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T. w. LAMONT RACES FAR.
Crosses Continent Alter IIenriug
Of Morgan ShOOttng.

Thomas W. Lamont of !. 4. Morgan
4 Co arrived in New York yesterday
after race against time across the
continent. started as soon as he heard
the news of the shooting OF Mr.. Nor
gan last Saturday.
Mr.. Lamont was in the heart NJ the
Cascades. 1000 feet up in the noun
jumped into an automobile as soon as
the telegram carrying news of the
shooting reached him The ride was "A
twelve hour race through the noun
tains. much Of IT at night
Mr.. Lamont was headed for the near
est railroad station, at Weed. Ore. lie
made his train and hurried to Sacra
mento. From there. OH the Union
raciiic's crack train. the overland Linn
tied he travelled into Chicago and ar
rived here yesterday on the Twentieth
, Century. The trip was made in eighty
four hours.
Mr.. Lamont talked with MIR. Morgan
over the telephone as soon as he ar
rived. lie said that Mr.. Morgan talked
reassuringly about his condition and
was most optimistic.
There was no formal statement from
any member a j. l.. Morgan's family OF
R from his physicians yesterday as TO hi:
improved condition. uut this was takei
/ tc mean that Mr.. Morgan is so com
/ plctely out OF danger that no further
statement IS necessary.
Junius Spencer Morgan said over th'
J telephone last night that there Wa!
1 nothing further to say"
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JOHN D., 76, REFUSES
STRANGE GIFT CAKE
Anton Won Mings. Once i'm
Asylum. Rencws Effort to
Sec Financicr.
GUARDS DESTROY TOKEN

TARRYrowN. n. V. July s.-John n.
Rockefeller celebrated his seventy-sxth
birthday at his home in Pocantico Hills
in way unusual for him on such an
occasion, the only interesting incident
being visit from Anton won Mings,
who came all the way from Chicago
with "A birthday cake for the financier.
Won Mings was much disappointed after
his long journey because he could not
get to see Mr.. Roclsefeller ana Sdeiiver-
the cake in person.
Mr.. Rockefeller has been greatly dis
turbed since the shooting of j. /. Nor
gan, and because of 1t he cancelled his
trip to Cleveland and closed his grounds
tight. MIR. Rockefeller chose to lock him.
q, self up in his home to-day because ne
feared some crank might appear. and
when the news was flashed to locantico
Hills to-day that Won Mings had ar
rived word was sent to the guards To
be on the alert
Won Mings, who is 90 years old, car
ried his cake in box three feet high.
lie also brought "A handbag with him,
and this was searched by detectives. but
only articles Of apparel were found III
II. Won Mlngs went 10 thc h"'h'leiiei
home in taxicab and was met at the
gate by Daniel Lawrence. guard VINO
automatically got him to leave the cake
win nm Tor denver! u MI NV .
/ Won Mings objected at hrst, saying he
wanted to see Mr.. Rockefeller and
wanted TO go 10 the mouse l" IN up
parts of the cake when had been oroKeh
in transit. He finally agreed to leave
the cake. but then insisted ON seeing
Eh~"oe''' 80 '.,n,,aar, U,h.r
VINO ne snd' was ms s"ee',ea't I,,,''
told sie was No' "' '.a,aa "'
'ei. ms p.v.u'', 'h na ,ota,oa ,hon r..
Noil M',es' n" ,i.tn,, ,or 'hicoco
'u' ".u % " a, a'
VI" M. rne 80 ',''s ,hr.o stories high iced
,,.,,,' s,,',ras ,na ooy.rs and inscrib.,
rah,' ~ pncLefeIler ~, his seventy.
.,t.,, mir,hd,,S
''N Va, wimca wbo said he WAS a bake,
,,.', n. n hrnrksmith. made IA, cake
uo COW. his address as 1850 North
rohev street. Chicago. lie said h,
,.,,L al here from Chicago two wear.
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BIG STEEL PLANTS
AT FULL CAPACITY
Carnegie and Other Companies
Have Orders Booked Ahead
for Many Months.

FITTsBURG. July s.-With orders
booked ahead for many months, the Car
negie steel Company, the Jones 4
Laughlin Company, the National Tube
Works and the Republic Iron and Steel
Company are now operating their plants
at full capacity for the first time in more
than year.
This statement was made here to-day
by "A prominent steel man who is in
position to know the trade situation at
each ot the big plants.
To the European war credit for the
improvement In the steel business is
given 10y this authority.
steel men as a rule, while they hoped
for return uf prosperous conditions
once more were not sanguine of any
such result until the protective tarr on
steel was restored" he said. An this
indccisi0n has now given way in the
face Of a certainty that the steel industry
Is entering an era Of prosperity such as
this country has never before known.
The one discordant note in the COM
ing prosperity for the steel manufac-
turer. however, is the threatened short
| age of labor owing 10 the return of
/ thousands OF foreign born laborers TO
| their native lands"
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TYPHUS GERMS IN LETTERS.
Poisonous Powder Also Received
by Company Making Shells.

