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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1908-01-30, Page 2A HOUSE OF HORRORS. SICKENING SCENES IN INSTITU- 1ION FOR FEEBLE-MINDED. Long List of Accidents --Committee Hears of 167 Injuries—Girl Scald. ed to Death in a Bath Tub. Lincoln. IiL, Jan, 27.—As a result of the new policy of "turning on the logut, adopted by the state board of charities in its admniatration of rtate institutions there was an uncovering of horrors in thio town. 'The occasion was the first session of the legislative committee inquiring into bhe conditions at the Illinois Home for Feeble Minded. Children. All the horrors, however, were shown to have been due to accidents, some avoidable, others unavoidable. The presence of unprotected tndiatora in rooms occupied by epileptic children caused Horny of the accidents- and ap• poaued to be inexcusable. By the throwing open of the records it was revealed that one death width occurred at the home last summer was the result of plain carelessness. It was an appalling occurrence -nothing leas than the scalding of an inmate, Minnie Sterile' in a bathtub of waster so hot that it in her death within a week. Inquiry at the timo by Dr. II. G. tarot, the ouperintendssrtt, led to the discovery that another innate brut been permitted by an attendant, to bathe the Steritz child For granting this permission she was held guilty of carelessness and poor judgment. She Wits discharged at once, The reports contained the detailed aa counts of 157 accidents at the asylmn daring the administration of Dr, :Hardt, who stiyedat Dr. Taylor, Gov, Yates appointee, Feb, 28, 1907. In reply to a question by Representative Manny as to whether there was any knowledge of the number of accidents sibling the long administration of Sept, Taylor, Dr. Hardt said that "nobody seemed to know," as no reports of any sort were left behind by Dr. Taylor, tratalogue.of Horrors. Following ,is a classification of the more serious accidents among the 400 epileptic fnmatos, most of theca having ocotured ,since lett February: l3urnfnga,; from radiators, eta„ "roast Ings, as they are called ' 27 Falis athat resulted in wounds or serious abrasions . , . , . 34 Seratohea from falls, etc 67 SerioyectaepidenLs from machinery, ne• cess : ting in one case amputation of atm.,,- 5 Ot es from machinery mei- • 11 llfiadt r eoua injuries to limbs, ate„ froth. geldonts fn play- or mischief 22 In the,tsjport from Secretary Graves was Indorporated a letter in which Dr. Hardt: oontraated the state of things as ho found them with the improved condi- tions which, he asserts, he has labored during,tie last eleven months to bring about e.,. Ho toldof•finding "spooning rooms," where -young men from this'tow'n and the sutronnding country were wont to send the evenings in the company of the women attendants and teaclera while at the same time babies were chained and "padlocked" in cribs and in two instances 7 was found that children had been "tettered with dog chains to the floor." The committee had Dr. Hardt before it for two hours. Ile gave frank, straightforward answers to lull their questions, appearing to be anxious to give the investigators all the information in his possession, He was a sworn wit - 11088, Ho said he graduated from Rush Med- ical`College in 1000, after working nights to pay his way through college, that he had been six years In Jacksonville Asy- lum as assistant physician, and that he also had been assistant physician to the Elgin Asylum and at E.nnkakee. Radiators Are Being Covered, "There ware lots of roasting accidents from radiators before your time, What, have you done to get the radiators cov- ered?" he yuan asked. 'Everything possible is being done to rush the work of covering the radiators. The trustees have ordered that all be covered, and no time is lost in going about It. Personally I favor covering every radiator In the five buildings—not only those in the epileptic building, but In ,the others as well." Dr, Hardt was questioned closely by Chairman Hill and Representatives Hope and Manny in regard to his own duties. He said that he "made it a point" to give his personal attention every day to the special needs or shortcomings of one building at least, in addition to his work as general superintendent of the five big buildings in the institution. He explained that he held the three assistants and physicians—Dr. J. Cald- . well, Dr, Harriet Hook and Dr. Carl Rocbow—to strict account for the