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LIKEBIRD G1Ne tiT 11,{„'tir t Yi L'e el)w
York in au aeroplane, 137 miles in 152
minutee, was to -day conceded to be the
most remarkable trip ever made, aeti'lli3O):;.
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itie agreeleg that his journey dct4
etrates the availability of the aeroplane
in. cross country flight; of indefinite
length and any direction.
More than this, the phenomenal Bight
has ellown that tele aeroplane may
transport a man to almost any giveu
poiet at Le seeed greater Limit the last -
est expeess train, which in One of war
is considered 0, matter of prime import
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Remarkable Flight From Albany to
New York of Daring Aviator.
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Made a Speed of Over Fifty-four
Miles an, Hour While in Air.
Stopped Twice On His Journey to
Procure Oil and Gasoline.
New York, May 29.-Glene11, Curtiss,
mita toalay known ite the aviator who
had captuted the international speed. tro-
phy at Rheims, arose from the tide flats
of Van Rensselaer Island at Albany at
7.03 (fele& this. morning in the smallest
biplane that has figurea seriously in the
world's great flights, sped upward to a
height of 1,000 feet, maintainee it for
forty miles, then swung over the Cats-
eilis at a, far greater height, once at-
taining a maximum of almost 5,000 feet,
dropped down above the Hudson waters
or another forty miles, and landed fin-
elly at Governor Islan.1 at noon. He
had covered, 150 miles in an actual fir
lap time of 2 hours ana 40 minute:3,
The flignetwhich sets a new mark in
the conquest of the air, was made
through it -territory presenting a great
variety of perils, far greater than any
ether stretch that aviatore have tried.
Side canons, high cliffs, eddying cur-
rents, and reverse currents shooting
era of gulches into the Ruction ver -
ley all played their part. One stretch
made Curtiss fight every inch of his
way, while hie tiny craft tossed and
pitched like a yacht in a hurricane,
Through the different places, which
include the treacherous Storm King
Pass, Curtiss pumped oil into his. craft
6o plentifully that a long blue haze
hung out behind him, fanning itself
into shape behind like a cornet's tail.
The trip was broken into two places.
one at Camelo'
t near Poughkeepsie,
for gasoline, andone at 214th street
and Broadway, New Yolk, where a
stop was made for oil, The total tinie
of Curtiss' flight through the 150 runes
of his trip was 2 hours and 40 minutee.
Be started from Albany at 7.03 o'clock
in the morning and cencluaed his flight
at 12.o'clock sharp. He -spent one haui.
and four minutes iCatill; near Pough-
keepsie, and one hour and seven minutes
resting at 21411i street, while he replen
ished his reservoir with oil. The New
York Ceetraes fastest train, the Twen-
tieth CenturyLimited, would make the
sante run, minus th2 dititallee from
',Forty-second, street to Governor's Island,
in three hours and eight minutes, which
is 22 minutes longer than the time con-
sumed by Curtiss. Curtiss' average
speed was 54.18 miles an hour, which is
equals to a mile in every minute and six
ecconds.
' Curtiss used a single propeller having
3. driving power of 350 pounds through
mere air res:etance. The machine was
forced forward by an engine whose
cieht laage eyleiders winked without a
e
missed stioke for the entire distance.
The engine was of fifty horse -power, the
most powerful Curtiss line ever built,.
He did not adhere altogether to his
announced intention of hugging the
river all the way along. Instead be
divided his trip into four sections, in
each of which he used hake of a vastly
different nature. As he took the air
from Van Iteeeselaer's Island he went di-
reetly to the river's centre, elimbed 1,000
feet above it, and remained there as if a
fixed object, not varying from abiolutely
-level planes.
It had been_pre-arrangea that it white
flag, swung frorn the top of a building
of the Standard Oil Company's plant by
one of Mr. Curtiss' mechanics, would
signal a special train to start even with
the aeroplane.
The Twentieth Century train had just
whizzed past when the white flag loom-
ed up in its expected postilion. The
aeroplane soon shot upward and was off.
The train crew had been warned that
the rival in the air could do fifty miles
an hour; they had smiled, and. had been
incredulous. Before the engineer had
fairly'. got the throttle open and the
train was creeping on to the main emelt
the aeroplane was away ahead, a mere
speck in the southern sky, and one could
fairly feel the train gather speed ea it
bent itself to its task of catching up.
For four miles the road ran through
trees, and only now and then could the
speck in the sky be seen.
The train soon was gaining, and. it
was wood news to all who watched.Soon
It was doing its best and the blaek speck
in the sky became it speck with a sharp-
! .1 ‘" 'el Velltese cross in the rean
p:ns iiiIferentiated themselv-
es and the aileroes between them took a
normal shape. Gradually the brighter
varnieh of the spruce uprights showed
forth against the black balloon cloth
covering of the planes. It was not until
the Catskill Mountain House loomed
against the western sky that he shifted
Itis position.
It was it thrilling sight to watch the
aeroplane battle with the aerial vortex
eta Curtiss pulled. up over old Storm
King Mountain near West Point. There
he pitched and tossed like a ship hi
an angry sea, The treachery of this
'spot is kneven to weather experts, and
Curtiss himeelf had been warned of its
anger. .As he hit the mixea currents
Itis machine at first wavered, now slack-
ing up and again jumping with jerks
that showed the daring aviator was in
a perilous current, but under his per-
fect control the 'machine righted. itself
at each curve Without trouble„
At 9.50 he took a long, sidewise drive
across the river, to the left of the epee.
