St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 3, 1900

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' 1 Fill Your Wants Through .-b). Manis. _— ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH You'll Find It Jo-Day m P.-D. Wants. FORTY-TWO PAGES. 7 ~ VOL. 52, NO. 286 SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS—JUNE 3, 1900 anil ee eee ae oe PRICE FIVE CENTS Lt ey 8 SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH JUNE 3. Including the Sunday Post-Dispatch Song, “MY HOME OF LONG AGO,” and a Fourteen-Page Magazine, Illustrated With Half-Tone and Line Cuts. — ee Be Sure Your Newsdealer Gives You All. | ; ; Joint Resolution Introduced in the House of Represen- tatives by Fitzgerald of Massachusetts Inviting Oom Paul’s People to the Friendly Shores of the United States. ia “HANDS ACROSS THE SEA” FROM GOVERNORS OF THE WEST. _ -- INDEX OF NEWS AND FEATURES ————— PART I. Pages l—America Offers Homes to Boers. Crisis Reached in World's Fair Bill. Union Reqyests More Definite Informa- tion. $—Death fFtops Bell Divorce. All About the Posse. Mdison's Patents Out Needed Legislation. 4—Gen. Roberts Must Ficht for Pretoria. 6&—Kansas City Hotel tates. 6—Wedding Bellis the Echo of Pistol Shots. Peck Paid Out to All Comers. 7—Engtand Doesn't Want China. &Shaw's Garden Open To-day. Brady's Will Contest. First Mormon Bible. PART II. Pages. 9—News of the World by Cable From Post- Dispatch Special Correspondents. 10—-The Week in Society il—Killed Family to Get Summer Theatricals. Notes From Musical 12— Editorial. Chappelle to Be a Cardinal. Waehington’s “Oo. kK.” 13—Punished for Bad Records. 14, 15, 16—In the Warld of Sport, PART III. Rest. Circles. Pages. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22—Post-Dispatch Wants. 3—To Wean Americans From Christianity. Russia Ready for the Onset. Wood That Will Not Burn. 244—Keal Estate News Kiocutionists Coming to 8t. Louls. Markets and Financial Notes. PART IV. Four Pages at liumor. Illustrated Sunday PART \. Page. }-—St. Loulsans Give Millions to Washing- ington University. Munificent Gifts -by Samuel Cupples, Robert S. Brook- ings and Uthers. . Detailed Description of the Latest and Greatest. Handsomely Iliustrated. Continuation of the Washinton versity Endowment Story, With’ Pic- ore of the Cupples Station Property. Distinguished Little John Nicholas York, the Richest Miss Norma Leslie Muro Athletics for Women. St. Louis’ Ice Supply and Range of Prices During Ten,.Summers. 8—One Hundred and Fourteen Beautiful Half-Tone Pictures of the 8t. Louis teh Rx ged pieaduaies of June, 1900. rie 6 Bta raduates of West Point | for This Year. he Sunday Post-Dispatch Forum: “Is | the Higher Education of the Negro a'! Failure?’ by Rev. Hollis B. Frissell, | Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Miss Zitella | Cocké, William H. Johnson: ‘Marry. | ing’ a Rich Woman,” by Edith Ses- sions Tupper; “Is There Such a Dis- ease as Hydrophobia?”’ by Prof. Charles P. Lyman of Harvard; ‘‘Hor- rors Among Chinese,” by Dr. Kate Corey Ford. Four Persons Who Have Recently Done Remarkable Things. Ancestry. lLuustrated, Brown of New | Writes of List of endowments | Uni- | Loujs Baby Has Kight Names and a Baby in the World. | IAM ERICA OFFERS AT SUGGESTION OF POST-DISPATCH HOME FOR BOERS al \& el \ Missouri, Arkansas, the States Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Colorado and Georgia Among Ready to Welcome Burghers Illinois, South Dakota, With Thanksgiving and Give Every Man of Them a Home. to robbing Cuba. of the a correspondent 1900, said: to me; and, a refuge for the oppressed of all “Whereas, found an asylum here; and, “Whereas, There are millions of | better Holland, those brave, the occupied than by from whence came in Congress assembled. “That a cordial welcome African republics, now under the pitable shores of the United States, homes, where, pursuit of happiness.’ “Section 2. cate these resolutions to the Presidents ange Free State.” POST-DISPATCH WELCOME TO BOERS. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Representative John F. Fitzgerald of Messachusetts to-day introduced in the House the following joint resolution: ‘Whereas, State Secretary Reitz of the Transvaal Republic, in an interview with New York World at Pretoria, South Africa, on May “Tf the English take these republics and ratse the union jack over them I will take my family to America and scores of other Boers have said the “Whereas, It is the chief glory of our great republic that it has always offered nations and tongues; There is no European race or ters, hunted, trampled down and proscribed in the lands of their birth, have not acres of public domain States open to public settlement under the homestead act, which could not be liberty-loving Pilgrims of glorious memory; “Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representativer of the United States is extended to dominion of Great Britain, to come to the hos- become under the constitution, they are guaranteed ‘Life, liberty and the That the President of the United States be directed to communi- >—_o—o_ o_o 9 a same thing and, nationality whose sons and daugh- of the United descendants of old therefore be it Boers, the inhabitants of the two South CRISIS REACH Fate of the Bill Will Be De- termined on Monday. STATUS OF THE MEASURE. ST. LOUISANS NOW HOPEFUL OF SUCCESS. Still the Opposing Influences Are Powerful and Speaker Hender- son Is Exerting Himself to Defeat the Bill. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, June 2.—The question whether the. centennial of the Loulsiana Purchase is to be celebrated by a grand Worild’s Fair in St. Louis in '%3 will be decided by the House of Representatives on Monday. Shortly after the house meets at noon Chairman Cannon of the committee on apf- propriations will report that the confer- ence committee has been unable to agree to the senate amendment to the sundry | ask (to the conferees for the purpose of reach- |ing an |'agree to citizens thereof and establish of the Transvaal Republic and the Or- : | 3 : : : | . eo e@ . -~ a , a a 4 - From a Post-Dispatch Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, June 2.—‘Life, lib- erty and the pursuit of happiness” will be guaranteed the Boers of South Afri- | ch if Congress Will adopt a resolution offered to-day by Representative Fitzger- ald of Massachusetts. Taking for his text the suggestion mage 6&—Sixth Missouri! Regiment Still in Serv- lee. It Furnished Many Officers and | Privates to the Regular Army. Haif- Tone Pictures of 17 of Its Officers. Fake Petrified Men Which Have Astonished the Scientific World. J. Ww. Murch’s Gigantic Scrap Book of Newspaper Clippings of the Spanish- Ameri¢an War. Pictures. Boer Envoys to the United States Who Will Visit St. Louis During This originally in the St. Louis Post-Dis- patch and subsequently taken up by the New York World that the Boers be in- vited to come to the United States and settle, Mr. Fitzgerald presented a joint resolution inviting them to make their fu- ture homes in this country. This resolu- tion was immediately referred by Speaker Month "On the Old Ute Trail,” by Cy War- man, the Sunday Post-Dispatch Story Complete in This Issue, With Hand- some Illustration. Story of the Battle of Narva, in Which a Roy of 18 Defeated Peter the Great and Anmnihilated the Russian Army. Arrangements Nationa! Republican Philadelphia. 7—A Woman's Love Frederick T. Bank and Fled to Wife Joined Him and Suffered Con- | finement in Jalil to be Near Him. Strikingly Illustrated “Yergzmen,’’ a New Class of Criminal Hoboes Unearthed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency Bgl 8&—The Paris Exposition for Those Who! Cannot Ge. A Beautiful, Three-Quar- ter Page Picture of “The Street of Nations.’ as Printed tn the Post-Dis- patch Series of Views Published in | Parts, the Pacific Ocean | Islands Charted for Many Years Found Not to Have Convention Saves an BEmbezzler. (hill, Where His in Existed. Lonely Mid-Pacific Cable Station on One’ of the Far-Off Midway Islands. ! S—Roarding House for Dogs and Cats. Con- | ducted by the Golden Chain Children's Hnomane Society near Normandy. Ii- lustrated. Ministers of the Gospel Who Are Doing Creditable Work in Mechanics in American Citles lllustrated. The Advantages of Public Baths to a’ Large City, by Goodwin Brown, Au- thor cf New York Law for Free Pub- lic Baths 10—Twenty-Three Reautiful Half-Tone P'c- tures of St Auis Choruag Girls En- gaged for the Presentation. of “Evan- | geline’’ at Delmar Gardens. Hints and Advice for Women Readers | of the Sunday Post-Dispatch, by Hur- riet Hubbard Ayer and Margaret Rathbone Kent. H—Women Make the Winkles They Ab- hor. by Harriet Hubbard Ayer. Ii- lustrated. iow to Make’ a Raft Navigation of Ponds and Streams. lustrateed. Four Handsomely Illustrated Hints on Summer Styles Interesting Directions of How to Pre- | pare for a Family Picnic. | 12—Fourteen Splendid Half-Tone Pictures of Contestants for Places on the Pan- American Exposition Medal. Greed and Fashion Causing the Rapid Extinction of Birds. Hialf-Tone Pictures of Some of the Graduates of the Beethoven Conserva- toryy of Music. 