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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-02-26, Page 6ISPBRT ARTHUR TO BE ABANOONEP? Russia May Concentrate at Harbin, ePri'b#eSufferings of Russia's Raw Recruits. Y'X Chinese Troops to be Moved to Guard the Frontier. t4 de t a'tch to the Daily Mail Senna St. Petersburg, says that mili- tary circles recognize that relief ;from the responetbiltty of main- taining the long line of railway in Manchuria will simp i.y Admiral Alex- eta's task. Port Arthur eau be safely left to take care of itself, while with Ia)bw securely fortified„ prepara- tions may, continue for gathering an overwhelmingforce for a southward advance when tie weather is favor- iable. That: the weather is now extreme- ly unfavorable for military move- ments is evident from the many re- ports on the subject. It is sulliciently Riad in the Gulf of Peeh'i1i and the nortiterrn part of the Yellow Sea, ;where gales and snowstorms are .severe and frequent, but further 'north the conditions are declared to 'be. terrible. The newspapers of Ber- 31n learn from Russian sources time large numbers of young soldiers, „many of whom were drawn from the Warmer districts of the empire, are sunsutfecfen•tly clad for the S:beriin weather, and are suffering horribly. 'Hundreds of them are said to have been frozen to death. The tempera- ture throughout Siberia is many de- grees below. zero. When troops are 'moved from point. to point on the railway they have to travel in open cars without the smallest protec- tion. 3t is also asserted that the foaxi •tntores are exhausted in 'many of the far eastern depots. The soldiers are underfed and numbers of them are literallly starving. From these accounts it is apparent that ars immense part of the Russian far eastern army is still en route .and is still far from its des(ination. The frequent stoppages of trains, through enow, breukd.owns, and hes- tile mischief on the part of the wild inhabitants, are causing disorgan- ization and c.ongeetion. • Tien Tsin Cable Yuan Shi Kai, •c,ommun:er-ii ::fist of the Chinese Imperuti army and navy, has offi- cially' Informed the French general, who is clean of the European corn- .mandants, that he purposes movie:;' on Feb. 18 the Imperial 'troops now at Pao hang Fa to Bili Chou, near Sleeping Gar 1 tprc ss as going at tug aground across the inner liar- i antater, teneslow v "dog o t m lboIves t.' of a'b ur olitr it tv fro �n ,. as ra ce, 'as hour, and. massing unconseionabae The ti,etion tvas commeneed by the pauses at the stations. 'Cite ten hiss guns of tlua ln•ncl battery The days' journey to tate Pacific tram morning ,sv,as (lull, nvltlh light wines, time it officialcl ' .d t en ore n On hdiff p i e 3 stowthe urs ati s1 • sok tables has not been realized in fact. difficult 1n 4 ;erre the �lotails of The bridges tvlhioh cross the Don- the actio•n, ivut I witnessed all that tr.al Asian waterways are no flimsy was poss11, 1 t I the Beaconl Hill structures, but well dihlct�latecl for opposite the .entrance to the ber- tha heavy traffic they furl! have to box in lane of fire. 'Civ,' shells fell bear. Over the broad. yellow flood of tor uu asci about twenty others the Volga at Samara is a great iron fell in the olcl out wend wotters bridge called the Alexander, with 13 Harbor, tvtiore many steamers flying epees, between Jits 0 fabutnieeet, luts. a mile neutral flags were anchored, . A Comparison. Fled From Town. Japan has fifty• millions of people After the commencement of the ac- Japan little fertile land. Her fields tion all people lice towards the hill are small and scattered. "Volcanic outside the town and got under its stretches are everywhere and nodi- . Protection. :l little wthile after fire' ing grows on them'. What land is nodi -first shell as big i-inclh otic ex - tilled is highly tilled: She has little P'ioded, smashing the office fronts or no cattle and sheep and few, of Guensbergs Yalu Concessions horses ; no stables or barns ; lit - Tho and Burro-l)lainese Bank. the pasture. She groves ileo and Tho streets were then entirely de - artificially propagates firs' in all serted, but the. local police kept rivers—the two main sources of splendid order. There Was no loat- herthe people's diet. The average fug• The w�rmeu a•nct ctirildren