Sal train for the first time. He killed
inland over West Point in a western
elanting drive, lurehtpg badly but al -
Ways going ahead hi spite of the
drifte. Steadying himself over the West
Point Cemtnandant's home, he arose,
tailing beautifully, to take the Peekskill
Highland's. Ire dropped almost to the
Water at Iona Islands, passing to the
left of the powder works tower, and
Waved to Mrs. Cureless On the speeittl
train. It wait smooth ettiling for him
aa he eped Otreetird to the isecouci stop-
phtg phiee at 214th atreet and. Broad-
way. There he wont another honr fug-
ing and inspeeting his twilit*. At 11.42
e.m. he started on his last awing. tril
flow Were hanging limp against their
staffs at Governor's Island, arid the Bat-
tery waterfront when Curtiss ewring
war Miss Liberty at her exelusive little
and then come gently to rest MI
mice.
.At the three pointe witere Curtiss
toitehaaelselow Pouglikeep310, at the up'
per end of Manhattan, and on Gover-
nor's Islaed, he came down just where
he had sent days before lie would de -
scene.
Aero enthusiasts here to -day were
jubilant, "It is something we had look.
ea upon as an imPossibiliLy," said Mae -
Hohmann, Secretary of the Aero Club
of America. "Why, Curtiss' flight makes
everything else done in crosacountry
journeys look small by eomp.arison."
Edwin Cleary, one-time manager for
Paullum, said: "Curtiss' flight far exeele
Paullmn's London -to -Manchester
The wind conditionwhich Curtiss had
to fight were more baffling and treach-
erous than anything encountered. by
Pentium, and then, of eourse, the (lifter -
once in physical aspectof the country
is a tremendous factor. Paulhan had a
flat, unobstructed country, while Curtiss
won despite hills, mountains, palisades
rivers and other ha,ndiettpe.e
Curtiss' feat compelled the attention
of the entire world, toelay. The flight
from the State eapital to Governor's Is-
land, in New York harbor, breaks all
records in aviation distance conteets,
Curtias. reeled at his hotel to -day, and
received the congratulat1ons showered
upon him, He made it clear that he
believed that still greater feats in fly.
ing would be accomplished, and. these in
the near future.
Curtiss' feat wins for him the $10,000
cash prize of the New York World aud
Ilia plaudits of the entire world.
The latest figures covering the entire
flighb summarizes the remaekab'e
achievement thus: Start from Albany
7.03 it, ue -Arrived Governor's Island
12 m. Total time of trip 4 home 57 min-
utes. Elapsed thne of two stops en
route 2 hours 11 minutes. Actual time
of flight 2 hours 40 minutes. Distance
covered 150 miles. Average speed per
mile about 1 minute 6 eeconae. This re-
cord is for the flight as a whole. The
prize flight ended as stated, at Inwood,
O new record for the 137 miles to that
point, as previously ven,
W. R. TIFFIN DEAD
Had Been Superintendent of North-
ern Division Some Years.
Barrie ,Ont, elity 80.-W. R. Tiffin,
Superintendent or Inc Northern Division
of the Grand Trunk Railway, and one
of the oldest and best known raiaway
men an Canada, died last night, after a,
fertnightes illness, of paralysis of the
throat. eir. Tiffin ecaehed bis fiftieth
year with the Grand Trunk on May 24
lists he having entered the service in
Hamilton as a clerk when 15 yeere
Lin held poaitione of Superintendent at
Pal merston, Stea.tford, London, and Bar-
rie Mrs. Tiffin died twelve years ago.
Mr. Tiffin leaves three sons. E. Tiffin,
General Traffic Manager of the I. C. R.,
is a brother. ,Mr. Tiffin was it promin-
ent Anglican, having been Warden of
Trinity Church for several years. Inter-
ment will take place at London.
A NEW BOAT.
Launch of the New R. 8i. 0, Boat
Rapids Prince.
Toronto, May 30. -The launching of
the new Richelieu & Ontario Navigation
Company's steamer, Rapids Prince, ae
noon on Saturday at the Toronto Ship -
yeas., foot of Bathurst street, was at-
tended by ceremonies which will make
it memorial. The steamer slipped. into
the water at 12.30. The usual ceremony
of breaking a bottle of champagne over
the bow was performed by Madame For-
get, wife of Mr. Ructolplie Forget, Presi-
dent of the R. & 0. Company.
The Rapids Prince, which theRidieleau
& Ontario Navigation Company contract-
ed for with the John Inglis Company, of
Toronto. has been specially designed for
the wide division ef the 11. & 0. Neva
igation Company's serytte, and will ply
between Prescott and Montreal in con-
nection with the R. & 0. Company's
Lake Ontario service, steamers Toronto
and Kingston and the new United States
steamer Rochester. The Rapids Prince
will carry about twelve hundred pas-
sengere.
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DEATHS AT BERLIN.
NEWS OF THE
DAY IN BRIEF
Brakeman Killed at North Bay While
Coupling Cars,
Heavy Rains in the West Put Out
Bush Fires.
