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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1907-04-12, Page 6r• reetIM • ND S O[ MEN'S _IMMM IN ,ANGER Big Fire in a Boiler Room of Excavation for McAdoo Tunnel Terminal in New Yorke New York, April S. ---Fire caused by a spark from one of the boiler rooms in the excavation for the IfoAdoo tunnel terminal at Dey, Melton and Church streets, to -day did damage estiunattel at about $50,000, and a delay of 30 days in the completion of the work an the huge terminal buildings will result. Five men were injured during the fire by be- ing caught in one of the deep caissons, two of them so severely that it was ne- oessary to take them to a hospital. The Bre started on a high wooden structure midway between Dey and Garland streets, used to support a hoisting en- gine. By the time the fire apparatus ,arrived the shower of sparks and embers from the burning boiler 'house had, set fire to a dozen, other boiler houses and eimilar structures in the excavation. These, together with several big derricks were ,leanly- burned, •aatd the temporary wooden flooring over the surface of Dey street covering the excavation was ruined. There were many thrilling rescucs and several instances of personal bravery tiering the progress of the fire. Deep drown under the •grotmd in the 100 and more caissons, which are being sunk for the fmuidations of the terminal build- ings to rest upon, were. between 500 and 000 mon at work. When it was- sena that there was danger of the -fire spreading to all of the engine 'houses south of Day *tree', shutting off the supply of air, the pressure of which enarbled.these inen to week under ground, and the with- drawal of which would zneen serious dan- ger, if not death to many of then, the danger signal' was given and the buckets lowered into the • caisson to bring the tunuel workers•to the surface. Around some of the derrick% used to lower and hoist the buckets the flames raged fiercely, and in two instances the men in charge .of the donkey hoisting en- gines lost their nerve and deserted their poets, leaving the men. eighty feet be- neath the snrfae of the ground to their fate, The deserted hoists were quickly re -manned by volunteers, however, and the uew men struck le- their posts, with. the flames roaring around them until the Last, one of the gunnel workers was brought up safely. CAN'T ALL GO PITTSBURG SOCIETY IN A STEW OVER INVITATIONS TO BANQUET. There's Room for Only Fifty, and at Least rs,000 Will Raise 'Merry Ned if They're Not Bidden to the Exclusive Feast. Pittsubrg, April S.—Pittsburg society is in a fearful stew. There will be but fifty local guests at the big banquet which will be given here to Mr. and Mrs. .Andrew Carnegie .after the dedication of the new $15,000,000 Carnegie Institute 3iere next week, said the burning ques- tion of the hour now is whose names will be on the list. It has been announced that there will be about 290 persons at the banquet and . this will, of course, include the visiting ,guests team places outside of Pittsburg as well as from foreign parts. The trustees of the institute, too, will be there with, their wives, and when all there bass been taken care of there will yet remain planes for about fifty. Chairman William N. Phew, of the Beard of Trustees of the Caizieb e I[ statute, finds himself confronted with a psuposibion that would make a. brave anti quail. He can and will make fifty #rieuda, but it .is likely that in so doing he will make at the lowest count 14,500 weenies, for unless figures lie, he has al- ready that many anxious ones waiting for tate word of invitation to the ban- quet. There are lot of theet-rich-quick billionaires here who would give their right handsas well as eome of their r bun/eery stock to be on the list, for it is . well knn yu that immediately after that ` bangle t hoes of the local set who were ireriesei will Donn an exclusive little band ' of . •,heir own, one which will make the •'I .,ur it andred" of New York look like a tennis club. It ie understood here that ono who will snot be tst the banquet is II. C. Frick. Mr. Frick will not be in Pittsburg on that date. He and Mr. Carnegie have nom been the best of friends for years poet, and there is little or no chance of Biose running this banquet inviting Mr. Frick to break bread with Mr. Car- negie, arnegie, nor would there be any chance of l Mr. Frick accepting if invited. It is understood the invitations will be issued quietly within the nest forty- eight hours. GREAT NORTHERN. G. T. R. CHANGES. TWO OFFICIALS ILESIG.N' TO FOL- LOW MR. M'GUIGAN TO G. N. R. Division Engineer McLeod and Assistant Superintendent Ennis Amongst First to Go—Other Names Mentioned— No Appointment Now to Fourth Vice -Presidency. I'eronte, April 9. - The acceptance of the First Vice Presidency and General Managership of the treat Northern Rain way by Mr. F. 1). 