Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-10-01, Page 6IN HUNT FOR SOUVENIRS. Commander Peary's Boat Roosevelt Raided by Crowd. Documents and Other Things of Value Were Carried Off. tendent of the Coast. Survey in Washing-, ton, upon. the tidal, meteorological and ocean sounding work. • That will cover for a time my notions." Peary Knew of Cook's Claims While Still in Arctic. Sydney, N. S., Sept. 27. -Commander Robert E. Peary will accept no invi- tations to receptions and no public hon- ors until the question of the discovery of the North Pole has been decided. by scientific authorities. This he made known to -night, in the following state- ment, which he gave out for publication: "Acting upon the advice of teen, Thomas H. Hubbard and Herbert L. Bridgman, President and Secretary, respectively, of the f.'eary Arctic Club, I wish to express my t:ianks to friends for their kind offers and invitations, and also beg to eay that I have deokded not to accept any invitations to recep- tions or any ovations uhti•1 the contro- versy is settled by competent authority." Commander Peary supplemented this briefly. lie was asked when the public was likely to get a decision on this sub- ject, and he replied: "I do not know, but whet I have to say will not be. very long delayed. Whether my statement will be issued in one week ,>r two weeks depends on circumstances." SOUVENIR IICNTERS. While the Roosevelt lay at the city wharf this afternoon a throng of sight- seers went through the ship from :tem to stern. Souvenir hunters carried away everything portable, and many valuable records and. data belonging to Professor McMillan were lost. There were records of tides and animal life north of 82 de- grees latitude, the names of all the Pg•• kim•os in the Etah region, together with more than a hundred books in which many important marginal notes harl been made. No records bearing on the dash to the Pole were lost. The ruissing books are of immense value and cannot be replaced, but the authorities are issu- ing a public appeal for their return. HAS BROUGHT THE POLE. The reception to Commander Peary to -day oegan when the Roosevelt edged her way past Low Point, eleven miles down the bay, and continued all the way to the harbor, and until the Com- mander reached the Sydney Hotel, where he made a short speech, and found him - •self the-v..0tre of a great dcmj ebratiol. "Eleven times I have left Sydney for the north," said the Commander. "Once: I brought back the largest meteor ever found; the last time I brought back my Farthest North, and this time I have brought back the North Pole." TALKS TO REPORTERS. When Gomma.nder Peary received the correspondents in the parlor of bis suite in the hotel late this afternoon he stated that he would be open to any questions, but that he would use his discretion in answering them. The first question that was asked of him had reference to Dr. Cook. Peary was told that Dr. Gook had re- iterated his statement that a note signed by Peary and directing Bo's'n Murphy, of the Roosevelt, to seize any stores he found at Etah as being under the status of abandoned goods, had been found. by Cook and a copy of it made by him. Did the Commander have any reply to male to that? "Bo's'n Murphy, of course, had his written instructions from me when he left the Roosevelt to remain in Etah be- fore we sailed northward in August, 1908," said Peary. "The orders were from me, and they will be published, of course, at the proper time" George Kennan, the traveller and cor- respondent, who took part in the session of newspaper men, asked Peary how many dogs and sledges he had sacrificed in making the first seven marches out from the land over the Polar Ocean. Considerable significance bore on the an- swer, he thought, because if one man last a large proportion of his outfit and another went through the same region with the same number of sledges with which 1,e started, there was an unusual discrepancy between their two experi- ences. "It cost me eight men," replied Peary. "That is, I turned eight men .rack 12 sledges and 33 dogs to make the first seven marches out from land on the way to the Pole. In other words, I had to sacrifice this much of my working force to make 82 miles." IlEA.RD ABOUT COOL Then somebody reverted to the Cook question again. The questioner wanted to know when it was that Peary heard that Cook took to himself the molt for having reached the Pole. Was it before Harry Whitney, who is supposed to have been told by Cook, left the Roosevelt, or after he had been transferred to the Jeannie? "I cannot just locate the time," be- gan the oomm,ander. "I knew before I reached Etah—no, I will have to be ex- cused if I do not answer this question. On such a matter I prefer to keep silent until, as I have stated before, the main' question of whether or not Cook relished the Pole is definitely decided." Somebody wanted to know what would be Peary's procedure in making his data of polar quests. "I have already made