Vienna Littutenant to be Hanged For
Poisoning Officer.
The Township of Crowland will Ow to.
local option ciunpaign anti vote next
January,
The Toronto painters' strike is ever.
The employers have decided to pay the
men aa Dents per hear.
Fire complettey destroyed the plant
of the Sell:11.k, Man., Mitch Company,
The lose is $25,000, with only 82,000
itt-
ati
Harvey Bradden, 45 years old, driver
of the homeopathic ambulance at Buf-
falo, was killed. on Saturday night in a
collision between his vehicle aud a street
car,
Leo Hakle, a prominent farmer in the
district east of Castor, Alta., Nein; kick-
ed in the stomach by it horse and died
a few minutes after getting to the near-
est house.
Nineteen •freight ears were derailed
and many af them aestroyed in a wreck
on the a P. R. near Hornby, on eunday
afternoon. A broken flange is said to
have been the cause.
Two passengers were killed and ten in
jured when an nccommodation train on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad was wreceed
on Saturday at Stull, Pa., twenty-five
miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa.
John Gibson, a member of the London
Ont„ Rowing and Bowling Club, died
suddenly while playing on the greens in
South London on Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Gibson was 70 years of age.
Mrs. William .A.rthurs, who haa been
on the teaching staff of the Toronto
public schoole for upwards of twenty-
five years, died at her late residence,
31 Radford avenue, on Saturday.
Three Baptist misisonaries from Tele-
guland, in India, hay° arrived home on
furlough, They are Dr. and. Mrs.
Smith, of St. Catharines, and. their little
child, and Miss Murray, of Bedford, Ont.
On Friday afternoon a traction engine
broke through a county roa.a bridge
which span% Hog Lake, in Madoe Town-
ship, Wm. Seeley, who was operating
the engine, had a narrow escape from
drowning.
Seized with it fainting spell while car-
rying a lighted lamp, Mrs. M. B. Luce,
75 years old, and a pioneer resident of
Battle Creek Welch., was burned to
death at her home. She was alone in
the house.
A Canadian Northern survey party has
been at work .since last August locetine
a line between the clay belt, north o'ri
Lske NiPigon, and Port Arthur, for the
use ofthe railway in building the Port
Arthur -Sudbury link.
John Cairns, a young Scotaman, in
Canada less than two years, was killed
in the C. P. R. yards at North Bay on
Sunday while coupling cars, being
caught between the buffers. Cairns
leaves a wife and. one child.
It is reported in Vienna that Lieut.
Adolph Hofrichter, who recently con-
fessed to having sent poison to a num-
ber of the officers of the general staff,
one of whom died, hits been found guilty
at a secret court-martial and sentenced
to be hanged.
The heavy rains of Friday night and
Saturday have practically extinguished
all the fires in northern Manitoba, and
Saskatchewan, and saved hundred e of
thousands of dollars to owners of timber
lim its.
Messrs, Thomas Tracey and Jeremiah
Suddabythe Victims.
Berlin, Ont., May 29. -Two well-
known and prominent officials passed
away suddenly here within twelve
hours of each other.
Last evening shortly after 6
o'elock Mr, Thos, Tracey, turnkey at
the county jail, was returning from
the Berlin -Guelph baseball game, and
had gone into a Berlin cigar store.
He spoke a few words with the clerk
and dropped to the floor, death being
instantaneous.
Mr. Jeremiah Suddaby, one of the
oldest and best-known edueationists
in Ontario, Was foand dead in bed
about 8 o'clock this morning, having
passed away from heart failure dur-
ing the night. Deceased was exam-
ining papers until 11 o'clock last
night, and, informing his family that
he was feeling tired, retired. He had
not been in good health for some
time, but WAR on duty constantly.
Deeeased was in his 67t1t year, and
vms appointed Prineipal of Berlin
Public Sehools in 1871.
Will Strike.
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Toronto, May 30, -The master build-
ers having refused to grant the build-
ers' laborers an inerease of pay front 25
to 28 cents per hour, the inert deemea
by a timeline:me vote at a 011184 meeting
at the Labor Temple yesterday to go
out on strike on Werineedity next, June
1, epithet a11 en.ployets who will not
etee4e to their eleenaitleds.
Fire destroyed four large implement
warehouses and. other property at Min-
neapolis, entailing a loss of about $1,-
000,000. Christ Madison, a guest of the
Sixth Avenue Hotel, \vas probab'y fat-
ally burned.
Reggie Bell, the three-year-old son of
Mr. Fred Bell, of Parry Sound, was
drowned in the Seguin River on Friday
evening. Ile was playing on the bank
of the river a short distance from his
home, when he slipped one, rocky slope
and rolled into the river.
While on her way to take a trolley for
St. Catharines to visit her daughter,
Mrs. William Upper, Mrs. Mary John-
son, a resident of Stamford, was in-
stantly killed by a Michigan Central
train at the Welland avenue crossing at
Niagara Falls on Saturday.
The body of Charles Adair was found
on the G. T. R. tracks, about 100 yards
west of the Perth road crossing on Sun-
day morning. He had evidently been
killed by a train. Deceased was about
25 years of age, an employee of the Can
adian Locomotive Works, Kingston.
Inspector Gunton, of the Children's
Aid Department, on Saterday preferred
a Charge of incest against Herman E.
