St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 10, 1907

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NO TELEGRAPH TROUBLE HERE INTIL MONDAY Union’s President Says There Will Be No Walk-Out Before Then. ARE TO MEET TONIGHT Six Hundred Men and Women Ready to Quit on a Flash Order. . WILL AFFECT EVERYONE Fifteen Thousand Messages Pass Daily Through St. Louis.

‘Cities Affected by Strike and Number of Men Out On At Strike. Work. CHICABO .....00eceee00e 2000 Kansas City ........... 330 Kansas City (Postal). Colorado Springs ..... DN Cin opececcnestes Helena, Mont. .....+.+. Salt Lake City......... Los Angeles ....sscses ices kcscccccance BIATIER cccdeocccvcccccsice Dallas (Postal) ........ New Orleans ......+++. Fort Worth ...csescoss ORR dcccesccccccvcoes Minneapolis .... cesses Housten .... Nashville, Tenn. Memphis, Tenn. ...... Sedalia, Mo. Meridian, RPE ad Tom! Be bbb.d ons ceccdcnseOeen = EES ig RG Pangea zi

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A Chicago telegram 1 reading: ‘“‘Be gov- erned by previous instructions; you will hear from us when the time comes,” re- celved by A. L. Ewing, president of the St. Louis Commercial Telegraphers’ Union, at Ila. m. from Wesley Russell, international secretary and treasurer, leaves the threatened strike in abey- ance until a meeting tonight of the local union's Executive Committee. Previous instructions mentioned in the telegram were those received from Sec- retary Russell, by wire Friday after- noon, in which he said: “Remain at work pending further instructions. Take no action until authorized and be gov- erned by instructions previous to the San Francisco strike.’ These instructions, issued by Interna- tional President Small, were to continue at work, even with nonunion operators, wntil arbitration might possibly be reached with the telegraph companies. President Ewing said on receipt of Mr. Russell's message that he did not know what the members of the local union would now liete?Pmine to do, that while the officers of the local wisi to avoid a strike, the temper of the men is such that it may be difficult to hold them in line. “At noon Saturday Malachi W. Doyle, chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Commercial Telegraph- ers’ Union told Manager Bohle of the Western Union and Manager Daniels of the Postal that there will be no walk- out of operators Saturday or Sunday. Mr. Doyle is night operator for the Associated Press in St. Louis. Ye sald that the local union will wait for specific instructions from National President Small, who is in Oakland, Cal., and that even if Mr. Small rati- files the local’s action in refusing to work with non-union operators no defi- nite action will be taken until Monday. Until then there will be a truce. If President Small authorizes a walk- out it will probably take place at 5 5 pa. m. Monday, the operators say. oye both the Western Union and the Postal offices Saturday the noon shifts Went on duty promptly. Some of the Operators expected definite action at that hour, but no order came through Local President Ewing. In Chicago the number has Increased to 200. The number of strikers in the other cities are: Kansas City, 330; Dal- Tas, 135; Los Angeles, 75; New Orleans, 6; Fort Worth, 45; Helena, 40; Denver, 8; Salt Lake City, 36; El Paso, 25; Colo- rado Springs, 10. Operators in Memphis and Nashville, Tenn., and Sedalia, Mo., went out at 1 D. ™m, Customers Fear Delay, The effect of the strike was shown in many ways in St. Louis Saturday. The mere fact that prospective customers feared delay caused a big falling off in the number of messages submitted for ms transmission to points affected by the strike. i At a meeting Friday night at the hall, _ Vandeventer anid Finney avenues, a majority of the local union members '__ favored a strike. A resolution binding he est denfleeendlapanran Band AMERICAN LEAGUE. 28 i445 8 1m 7 AT NEW YORK. FIRST GAME.

St. Louis, IMDGOOODOOO New York. QOOOOD OO Batteries—St. Louis, Dineen and Stephens; New York, Newton and Thomas. Umpire—O' Loughlin.

BiG CROWD SEES BROWNS GOODBY GOTHAM GAM Double-Header | at Highland- ers’ Park Brings Out 8000 Half-Holiday Celebrators.