13—A_French Explorer Has Discovered the Vainest People in the World—thé Sav- age Pahoutns of the West African | should be in ‘favor of making an appropriation to bring them | to these shores, if necessary.” Western men generally believe the set- tlement by the Boers would be of great | benefit to the country. Representative Fitzgerald will make | every effort to have his resolution adopt- | ed at this The committee on foreign affairs, to which the Fitzgerald resolution was referred, has no regular | meeting day, but assembles at the call of the chairman. Mr. Hitt is not antag- onistic to the Boer cause, as was evi- | denced by his attendance at the dinner session. At that he the | sentative William Alden Smith. time he made a speech in which evaded the question of assisting but led them to believe that he was friendly to their cause. The resolution is popular. The idea of inviting the people who have been de- prived of their freedom is a topic of con- | Boers. versation to-night which arouses interest. | It is unfortunate that Congress is ‘so near the hour of adjournment. There will be a rush during the few remaining days to dispose of the business on hand that there may be no delay in adjourn- Despite this, friends of the Boers will make every endeavor to at least se- cure a vote on the resolution. +o i BRYAN SAYS BOERS MIGHT HELP TO SAVE THE UNITED STATES. _—_- = -. a Special to the Post Dispatch. LINCOLN, Neb., June 2.— Cay pat himself on record as in favor of the World and Post-Dispatch plan of inv.ting | nize Mr. the Boers to the United States and col ing them in the West and Southwest. Mrvan egaid: “The Boerd cre industrious and intelli- gent, and have shown themselves lovers of liberty. If they lose their fight for inde- pendence. I hope they wll come the United States. I wish they could come s00n erough to heip save this country from the Imperialism that is driving them from South Africa. A small part of the money now being expended on a war of canquest would, if spent in reclaiming arid furnish homes for all the Boaors and thou- sands of our people besides.’ Mr. Bryan then talked informally of the Boer race end its characteristics. He said to la Mis, he wished there were more of them in this | Col. country. “They could well take the place,” sali he, “of a good many Republicans whe i On Becoming American Citizens They Would Swell the Ranks of Those Who Are Opposed to Imperialism. | believe in the imperialistic policy of Great W. J. Bryan to- britain.’’ There are many Hollanders in and around Lincoln, end he praised their integrity and high minde(iness Mr. Bryan said if the Boers were clan- lish, as had been charred, it was because they had been forced to band together close- to fieht for their every existence. A strong effort is being made to bring the three Boer delegates, now in this country, to Liheoln when they come West, in order that they may have a conference with Mr ryan. Poynter is at the head of the movement, and, while Col. Bryan is taking no part in the movement, it is belleved he wiil be glad to see them. . At a meeting held here, at which Poynter presided, it was decided to a committee to Omaha, June 8, to the three delegates. Gov. Poynter and Bryan will be members of this ly Go* , Gov. send we ae CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) 'Chairman Cannon that the sundry civil bill I should ‘contest, | World's Fair amendment to be made Mon- , the vote. i'determined who ehall i Cockrell, the ibe continued to-morrow and by Monday an | | reached a ik air ee a ; ’ ] i | " *s) ¥ i > ° \ Poe) ', ; i which will come up fora meet ™ eivil bill appropriating $5,Q00,000 for the St. Louis World’s Fair. He will then that the