Beckworth, of Fessertort village, seven-
teen miles west of Orillia, His daugh-
ters, aged thirteen and fifteen respect-
ivcily, gave testimony, and Beckworth
was eoramitted for trial.
Charles E. Mullin, former cashier of
the Farmers' and Merchants' National
flank of Mount Pleasant, Pa.'who was
found guilty of misapplying the funds
of the bank by a jury in the United
States District Court, has been sentena
ed to five years in the United. States
Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.
The maritime converitione providing
for $13,000,000 subsidy in aid of Italian
shipping and it twenty-five year subven-
tion to the Italian -Lloyd Steamship Com
parry for the transportation of mail were
approved on Saturday in the Italian
01°11ober of Deputies, with certain limit-
ations.
Provineird Constable Symons has renttle
A big seizure of fur skins at Whitefish
Lake, itt the Lake Superior district.
The iseizuee includes otter, beever ruid
mnekrat Achim. There were 78 otter
skins in the parcels eeized, 185 beaver
Akin% atal 1,100 muskrat skins. The
total vidne of the seizea skins is esti-
nutted at $3,740.
Williant Charles Bates, of Orillia, was
eormnitted for trial for bigamy. in 1004
he was married to Fliza Maryort, and
they had two eltilaren. Last November
he went narth, and his wife heard noth.
ing of him. in April be was married at
Burk's Falls to 'Matilda Conrvoiser,
Aged nineteen. Both wivea eve eri•
denee *pink, Bates.
KING'S BIRTHDAY
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Friday Next Will Be a Statutory
Ottawa, May 29. ---The birthday of
King George, June 3, will be it state
tory holiday in Canada, althottgla in
view of les Majesty's proclamation that
he would follow the precedent of King
EdWarti and, keep May 24 as the Elio
pirc's geuerel holiday in honor of the
eovereign, there will be no general ob.
servance of next Friday as 0. holiday.
Being it statutory holiday, however, all
banes will be closed, thus making the
third bank holiday in Canada within
two weeks,
The Cabinet Council yesterday
dceid-
'd that no proclamation should. be is-
snea to exempt Friday next from the
provisions of the bills of exclumge act,
which declares that the Ring's birthday
sitall be a statutory holiday.
RANKS THINNING
President Taft Reviewed the Memor-
, ial Day Parade in New York,
Veterans of Civil War Not So Num-
erous --They Are Dying Off.
New York, May 30. -President Taft
arrived here this morning to take part
in the 1VIemorial Day services and review
the parade. Ideal weather prevailed.
Enormous crowds were drawn to the
streets and avenues through which
marched, the pathetically few veteransof
the Unicin Army. A great host was
massed about the stand at the soldiers'
and sailors' monument in Riverside drive,
where President Taft watched the Grand
Army men and military organization
pass in review.
A detachment of regular army men
headed the marchers, whose route was
shortened, so that the ageing veterans
would not be too greatly fatigued by
their tramp. Followed by sailors and
marines from the battleships Connecticut
and Rhode Island, the head of the par -
side moved up West End avenue to 72nd
street and into Riverside Drive and on
past the stand at the monument. The
State troops, including the Seventh Regi-
ment, 13th, 71st and 69th regiments,
marched next, and then came the veter-
ans.
Although there were four divisions of
Geand Army men and good weather
brought out the veterans in force, the
ravages of time were shown in the de-
pleted ranks'thinner than. ever. Cheer
after cheer broke out as the old soldiers
assembled and wheeled into line, . and
woke the echoes even after the tattered
battle flags had passed, and the younger
veterans of the Spanish War and the
civic societies brought up the rear of the
marchers.
The President planned to return to
Washington this afternoon.
DONOHUE'S DEATH
London Jury Exonerated Railway
Company From All Blame.
Engineer Said He Had Plenty of Time
to Get Off Track,
London despatch -The jury which last
nieht under Coroner McLaren, inve.,te
gated the death at i'homits D. Donohue,
of Hamilton, en:ed here on May is4,
while on hes way to Victoria Despite,
to see a sisser or It.ti wife, weo had tieen
mjured m almost exactly the same spot
iaene weeks before, returned a verdict
exonerating the railway employees from
all blame.
Engineer Henderson stated nett be
had noticed Donohue, his wife and her
father walking on the traek when the
train wee stile it quarter of a mi.e away.
Ele whistled several times and the others
got off the track and stood at, the side.
Donohue did not start to aYet off until
the engine was about two car lengths
away from him, and. then wond heve
had plenty of time to get clear of the
tracks if he had stepped straight off.
Instead of doing this he walked in a
slanting direction and leaned toward the
engine. The train wite going abJut 15
miles nn hour, and the buffer beam
struck him on the right shodlder and
turned him completely around and threw
him into the ditch. Witness had applied
the emergency brake when he saw that
Donohue would be struck, but it.was too
late.
Dr. Drake, who made the post mor-
n= examination, stated that Donohue
had a fracture at the base of the brain,
two broken ribs, the right arm broken
itt tWO places,' the chest and abdomen
both crushed, and considerable bruises
Alone the head. .Death had resulted
from internal hemorrhage and shoek.
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FATAL MISTAKE
Husband Gave His Wife Wrong
Medicne and She Died.