14cGuiguai evidently means that there will be several other changes among the officials of the Grand Trunk. Already Mr. 0. R. McLeod, divi- sion engineer at Townie, has resigned - end gone west, it is believed, to become- conneeted with the Great Northern Rail- way. Ile will be succeeded bee -Mr. E. L. Cousins, who has for -some time been connected with the engineering de+ partment of the .0. T. R. •Mr. S. En- n]s, Assistant Superintendent at Ot- tawa, has ale;o resigned, and will :also go to the Great Northern, but: the name of the person:; whp xlill' follow' ,,hinaheht'eroteyelenreefflaail6illteetle Other names are montzorred, i i connection With the shake-up, but there is not;hi Lg de- finite yet. It is generally believed that no appointment will be made to the Fourth Vice -Presidency of the G. T. R. until Mr. 0. M. Hays returns from Eng-, land. consieetion with the changes which may take place it is a subject of con- versation in railway circles that Mr. Wm. Cotter, now General Manager of the Pere Marquette, and formerly Super- intendent at Montreal and Detroit on the 0. T. R•,, and Mr. C. S. Cunning- ham, Superintendent of the southern di- vision at St. Thomas, will also -go to the Great Northern. They are both men possessing the confidence of Mr. McGuigan. They left with him on Sunday, accompanied also by Mr. W. G. Brownlee. Superintendent of the middle division for Chicago. Mr. McLeod and •lir. Ennis were only recently appointed to the posi- tions they have left on the Grand Trunk. J. J. L RESIGNS, RETIRES FROM PRESIDENCY OF MRS. EDDY'S CASE® BILL IN EQUITY CAME UP TO -DAY, BUT NOTHING DONE. Concord, N. H., April 8. --The bill in Equity filed last a ebruary, by George Washington Glover, of Lead, li. C., and others, in behalf of Glover's mother, Mrs. Mary Baker C. Eddy, against a number of Christian. Science officials to compel an aaccountieg of her property and to bring about the appointment of a re- ceiver, was returnable is the Merrimac County Superior Court here to -day. There was much .interest in to -day's pro- ceedings, but, aecording to the attorneys connected with the case a hearing by the court at this time was not antienpat- ' ed. Under the laws the defendants are called upon to file a document in reply to the bill in equity or else ask for an extension of time. e'orni.er Senator Wil- liam E. Chandler, chief counsel for the plaintiffs, is in Washington, and will not come hero until a hearing in court is held. • PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE BREATH. mportant Help to the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis. Berlin, A,T,rir 8.—Photography of the breath 1's eine latest. so enoo. Thio was explained at else annual meeting of the Roentgen Ray Conference, at which cinematographic pic- tures of the breathing of sick and healthy perSOOA were thrown upon a screen. The Sn''entor of the method is Dr, Koehler, of 'Wiesbaden. }lis system shows accurately io sympathetic action of the lungs and heert connection with inspiration and expiration. 40expectedthat the discovery will play an important role In the diagnosis of tuberrn- kicks and similar respiratory diseases. Elected to New Position of Chairman of Board of Directors• --Louis W. Hill Becomes President and F. TI. Mc- Guigan First Vice -President of Road.' St. Paul, Minn., April 8.--J. J. Hlil has resigned as President of the Great Northern, and will be Chairman of the Board of Directors. At a meeting of the Board of Direc- tors of the Great Northern Railway held here this afternoon the organization of the company was enlarged by the elec- tion of a Chairman of the Board of Di- rectors. J. J. Hill was elected Chain - man; L. W. Hill, his so; was sleeted. President, and Frank H. McGuigan, First Vice.-Pre.ident. 112r. McGuigan will have direct charge of the operating de- partment, the officials of the board re- maining as at present. The company's business has doubled. in the past five or six years. which renders necessary the increase of the operating staff. Janes J. Hilt is by birth a Canadian, having been born near Guelph in 1838. He was educated. at Rockwood Academy and spent his youth on his father's faint. Catching the western fever at 'tat early age, he left Ontario on the death of his father, and for some years clerked in various inercaantile houses in St. Paul, Mine In 1865 he hecame agent of the Northwestern Packet Company, and two years later entered the ':general transportation and fuel business, acting at the same time as agent and consignee of the St. Paul & Pacific Railway Come pang. Tu 1fd70 Mr. Hill establis•Tied the Red !liver Transportation Company. Which for the first time en— .