an official report of my arrival : at the Pole to the Navy Department at Washing ton, and I Iaaae made a; preliminary report t°o the Geodetic Survey, My nett step will be - full report to the Peary Arc - WHITNEY EXPECTED BACK. The correspondents wanted to know if Commander Peary could give as geese vs to the present location of Harry Whit7 ney, who is carrying with hint some of Dr. Cook's "data, as the !atter states, Peary said that if Whitney had carried out the plan he announced when he left the Roosevelt he should be somewhere in the west side of Davis' Strait at the present time, or making south along Lab- radar, . Whitney had told him, -:!'Vary said, that he intended et be back in civi- lization by the fleet of Ocieber. It was quite lil:'ely that he would be first heard from at one of the wireless stations along the coast of Labrador or at St. john's, Nfld, within the week. IN BROOKLYN. New York, Sept. 27.—The crowds about the Busawiek Club. in Brooklyn did not dwindle until late last night, though it was fully understood by the thousands wbo packed the streets that there would be no further chants to meet Dr. Cook, who was at a table with forty-two picked friends. All the throng asked was a chance to . see him when he left hte club house for the Waldorf-As- toria, where he spent the night, and they were perfectly willing to wait. This loyalty without and -enthusiasm within the club from the friends and fel- low citizens among whom Dr. Cook has lived so moved hies that, when he rose to than his hosts, after a Brooklyn sing- ing society had given the noble old Ger- man hymn, "This is God's Day;" tears stood in his eyes. He has never been described as an emotional man:; but no one who saw hum could doubt that he was deeply moved. "`You have shown. me," he said, "that it is good to go to the North Pole. In returntug, the cheers of other peoples have been a delight, yet there is no human eyestar to compare with the heartfelt tribute of my own people. I cannot adequately express it, but it dis- pels in one instant al lthe long -drawn discomforts of the Arctic quest. • To the waiting throngs outside, the doctor shouted from a window: "I thank you for the honor of this cor- dial and musical welcome" At 9.30 he took an automobile for the Waldorf, and, cheered by the crowd, slowly plowed his way to the Brooklyn Bridge. At the Waldorf the explorer retired early for much needed rest to await further greetings to -day. Commander Peary's next public ap- pearanoe will be at the banquet tendered by the Arctic Club to- morrow night at the Waldorf-Astoria. He has put all but the finishing touches to the first book narrative of his Polar experiences, but it is probable that he will write a series .of magazine articles also. His first labor, however, will be the preparation of the record of bis dis- coveries, upon which he depends to eon - vines the scientific world, and, through then., the world at large, that his claims arc well founded. He Eras promised that this record shall be made public as soon as it is filed, first at the 'University of Copenhagen, and probably without wait- ing for the verdict of that body. Neither the discoverer nor Mr. Brad- ley has commented on Commander Peary's latest decision to remain in con partitive retirement until the question of Polar supremacy is settled. It is be- lieved, however, that, being fully launch- ed on a career of publicity, Dr. Gook will not follow the naval offieer's exam- ple. "Why should he?" said one of his friends to -day. "Cook says he found the North Pole. Even to admit there is ground to doubt his claims would be a confession of weakness. Dr. Oook is the foremost figure now before the pub- lic eye in America. He feels that he owes a dusty to the American people. While he is reticent about the scientific value of his discoveries until it has been laid before a jury, competent to recog- nize its truth, there is no reason why he should: exclude Himself, any further than his work and the demands of his family, from which he has long been. separated, regtiire" WANTS TO MEET PEARY. Thus far all that Dr. Cook has made known regarding his plans for the fu- ture is that he will take a trip through the Western States, during which he will lecture and probably speak at a number of public functions, ` The explorer has added nothing more definite to the remark he let fall yes- terday to the effect that he expected to meet Connnander Peary soon face to: fare. It is supposed that be meant nothing more than that Mr. Peary -would shortly be in New York and con- ditions would be right for a personal discussion and settlement of their rival claims. When the reinark was made Commander Peary had .net yet made known his purpose to remain for a while in comparative retirement. see MASSAC OI IS ST YET According to Advices Received by Jews in Merlin. Butchery' by the Russians Carried Into Synagogues. Deaths Will Reach 50. or Poore at Kieff. Berlin,, Sept. 27.