Atwood, Ont., May 30. -Mrs. Saniuol
Love, living en the 12th concession of
Ehna, a short distance from Atwood,
died suddenly in bed this morning, caus-
ed by medichie which was given by her
husband while sho was suffering from
rheumatism, which she was subject to,
she having been under the doctor' tare
for a year. 'The medicine that she took
was supposed to be tho same as the clon
tor getere her. The fatal mistako as yet
cannot be accounted for. Mr. and Mrs.
Love lived happily together with their
family, The sad accident is a shock to
the eommunity as Ahoy Were both high-
ly respeeted.
Child
Peterboro, May irtquest into
the death of two-year-old Mamie Feely
killed by the G. T. IL train at the Park
and Wessett street crossing ott Satur-
day noon, was opened before Coroner
Dr. Gray. A fracture of the skull and
the amputation of the right leg by the
train eareseel death. The inquest wits
adjourned until 'Tnesday night.
CAME TO BLOWS
IN HYDRO CASE
Excifng Scenes Around the Welland
Court on Saturday,
Fraser Guenther Gets $700 More
Than Was Offered,
Judge Wells Thinks Solicitor Lobb
Should Apologize.
Welland, May 30. -An agreement
whereby Fraser Guenther, of Thorold
Township, is to receive $3,330 from
the Hydro -Electric Commission was
arrived at Saturday morning. Thin
is the sum offered. Mr. Guenther be-
fore the arbitration began, but he is
also to receive $700 for the timber cut
down in his woods, which the Com-
mission would not allow before. He
has the promise of the commission
tha the gates will 'De kept locaea and
that a strip no wider than four feet
will be used across his farm. The
=mission will pay the coats of the
first day's sitting of the arbitration.
For the subsequent days each_ party
will pay its own costs.
The arbitration of William Patter-
son, of Thorold, and the Commission
was next taken up. Mr, Lobb let a
few hot words slip and the result was
it fight between himself and H. I.
Collier, of St. Catharines, counsel for
Mr. Patterson.
Mr. Collier was taunting Mr. Lobb
on the many amendments to the power
legislation.
"Stop those insults," yelled Mr.
Lobb, shaking his finger in Collier's
face. "I'll give them back to you
measure by measure."
Mr. Collier -"Come on outside if
you want anything. I'll punch your
headr.."
MLobb-P0h, go on, you big calf.
You cad. I'll get a bruiser over from
Toronto to fight you. I would not
have anything to do with you."
Mr. Collier -"My challenge holds
good."
Judge Wells -"I do not see why
you fellows cannot keep quiet and
act like men."
After the case had been concluded,
Mr. Collier jumped up. "I demand
an apology from Lobb for his out-
rageous insults. He called me a cad,
a fool and a, booby. I wouldn't wane
to appear in court again with that
man. No man would take such in-
sults."
Judge Wells -"Mr. Collier is right.
Mr. Lobb didn't act like a gentleman,
and he should apologize."
Mr. Lobb absolutely refused to apol-
ogize, saying Mr. Collier had insulted
him first by whimpering insults about
the Hydro-eleetrie.
After the court had adjourned the
lawyers had a fistio encounter on the
Court House steps.
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EMPIRE FESTIVAL
Over One Hundred Canadians Lose
By Its Postponement.
100,000 Men and Women Had Been
Preparing to Take Part in it.
London, May 30. -It has been com-
puted at the offices of the Festival of
Empire that. 100,000 men and women
have in various ways been preparing for
the pageant of London, which was to
have been the central feature of the fes-
tival now postponed until next year, ow-
ing to the death of King Edward. The
number of peaple actually thrown out
of employment is estimated at 1,000.
At the beginning of this year a staff
of forty clerks was at work, and the
costume making and scene painting were
begun. Week by week the number of
seamstresses was increased until just be-
fbre the King's death there wero 200
export costumes which ranged in value
from $2.50 to $1.50.
Meanwhile a grand stand costing
$50,000 had been erected at the
Crystal Palace and scores of scene paint-
ers labored upon the 10,000 square yards
of scenery which was to form the stage
setting for the various episodes. The
lake was spanned with a, facsimile of
old London Bridge, no mere theatrical
structure either, for over -it 500 heavily
mounted horses would have to pass.
Some 150' South Africans and 100
Canadians besides many men mid
women from New Zealand and A.ustra-
lia had arrived in England for tho sole
purpose of representing their countries
at this festival.
The venture was insured against the
death of the Xing for a sum not far
short of $100,000, but in addition to the
rerit, which they have had to pay for
the occupation of the Crystal Palace till
July 30, the guarantors have many staff
and advertising contracts to satisfy.
WAS MURDERED.
pan.•••••••
Richard Rock Was Hit on the Head
By Some Person.
St, Themes, Ont., despatch -The jury
in the inquest in the ease of Richard,
Rock, who was found dead under the
Wabash bridge here on May 20, return-
ed it verdict this morning that Rock was
found dead at the Wabash bridge, St.
Thomas, hewing been strnek on the head
with sonie inetrument, by some party
or parties unknown to it.
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'IWO Children Drowned.
Parry Sound, May 20. -Reggie Bell,
the three-year-old !Am of Mr. Fred Bell
of this town, wasdrowned in the Seguin
River lest evening. The little fellow was
playing on the bank a short distort,
front hit home and he (dipped on a rock
and rolled fate the river. A little com-
panion saw the boy fall and gave the
alarm, but the body was not retovered
until two hours After the aecideut.