medi- cal work, and that only incases of ur- gency or extreme gravity was be able to give the time to make a personal dMagno- ele or prognosis of the accidents to any Mahe inmates, This work, he pointed but, was not in the customary line of uty of a superintendent of an asylum, Some Specimen Accidents. Following are specimen reports of Dr. pn<eeretery-G 'y' s' of the State r. Graves in- to the commit - tion nag the I ineeln insti- tution n when you became superintend - mai" uy aIt would lie hard to answer the but I would refer you to a letter oboutntipe chained and padlocked babies. How,ser, it-etrpck me at once that it would roe quire a great deal of uphill effort to+ brim' the institution up to the standard of 'similar inetitutiona in neighboring States. There was a general lack of tone and discipline and a complete lack of interest as to the condition of the unfortunates who are the inmates." "What, if anything, have you done to improve matters?" "I have added to the nurses and at- tendante, got an extra physician, im- proved and enlarged the laundry, in- auigurafed a new system of reports whereby the responsibility for accidents to the inmates could be quickly 01111 easily fixed, end put in new evinced, walla end new fire escapes. 1 11111110 it my 'aim to eliminate neglect and cause all the employees to do their full duty. Children are better clothed, better fed, spend more time out of doors, and have 111)10 and bolter scbooliui " May 3, ID07.—Deur Ste 1 desire to in• form you regarding an sreidest we had here yesterday afternoon. It seems while one of the nurses was at dinner a Miss Bertha Griffin apparently permitted an- other patient to bathe a Minnie Seritz, also a patient, resulting in 0 severe scald- ing of the lower extremities of Minnie Steritz, No report was made of ft until the other nurse returned froth dinner and discovered the accident. The nurse was discharged, 1'1," btu•) is a severe enc. Every attention is being paid to the child,' (Minnie Steritz died May 10.) Arm Lost In Machinery. 'Aug, 23, 1907:-1 desire to inform you that about 3.20 p.m. on Aug. 28 Walter Kaak, s0 inmate, while assisting at work in the laundry, playfully put his right hand in a perfectly empty ,extractor, which was revolving at about 000 revo- lutions per minute. This wide fly was intricnted by a few :alleles of clothing, causing a tremendous twist of the right arm, producing an amputation almost complete of the right arm close to the shoulder. There was no one near hint at the time of the accident, and it was clearly carelessly. He is one of the brightest children in the institution, and we are sorry, indeed, that this accident should occur.. Ile was taken to the St, Clara's Hospital in town and was attend- ed by Dr. Ewing, Dr. hook, of the hos- pital, staff, being p f , in6 present, "Doe. 24, 1007,—Fratk Giroux was badly burned during an epidemic seizure, by falling on the radiator, and lying there. A place the size of a )tan's fist seas burned, including the left side of the neck, and under the chin. This burn in• volved the true skin, and neatly the whole substance of the cartilage of the ear. The\ fingers on both hands were badly blistered." "Dec. 26, 11107.—Kate Foreman fell downstairs during an epileptic spasm, cutting a deep and jagged gash over the left eye. Twelve stitches were taken," Under the Old Regime. Following are extracts from Dr, Hardt's letter in which 1,e Informed Sec. retary Graves of the aftermath of his discoveries relative to the Taylor regime: "When I first went to the asylum I )rade the rounds of the institution, The 'operating room nt the infirmary was used for a conservatory for flowers, and the adjoining medicine room has 0 piano in it, and was called the `spotting room.' "111 passing through tin dormitories I discovered six Utica cribs in use, one of which, at the girls' cottage, there was a small, delicate -looking child locked in the crib. Besides being locked in the erib she, vvas fastened by an inch and a 1,18 wide strap joined by a podlnek. When the temporary night watch was asked to unlock the crib she stated that she did not have the key nor could she find the key, nor did she remember ever seeing a key. I don't know the length of time this delicate little child had spent in this home of torture. I liberated the child by cutting the strap with a pocket knife, and had the hasp of the padlock broken with a hammer. "At this writing there is no crib in use. At the time when the cribs ,were ordered dislposed