were substance is loin down in the scale. r'el'y brave. ltegimruta from the aci- Japan has land hunger. Corea and joining barracks and camps came Manchuria, unlike Japan, are fertile pouring through the town to take countries that the Japanese soul; to trig as defensive position in the event Of a Japenese landing., + till., The Japanese. w,arslii s steamed The Jar) has no faith, 'but faith P` ourees of slowly passed iu lines of battle to in himself to use the res civilisation, to get past those who m esttyard, and about faun mates off, bar trim from his share of the things each vessel beghtnins; fire rifles op- af this worsts, power included, a posite Russian ships, Thiel' were ravening desire for watich has come two miles off shore. The action with his sudden new birth at the soon 'betaine •general. There was.no opening of the twentieth eeutnry. mtatsoeuvring, simply sheave-, fast The Jap is the extreme of faith or firing on both sides., 1 counted over '00 shells, few. of which reached the no kind. ' mark. Others did not explode dtir- The Thies. .ussi'a is a. country of ing action, ��everal mcrclta.nt ste:am- i horses, ties. Forests, fields, er> outside the roaads moved their horses, herds, alines, fisheries. It position, but none Were 'allowed to is a land of gnat rivers. It is a leave the anchorage in the harbor. country of peasants, who look to F11 ing ceased at noon. The japan - the Czar asv their Little Father. Tte- ere ships withdrawing southward, ligion is everywhere and toleration leaving lost one battloathi,p and one nowhere. The peasant is a, hard larger eruaser put out of action. One drinker, and he is n debt to thr, small boat was chased and sunk by usurer. Bat his young fuss moverarch clic Novik, wheel afterwards re - to fight for holy Russia, All over reived a ellen at the water line, but that great country you see line thin- 0ea,I 1U port all right, Admiral Stark ter line: of lieasant• youths, d signalling "Well done," while all the coarse uniform and rifle in hand. marching for the Czar. It is still the country of the knout, of great cold, of political persecution—yet a land where millions of people live and die in hope of political and social salv-ati.on. The. Russian has faith; faith in his religion or in lis country or in both; if not in either of these, then faith in the,grimness of his destiny. The Russ is the extreme of faith or some kind. TUE PORT A.Lt.THUit 4'IG13T. Daily Mail Correspondent Sends Despatch of Naval Rattle. London cable says: The London Dade Mail received on Monday the following uncensored details of the first sea fight at Port Arthur from it;; correspondent, wlio got out of the dlussia11 lines: 1i.cnhow (Newcliaii ), Wednesday morning, Feb. 10 —I !rave lust reach- ed stere by special train from Port Arthur, and to save time have writ- ten my account while traveling on locomotive. There was no other method of getting out of Port A r - tice head of tlio Lino Tung Ilul! and dull or tram:netting a. inessegr: of on tee than -Iia: Baan SinemehIseen thio, length, as since the bombardment Rai/road, to guard the fro ntier. on Tuesday no vessels havebeen pr- Flgnting, Yuan Shi Kai added, will turned to leave the harbor,e.11ar:and the not be allowed in China, propos, and railway tc•1•"gral h nrtes e resew- , e feeece eel iUerenty crossing the (1(1 for the (seclusive use or l.uost.an frontier will be disarmed. officials. It IS bol:eved that the Pekin troops , T:iere were only four speeial corre- " are also moving ovcrlanil toward the border. present at the bombard- bo'rder. ilARl3IN A RUSSIAN CITY. Splendid Buildings Erected There --No American Residents. Washington cable ays: What the ;Birssi.ascs nave accomplilced tat Iiar- ;bin, the great inlanu -metropolis of Manchuria, is told in. a report' to the State Department by Mr. 11111er. the American consul at New Cliwaii . Mr. Miller says Harkin is destined soon to become the commercial cen- tro of 1llanchuria. The vicinity abounds in minerals, timber and large areas of grazing lands. Of the administration, 'lir. hiller says; "It is as distinctly a Russian 'city as though it tvas Iooated in the 'heart of Russia, and none but Rus- ssianse and Chinese are permitted to town land, construct buildings, or en- lgago in any permanent enterprise. P'Tlxe city has been created by the ' ettusstan Government under the man- •ogeent of the Manchurian Railway (Cou:pany. The land for many miles ;5.n each direction has been secured „against foreigners who are not :recognized as having any rights i;vc'hatever, bat are permitted there merely on sufferance." "(With a populatloa in'1001., or 12, - ?00, Harbin last year had a pope- ' Akin of 60,000. 