CLEVELAND, July S.---Letters said to
have contained germs of typhus fever and
a poisonous powder We're turned over to
the Post office Department by officials
of the Cleveland Automatic Machine
Company to-day
They were the climax of series of
threateninr messages the firm has re-
ceived since the publication of an ad-
vertisement describing a machine for the
manufacture Of high explosive shells,
Herbert NJ, Rich, secretary-treasurer
OF the company, would not deny tonight
that "A girl employee itSd been seriously
affected by powder in the last letter
opened. This caused Rich Immediately
to notify the Government officials.
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REPLY MAY COME TO-DAY
German Response Expected Not
Inter Than Tomorrow.

BERLIN, July S.-Washlngton may re-
ceiNe the German reply to the most re-
cent note of President Wilson tomorrow
or on Saturday at the latest.
II will go forth entirely upon the re-
spphsibllty Of the German Foreign Of
nee, as Ambassador James W. Gerard
conveyed to the Foreign Office to-
day the message that the United states
VIII not enter into preliminary nego-
tiations concerning its context or sub
jcct matter. outlines have already been
sent to Washington through tho Ameri-
can Ambassador.
II is probable that the general out
line Of the reply will be conveyed to. the
German newspapers tomorrow. but
nothing will be published here until the
afternoon OF the day on which 1t is
known the note has been received by the
American Government.
The Minister OF Foreign Affairs. Herr
won Jagow, said to-day that his office
was on the point of transmitting the note
through the regular channels \ few
changes might be made before the reply
was handed to Ambassador Gerard, but
they would take very little time.
While the Minister would not COM
nent on the tenor OF the note he did
discuss the difficulty and the slowness
with which the negotiations between the
| United States and Germany have been
. conducted, owing to the interruption 10
direct cable communication between tn,
! two countries. The Minister recalled
| that the American newspapers pub
! lished on June Is the German note re.
garding this cable communication.
Germany proposed to pay the ex'
! penses Of restoring the cable and putting
4 1t in operation" he said. I'VE were
willing that the President of the United
States should appoint censorS to super
wise all messages transmitted over II
II was also agreed that uncensored news
/ from Germany might he sent to tn,
| United States in order that the country
could obtain an accurate idea OF tn,
exact situation in the war
THE United States must know tha
Great Britain has taken no notice o
Ia find. She does not want the people
Of neutral countries to be informed %
the exact situation. She desires to moult
public opinion on the information sh'
permits to be sent forth.
The United States has been misin
formed as to Germany's motives. Thii
would not have been the case had Ger
many been able to present her case t.
the world in the same way as the othe
countries"
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GARY FORESEES SUDDEN PEACE
Judge Says War VIII End with
Unexpected Quicl. ness.

SAN Francisco, July S,-Judge r. IA.
Gary, who so accurately predicted last
fall the duration and cost OF the war
to date, told the Commercial Club at a
dinner to-day that peace would come
with unexpected qulckness, bringing
unprecedented prosperity to the United
States.
The end may not come Immediately"
he said. but II will come much sooner
than expected by many, including some
of those who are most actively par
ticpating.
There Is proof that all countries
involved deeply regret tie war was
ever started. They are nearing ex-
haustlon. They are sick at heart, We
shall at no distant day see peace Sc
'ured.
There will he n permanent tribunal
or the adjudication by arbitration OF
all international differences and the en-
forcement OF it's DEGREES by the nations
not directly connected.
'"Throughout our land we are to have
Industrial peace, and as "A consequence
greater prosperity than ever before"
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any munitions of war or other contrae
band goods"
The basis OF the charges seems TO
lie In the assertion by the peace coun-
Gil that most of these vessels are
transport" operated by belligerent
nation. II was contended here Tonight
that none of the vessels is u transport
In the sense in which that term Is used
legally. 1t Is possible for vessels OF
this kind to he in the service OF bel
ligerent Government without actually
making them Government ships classed
as war vessels. This Is believed to be
the status of all vessels named by the
peace coui ell.
Furthermore. IL was pointed out thAt
ship Is not "operate1' by Govern
ment In the eyes of the law unless II Is
IN command of an officer Of the Coy
ernment and its crew is paid by the
Government
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DROP BRANDY AND WHISKEY.
scientists bar IntOxicants From
Next L. =. PharmacOpsria.