of the ottendauts in charge complained bitterly, stating that they would be unable to take care of the children without the cribs, but I am pleased to say that the children are healthier and less resistive out of the cribs. Specimens of cribs and padlocks preserved. Chained to the Floor, "0n the third day, while passing through one of the class -rooms, I found two children chained with dog chains to the floor, giving them a limited rad- ius to move aabout. These chains ,are preserved as specimens. In another class -room a mule whip was found. This is also kept as to specimen. "The employees remained out late at night, Borne until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning. A numhor of the males were alcoholics and wore coop diselesrgetel from the cervi,.. Even some of the children secured whiskey and beeane in- toxicated. Two boy's were furnished bail to get them out of the ctiy jail, The children seemed to have no respect for authority." Dr. .Hardt said such awful conditions ns the foregoing hod been abolished dur- ing his year of administration and disci- pline had been introduced. It. was discoveerd by the committee that Katie Bass, an epileptic, fell last Sunday on a radiator and that she sus- tained burns similnr to those of the Gorouse boy, though not so serious. Half of Radiators Uncovered. Giving their impressions of what they say at the institutidn, the members of the committee fond fault with the ad- ministration for failure to cover the radiators, especiallly in the wards of Gm epileptics. It was explained that the reason so many radiators were found uncovered—more than half of them, it is said—was because of repairs to the steam plant. It also was announced by members of the committee that it would be shown before the inquiry ends that at least one—and possibly thio—of the physi- cians in the institution are addicted to the use of drugs, and have become klo ad "eldrie. fiends," tlho ,','peril ttee adjourned subject to tliet6oB''bf Chairman Hill, It "was,an- nounced afterward by Mr. Hill that ems next session of the committee prober will take place next Wednesday rtt0 Springfield. HAS 500 WIVES. WITZROFF, WORLD'S CHAMPION BIGAMIST, HELD IN ENGLAND. Has a Chicago Career—Lovemaking for Revenue Reduced to Science, Accord- ing to Story of His Exploits. ' New York, Jan, 27.—George A, Witz- huff, tato world's champion bigamist, who is credited with having 500 wives, is believed to be under arrest at Bris- tol, England. Reports from the police of that city say that their prisoner Eves the t gives c mom of ArthurHynes, but his description and career fit blloee of 'Kite Koff, 'Lynes or Witzhoff Was arrested on a charge of matrimonial frauds. He is w1(1110d in many cities in the United States, scores of women being edmplrtiu- ants. The prisoner has the same hypnotic eyes, the same German parentage, and the 1141 1110 knowledge of chemistry as Witzhoff, 111s matriuroniai advertise- ments are worded "no triflers need ap- ply." His areret was brought about by a Bristol young woman who answers] one of his advertisements and then loam cal hint 4400, Witzhoff married a number of Claw - go women before he left the Veiled States. Matrimonial Exploits Remarkable. \i itzloff is declared by those; who are 'familiar with his exploits to be the most remarkable bigamist that ever liv- ed, ryed, His knowledge of 1101001 is with- out a flaw, and, compared with his slip- pery methods. the lovemaking of the unlamented Johann Hoch wax a cwnber- sotte and awkward effort. Poch spent the best years of his life in the 1u`cu- mnlotion of fifty wives, while his distin- guished contemporary 500015 to' have been 0ble to increase 1»s list of better halves at the not,, of two or three a week at the rate of two or three a with the (Chicago 'bigourdist, the love- making of Witzhotf was directed toward the sayings accounts of the women he married, and once their money 1000 transferred from their keeping into his own the much married dentist sought greener pastures. Witzhoff canto to America from Switzerland over ten yours ago. For a while he maintained a dental office in Detroit, and met his fust difficulty when the American Dental Association found that he was practicing without a license. His action was pointed out to the executive board of the association, and he was fined $300 and warned not to repeat the offense. After paying his fine and promising to secure a license Witzhoff left Detroit, and it is now supposed be then rOuhed the conehusi011 