BOILING WATER.
Fell Into Pool of it and Died From
Terrible Scalding.
New York, May 29. -Into a cofferdeen
filled with boiling water on the top of
an immense caissen iu the excavation
fel. the new menitipal building near the
entrance of the Brooklyn bridge, early
yesterday, Louie etratt, 27 years old,
of 2740 Morrie avenue, the Brenx, acci-
dentally fell while walking up a, runway
to the street and was boiled to death.
For six winker; the unfortunate man
swam around the water Shrieking for
help, finally savieg himself from drown-
ing by throwing an arm over l sizzling
steam pipe. In his flounderings in the
water he swain directly under the floor-
ing of a house for the caisson workers.
Some men heard his screams, ripped up
the floor and rescued him,
Throtighout the ordeal and after hi*
rescue Stratt did not lose conscious
-
nesse
STABBED TO DEATH
Edgar W. Jong, Toronto Man, K.Iled
in Cincinnati by Negro.
Said Jones Had Stabbed Another
Negro Just Before,
Cincinnati, Ohio, May 29. -Edgar Wil-
fred Jones, aged 26, of Toronto, Ont.,
was etabbed and killed last evening at
Front street -and Broadway by an un-
knowu negro, who later made a sensa-
tional escape. According to a story told
the police, the white man, in company
with several others. came along the riv-
er front, and when they arrived. at 318
Eest Front street the man who WO.B af-
terwards killed paid: 'Where's that nig-
ger bully?" .At that moment a negro
named 011ie Grisom, aged 23, stepped
out of a doorway, and it is claimed the
white man sank a knife into him.
Grisom was taken to the hospital, with
it dangerous Wound in the upper abdo-
men, and ia probably fatally injured.
It was when this alleged assault oc-
curred that an unknown negro came
running to the scene, brandishing a long
knife. He plunged the weapon into the
white man, killing him instintly. The
knife wielder then ran up a flight of
stairs to the second floor of K8 East
Front street, and dashing to a rear win-
dow leaped to the ground and escaped.
Mrs. Alice Clark, who keeps a boarding
house at 200 Pike street, identified the
injured man. She said that he always
stopped at her house when in the city,
and that it was his custom to leave his
money with her before going out on the
streets. Friday night, he said,- he ask-
ed her for $45 of his money, which she
gave him. It is supposed that he lost
most of it in a game on the river front.
He was employed on the river.
Toronto, May 30. -Two telegrams to
the Toronto police yesterday reported
the death by stabbing of Edgar Wilfred
Jones. The messages were from Cor-
oner 0. P. Cole and Alice Clark, the
latter of Pike avenue.' The dead man
is supposed to have a brother, Jaime
Jones, in Toronto, but the police were
unable to locate him. One of the mes-
sages asked that Joe Lonners be inform-
ed, and in this the search also proved
unsuccessful.
PREACH MURDER
Indians Urged to Kill the English -
A New. Scheme.
Poisoned Needles in BOmbs--,.-Weap-
ons of Seditious Hindus.
London, 29.--00000nut shell
bombs filled with poisonous needles are
the latest weapon used by the seditious
Bengali against the English. A copy of
what is described as "the most outrage-
ous incitement to murdering Europeans
yet published in the Indian press" has
just reacheil London. It, is held fuily to
justify the recent rigorous application
of the press law in India.
Thies production, which' originates at
Delhi and is being cireulated in various
parts of India, is headed "Killing No
Murder," and a passage from it reads:
We once more appear before you to
preach our revolutionary doctrines to all
for the redemption of our Mother from
the atrocious bands of the Feringhis
(foreigners, more particularly the Eng-
lish). Your life is not worth even it den
or a Straw if you do not soil your hand
with the blood of our oppreseor, the
Feringhi.
You must kill as many of these
white sheep as you lay hands on,
whether men, women or children. This
sort of killing we call no murder, but
it sacred, duty that devolves on the
shoulders of every Indian for the lift-
ing up of our Bharata Mate to the very
lefty pedestal filkd with glory aria
splendor.
nitiO Up! Rise up! 0 toes of India!
Rise upl Arm yonrselvea with bombs
and deapatch the white :taunts soon to
Yama's abode. (Yatua is the Indian
Pinto),
If you are in toed of .tunney loot
down the oppressors' houses. It is the
wealth of the poor Indian that fttiens
the Peringhi.
Than follow direetions as to how
arms may be procured from arsenals,
assuranees that British soldier; may he
countea apon to .offer "only a hint -
hearted de fence," . and the sugeestieh
that domestie servants may assiet in the
Work of extirpating the British by 110i.
soning their masters, a method which is
deseribed as "the smooth despateh" in
.toonmtbrasi.rt to the use of poisoned need:e
The article moeeeds to warn surh
Indians AS tit6 loyel aria :seek to shelter
Fatropeate that they will enrely "shere
the fate of the, wretelted traitor of Lot.
don," resuntably tho late Dr, taken,
who loet Mtlile itt it gallant attempt
to save Sir W..eutzon Wyllie, who was
shot at et evening reeentton in London
by au Matt anarchiet bet ;NV.