—According to infor- mation received to -day by prominent Jews of this city the massacre of Jews by Russians at Rieff is the worst yet. The latest outrage began last Thurs- day, the Jewish New Year's Day and lasted fol three days, during which time 18 Jews were killed outright, 12 so severely injured'that they subse- quently died and 160 seriously injured. There were 1700. lesser c esualties, besides the destruction of sevex;tal hun- dred thousandrAiollars worth of Jewish property.— The. roperty: The.Jews.had but scant means of defending. themselves, but succeeded in killing three of ..their Russian as- sailanms laid injuring a score. The. reactionary party is responsible for the latest anti-Jewish outbreak. It became enraged at the Jews for their support of the reform movement and decided to inaugurate the Jewish New Year with another attack on the Jews, several of which have darkened Kieff's history in the last few years. Hundreds of peasants wer2c..hired by the reaction- ary party and they led in the attack ou the Jews. At the height of the mob's frenzy, 100 Jewish women and girls were seized by the drunken rioters, stripped of their clothes, chained together in a long line and paraded naked through the streets, whilst the crowds of Rus, sians ,jeered, reveled and spit upon them. Two Jewish /keys that sought to de- fend the women against this outrage, were seized by tie leaders and thrown into a nearby bonfire that had been built .of the. plunder of sacked Jewish houses, and roasted alive, while the mob danced about the flames. A handful of Jews, several of them mere boys, tried to defend themselves against the infuriated mob. They stood against a waltand fired into the mob, killing three. .One quick rush by the mob, however�ind the little band was overpowered pieces. 12 a and behead and pieces of their bodies kicked about the streets. Several Jewish 1 omen fled to the roofs of their horns and poured boiling water down on th mobs. The act was but an invitation o death, as the mobs climbed to the oofs and threw the women headlong t the ground, where, like wolves attacking their prey, those in the screee fell,onto the women and beat them to death. One of the first acts of the mob which had been made drunk before be- ing turned loose' for the murderous work, was to rash to the synagogue, where the rabbi *as butchered and the congregation driven from the building. The edifice was then demolished. After the destruction of the syna- gogue, the mob divided into smaller groups and invaded the homes of the Jews. The chief weapons were axes, clubs and iron bars, though a few were armed with guns and revolvers. Every home visited was sacked, the furniture tossed into the streets and set on fire.' Many of the houses were also fired. Whenever the rioters showed signs of flagging energy, the leaders called them from their work and gave them heavy draughts of brandy. On the sec- ond and third days, the attack on the Jews degenerated into a drunken, un- organized movement by little groups of three and four. The rioters carried knouts and mer- cilessly whipped every Jew encoun- tered, including women and children. Even infants' -were attacked and sev- eral were killed, - Ail sorts of tortures were practiced against the defenceless Jews. During the three days of the butchery and outrage, the Jews pleaded £or mercy. On the third day a deputation of Jews waited on the Governor and by recalling to him the agitation° that fol- lowed the Kishinev massacre in 1903, induced him to send troops which final- ly restored a semblance of order. The total deaths will reach well over 50 for many more will die of their in- juries. The principal streets of the Ghetto or Jewish quarter; are still prac- tieally impassable on account of the wreckage. The attack on the Jews was unex- petted. The leaders in the movement went about their work quietly. In ad- dition to the peasants brought in from the surrounding villages, several hun- dred town "Hooligan gangs" joined in the attack. literally hacked to .e was dismeinriered TIMBER LICENSES: Announcement Made, as to the Successful Tenderers. Toronto, Sept. 27. The Provincial Goverenlent has awarded • the licenses for cutting timber on a number of berths in the Thunder Bay, lionora, Rainy River, Sudbury and Algoma dis- tricts in accordance with a recent call for tenders. An exceptionally large num- ber of tenders were received and the prices of the highest, which were ac- cepted; are regarded as very satisfac- tory. The timber on several of the berths was not_ disposed of where the bids were not deemed sufficient. "The prices secured are probably the most satisfactory ever received by the Province," said Mr. Aubrey White, Deputy Minister .of Lands. "The sale, on the Mississauga reserve brought re- cord prices, and this despite the fact that it was damaged timber, Had it been green timber the prices would have been phenomenal. "The present sales are of cut-off pro- perty and are cleaning -up sales. The timber was cut over under the old per- mit