that the mahying business offered quicker and mos substantial returns Dean was to be derived from the use of 117 drill and forceps First Expose in New York, His first exposure came after his mar. liege to Mrs. Philip Pa'khilli, of New York City. Mrs, Parkhill, a tall, land - some w0711011. met the dentist shortly after she WOO divorces' from her first husband, and at the end of a few- days' courtship they were married, Parkhill had at soh, Herbert, and it Wats while the boy's teeth were being treated, in a dental parlor on West Forty' -sewed etreeot, where Witzhoff canis employed, that ebe first was attracted by the etrilcing appearance nnai apparent re- finement of the bigamist, Sool after he had wenn her acquaint. ante Dr, Witzhoff told 11rs. Parkhill Oast he was a dentist of ability ;end ex- perience, and 111111 he was working in the Forty-sevoud street office only be- cause he had no money to establish a place of hit own. Believing 'nim sincere, Mrs. Parkhill allowed him to make love to her, and within less than two weeks after they had first met the /rah were naried, Witzhoff then, went to Mrs. Pnrlihill's father, who lived in Sayville, L. L, in an effort to borrow 43.000 with which to open an office in Bridgeport, Conn. Fail- ing to get the money, he sent his wife on the same quest, and her visit proved successful. With the money thus secur- ed the bigamist opened an elaborate of- fice in Bridgeport and was juet getting established when the Dental Association got after him again. He then moved to New York city, and it was while he 1505 hunting for a location that a friend of the, former Mrs. Parkhill recognized her husband as the man who had married and deserted Miss Etta Randall, of Bos- ton, Changed His Name Again. It subsequently was learned that Witz- hoff had married Bios Randall in 1903, and that he had lived in Soineville with her under the name of Dr. George A. Muller. For awhile Witzhoff made his New York wife believe that tie Boston and that ho had lived in Somerville with patient and that an injustice had been done him by the woman friend of Mrs. Parkhill. To satisfy herself Witzhoff's second wife went to Boston to investi- gate the story. While she was gone the dentist got ae many of her belongings together as he could and left the city, Since that time Witzhoff, with a new name for each victim, pursued the career of a bigamist. He studied hypnotism and the fashions, and, as Johann Hoch declared, "the art of promising." Tray elling from city to, city, he adopted a varying disguise, and in his capacity as assistant in various dental offices he met many women. Bending over Ms pa- tients in the dental chair the young man whispered words of love in their ears, and seldom did he meet with reverses in his conquest of feminine hearts. Always it was the story about wanting to estab- lish an office of his own in some town where he and his prospective bride could build themselves ,a little home and -live happily ever afterward that made his v"1`ctiime forget the nerve splitting grind of the drill and the elutoh of the cruel forceps ae he worked over their teeth, Managed to Escape Arrest. Witzhoff always escaped arrest in spite of the efforts that .were made to capture him, and within two years after his experience with Mrs. Parkhill thero- mantk dentist turned' up again in New York as one of the managers of the larg- est and most audacious marriage span. eat es that ever 50;15 al tempted. Twenty- seven young men were employed to 000 and wilt girls and women in the various cities of the east, and of these Dr. Witz- hoff and Harry Kaufman, who now is serving 0 five year sentence in Sing Sing penitentiary, were the slur lovers. The mila•riages were arranged through a "schatchen, or marriage broker, and ess soon after the ceremony was perform- ed as possible the ,husband would got possession of the wife's money and jew- elry and then desert her. The plunder wits all returned to the syndicate office in New York and divided equally among the promoters of the scheme, The syn- dicate finally was discovered by detec- tives working oat of the District Attoe nes' s office, and they, with the aid of several Government secret service then, arrested some of the neon and drove the others .out of the city. On a charge of fraudulently using the. mails 1{aufman W115 sent to the penitentiary, and the matrimonial agencies in New York found hard sledding for several months after the exposure. MADE SPECTACULAR LEAP, Frank J. Constantine, Formerly