About the tint rent brave thing it boy
dots is to emoke acigar.
BASEBALL TICKETS
fe,••••,,,cfre.•
Cart Only Be Purchased at Church
For Sunday Games.
Pittsburg's Plans to Got Fans to At-
tend the Sunday Services.
Pitteburg, pa., May 30 -The Mirdatera
of Pittsburg and the inanagers of the
baseball clubs which have beeu holding
Sunday exhibition games have reached
an agreement whereby the Sunday base-
ball games will coutinue and the at-
tendances at the churches, it is thought,
will increase proportiouately, Hereafter,
accordinp to the manager of the A, J.
Martin's, elle ef the best known ama-
teur nines in the country, no person
will be allowed to attend the Sunday ex-
hibition games conducted by that club
unless the patron is able to present a
ticket which is obtained only at certain
Pittsburg churches after the Sunday
morning service. These tickets will be
giyen only to persons who attend the
Sunday morning church service. No per-
son who does not sit out the service,
no matter what length the sermon may
be, will be given it ticket,
This amicable arrangement was reach-
ed through a suggestion made by Con-
stable Jacob Stine, of Port Vue, who
not only is an ardent baseball fan, but
a regular church attendant as well, He
believed he had a perfect right to go
to a ball game Sunday afternoon, and
devised this methocl to force other ball
players and farm not as religiously in-
clined as himself, to attend church. As
a result of this amicable arrangement,
baseball tickets will be distributed next
Sunday in several local churches. AV
the retaliatory steps forcing the churches
to do without paid vocalists, as threat-
ened by the baseball magnates, will be
stopped. District Attorney Blakeley has
promised to take no measures against
the ball players unlessfurther informa-
tions are made, and the ministers have
promised to make no further informa-
tions.
THE LONG SAULT
111.0.410114.same
Dollard and His Band of Heroes Re-
membered in Montreal.
Anniversary of Defenders of Ville
Marie From an Indian Attack.
Montreal, May 20. -To -day Mont-
realers are celebrating the 250th anat.
versary of the death of Dollerd, who
saved the village of Ville efurie from
attack by the Iroquois. The story Is
well known to Canadians. . He and his
sixteen companions did for Canada what
Leonidas did for encient Greece.
At Notre Dame there is a erecioue
aocumeni', eatear gives the names and
ages of the heroic, young men. 'lite
eldest was -thirty, tho youngest was
twenty-one. 11 was April wtien they
made their wills, swore the migaty
oath that they would fight till death,
partook of me last sacrament, and
started on their last journey. The re -
their the Indians
acotdt110laef foot efifgheteageelilligagainst
teault Rapids
will st as long as Ca,na-ellaa history
lasts.
To -day's celebration opened in the
afternoon with it religious service in
Notre Dame at 3 o'clock, his Grace
Archbishop Bruchesi officiating, the
great Bourdon and all the bells of the
parish church being rung. The ser-
vice continued in Place d'Armes, where
is the bas-relief of Jhe Maisonnenee
monument. There were addresses by
Archbishop Bruchesi, Hon. jeremie De -
eerie, Provincial Secretary, and Mr. Hen-
ri Botn.assa, M. P. P. Rev. Abbe Melan-
con read a poetical appreciation in
French, and Mr. John 1.loyd one in Eng-
lish. The celebration concluded with the
singing of "0 Canada." and "God Save
the Ring." The 65th Regiment furnished
the guard of honor.
In the evening there wee a meeting
at the Monument Nationale, where Mr.
Joseph Dumais told the story of the
fight at the Long Sault.
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KAISER'S WRIST
Court Physicians are Closely Watch-
ing Progress of Abscess.
Potsdam, May 30. -Emperor Willixun
remains at the palace, where the heal-
ing progress of the abscess on his right
wrist is being closely watched by the
physicians. •
This morning Dr. Frederick W. Elber,
physician to his Majesty, and Prof. Bier,
the surgeon, changed the bandages. Sub-
sequently they issued a statement to the
effect that they had found the trouble
taking its normal course and no compli-
cations were to be feared.
Dr. Niednor, second physiciaii, is
charged with the continuous observation
of the ease.
Oiler Fatally Hurt.
Toronto, May 30. -Caught by a pulley
on the steamer "Dundee," of the Inland
Navigation Line, which is loading pack-
age freight at the foot of Bay street,
Leonara Yarman an oiler, whose home
,
is in London Eugland, was Saturday af-
ternoon whirled :ironed the shaft several
times until every stitch of clothes WAS
stripped from him, and was then thrown
to the dock with great force. He dicd
in. Graee Hospital late lest night, front
a fractured skull and a hemorrhage in
the brain. Yarmari, who was 23 years
of age, is not known to have any rela-
tives in this country. His mother resides
in London, Eng.
Honor for Robert H. Christie.
ees
Stratheona, Alta.,' May. 28. -Robert
II. Christie, of this city, was elected
deputy grand master of Masonic dia.
trkt No. 3 of the Grand Lodge of Al.
berts, at the eosnmunication of tha
Gretna Lodge held at Calgary thie week.
Mr. Christie is a well known Toronto
man, and was master of Zeta Lodge of
the city during 1001.
Noll -We had a beastly time top.
ther. Relic -Whore did he take you/
-xtu-ott to the Zoo.