system, and is now given out by tender under license." In all 51 berths, comprising 1,x'5\1-4 square miles, were disposed of. In all cases dues of $2 per thousand feet, board measure, ou timber cut and five cents per tie on ties are added to the prices quoted. LUMBER RATES. Dominion Railway Commission Says Increase Is Unfair. Otatwa despatch: The Railway Com- mission was engaged all day in hearing the complaints of the • lumber shippers against the recent tariff put in force by the railways. The ultimate decision of the board was foreshadowed by Chief Commissioner Mabee, who summed up the evidence just before adjournment. The original complaint was made in 1907, and related to discrimination in rates among the lumber shippers of the Georgian Bay district. At that time the railevays admitted that many an- omalies existed, but proposed to put in force a uniform tariff, largely based on mileage, which would remove all cause of complaint. This was done, and then the lumber interests attacked the new tariff as a device to increase the rates. They protested that the reductions were largely "pa'Je' rates," being ef- fective fro}}� c�ams here l! :tle or t - business �t , frons, aur; iu� and re- applied to the large e8tpP o ceiving points, espee:elly Toronto, Haehe iltou and aT,...+.ietl. To • decide this question the new tariff was tried out for about a year. The result showed increased rebeipts by the C. P. R. and the G. T. R. aggregating nearly $40,000. Judge Mabee, in delivering the opinion. of the commission. said that while the railways may have honestly tried to equalize rates, they had, beyond doubt, increased then, and, he thought, unreasonably. The traffic officer of the board was directed to examine into the natter with the view of correcting the tariff so as to retain the benefits of equalization without an increase in toile. "I would not mind two, three or even four thousand dollars' increase," said the chief commissioner, "but $40,000 is no inconsiderable amount. The present tariff will remain in effect until a final order is made, subject to the former understanding as to -a refund to the kippers " CANADA'S TRADE Mr. Henry Chaplin Fears Britain Will Lose It. London, Sept. 27.—Mr. Henry Chap- lin, M. P., speaking at Stourbridge to- day, said that at present Canada re- quired annually to purchase goods to the amount of fifty millions sterling. If Britain had conceded her the slight preference she asked, the whole of that market would have been placed at the disposal of the British workers, because duties would have been imposed upon other countries which would have pre- vented their interfering, That' was the offer made by Canada some years ago, of which; with the greatest folly and unwisdon, the British Governinent had failed to take advantage. Other nations, he feared, were now in competition with MURDER DONE IN TORONTO. DETECTIVES CLAIM TO HAVE FULL DETAILS OF CRIME. Infant Strangled to Death—Marks of Fingers • on Her Neck—Detective Brings Body From Falls. Toronto despatch: That the murder of the Authers baby, for which Mrs. Maud 'fawner is held, was committed in Toronto, is now said by the police to be a ertainty. Inspector Duncan says that they have received undoubted in- formation as to where the murder was committed. The police say they know lehere the child was strangled, and that the deed was clone some time late Tues- day night or early Wednesday morning. They say that they know the house and even the room, but they absolutely re- fuse to give any address, preferring not to show their hand before the trial. • But to -night, when the inquest on the body of the ipfant, which was brought from Niagara Falls last night by De- tective VXrallace; is opened at the morgue Chief Coroner Johnson, who is to con- duct the investigation, will likely bring out some of the facts which the police are so carefully guarding. Besides claiming that they have locat- ed the place where the murder was com- mitted, the police say that they have traced the movements of the Turner wo- man from the time she took the Authers baby from the Burnside Home till the time she le for Niagara Falls. They say that they have evidence that the wo- man intended to go to the Falls Wednes- day last, but that she was prevented in some way, and did not go till Thursday They also say that they have absolute information as to her movements from the time she landed at the other side till the time she got off the train to come back to Toronto. In looking over more of the Turner woman's effects yesterday the police dis- covered that she had advertised in a local paper more than one time. One ad- vertisement, inserted on the 7th of Aug- ust, was: "A refined lady will adopt a baby girl from. two weeks to a month old, with $60." The best of references were required. TILTSBA:�D TELLS HIS STORY. Niagara Falls, N. Y., despatch; Con- siderable was learned to -day from Harry Turner, the husband of the alleged mur- deress. Turner talked freely. "My name is Harry Turner Gmalin," he said. "My wife is the daughter of a Method- ist minister, who died in Toronto some years ago. I met her five years ago, when I was living there with my family. 