterday morning,
The occupants OF seSeraI houses were
blaze.
The Montciair shade Tree Commission
announced Yesterday that the notice OF
skating In E%dgemont Park lake will be
given hereafter by hosting a white nag
with a red circle on the top Of the Munic-
ipal Building so that all can see 1t.
Charles Hagermsn Of Jamcsburs wen.
down into his cellar on Christmas morn
ing. called his wife to see what he was
doing and when she reached the cellar
starSiing and strangled himself With u
rope twisted around his neck,
Frederick T.. Shadbolt, manager OF a
hat store AT 40 Broad street. Newark, was
found dead In the store yesterday with a
bullet hole In his temple. He kissed his
wife and son good by before leaving home.
His death was ineNpiicable to his amily
and friends.
Edward r, Ransom, a Jersey CITY news
,ary and principal executive officer of the
New Jersey iiarbor commission. lie was
reiustated a few days ago. though he had
been olsiel ny An'FA IsTBlnVT DfHJhltllH
F.. Cresson of and Navigation.
Edward Portvlict OF East Rutherford and
Victor Cartnick OF Wellington, each is
years old. were held for the Grand Jury
Yesterday after their capture by Policemen
Emmons and Difhly, who were out hunting
for burglars who entered the home Of G.
II. Lane at 80 Raymond avenue. Two
shots were fred at the policemen.
George Norris. administrator OF the
estate OF John Coyle OF Jersey City. who
was drowned In September 1884, after de
posting 1857 in the Provident Institution
FOR Savings, Jersey city. has begun suit In
tn. supreme Court for the disbursement of
the Coyle estate-the original bank de-
posit--which has grown to $4,000. II no
heir appears ~ Will go to Jersey City.
Judge Rells,ab in the United States Dis
trict Court In Newark yesterday signed a
temporary injunction restraining the Hud-
son County Board of Freeholders from
compelling the Port Richmond and Bergen
Point Ferry Company, a subsidiary of the
Public Service Corporation, to charge only
9 cents instead OF ) for a single trip. The
company claimed a loss Of $500 n month.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28
RECEIVER Is ASKED FOR
The TEXAS And PACIFIC.
Bankers Trust Co. Of New
York Acts Against Gould
Line at Dallas.

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. 27.--The Bankers
Trust Company Of New York. through
its local attorneys, asked for a recciv-
ership here to-day for the x and
Pacific Railway Company. The petition
alleged that the road has defaulted IN
terest payments on It's bonds. The court
set January 81 for a hearing. At
torneys for the railroad. which Is con-
trolied by George J. Gould. served no
tice that they would contest the appli-
cation.
The petition included the New Orleans
Railway Company. owned by the Texas
and Pacific. The defaulted bonds. nc
cording to the petition. are $4,000 900
second mortgage. all that remains Of an
original issue In 1883 OF $4,000. 900.
The road operates mainly In Texas.
Louisiana and Arkansas.
The Missouri Pacific, for years "A
Gould road. has controlled the Texas
and Pacific for many years. George
J. Gould Is president and chairman OF
the board Of directors Of the Texas and
Pacific.
w. W. Green Of Green 4 Alexander.
attorneys for the Bankers Trust Com
pany. issued a abatement yesterday. in
part as follows, regarding the Texas and
Pacific receivership application:
THE bill fled in the United States
District o at Dallas to-day by the
Bankers Trust Company as trustee OF
the second, or income, mortgage Of the
Texas and Pacific Railway Company is
Intended to ascertain and enforce the
rights under that mortgage Of the
trustee and the bondholders. The basis
OF the bill is substantially that for a
number Of years net income derived
from the operation OF the Dad which
should have been applied to the pay
ment OF the interest upon the income
bonds has been diverted TO other pur-
poses. including improvements. better
ments and other capital expenses
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-28
FIREMEN'S LOAN SHARKS HIT.
Emergency Fund Formed to Sup-
MY smnu sumo at 4 Per Cent.

Fire Commissioner Adamson informed
che members of his department y~ester-
day that the New York Firemen's
Einek"ncy Fund. through which amounts
up 10 500 may be borrowed at 4 per
cent. Interest. has been formed. James
NJ. Leopold. a member Of the Stock
Exchange. and Lewis l.. Clarke. presl-
dent OF the American Exchange Ma
tional Bank. were Instrumental In es-
tablishinS the fund.
In a letter to Mr.. Leopold the Com
missioner says he welcomes the fund be-
cause it will curb the activities OF loan
sharks 'among iiremen. He says he
hin the loan shark is responsible for
drinking by fremen more than any other
cause.