WAsHlNGroN, July s.-The dry-wet
fight has made its appearance in new
quarter After "A long struggle 1t has
been decided to drop "whiskey" and
"brandy' from the next issue OF the
United States pharmacopnia which Is
the acknowledged official and standard
list of drugs. Through this action whis-
key and brandy would seem to have lost
their standing as drugs"
Some fear has been expressed by drug
glsts that this elimination may make 1t
impossible for drug stores after Janu-
airy / next to sell whiskey or brandy
unless they take out "A saloon license.
but officials here do not share this view
Fifty scientists who constitute a COM
mittee to revise tthe pharmacoppia have
voted by the narrow margin OF 20 " "a
to exclude the two intoxlcants.
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Cites Hague Conventions.

The peace council also charges that
the British and French Governments
have been using the docks of the White
Star and Faber lines to store for ship
ment on their transports explosives,
ammunition, submarines and aero
names" 1t cites several articles from
the Hague conventions in support OF
their charge. but State Department Off
cials contended tonight that none of
these citations Is applicable
The peace advocates summed up their
case in this way:
Calling your attention to these sec
tons of the treaties now in force, we
beg leave to enumerate the following
propositions:
bellgerent country or a private mer-
chant ship of our country cannot load
at our ports "A submarine or component
parts thereof
Second, such merchant ships cannot
load or carry hydroaeropianes or com
ponent parts thereof. whether they are
propelled by their own power or trans
ported on such vessels as part OF the
cargo
Third. II the belilsarent country 3
vessel. though owned ny private mer-
chantme I, has been cGartcred or regis
tered by such Government or otherwise
put even IN part under the control of
the bellPerent nation sor ;hc purpose OF
'ramming' or using the vessel in any
manner ior warfare, offensive or de-
fensive, then the whole ship becomes
subject to the rules governing IA war
ship and such vessel will not he per-
mitted u load at our ports or sail from
our ports with any muritons of war for
such beiligCrent country or her ports
"Four,a. merchant ship owned OF
operated Ivy a belligercnt nation shat
not be Permitted to load at our ports
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MUNITIONS AGENTS
TO CONFER IN PARIS
LLOYD George Leaves London
-RcgistratiOn Bill in
Third Reading.
Spec,d Cab,e Despatch to Tnr srS

LONDON, July S.--The Minister Of Mu-
tonight for Paris, where he will confer
with NJ. Thomas, the recently appointed
Under Secretary of State for Munitions.
lie stated before he departed:
II leave England with the profound
being made to supply munitions of war
which are needed, and that the effort
viii be completely realized.
Il have satisfied myself that the Eng
lish can furnish illimitable supplies in
aid of the cause OF the allied nations"
The compulsory registration bill to-
day was advanced to the third reading,
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Crew of $50 Make Desperate
Efforts to Smother
the Flames.
SMOKE FILLS HOLDS
AS SEA FIGHT GOES ON
Capt. clarct Sends Wireless
Word of Explosion
From Inside.
no PASSENGERS ON
THE $4,000 TON SHIP
Atlantic Transport Vessel
Expected to Reach Port
Safely To-day.
War Material aboard