'a 1 is S ELECTRIC S ELVfNG5 Beginning of a Most Important In- dustry in Canada. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 27.—Dr. Eugene Haanel, Director of Mines, states that arrangements are being made for estab- lishing the first electric smelting plant in. Canada, in connection with the Satlt Ste. Marie iron and steel industries. The Lake Superior Company is arranging for the construction of a number of fur- naces similar to those now in successful operation in Sweden. A second electric smelting enter- prise, involving the investment of al•out seven million dollars. is also contemplated for the treatment of iron ores on the Ottawa River at Mats Falls, where a splendid. lower site has been secured by :a comnanv headed by Mr. Louis Simpson, of Ot- tawa, Dr. Haanel is convinced that these are but the beginning of the de- velopment of an electric smelting indus- try in Canada that wig grow to immense proportions. with a roan name • . - r. to understand that he was dead. After I married her I learned that her first husband was living in California, and be- lieve that lie is still alive and living there. I am not 'aware of the existence of any divorce. I accused her of decep- tion and she stoutly maintained that her husband was dead. I assumed the name of Turner because she did not want her family to know" anything about the disappearance of her first hus- band. Then we came to the United States, where I went by the name of Turner. This was over four years ago. I am known as Gmalin where I am em- ployed, the Oneida Communities Com- 1,anv. Limited. "When she tante here last Thursday she entered my room, where I was asleep, for I am employed nights. I paid no attention to her. She seemed to want to give the people in the house the impression that I was in Toronto with her the previous Saturday. I sup- pose this .was dune to try and drag me into the case. I know absolutely noth- ing about it." • The man denied that he intended to go to Toronto to aid the woman, declar- ing that he had gone his way and she kers for some time past. a it r,. ''LEOPARD ATTACKED CHILD. Broke front' Its Cage at St. Paul— Killed by . Blacksmith. , St. Paul, Sept.° 27.—A crowd of three hundred persons was thrown into a panic to -day 'When a leopard, which was being exhi iced here, broke from its cage, attao <ed Martin Martinson, four g , 1. •arm .. t a boy's right the g • re ] y years old 0 , al- t soclret and clawed off one most from of his care to make <e a udharl es en l tic Club, th I will render a more tom- this country for similar favors' from ed front hi leopard w ... ., *T. 'i+: Pm•,11 R„trerim� Canada. � ,1 � i •;, .:iii, , i p oustrora, a blacksmith, rush-, asses attached to ....bat shop near by and killed the .short opera glasses th one blow of an axe., tory, SEE BY WIRE. 3 V 'D FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS International Commission of Voter-, inarians Appointed. Mexican Engineer Invents Appara- tus to Transmit Vision. Mexico City,Sept. 27. --Alberto San- chez, an electrical engineer, at present an inmate of Belem prison; claims to have invented an apparatus whereby vision as well as voice may be transmit- ted over an ordinary telephone wire: He calls his invention a telerdloptieon, and the prison of,fieials admit that suceeseful testshave been made with models., It is said the cotltrivanoe resemieles Ottawa, Sept. 27.—An International Oommiss-ion composed of seven A.meri- (mra and five Canadians, under the Chairmanship of Dr. J. G. Rutherford, Live Stock Commissoiner and Veterin- ary Director -General for Cascada, has been established to consider ways and means for securing the control and crad. ioation of bovine tuberculosis in Canada and the United States. The commis- sion, which will co-operate with the Governments of each country, is the autooine of the annual meeting of the A.merica:n Veterinary Association in Chi- cago this month. The question of bovine tuberculosis is the chief problem now confronting veterinary sanitation, the annual loss from diseased cattle running up into hundreds of millions in the two coun- tries. Dr.. Rutherford is Chairman, and the other members are: Dr. M. R. Molar, chief pathologist of the Bureau of Ani- mal Industry, Washington; Dr. Fred Ter. ranee, professor in the Manitoba Agri- cultural College, Win!iipeg; Dr. Behave - der, Washington; Dr. Veranus Moore, dean of the' faculty of comparative path- ology, Cornell University; Senator W. C. Edwards, Ottawa; ex -Governor Hoard, Wisoonein; Louis Swift, Chicago; J. W. Flavelle, Toronto; Dr. Charles Hodgetts, Toronto, head of the Ontario Health Department; Dr. M. FI. Reynolds, pprofei- sor of , veterinary science in the Urtiver- sity of Minnesota, and Dr. LcottardPtiar- - son, penvnsylvania, since deceased, whose place is to, be filled,