of To- ronto, Dying in Joliet Hospital. Toronto, Jan. 27: -According to a des• patch from Chicago Frank 01. Constan- tine, formerly of 'Toronto, who is now serving a life eertenee in Joliet 1'enitem Gary for the murder of Mrs, Louise H, Gentry, on Suoday last leaped from the seventh gallery in the prison iu'at at- tempt to connuit suicide. Coustnntine's condition is said to be precarious. He made his spectacular attempt to end his life while under extra guard. He brood- ed over the murder of Mrs. Gentry and over the hopeless term of incarceration which confronted him. Before )raking his leap he smiled ami nodded pleusattly to other prisoners standing nearby, Constantine, who was born in Toron- to, was taken to Joliet four months ago, after he had been sentenced to life imprisonment. The murder of;Irs. Gen- try occurred Jan, 8, 1900, at her apart- ments in La Salle avenue. Constantine, formerly a boarder at the svonan's home, fled to Toronto, and thence to Europe, after the tragedy, and was captured in New York 0 year later, when he ven- tured to return to this cannily. LONDON MAN WAS HELD UP, Dazed by Blow, His Arms Pinioned and His Pockets Rifled, A London, Ont., despatch: Mr. cloy Smith, a young man residing at. 21 Marley Thee, was held up last night in a dark section of London South, badly beaten and robbed of all he had, a trifle o'ner SO. His assailants are un- known, the affair occurring such a way that he was not prepared to ,get a good look at the Hien. He was walking along the street'` at 8 , o'clock and noticed that , two men were fcdlowing eleeely`at llis',heels. He turned oui to them to pass, when he, 5105 struck a severe blow in the face, which dazed him for a few min- utes, His arms were pinioned, while his pockets were rifled, MR. TROTTER'S GREETING. , Tells Britain Emigration Will Not Solve Unemployed Question. Landolt, Jan, 27.—Mr. W. It, Trotter addressed a fraternal greeting on be- half of Canada to the Labor Congress at Hull to -day. He emphasized 'the entire absence of demand for skilled artisans in the Dominion, and point- ed out that emigration agencies were carrying on a propaganda unauthor• ized by the Dominion Government, while in every city in Canada there was an unemployed problem. The Salvation Arany, he said, ought to cone into the open as emigration touts. Mr. Trotter believed the solu tion of the unemployed question in Britain was not to be found in emi- gration. •.► FATHER AND SON DROWNED, Their Dory Swamped in Big Sea Off Westport, N. S. A Halifax deapatch: A drowning acci- dent took place off Westport, Brier Island, this afternoon. Frank 1', Titus, aged 50 years, and his son ,Blake, aged 20 years, were rowing in from their lobster traps. Mrs. Uharles Buckman, wife of the Northern Point lighthouse - keeper, saw them pass the point. A big sea was breaking on shore, caused by a heavy ocean swell coming up the Bay of Fundy. A few minutes after the dory passed the point Mrs. Buckman no. tired that it was bottom up, and iru- mediately gave the alarm, In the meantime both bodies had been washed= asho'e, the father's body being badly bruised where it came into con• tact with the rocks. Prank R Titus wee one of the most prominent real. dent residents of Brier Islam, •-► BRYAN FOR PRESIDENT, House of Representatives Told That He Will Be Nominated. Washington, D. C., Jan. 27.—The in- tention of the Democratic party to nom- inate William J. Bryan for President at the convention to 711 held in Denver in July next was declared on the floor of the House of Representatives to -day by Representative Champ Clark, of Mis- soturi, and evoked ,continued applause mingled with cheers.` Some Republicans joined with- the members in the hand -clapping. FIND HEADLESS BODY IN LAKE. POSSIBLE MURDER OF WOMAN IS INVESTIGATED BY THE POLICE. Nude and Unidentified—Mutilated Re- mains Are Drawn From Broken Ice 'Off Jackson Park, Chicago, Jan. 27.