•' np'c0•nrinrxni- cation between St. Paul and the prairie village *hid. has sines beconee Winni- peg. His work • in this "connection brought hien into eontaet with Sir Don- with Smith, and the two men, together with the resent , Lord Mountstephen, not long after formed a syndicate which took over the. St, Paul Railway. Mr. 1.1ill was made managing director. Out of this syndicate sprang .the or- gar]zation which afterwards built the Careedian Pruc$.fic; with whieh in . riche early 'days .h Ir. Hill was closely identi- fie<1,..' In 18tH, however, he sold ant his interest in the C. P. R. and devoted bins - self to the roads which he has since de- veloped into the, Great Northern. Start- ing, with a bankrupt line, he has. built tip ti continental system, and has. done .so almost entirely without the aid of land grants or subsidies. ' IIs has attempted to supplement his roads with lines of'steamer.s on the lakes. and on the Pa eidic Ocean, but in. this he bas not stet with sueh complete success. Mr. Hill's resignation has •not been un- expected: He hats now alnnost reached the seven- tieth milestone, and has for some time been placing his house in order for his retirement. Several tines rumors of his withdrawai from active life have been set in circulation, but until the present have always stet with an empha.tie de- nial BLOODY CHRISTENING. + -- .After Naming the Baby, Dunkirk For- . eigners Have Merry Fight. Dunkirk, April 8. ---Peter llyssz lies at the .Brooks Memorial lloepital in a mit- Mal condition as the result of a fight in a house on Saitn Hedhvigs avenue at 12 o'clock ou Sunday. Ile' has four stab wounds on the head, one on the neck and one between the shoulders which penetrated a. lung. The wounds were inflicted with a table fork mid a rusty dirt -covered jaek•lcnife blade. ,,All Sunday and throughout the night, a number of men hail been celebrating the christening of a baby. They drank a large quantity of beer and whisky and finally a fight started. When the police and ambulance reached the piece, the injured man was Lound lying in a pool of blood. on the floor and grouped about him were half a dozen men and women. The man was removed to the bospita! and four neon found in the house were taken to pollee station and locked • up. One of the prisoners is badly battered about the dread and face. This afternoon the prisoners were tak- en to the hospital and brought before Pysz. The injured man positively iden- tified one of them. Peter Ziorna, as be- ing implicated in the assault upon .him,' but said the others took no active part in it. Upon information given by him Katherine Zenk has also been arrested and the police are looking for a third suspect, a man. SPLIT ON A. NAME, • Baptists 'and Disciples Still Far From Union. Toronto, April 3.—The second meeting of the eonuniitteee of Disciples and Bap- tists to consider tbe question of union was held in the Baptist Mission rooms, on Tuesday . •Dr. J . y J M. Van Horne. pas- tor of Cecil Street Disciple Church, .oc- cupied tbe chair, and Rev. W. E. Morton a,eted as eecr btary. The committee discussed doctrinal positions and the question of s. more. As was stated in the report of the last meeting, the two bodies were fouanl to be very close to each other in most respects; and yet the points of divergence were felt to be of a. some- what serious character. On the question• of a name for the united churches no apparent progress was made, as neither. body seemed. to tin willing to make the necessary. con- cessions. It was decided to adjourn until. af- ter the Disciples' convention in. June, when it is hoped that some new Be Might come to the 'committee which would open the way to the union which has been so long hoped. for. On the whole the meeting could not he said to nave accomplished any real advance toward the union of the two churches. . THE BLACK HAND BLAMED, Thought to Have Caused the Death of Brooklyn Young Woman.;• • : New York, April 8. ---The body of. An - pita Pellerito, a young Italian woman, was found in her tenement in Beach •place, Brooklyn, to -day with a 'bullet wound in ber temple and her throat cut. The police were unable to detefmnie whether she committed suicide or was nierderedee Her husband was missing. It is suspected that the wonuni was mur- tiered by..8 Black hand gang, who mis- took her for young woman who form- erly oecupicd the tenement, and whose father was murdered. This young woman hat threatened• to revenge her father's death. POPULATIONOF MONTREAL. Civic Statement Gives It as 35o,000 Statistics of City. Montreal, Aril 8.