'There aro Iio Am - leans there.. The city has elegant ninietration buildings, schools, vitals, banks, etc. fothing is found there froin the ..,ed States. and one is not ser - 'y impressed with the statement • under RResetan occupation our etre to Manchuria will increase." 11 --- :ll ACROSS SLBEf1A. E,4est of Troops and Munitions re.Will be Very Slow. melon cable --Tale Transconti- h�tz.:i ever arcroos Siberia, which ets Moscow witih fort Arthur, whi'eh all Bas :tan army sup - list be ':harried during the tante of the war with Japan, miles long. 'ldreds of miles the railway 4reer level stretches of deep, T, absolutely stoneless, and ,urfaoe except in summer rain, of imus, or mud and `fess of the country en - 'rather flint:sy methods of len, .and the rails are light. es 'are wood burners and lb 'jytlaci wits. firewood as m:'nt, Ibeuters' representative, two foreign correspondents and mys('lf. Unfortunate ly one of theist was w"u1111d41 h. . . Six Jap Torpedoes. rout of the fleet cheered her nrri- vial. Even the three ships aground tureen $3,000,000 and $1,000,000. SERVANT'•'VAS FORTUN 1 Irish Maid Gains Millionaire's Hearts Romance in, Life, of Mary Camey, an Immigrant: • Gets One -Third of His Riches Through Compromise. Chicago, Feb. 22.—To come aver from Ireland "for serrice" in the States; to be accepted as a candi- date for a housemaid by a Phitadele phie, employment agency; to go into seism?) with a millionaire's family ; to be discharged, but to enter claim that she was the legal wife of the millionaire., and to have that claim practically established by an ar rangement giving her dower rights of about $1,000,000—tlhis le the re- maxkilble life History of 3ltry Corney, or, as site is known aboat her hand- some residence at 2549 North Eigh- teenth street, "Mrs. John Lucas, widow of the paint king." Just how much Mrs. Lucas will get will not be known until Judge Ferguson, of the Orphan's Court, renders; his decree, blit no one esti- mates that it will be less than a round million, for the estate to wince she lays claim hue greatly increased since the death of her hus- band, and it ie now valued at be - fu•ed during the action. Cesareviich It+pairing. Afterwards the Cesarevitch got oft itt }sigh water and was towed into Targe 'basin, where she now Is being repaired. The Pailaria effected her own re- pairs and rejoined the fleet.'I'lt'+ Ret- vizan was still aground when 'I left. The casualties were 22 killed and 61• wounded. Nearly 1Talf the mutat- ties occurred on the 1'alleela and Novik. The Japanese fleet saeled south- ward at 1 o'clock, ail nniet. The wounded were brought ashore and removed to hospitals. After Monday night's action many Japanese tor- pedoes were found floating outside the harbor. They were secured 'and t.iteir ma,chanism extracted. Iluring the afternoon Aletiieff ordered all women, cla'ldren and non-combatants to leave. '.clic slow special trains were crowded. '!'hey ran as often a.s poesilble from I)atny. 'The women and children wore immediately re- moved In an Engllsh htea.tner. After the notion on Monday night official t' Iegeams from Vladisostock Stated that the cruiser squadron, eonsisting of the (`roinoro1, ltonsia, Rurik and Pngatayr had shelled a town m Yee, and then returned to Vlaalivosto sic. I offerer.] a large price for a laiunch or ing boat to put to sen. from Port Arthur for Chefoo, Chtntvangetao or New-Clhwang, but 1yar8 unsuccessful," �_- About inidltight on Sunday the town was roused by the firing of big guns. ',hastened upr the h,li tin which tile main battery is situated. I saw that six Japanese torpedo boats had approached within, half a mile of the Itu. sian fleet and were showing lights, tunnels and signals just like those of the Russians. Tee Japanese torpedo boats erept quite close to 'the Russian shills. lie - fore they were dislovored each of the Japanese boats discharged torpac!oes, three of which