—Floating in the lake at the foot of Sixtieth street the body of a woman 5100 found yesterday afternoon. '1110 body was almost head- less, and there was no clothing, The lack of clothing is believed to indicate murder almost to a certainty, Frank Johnson, 317 Sixty-third street, saw the body as he passed on the break- water along the front of Jackson Park. When he was almost opposite the Ger- man building, which has been standing since the world's fair. lie noticed a dark object rising and falling in the waves of ice and water, As soon as Johnson saw that it was a human forth ho summoned James Gavin, a park policeman. They were unable to take the body to land, and notified the Woodlavn police station. Identification seems nlmoot impossi- ble. Aeoordtng ,to Lieut. Monahaat, of the Woodlawn station, the body proba- bly has been in the water for two months. The police were unable to die - coven whether the woman's head had been crushed in the ice or had been chopped off, At the undertaker's it was aaid that the body was that of a woman weighing frail 130 to 140 pounds, It ie estimated that she was about 5 feet 4 inches in height. From the condition of the, hands and fent it is 'believed that ahe was net an old woman. Seemingly, she was between 25 and 36 years old, Detectives Leahy and Walsh, of the Woodlotvn station, were detailed on the mystery by Lieut, Monahan. They made 0 search of the records of the missing women last evening, but were unable to fix the identity of the dead woman by the names of those who have disappear- ed and have not been found. At the place where the body floated to the shore there is a long shelving bench of undressed rock. During the colder months there are few visitors in the parka The buildings are closed, and except for the occasional passing of a park policeman there is rarely a sound to break the stillness, The cold weather of last week filled the southern part of the lake with broken ice. Being hemmed in by the pier that runs into the lake, a. little south of the German building, the ice piled high until it filled the space on tato incline between the water's edge osln the sidewalk paving, When the south winds of the lost two dans car- ried the ice away the lake Was left with the smaller fragments tossing on it. It was in this sea that the dead woman was found. "If this woman's body had been cloth- ed, 'we should have agreed at once that she had committed suicide," said Lieut, Monahan. "It is impossible that her head was crnehed by the foe in the last few days, but it is equally possible that she was killed, her head severed, or al- most severed, from her body before she was thrown into the lake, "Until the coroner's pliysician makes an examination of her lungs, and deter. mines whether she was dead when she was placed in the lake, or died in the water, it will not be possible for the police to make ma0h headway." • -♦ THREW TILES AT POLICE. More Socialist Outrages in Streets of Berlin. Berlin, Jan, 27.—There was a serious oollision late to -day between the polios, of this city and a numiber of unemploy- ed, who earlier in the day had attended . one of the five mase meetings organized and addressed by the Socialiets, The police used their sabres When the crowd hurled missiles at them, andbefore order was restored many menwere wounded. The demonstrnnts,' when they enooun tered the police, vyere,rnarehihg down the Schiffbauerel+anal, near the Lust, paten. The authorities tried to die perse them, The men at once took up a position around several piles of tiles before a new theatre building, and he - gen hurling the tiles at the police. The policemen were at once reinforced by a mounted detachment, which charged the crowd with drawn sabres. The men scattered and fled, but not before many had been injured. Several Socialist members of the Reichstag addressed the mess meetings and called upon the State and the mu- nicipality to provide employment for those without work. They declared that among the unemployed in Berlin there were 24.020 skilled artisans be. longing to trades unions, INFANT WAS MURDERED. Body Found in Culvert on Queen Street West, Toronto. Toronto deepateh: At an inquest held at the City Hall las',. night the jury re- turned a verdict to the effect that a male infant,, found in the culvert at the corner of Ohloiavenare and'Quoen-'etrdet, had";been deliberately, 'murdered, At the inquest last night Chief Uoroher Johnson and'. Dr. Harrington 'gave' the medical evidence. This showed that ; the child had certainly been it live, healthy babe. It was slightly decomposed, but could not have been in the culvert' long. There were marks on the head that clearly Indicated violence. TWIN SISTERS SEEK FREEDOM FROM MARITAL YOKE. Husband of One Testifies for Othe'r— Maude and Mabel, Each Suing for Divorce From Erring Spouses, Ap- pear in Court Same Day. Buffalo, Jan. "27,—Tho nevem Twins 1111(11,' their debut in special term of the Supreme Court before Justice Brown ycs- tovlay--both mutely, broth 0110i0US to be rid of their respective husbands, The first of the twiva to appear was bus. Mande