house grant additional time agreement. As a substitute for that motion a friend of the World’s Fair project, who Pas net yet been selected, will move that the house the Cockrell amendment. On this motion a yea and nay vote will be demanded. If St. Louis in can muster a majority favor of the proposition, the fair will be held, the government will a pledged to ‘an appropriation of $5,000,000 for its sup- port and the protracted fight made by St. Louis, supported by the Louisiana Purchase states, will have been brought to @a (ri- | IN WORLD'S FAR. umphant issue. For the test of strength Monday on the crucial vote, the advocates of the fair are working like beavers. By 11 o’clock Mon- day they will have an accurate pull of the House on the proposition and will know whether to look for victory or to anticipate defeat. To-day, after reaching an agreement with without a on the conference of strenxth be the sent to issue day in the manner heretofore outlined, Gov. Francis. Mr. Spencer and Mr. Cobb, all members of the Missouri delegation, Dele- gate Flynn of Oklahoma and Representa- tive Shafroth of Colorado held an extensive session to consider the plan of campaign for Monday’s battle. It was decided that there must be a poll of the House as a condition precedent to Thige was gone about in a sys- way. Every state delegation in the House was assigned to or more members; of the Missouri deiegation. They started at once-upon the big task of polling the members. To-morrow afternoon a conference will held at Gov. Francis’ rooms at the Normandie. It will then be tematic one ore ovdi be make the motion on behalf of St. Louis that the House concur | in the’ Cockrell amendment, pledging: the | government to an appropriation of $5,000,000 | for the fair. It is likely that a representative outside | the purchase states will make it. dozen big men—leaders on the Republican side, have expreseed a willingness to per- | form this office for St Louis As there is to be a big fight in any event, the advo- cates of the fair want to get*the best man ‘available for the task. to-day of New Fair promoters were notified Steele of Indiana, Sherman Dalzell of PennSylvania, Payne ot New York and Corliss. of Michigan would speak against the amendment in the en- deavor to defeat # The that York, | Half a| | has evinced a opposition. While Speaker Henderson disposition tO moderate his floor, exert his prevent the House agreeing ment, and may even go to the extreme personally speaking in opposition to it. If the members : promised to vote for sist the blandishments and pressure of the /! opposition, there is doubt about the outcome. St. Louis and the 15 states ana | two territories of the purchase will win a's magnificent’ victory over the -formidable | opposition and powerful influence of the' speaker of the House. It is said that Gen. Henderson has re-! eéntly begun to opreciate the gravity of the position taken by him in opposition to ev- | ery commercial body and all the pub.ic men of both parties in the states west of the Mississippi, but as he has not abandoned his hostility, nothing remains for St. Lou: but to defeat him in an open fight. This afternoon the speaker named Rep-| resentatives Cannon of Illinois, Moody of Massachusetts and McRae Arkansas as | the House conferees, They are. meeting tv- night with Senators Aililson, Culiom and Senate conferees. Work will tenants on the uLMOSE to or the amendment re-| ot agreement will have been reached lv all of the amendments except the amendment and the memoria] aendment (70Vv. Francis, who have ight and OT W bridg } Mr. Cobb and Mr. heen here two weeks rhaz day, to keep the proposition ot | ous pitfalls arranged for it. are in sight | soon be aiding in and order.’ said keeping up encouraged.’ of for Monday attention of Mir. no mem! is ha taken. Y absent Spence: laboring arryi musket the attemp: to pre the governor, this work, but airs 1s .Tre- | ‘*“obb. ' rearrange nd members the bill will To-day the ry statemen: was mail- ed to every member! ‘oarress “Dear Sir: The fully call your attention amendment to the sundry lation to the Louisiana Pure celebra- tion, passed by the senate unanimousiy, vote mn the houae request i to which provides for the contems respect- attached ; ' Dill in’ fe- We urgently support the amendment that the appropriation plated World’s Fair until the next session ent merely piedges the ernment to aid the fair in case rtain ditions are complied with by the people « the City of St. Louis The amendment is given tn full, statement signed by Con2zressmen tholdt. Joy and Pearce. It Weil c2li to th attention of each member that the bill does not carry any appropriation at this time, except the $10.00 for th expense of the Louisiana Purchase commission. This will be a forceful argument with those mem- bers who have been opposing the amend- ment on the ground of economy, on Monday ‘t is yet) given the Boer peace envoys by Repre- 'it is believed that he wll, through his lieu-j to the amend- | of the House who have | | direct, ltunion for the reason that it was yi mittee UNI ON DESIRES A MORE DEFI NITE PROPOSITION FROM THE COMPANY, af &. PIS Mass Meeting of Strikers Passes Resolutions Neither Accepting Nor Rejecting the Com- pany’s Offer to Take Back I0OO Men at Once and More Later. ae de ae de & ae ae a ate Be ae dhe ae te Strike’s Twenty-Seventh Day. . —" Companies of the Posse Guard Transit Company Car Sheds Today and Will Be on Duty at Police Sta- tions. Following is the record of some of the important facts in the street railway strike up to this day: No transit cars will run to-night. have No transit passengers cars run any night since the strike be- gan. No cars on the Broadway cable line to-day. No cars on Mound City line. Some cars will be run on nearly all IN. the other lines to-day. OPPOSING FORCES. Transit company, capital, $90,000,000, Strikers’ Union, strength THE PPRACE FORCE, ABOUT 750 ARE SWORN SHERIFF POHLMAN SAYS THE Po- LICE DEPARTMENT IS TO DE- TERMINE WHETHER HIS DEPUTIES SHALL GUARD THE TRANSIT COM- PANY CARS. Regular police Special police Posse called out eseeerv ee ewer (about) Fatalities Wounded by bullets Wounded otherwise Inconvenienced population (estimated) Posse Members Must Report for Duty 750.000 at 9 O’Clock This Morning at the Washington Avenue Barracks “ wages ta employes, to com- ’ Toss in the Length of the Watch pany in fares and to business gener- , : ally runs into the miilions. to Be Determined Later. % te ate ae ate oe ae ato ate a ae ae af e ~~ - So ae ee %* % The proposition of the transit company, submitted-to the union through the citizens’ committee, to reinstate 1000 strikers at once, 500 within 90 days, and the balance as rapidly as vacancies occur, and to recognize the union, has not brought a settlement of the stpke. } % The grievance and executive committees of the union and their attorney, Wil- liam J. Stone, conferred about the proposition for three hours. They came to no formal conclusion. but Mr. Stone stated at the conclusion of the conference that the proposition, as it stood, would not be accepted by the. union. @9OOOOS ® ® Midian UNION’S RESOLUTION. “® The following resolution on the proposition of the transit company was adopted at a nrass meeting of the union, held in the West End Coliseum, last night: Whereas, There has been report- ed to us a communication com- ing from the business men’s com- mittee offering certain proposi- tions as a basis of settlement, but inasmuch as they are vague and do not define anything, therefore, be it Resolved, That we leave the en- tire matter in the hands of our committee until such time as it shall be able to bring us a propo- sition that is more definite and de- fines the entire situation more clearly. OFF HHOCHHHHOHHHHHHETHSHS ~*~ a cat 7 , eo © @ © \ , > 4 @& ® & W ~ STONE CHARGES COLLUSION Union’s Attorney Maintains That the Company Has Not Men to Run All Cars. “Why does na the St. Louts Transit Co. run its cars?’ Aaid ex-~Gov. Stone, attorney for the Street Ral!way Union, late yester- day evening to the Post-Dispatch. “I charge that the sheriff and the chief of police of St. Louis are acting in collusion with the St. Louis Transit Co. to accome- plish the purpose of delay. Why the delay? Simply and solely to give the transit com- pany ttme to import to this city men to run its cars. yy “Ts there any reason why the people of St. Louis are deprived of adequate street car facilities? The answer ia plain. The St. Louls Transit.Co. has not half enough men to operate its cars. “Ten days ago the chief of police of St. Louis informed the transit company man- agement in an open letter to its general manager that if the transit company desired to run any of its cars, ample police protec- tion would be afforded. “The transit company officials had de- clared that it feared to operate cars be- cause to do so would be to endanger the » ® ® » © lives of its employes and result in incal-- culable damage to its property. . ‘“hief Campbell insisted that he would POSSE DRILLING IN BARRACKS. ~ of cting ex-Judge Chester H. Krum, Charles Green and others in the use of the riot gun.) (Sam T. Rathell instru Mr. Stone stated that he expected to arrange for a conference between him- self and the attorneys-for the transit company, and that he thought matters had stage where he could negotiate with the companys representatives of through a committee. ; conference instead citizens’ committee's End Coliseum last night. to secure a more definite company s proposition and the result of the The were given to a mass meeting of the mnion at the West The union passed resolutions asking its commu t¢ce proposition. , . : - The question of the partial reinstatement did not come squarely before the President Ma- cried down by the meeting when hon attempted to put it to the house Another resolution indorsing the work of the grievance and executive com- up to this time and reterring the entire matter of negotiation back to the committee was passed unanimously. ; and no dissenting voices were heard in its de- | l o' cl ck. abreast several mecting was entnusiasti it marched down "4. it from Y o'clock unttl (>); liberations was in session The men ated for the night. t Mahon said to the Post-Dispatch after the meeting that the sentl- tmnion, as expressed by its unwillingness to hear the proposal to par- ve street two lor blocks before they sepa ment of the tially reinstat’ their membership, was to a man against such a course. “We stand to-night where we stood at the beginning so far as the total rein- statement of the ee the men or none as % i¢ the committees interpret the temper of the gvhol body. in the » ge to hear any proposal from the men is concerned.” he said. is all of “The meeting was not called 1 union as to its measure of satisfac- It ts purpose was simply to test t +} Lire compan) tion with the conduct of strike up to this time. is a proceeding always taken at intervals during the life of a strike.” “It can be stated that the sentiment of the men as expressed in the meeting,” said Secretary Mack Missick, “is that the company wants to reinstate about 1000 of the union men for the purpose of operating the cars at night, something that ACONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) * Geo 6° » So eligi, . oe ee r Aig tee na POEL ETE EE LOBE. HE OBO BEI Ms eee eee ee Sa ee > EO EEE —_ _——_—_— ee eS a - ee _ eee nn eS a a a i furnish all taansit company in performing tlons to the public. 4 “Since then what has transpired? What sudden change of front has come over the police officials of this city? “Four days ago the police board coffe fessed its Inability to with the site uation. The representations made to the transit company that there were plenty of police to protect the transit company’s cars was repudiated by an order on Shere iff Pohiman to summon 23 deputy sheriffs, “The first complement of the posse has been almost completed, but what has been done toward running the cars? Nothing. its obliga- cope "The transit company has all the protece | tion it asked, the police power has bees «exerted in its behalf and yet this corporae thon has proved recreant to its public trust, “Put these facts together and you will readily see that the transit company, through and with the ald of the police authorities of St. Louis, has been playing for time. “The transit company has opened several of tts lines whereon not even a demon- stration has been made against its eme- piloyes, and yet scarcely any of the cars are operated. “I am sick and- tired of hearing this cant- about the want of police protection. The public should no longer be deceived by the false pretenses of the 8t. Louls Transit —” ee ¥ Ex-Gov. @tone made this statement tm- mediately after leaving a conference with Attorney-General Crow In room & et the Southera Hotel ~ eee Sem, -« the men necessary to aid tne | _