took effect, striking the battleships Cezarovitch, Rety van, and tate cruiser Palladia The three damaged ships returned to the har- bor entrance- in order to avoid oink- ing. Notwithstanding the conttuuous fire from ships and forts, four of the Japanese torpedo boats escaped. One, however, wa.s suns, and anther in s skins condition was deserted by ger crew .and afterwards captured by Russian. I saw several Japanese cruisers in the distance. The remainder of the fleet was still farther off, lying east- ward, allowing search lights. Atter the retirement of the Japanese tor- pedo boats the Russian cruiser squadron, under Admiral Prince Iitompaky, followed to investigate, and then returned. The action ceased at3.a.m. . , Russian Losses. The loss on Russian ships was eight killed oral twenty wounded, apart from the disablement of the three Itaissian. ships. Tete damage done to the fleet and forts is not very great. Though many Russian torpedo boats and cl estroyers were In the harbor they were not ready to resist an at- tack. The Japanese, in taet, created a. great deal of surprise, not only by the unexpected onslaught, but by the promptness and bravery with which they acted. On Tuesday morning news arrived from Danny that the Japanese fleet were steering westward in attack formation. It came in sight about eleven o'clock. They were In at1,15 strips in two lines of battle, six bat- tleships, six first class cruiser and three second-class cruisers. Rus - dans had outside thirteen large vessels under Admiral Stark (Flag- ship Petrohaviossk) and Rear Admits al Prince Iitompaky (Flagship Per - 32 OUT IN THE STREET. Sudden and Wholesale Evictions in New York. N ew York, Feb. 22.—ere a, remit of disiressess proceedings, thirty-two chat this romance of the last days of old Joln) • Lucas was so real or that the claem of the former maid claiming to be his legal wife was ✓ o vaCA, none of thio friends or mem- bers al the family dreamed. Ulu to thee time they have reputed ttt the euggestaon that the raihct mane ac- turer, recognized as a philanthro- pist, regarded as one of the mast glens members of the church which he founded at Cir1ddtsboraugh•, in which 110 had 0 eonspicuous re- servation for Sunday meetings known as "the L'uons pew," anti re- ceived socially as the Bead of apek- mhnent Philadelphia family, c have. called Mary Gainey, his former maid, his wife, or intro(.lu•red her as snob. True, Inc will had made au annual provision for her, but this was in- terpreted as merely a generous legacy from a whimsical old man to a faithful servant rather than the gift to his widow. Made Startling Discovery. The friends of the fancily and the eight sons and four daughters of John Lucas by his first wire were amazed when it was discovered that Judge James C. Gordon, attorney for Mary Lucas, had evidence sho1vr inn that the old millionaire really regarded her as his wife. In the hands of 1'. Burwood Daly, also attorney for Mrs. Lucas, is an indorsement on a letter made by the millionaire with reference to an insurance policy tvhueli he start- ed to take out on behalf of the woman. In this he said; "'This is again an evidence of what I desire to do for you when, taken away to the great unknown, and had a rather awkward way. Her hair wars black and ''straggly." Her man - ser weeweequleG and 0110 rarely talked , but 'then silue did it was with such a rich Irish flavor to her accent that these wave heard her laughed. Now, with. a million In her grasp, • Oho still retains the Irish flavor to, her *dee and adheres to ]ter old can ntry customs, The m' 11lanai re'st first wife had not been dead very long. She was a woman known 00- ei.aily la Philadelphia, was President Of the Women's S lk Culture Seolety. of America, and one of the managers of the Chicago 'Wor'ld's Fair.. t , Tee rn'llronaire had elaborate mem.. orials 1'r.nte3 when his first wife clsi d'• and eeent them about to all friends of the family. Ile was more than three amore and ten years or age., The new maid servant went at her duties In a mysterious, unostenta- tious way. The olcl man was absent fx'otn :horse sa large part of his time,• busy with the affairs of his great paint plant, which he had established in the early '50's, and looking after tits communities w,hicll he establis ed at Gibbsberough and Luoaston, N. J. It was not no deed that he paid espe- cial attention to tale new maid. After Mary Corney had been with the Lucas family about two months Ohe was suddenly dismissed. 