M. Lambert, > tall, pretty and well groomed. She sued John E. Lambert, Inn., for absolute divorce. She told the court that her home is in May- ville, and that her husband lives at 107 'Phomas street, He is an mini/mer, Iler maiden name was Caldwerl. A witness had testified to Lanbert's rv'ron doings nt ( istel Reach in July of last year, four years after the m;u'- riage ceremony. Francis Lambert, bro- ther of the defendant, is biiy, took the stand for his complaining sister-iu-law, ate snore that he had found his brother and a girl named Mabel Fransworth in a house at 4711 Maingan street during the Elks carklival in 1005. After Mfrs, Lam- 1 bent had testified, Judge Brown a0- uouuced his intention of granting an interlocutory' decree; During the pro• ceedngs .Lambert looked steadily at his' pretty wife, who steadfastly refused to return his glaze. "\ars. Graham," railed George N. Pander, attorney for both sisters, and the plaintiff in the action irf Mahal II, Graham against William F. Grnhamtook the. stand. Twin No. 2 is considerably shorter that het' sister, but resembles her strongly*, and is good-looking, She proved her marriage iage on arch 18, 1004, She said she was living with her parents in SontJl Park avenue, near West Seneca, and thr,at her husband was a steel plant worke Then, to the amazement of those in the court room, Lambert, the ex-husband, tool: the stand in behalf of his former sister -indent Ile aware that lie and the plaintiff's husband had gone to the Can- andaigua hotel in June, 1900, and had remained all night. Graham's compan- ion he called Helen, and said sem was tell, with incandescent hair, Then Lawyer Bander asked the court to postpone filial ,jtidglnent,uptil'to=day that he might present an affidavit by Wallace La Forge, of Bird avenue, who is 1100' in Toronto. As the party left the court moth, twin No. 1 smiled softly at her ex-hnsbanl,. who hal helped to free' her sister from an irksome yoke. CANAL OVER THE ALPS. Plans Prepared to Connect Genoa.- With . Lake Constance. Rose ,Ian, 27.—To float'veosels ovar the Alps is the latest engineering 'marvel projected in Europe. Signa' Canieada, an eminent engineer, proposes to connect Lake Constance with Genoa by a ental built on at entirely new plan, which will enable hoots to cross the Alps, Instead of the usual system of locks by which canals are raised to higher levels, the trans•Alpine, canal will be constructed 011 the apparently impossible basis of inclined 'tubes." There will be a double line of tabular canals ten miles long and divided by loekgates into 137 sections. The water will descend through both canals, but will cross to each alternate- ] ly, so that while a boat descends with the sinking water in one section of -'one tube, another vessel will'risc with the rising water 111 a lower section. These iuclinetl female will be constructed of masonry and tete gates will be of iron. The highest point of the waterway will be at Isolate, in the Splugen alfopt 3,000 feet. - GOOD T1MS.' Van Horne Says Business Will Soon' Boom. New 3 oil , ,7art,'?7.—sit 11'111, C. Van Home, Chauumn of the Canadian Paci- fic who:urrived.here from Cuba, yester- day, 101 optimistic on the business outt- look, lie expressed the belief that the wheels of business would soon revolve at their eorinal speed. "This has been a very severe depres- sion," he said, ':and in my ,judgment the rebound will be speedy. One caul sec why steel and copper industries have been paralyzed so that not fifty per cent. of the normal production or manu- facture is the case. The large corpora- tions, could not get money because they could not sell their securities except at ruinous • prices—now stoney is beeoniying easy. The securities market especially in bonds, is better and 50011 corpor'atiens will be able to sell their securities ngaiu, 11'ibien securities are being sold one Will God an immediate response 1n 1)1111s - trial circles, Bush,ess vvia imedatnly- im- prove." IMMIGRANTS' EVANCES, Parliament to Enquire Into Charges Against Shipping Companies. Ottawa, Jan. 27.—Recent allegations by immigrants of poor food and unsure Story condition' on 'shipboard will lead to a Parliamentary, enquiry as to bliair truth, Mr, Ralph •'Smith, 111, P., 4111, at the first meeting of the ComMittee on Agriculture and Colonization, move to munition several witnesses to testi- fy as to the conditions under 'which they were conveyed to this country. Representatives of tete steamship cone panies will also be subpoenaed.