—According to ze statement issued at the City Ifall to - dap' the population of Montreal is 350,- 000. The taxable property is valued at $200,000,344, and the exempted property at $54,048,795. The city's debt is $31,- 669,060, 31;669,000, and its area, 7,714 acres; it has 220 ntilea of ,streets, 35 miles of paved streets and 214 miles of brick sewers; 35 public parks, with a total area of 615 acres. The value of Protestant Public School property in the city is returned at 0,325071, and the value: of Catholic Public School preperty at $1,100,958. The pupils attending the former schools Manlier •. x(1,991, - and the numbers et- ttleud ng the, Catholic sehoele iare 21,515, MEEMST YS TIIAW IS € L WAZYS Declares That Thaw's Sutwestions to Delmas Em- anated From a Diseased Mind. •New York, April 8. -When the Thaw Lunacy Commission went into session to -day District Attorney Jerome immedi- etely called to the witness stand Dr• Allan Ross Diefenderf, superintendent of the State Hospital for Insane at Middle- town, Conn., and Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases at 1'a1e University. Dr. Diefenderf testified for the State at the Thaw trial, declaring the defend- ant . knew the nature and quality of his act when he hsot and killed Stanford White, and knew the act was wrong. To the eommission to -day the alienist de- clared that from what he had seen of Thaw and the writings he hal examined he was of the opinion that Thaw is isot now capable of rightly understanding his own position, of appreciating the nature of the charge against him or of ration- ally advising his counsel. Dr. Diefenderf said the twenty-four pages of suggestions made by Thaw to Mr. Delmas for his summing up address emanated from a diseased brain. The connnission asked the witness to point out what he considered insane evidences among the memoranda. Dr. Diefenderf pointed out the passage. which District Attorney Jerome started to read aloud. Clifford W. bIartridge, Thaw's counsel, protested vainly. GETP R PAY. CHARGE MADE AT THE ONTARIO EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. Salaries of Teachers—Discussion—(leer the Forn:.ation of a Union—Move- ment to Raise the Status of the School Teachers of the Province. Toronto despatch: The Ontario Edu- cational Association'began its forty-sixth annual session in the University of Toron- to yesterday with a larger attendance than in previous years, fully four hun- dred registering during the day, and more being expected to arrive to -day. The public school department, of which Mr. C. E. lielley, of Hamilton, is Chair- man, and Mr.' C. G. Fraser, Toronto, Secretary, discussed a draft constitu- tion, and the high school Principals' sec- tion of the college and high school de- partment also considered it. Mr. S. Martin advocated the forma- tion of a general teachers' organization, an the ground that it would make the opinions of the teachers of more force with. the educational authorities, and such a union might strengthen the hands of progressive public men in their efforts to advance the interests of edu- cation. His suggestions were endorsed in a resolution of the high school Prin- cipals. In his. Presidential address before the General Association last night Mr. Wm. Scott, 33. A, Principal of the . Toronto Normal School, pleaded the cause of the teachers as deserving of better salaries, being -now in many eases paid less than leaven • au.. . Mr, AH U. Colgnboun, .B. A., LLD.,' Deputy Minister of Education, spoke on educational administration. The question of bilingual schools was brought before the association by Dr. tlnesneI of Hawkesbury, representing Prescott County Council. The present lamentable condition of rural schools was attributed by Mr. Thus, E. Elliott, of Hagersville, in the high school principals' section of the college and high school department, to the change in public schools occasioned by the limiting of their work to the standard of, the entrance :examination, whereby teachers of less knowledge and experience began to squeeze out the ma- turer ander ore experienced. married men. The Literary Society in high schools and collegiate institutes was said by Principal T. M. Henry to be one of the most effective inetrnwents in the direc- tion of getting boys and girls to take a broad and unselfish view of life, not seeking first their own pieneure and pro- fit, but rather to make themselves truly 1relprfnl to others. Tire paper was given in the high school principals, section. Various methods of teaching modern languns es were discussed by Mr, E. S. Hogarth, in bis Presidential addresa be- fore the modern language section of the college and high school department. The President, Mr. J. P. Hoag, spoke on the relation of public libraries to pub- lic and. secondary schools. indicating how they could be mutually helpful. Much had been done in the 'United States, and 13rarrtford, St. Thomas and Sarnia, and made a good beginning. lout as a rule the public libraries in Ontario, he said, were much behind the times. The introduction of a new material into the latter years of the boy's course in manual training wss advocated by Mr, A. J. Painter, of the Consolidated School, Guelph, in the manual arts sec- tion. The importance of Correlating manual arts with the school subjects was urged by Mr. Sugden Piekles, 'President of the manual arts section. "Reading" was the subject of Presi- dent F. C. Colbeck's address in the clas- sical section of the college and high school departments. The opening address in the training department by the Chairman, Mr. J. Dearness, M. A., vice-priteipal of Lon- don Normal School, pleaded for a view of education that would embrace cor- related doing with thinking. The chances were, he said, ten to one that the child who wins the medal for being the youngest in the Province to pass the examination is to be pitied rather than congratulataed. The high school Principals adopted a resolution favoring the material raising of the standard of junior matriculation, recommending that forty per cent. be ex- acted on each subject, and thirty-three per cent. on mob paper set on the sub- ject. The election of officers resulted in the choice of Mr, A. Steel, as President, and Mr. 1'. 