LABOR SCAR -CE„
British Columbia Railways Bald to be
Curtailing Building. Plans.
Victoria, B. 0,, May 20-411elf s grave
lairds has exisen affecting the *well,'
mut of Rritiah Columbia, owing to the
lnadectuats oupply of labor, le tile v
ion of the head* of all large eater's:isles,
especially those of propeted railways.
It se said tbe programmee planned, for
this season by the C. P. R., Ishe Cana.
dials Northern, and °there have been
abandoned, or greatly curtailed, for this
reason, and the G. T. P. le finding the
greatest difficulty ILI getting suffieient
men to work on the section lasing con-
structed east from I'rinee Rupert:. The
only possible remedy would be the in-
troduetion of Chinese on a largo scale,
but the labor unions will not lieten to
this for a moment, so it is Out of the
queetion.
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CAMP BURNED
C. N. R. Station,. Saw Mill, Cars,
Stable; Etc, Destroyed.
Men
Quit Fighting Fire Owing to
the Intense Heat,
Dauphin, Man., May 30. -Chief Forest
Ranger Davis has returned from Mia.
tatimSask., bringing back 'a discourag-4
ing report. The fir. has made ,great
headway in the bush and so hot and
dangerous was the work that 150 men
refused to continue. This left him help -
lees, and the fire free to run at will. It
looks now as if the fire will spread- over
the entire limit, and destroy it. If the
wind keeps up and no rain fails, ether
valuable limits may be burned. The
situation in extremely critical and own-
ers are alarmed.
CAMP AND MeLje5 DESTROYED.
Mistatirn, Sask., May 30. -Without a
moment's warning and while a train
crew and men were making almost sup-
erhuman efforts to save Mackenzie &
Mann's lumber and camps west of Mis-
tatim, fire swept down on the Cowan
Construction Company's eamps about 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon and in less
than thirty minutes from the time the
approach of the fire was first noticed
had swept across the track and had emu-
pletely destroyed the sawmill, seventeen
C. N. 11. box car camps, stables, sterol
and other buildings and a considerable
quantity of lumber. The mill and lum-
ber were insured. The min will likely
be rebuilt, as there is a summer's cut
of logs in the pond untouched by the
fire. With the amount of timber de-
stroyed in the bush and the ties burned
along the track, the lessee will be ex-
ceedingly heavy and may exceed a
lion dollars. Trains have been unable
to go through the fire for the •last
eighteen hours and telegraph linea are
burned down in many places. The traek •
is also burned in aeveral places and the
fire is spreading and running east before
the northwest wind with no sign of
rain. There seems to be nothing that
will prevent it reaching Shaw Bros! lim-
its east of hew. The whole country
from near Creolaid River to Bannock,
thirty miles ha length, seems to be al-
most conaplete1y fire -swept,, and it Is
unknown how far north and south the
fire has spread, but it must be many
mike. Conditione along the railway line
to -day are considerably irepeoved, and
the fire has evidently spent itself along
the track.
HtaLson Bay Junction, Sask., May 27.
-Forest fires which swept the distriet
west of here burned down the Canadian
Northern depot at. Mistatim. All the
contents were saved and the loss is
slight.
IS THIS TRUE?
Report That Steamer Failed to Go to
Rescue of the Goodyear.
Detroit, May 30. -That there is likely
to be criminal action taken as tha result
of the sinking of the steamer Goodyear
by the steamer Wood, entailing a loco of
sixteen lives, is the statement of th•
United States vessel inspeetor, vv. W.
Stewart, made at Port Huron to -day.
Since Wednesday the investigation has
been going on behind closed doors, th•
witnesses being members of the ererr
of the Wood and survivors of the Good-
year. Much testimony of a sensational
character has already been elieited which
will undoubtedly- call for explanations
from Hie officers of the steamer Sir Wil-
liam Siemens, when that vessel reaches
Duluth. The Siemens is the boat WhiOk
WOA thought to have picked up Genie sur-
vivors of the Goodyear she having pass-
ed over the spot within a fevr minutes
after the eollision, and was within firs
hundred feet at the time the vessels
ceme together and while some of the
sailors were yet struggling in the water.
It is affirmed that the Siemens neith-
er checked her speed nor lowered a boat.
Captain J. W. Westeott, of this eity,
dares he cannot credit the story, awt is
eonfident Captain McElroy did all pos-
sible to succor the drowning Men.
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CHURCH & PEOPLE
Springs of Church Life in London
k,Said to be Drying Up.
London, May 29. -The lesseting of the
hold of the elan& on all clase a was
the main topic at the London Diocesan
Conference) this; past week,
The Bishop of leensington brought for.
ward as proof the fad that the proposi-
tion of eomentitticantri to the populatiort
irt small country diocese* with the best
retords was 14 per cent., while London's
was barely five per cent., the candidates
for confirmation being one-half of one
per cent. Ile said:
"The springs af ehureft 111. are dry-
ing up.. The losses are not balanced by
tumours:1g streams of fresh young life."
He believed the lay people's ideel of
elergynian Wee greatly to blame. They
eeented to want an able iteeouttant
who tould eollett plenty of money, a
feverish organizer or a popula.r enter.
tainer. A lay member of the conferente
saki 'hi per cent. VIM men would go to
church but for "rotten sermons."