The war munitions and materials
on board the Minnehaha include the
following:
$500 cases loaded shrapnel shells.
liza cases loaded cartridges.
1000 cases cordite.
400 cases trinitrotoluol CThls IL
chemical Of great force, which goes
into high eXplosiVes)
- cases rifles.
S26 cases empty projcCtiles.
cases firearms.
3,O0l plates spelier.
$50 cases and bundles brass rods
and sheets.
i32 motor trucks.
M, tor ambulance.
23n h rises.
Il cases auto parts.
lOu cases magn"tos.
cases fuses.
80 bundles copper wire.
81 plates zinc.
10 crates air guns,
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bile ride this afternoon when the skies
cleared temporarily.
II was the first day OF his vacation.
which began two weeks ago, that the
president was unable to get at least a
Few hours outdoors in the mountain air
The enforced confinement was utilized
principally by the President in consider
ing the negotiations with Germany.
Secretary Lansing forwarded several
dispatches and also mail supplementing
the report of Ambassador Gerard.
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Two hundred Of the aGO sticks n
dynamite which appeared TO be missing
: Wednesday night We're accounted for
yesterday, when the .EtuI Explosives
Company Informed the police that II had
made mistake in reporting that the
sticks which it sold to Holt We're of only
"a per cent. dynamite They We're Of
60 per cent, the compauys records
show. so there is every reason to believe
that the dynamite found IN llults trunk
IN "A storage warehouse was Il part OF
the purchase.
Only sixty sticks remain to be ac-
counted for and Holt. it is believed. uu-
able 10 get it all into hi, trunk, de-
stroyed at least some.
II was said last night at Police Head
quarters that Gov Whitman after his
return to Albany Yesterday had re-
qucSted the District Attorney Of Nassau
county for a report ON the Holt suicide
The Governor, II was iutimatcd, wanted
To know all about the conduct of the
Jail ANA the duties Of all officials, from
the Sheriff down to the keepers.
Jerry Ryan. who was Frank llol"s
guard in the Mineola jail last Tuesday
night when Holt killed himself, refuses
to subscribe to the account of the cir
cumstances of Holts death which .
put forward by District Attorney Lewis
F j Smith, Coroner Walter Il. Jones and
Warden William llulsc.
Ryan. who was found a. his home in
Valley Stream, last evening. told a new
story about what happened IN the jai
OF Tuesday night AZ the moment o
! Holt's death and subsequently "A story
which was amazing when compared I,
the matter of fact and placid statements
( made by his official superiors. Ryai
says now, and says cmphatcally, tina
I h, believes Holt shot himself, that h,
Will never believe Holt committed su,
eide by plunginG head first from the roo
OF the cell block.
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In view of the fact that the German
Foreign Office did not specifically ask
the United states TO give Its opinion
OF the proposals, 1t is felt here that the
more delicate and courteous course
would be 10 refrain from bluntly inform
.ng Germany that this Government VIII
no, discuss the proposals in advance OF
the note. Thus the German Government
VII. not be put in the position OF De'hs
Itbufied in its advances.
Oue suggestion made here to-day was
That the German Government is at
tempting to conduct its preliminary
Acgol!ations with the mass OF the
American people through the press IN
stead of with the Government.
Tho circumstantial. convincing and
apparently authorized forecast OF the
German note, published in dispatches
from Berlin, might, according TO this
correspondents merely for the purpose
q sounding out public opinion and Ad-
M.u,stration opinion in this country.
L. Is known that the Germans have
ic.f since Mr. Bryans resignation that
they We're dealing with divided coun-
Try Press discussions of their pro-
lu,als would OF course give them fair
~ vN as to the attitude the United
St'es Government itself might be likely
10 take
\ study of this comment, 1t is sug-
re-'ol, might give the Germans clue
a- .5 whether it would be wise 10 sub
m' % IL note the proposals outlined OF
whether it would be better to modify
i'u 70" substitute others.
on the other hand it became knowr
,o-d that there is a striking resem
b.aH"r between forecasts published to
't' and the matter given to Ambassa
90" Gerard. From this fact the conclu
s.pa - reached that what has beer
usu,tted really represents what is L
bc 90 the German reply.
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So far as is known. Mr.. Buchanan's =
peace council is not rich Many here
are wondering where the money is COM
ing from that is making possible so en-
tensive campaign.
Furthermore, several OF the argu-
ments in the complaint are along lines
similar to those advanced by German
officials.
Here are the charges which the peace
council makes against steamships load
ing at the port OF Kew York in viola
ton of the neutrality laws:
THE steamship city of chicago
now at Pier 90. North River, New
York. II "A transport In the service of
the British Government and Is about
10 sail for swansea, Wales, with
cargo of ammunition for the British
Government.
.-The steamship Lord Erne is
about to sail from Pier 81, Hudson
River. New York, aith cargo of am
munition. automobiles and other war
supplies intended for the British and
French Governments. This steamship
is a transport in the service of the
British and French Governments.
3-The steamship Massuran, now 1t
the Bush dock. port of New York, is
being fitted up with accommodations
for l,5OO horses, the same to he
shipped from Newport News, Va. To
France for delivery to military lines
of the British and French Govern
ments This ship is transport in the
service of the French and British
Governments.
a-The steamship Venecie has left
New York for Norfolk, Va. to take
on a shipment of horses for France.
| This vessel is Il transport In the SER
vice Of the British and French Gov
ernments.
/ S-The steamship Virginia, now load
/ ing horses at Yonkers for France, Is a
transport in the service of the English
and French Governments.
I-The steamship Jethon. now at
| Piers SO and 81, Hudson River, New
Havre. France. This vessel is "A trans
port in the service of the English and
French Governments.
7-The steamship Pascal, now at
Pier SO. Hudson River. New York, is
loading with ammunition and war sup
plies for the British Government and
is n transport in the service of the
British Government.
s-The steamship Larland, at Pier
GO, North River, New York. is now
taking on a cargo of gun carriages
and other war supplies intended for
the British Government in violation
of the Federal statute as well rs OF
international law.
O-The steamship Toronto, now nj
Pier "a, North River, New York. Is
taking on "A load Of ammunition anl
other war supplies intended for the
British Government,
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WILSON WORKS ALL DAY.
n"in Keeps Him Indoors ana lie
studies German situation.