0. Colbeck as Secretary. The Classical Association, n section of the College and High School Depart - anent; elected the following officers: i Hon. Pre ..th .lent, President Maurice Hat- ton, LL.D.; President, H. J. Crawford, ]3.A.; Vice -President, 0. A. Mayberry, B.A., LL.B.; Secretary -Treasurer, 1.). A. Giessey, B. A.; Council, P..1. Rob- ineon, B. A.., Prof. A. Carruthers, M.A., H. R. H. Kenner, B.A., Principal H. W. Auden, ALA. Speaking of the kindergarten from ea inspector's standpoint, Mr. C. B. Ed- wards, inspector of public schools in Lon- don, said that the kindergarten is s, potent influence in developing the otdl<al along lines both natural and benefiiciale. A fine address on "Applied Design" was given in the manual arts section by Miss Aula Powell, director of art for London. Concrete illustration was af- forded in a number of common useful. ar- ticled made by London public school 'pupils, which were rendered beautiful by simple but suitable design. The exhibition of pupils' work in man- ual training wars arranged in the west corridor by a. local committee of the manual arts section, under the direction of Mr. W. L. Richardson, Superintend- ent uperintendent of Manual Training, Toronto. All grades of pupils contributed, from junior first of the public schools to senior classes in high and normal schools, and the following cities and towns were rep- resented: Toronto, Ottawa, Lond.on, Woodstock, Hamilton, Berlin, Stratford, Guelph, Ingersoll, Essex, Alvinston, Cornwall. The exhibits comprise wood- work, metal work, basketry and other forms. GRAND TRUNK REPORT. Half -Yearly Statement Shawn Large Increases. London, April 8. --The half -yearly re- port of the tlramf Trunk Railroad shows, that the gross •receipts. amounting to £3,584,847. were £295,854 larger than for the •laat corresponding ,half-year, with the expenditure of £2,561,496 was £215,760 heavier. The ratio of the latter to the former, excLuding • taxes, was 69.45 per cent, as against' 69.75 per cent. Including taxes, it was 71.45 Ter cent. as against 71.32 per cont. The net traffic receipts, £1.023,305, were £80.073 mere; the net revenue receipts £1,156,125, showing an increase 04" £112,526. Of the augmented expendi- ture, the heaviest item was £217,426 more for maintenance of equipment, next to which traarsportatdona took £86,- 584 more, while taxes were £20,370 heavier. Against these there was a de- crease of n111.386 in the cost of main- tenance of way and structures. The earnings per train mile were 86.52d, an improvement of 4.92d. FLOGGED NATIVES. Vengeance of East African Whiten for: - Insults to Women Avenged. Mombasa, East Africa, April 8.—Tho recent flogging of natives by Euro- peans at Nairobi for insulting white • women has been followed by the prose- cution of those accused of the flogging and those who abetted them. As s result Capt. Grogan, president of the Colonists' Association, has been sen- tenced to a month's imprisonment and to pay a fine of 500 rupees. Two other remanent oolom'+:ste' Messrs. Bowker and Gray, have each., been sentenced to two weeks' impris- onment and fined 250 rupees, Two of their abettors, who are also prominent, were sentenced to a fortnight's im- prisonnment. The whites are very indignant over the sentences. Captain Grogan 'Is a well known explorer and writer. Pte, walked from Cape Town to Cairo, . 6,500 rniles,in 189899. GOING NORTH. COMMANDER PEARY TO SAIL Il'I"e MONTH OF JULY. New York, April S.—Commander Rob- ert E. Peary, it was stated lest night, now has the 5200,000 necessary for his coming expedition to the far north, and expects to set out about the last of June. Definite arrangements are under 'way. The Rooseevlt, the boat wbioh IVO ,•• designed espeelally for Arctic explore - tion, is at the ship yards en Shooters -. Island, receiving the necessary repairs. In it Commander Peary and his party will steam as far north as possible due- i.ng the conning summer and then will go into winter quarters and conserve their energy for the final dash the fol - owing summer, The Commander says ire" - firmly believes he will attain his goal .. this time, if the summer of 1908 is a nor: mal Arctic summer.