1 titI,iters living in Lexington avenue with all I can 410 yon are never between Tweety s,xtti and Twenty- satisfied with rice or with anyone in any capacity. All that my heart— streets eevei b�t�rcena(i'I ex ngd in t,n aIwo nd a true one—thinks of doing fails. I Fourth avenues, moved yesterday must, therefore, regard my ei- tand last ri g.,t, Great hardship's were forts to hold 'our tree affections experienced by those put out of their a palpable failure. homes, and much. indignation is ex- Compromise is Made. pressed regarding the action of the There is also a letter which Lucas James D. Mart;: y Company, contras- is said to have written to Itis for - tors, wt;o are, r,.sl.onsibl, for the cors- mer maid Trout Atlantic City. A dition of affairs. lot of the old man's money was put Sympathizers of the families that in improvements at Atlantic City, have been driven from their ]comes by the Way, and It was here that be said last night that it was inhuman died in August, 1901. His second to compel tum to move in weather wife was with Kinn Such as New Yorlt has had k uringr the last month. At the last moment, when it was realized that the man- date of the contractors had to be obeyed, request w,as made for a short delay. Tiiis refused, even to those who were ill, and, with the weather growing exceedingly cold, the furni- ture was being moved out. In some eases the furniture had to remain for hours In the sweet while vans were being filled to carry it to storage houses. In every case the persons dis- poseessed .are of fair circumstances and werewilling, it is said, to do tst1i t they could in reason to assist the con,treactor. Workmen appeared yesterday af- ternoon and began the destruction of the houses. Information was given to all concerned that the worst would proceeo regardless of protests. Mrs. Mary Ilampton and a daugh- ter lived at No. 13 East Twenty- sixth street. Mrs. Hampton was an aged woman, and the dispossess no- tate caused her great worry. With her daughter x16 made a search for another home, and while out In a storm caught a cold, which dee-el- oped tato pneumonia. She died last Saturday, and her daughter, who also 'has pneumonia as a result of the exposure while horse hunting, is also expected to die, In many of tate houses gas and water were stint off yesterday, and agents of the contractors last night hastened the moving of those who were not already getting ort a by tell. Ing them that the roofs will be torn Yi k 5viet) excite -line C'allsada C'eenrP from all the houses today and tha n ,t tvizan which were ly- better° 111 ht. • . cheating about the neva' maid. eine Servant Wears Diamonds Various reasons are given for this dismissal.. Certain it is that the millionaire had no band in it. for. sbortly after her discharge she lo- cated in tiii ,Eighteenth street resi- deiice, at that time an unpretentious looking plane. It was, not long be- fore Lucas himself came to make it his temporary home. The modest tesla -story building wa.s pulled down and an effective front was put to the structure and another storey added. For her cheap servant maid costume Mary Corney exchanged fashionable gowns. At the shops in the neighborhood where she com- meeced to contract bills under the name of "Mrs. Lucas" it was no - 1 o 1icecl tliot she was wearing diamonds. At first it w,as thought in the neigh- borhood tbat she wt's the mese of Um old man, but to some she w,as in- troduced as Mfrs. Lucas by shim—and tide is a part of the evidence upon which her attorneys have greatly, coasted. Those in the neighborhood were accustomed to see a. splendid pair of horses and a victoria roll up to her door ea,ch afternoon. Some- tiiee Lucas would join Iter and the two would tape long drives about the river ptarkwµay. ' 11011 it was ktuown that she was Mrs. Lucas credit was liberally granted leer at all places where she traded, for in addition to his large fortune. the millionaire was a mem- ber of the Union League club, the Al- bion and Transcontinental. societies and was for years president of the Society of the Sons of ilt. George. N•ulne of his friends or -the familyg would credit the reports as to the visits orf Lucas to the Eighteenth street house. These reports caused special alarm at Gibbsborough. It was here that his main paint plant was located and here that he bad laid out a picturesque spot of forty; acmes, surroanding a largo: lake, about which Ito had built a mansion for each of itL's sans. This communitys; Nrhieli lie hard founded, was greatly; startled] when it was anno'une.sd that Luras had planned a trip tEl Jamaica, and that Mary Co'mCy, would be leis comipaa;nion. Upon hoer return from this trip elm asserted with more vehemence than eves• her legal right to call herself "Mrs. Lucas." During The summers site wars quite conspicuous at Atlantic City', ,�1lie diep'thyaad jewelry valued at thoau- saande 0,1 dollars and paraded re- gularly stn the board walk with the old man. Hotel registers have been produced and were ready to be put in evidence at the orphans' court, showing that the millionaire regis- tered Mary+ Corney as bafts wife. It was title cumulative evidence that caused the other heirs of Lucas to suddealei agree to the compromise. '110 some of her close friends the sec- ond Mrs. Lucas has announced that she Intends to go back on a tisit to Ireland and that she might make that country, her, home again. Judge Cordon (said to-dalyt: "I 'am' not at liberty) to say what amount Mrs. Lucas !mill get. It stands to y reason that she •Will have a large "It is strange," he wrote, "that sum, as the case was 00 suildeni,yl' you should at any 'time doubt the ended. We putt in a claim fOr her full, truth of my affection for you and dower eight of one-third and in - abandon me as you did iu the fourth, slated that it was legally! hers, as. leaving me alone and disconsolate. everyl proof showed that Mr. LucnS I forgive, but shall never ' forget, regarded leer as his Wife. Just when' and confidence once gone Is hard to or where theyi were mai.rried is Not, restore. I ,wrote to ask you to Clear, bet 'what is perfectly' clear. come 'sown again and if I s1rouid en- is that she is entitled to her fell, gage the room at the Waverly for third of 'the Lucas estate." you again at the first of titi,s Mrs. Lucas is noire in Florida await - month. To this you diel not re- lug the formal and final decree Of Fly, Why indulge in insulting one the court. who is ever true, making me feel more and more unhappy :. Ila>atily, with undying love." e revelations of rein, - These w,er tionship which the family of the old millionaire had never before known and thus it is that .before the case could be called for a trial before Judge Ferguson it waa.s sud- denly stopped with tato announce- ment that a compromise had been made, When Mary Corney first came to serve at the aristocratic Arch street residence of John Lucas she could be classed as "green."Sh,e had recently landed in this country, and was et the average serving maid class who go to employment bureaus waren they first get over to America,. Because of tier ungainliness it was not be- lieved that She would be a success as a maid, but the Lucases said they wiouid give her a trial, and ]oho was forthwith installed. She was told her duties eventually would be of the housekeeping variety if she displayed the proper capacity. M Was 4:wkwVnrr' m ei reale tar -. e• - travcsller, M. Silioemalter, ',itch (Flagship Rear -Admiral Mol- the windows will also be taken out There was nothing apparently ta - peen ;the International las), and R g • , , SHIPMENTS TO JAPAN. Flour and Barley Will Go There Protan Vancouver. Vancouver, Feb. 22.—Instruetion0 have Toeeu received by the C. P. B. freight and steamship departments, that unless a blockade of Japanese ports is effected flour, borsefeed and similar cargo is not classed as con- traband f war. threrefore a large consignment of Manitoba flour on the Wharf ,here will go out on the Em- press of China on the 22nd. Five hundred tone of barley, also colsignn- e�cl to Japan, will be shipped. Titis was stopped 'last week, pending In- lstructlons. • ' " CHICK'' iS DYING. Windsor, Orit,, Feb. 22.—The author sties at 1%ingstolt Penitentiary have notified the Windsor police that "(hick"' Langlois, who Was sentenced to a 'term of imprisonment, with lashes, for crim- inal assault on a little girl, 1s dying in the pried!.