N.a"soR, VI, July S.--Rain and inter-
'''".al affairs kept President Wilson
Indoor, to-day lie did not get outside
l''noondon House a single moment.
.''"e-sA he almost braved an automo-
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Almost 400 letters which Frank Holt.
who placed a bomb in the Caplt,l at
Washington. attacked ]. +. Morgan.
planned the destruction of an ocean
liner and finally ended his own life in
the Mineola, l.. l., jail, received in the
nine years between the spring of 1906
and last month, when he left Cornell
University for his summer vacation. are
now in the possession of the New York
police.
They were included in the Cornell
IpstTuctor's effects seized by the Ithaca
police after Holt's arrest and wee sent
here at the request OF commissioner
Woods. They we're received yesterday
atfern, on. and capt. Tunney Of tie de-
tectiye department and Guy Scull, secre-
tary to the Commissioner. spent several
hours in their perusal About naf had
been examined last night
According to inf rmation given out
by the police those of the letters which
we're read we're something of disap-
poin,mcut. Though they date from a
few weeks after the murder of Mrs.
Efich Muenter. wife of IA Harvard in
s,ructor. they contain ~ reference to
.r,,,,,, ,,r,,,o- ,,i.rds -,
''"' .,.,
Muen'er. VINO u'sappe'ieu '"''u.u.' .''e'I w..
after the killing of his wife. assert that
Holt was none other than the accused
Harvard teacher. even the earliest OF the
letters. dated in July. 1906, was ad-
dressed in the name of Holt.
.,
No SuHse""" w
I In none of the letters has been found
the slightest suggestion that their re-
rInien, was interested in murder. other
/ ,,ts of yiolenc. or German propaganda
[ I'm the hone of discovering a clue 10 pos
: s,b,. accomplices the police examined
en-, corrasnoadence of most recent date
,s w,,l a, hat Of nine years ago.
/ nv, r,..arv,d few of the envelopes
containing the letters. so it is impossibl.
4 IN determine where he was when they
were received. From the text of a few
which were undated II was evident ina
/ he was in Texas and one apparently
reached him when he was at the Uni
versity of oklahoma
But IL his correspondence s'ampe'
I Holt as man OF broad cuI'ure: uteplN
Interested IN the h'shes' io' ''lS VI "'ei 4"
ture, mass Oh cHpp'"sS nn''n we.
/ Included III MS H'es IeNe"''' " '''''
iar d'nereh' V""' .... ,....
NoS' VI Wv ,,.,,,,,',rs Sa,ar,I ox
VI -, .'wsnaners of tho Two citie,
W. " ttI,i,.i d,tas annear several cut
W. ~, - 20 ,h. s,ahhinr nv charles /.
,r,,''i,or ~ Mabel page i'm Weston. Mass
several wears ago. Holt apparently fol
lowed the course of fuckers life TO th'
last. one article is headed. Tucker e
Die Tomorrow another FUCKERS Las
Day" and third describes his eNecu
ton
Folk VIII Not Stop Hanging is IN
headline over Kansas CITY despatci
set forth that Mrs. Agnes Myers an,
rr'hh ,,o'lih"t nus I'"'s w ~ NV"
Ger ot "yers' U'n'r '','' ''''' "'"''
ihes III 'ne c""e'''o'' "'''
"ENANS PAYS PENALTY Fo'
ATRocIouS DEED"
FRENCH LAW THE FOE OF IN
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HOLTS PAPERS REVEAL
4 JEKYLL AND HYDE
Letters Indicate His Culture but Other Documents Show
Him in Different Light-More Dynamite Traced,
but Mystery Of Suicide Deepens.

preston that they believed Holt was
without coniidauts but il WAS obvious
that their efforts We're being directed TO
prove that such was not the case.
one or two slender clues pn which
they had pinned some faith proved to
he worthless. II was believed that Holt
paid for the dynamite purchased from
the Aetna Explosives Company OF ,
Rector street by check. and that by track
ing this check the person who introduced
Holt at bank could be found and could
furnish information of value. Ho.;
made the payment by an express money
order