The batting order follows: — Ne Niles empniti cf, S Pickering rf, Wallace ss, Hartzell Sb, Stevens c, Jones 1b, Dineen p, Umpire—O’ summin. Moriarty “1b, Laporte lf, Williams 2b, Conroy 88, Rickey lb, Thomas c, Newton p. Special to. the Post-Dispatch. ; AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK, NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—The Browns and High- landers wound up the present series with a double header this afternoon. The weather was clear and warm. At- tendance 8000. FIRST INNING. BROWNSG~ Niles singled past third. Hemphill singled to left. Stone beat out an infield single, filliAg the bases. Pickering struck out. Wallace filed to Conroy, Niles scoring. Hartzell forced Stone, Conroy to Williams. ONE RUN. NEW YORK—Hoffman singled to right. Keeler fouuled to Stevens, Who doubled Hoffman going to second, Niles getting the out. Moriarity out, Wallace to Jones. NO RUNS. SECOND INNING. BROW NS—Stephens beat out a bunt, Jones sacrificed, Newton to Rickey. Dineen fanned. Niles out, Moriarity to Rickey. NO RUNS. NEW YORK—Laporte walked, Wil- liams flied to Ctone. Conroy out, Dineen to Jones. Rickey out, Wallace to Jones. NO RUNS. THIRD INNING. BROWNS—Hemphill flied to Moriar- ity. Stone singled to center. Pickering singled to right, Stone reaching third. Wallace reached first on Conroy's fum- ble, Stone scoring. Conroy dropped Martzell’s fly but Pickering was forced at third, Conroy to Mboriariay. Ste- phens tripled to left, scoring Wallace and Hartzell. Jones singled over sec- ond, Stephens scoring. Dineen singled to right. Niles flied to Hoffman. FOUR RUNS. NEW YQRK—Thomas out, Niles to Jones. Newton fanned and Hoffman fouled to Stephens. NO RUNS. FOURTH INNING. BROWNS—Hemphill singled to left. Newton threw Stone's sacrifice past Conroy, Hemphill taking third. Picker- ing fanned, Stone stealing on the third strike. No one covered second and Hemphill scored, Stone taking third. Wallace flied to Laporte and Stone scored. Hartzell bunted safely. Stephens flied to Keeler. TWO RUNS. NEW YORK—Keeler singled to left. Moriarity doubled to right, Keeler tak- ing third. Laporte singied to left, scor- ing Keeler and Moriarity. Williams forced Laporte, Wallace to Niles. Con- roy fouled to Hartzell. Pickering dropped Rickey’s fly, but threw him out at second, Pickering to Wallace. TWO RUNS. FIFTH INNING. BROW NS—Jones walked. Dineen hit into a double play, Chesbro to Conroy to Rickey. Niles fiied to Laporte. NO, RUNS. NEW YORK—Thomas fouled to Jones. Chesbro singled to short. Hoffman flied to Hemphill. Keller out, Niles to Jones. NO RUNS. ALTON HAS WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, BUT ONLY WINE AND BEER T0 DRINK Waterworks Goes on a Strike and Ties Up the Whole Town, The Alton Waterworks plant went on « strike Saturday and as a consequence the Bluff City Is enjoying a holiday. Every manufacturing plant in the city was compelled to close. The only mov- ing thing in Alton, except the*thirsty, sweltering people, are the street cars, which are operated by electric current from Bast St. Lbuis. The superintendent of the Waterworks plant doesn’t know what caused the trouble. The plant simply refused to work Saturday morning. It is thought the receiving pipe leading from the pump to the river is clogged. Divers are working on this part of the system try- ing to find what caused the breakdown. The Illinois Glass Co.'s plant and all the steel factories are idle. The gas and electric light plant are also shut down, and if the break in the Waterworks sys- tem is not repaired before night, Alton will be in darkness. There is no drinking water to be had, and the saloons and soda fountains are doing the biggest business in the history of the town. Unless the water supply is turned on by Sunday morning the

Altenian who must have his bath will | Jones CAN MUST B TRIED FOR filS ATHER S DEATH a —

but an Information Is Is- sued Against Him.

MOTHER TELLS STORY Father Was Armed When Youth Struck Him Down With a Bat. -_

Carroll Cain, a professional boxer 20 years of age, after being exonerated Saturday morning by a Coroner’s jury ef the murder of his father, was locked up in the holdover under a warrant issued by Assistant Cfrceuit Attorney charged him with murder in the first degree. The Coroner’s jury returned a ver- dict of justifiable homicide. ‘“‘But jus- tifiable homicide is a matter that has to be decided in the courts. Cain must be tried just the same as if the Cor- oner had not exculpated him.’’ Young Cain owed his acquitial at the inquest to the testimony of his mother, Mrs. Maud Cain, in defense of whom he struck his father with a base- ball bat Aug. 1, fatally injuring him. When the verdict was rendered, the mother rushed to her son weeping, fold- ed him to her heart and kissed him. His two brothers and two sisters, younger than himself, whom he has supported for many years, all €mbraced him. By advice of his attorney, Carroll de- clined to testify, as he relied on the testimony of his mother and of neigh- bors to clear him. He went after the inquest to the Four Courts with a po- liceman to see the Circuit Attorney, who reviewed the testimony to see whether Cain should be held or re- leased. Policeman a Witness. Probationary Policeman Agnew of the Carondelet Station was the first witness, and testified to finding in. the coat pocket of George Cain, as he Jay uncon- scious on the sidewalk, near his home, a& new revolver, loaded. Mrs. Cain, whose drawn and weary face corroborated her story of years of ill treatment from her husband, was dressed in black and wept pitifully as she testified. “On the night of Aug. 1 my husband came home after being absent several days,’ she said. ‘‘He had been drink- ing, and I could tell from the white anger on his face that he meant to start trouble. He began to swear at me, and asked me if I Knew a young man of a certain name. I replied lI did not. He swore again, and said lI must, as he was rooming at our house. He then went upstairs to the room of one of our boarders, and taking his suit case and other belongings, threw them into the street. ‘“‘He returned to me then, and draw- ing a revolver, said he was going to kill me and the children. I told Charies, our 13-year-old son, to run quick and bring Carroll. * ‘If Carroll comes, the same medicine.’ said my husband, fingering the trigger of his gun. After threatening and cursing a few minutes longer, he staggered out into the street. There he met Carroll, and what hap- pened after that £ did not see.”’ I will give him Mother’s Story Corroborated. Mrs. Cain’s story was corroborated by Mrs. Bertha Liverman, Mrs. Veroni- ca Finn, Mrs. Ada Bradin, and 12-year- old Henry Becker, all neighbors. Mrs. Liverman testified that she saw Carroll and his father pass before her window, and that the father held a revolver in his hand which the son was entreating him to return to his pocket. None of the witnesses saw the blew — struck. Young Cain showed no emotion during the testimony. Cain, a pallid, somber-eyed youth, paced his cell Saturday in the Four Courts holdover before the inquest with the nervous, springy stride of a leopard or of an athlete in the pink of condition, and muttered, glowering at the floor: “I can’t feel any sympathy for the ‘old man.’ He gnade life a hell for mother and us children. Of course I didn't mean to kill him, and I didn’t strike with half my strength. But I can't make myself feel the remorse I should have.”’ Carroll is a professional boxer of some local’ repute for sand and clever- ness. His nose is distorted, having been broken several times in his 30 ring bat- tles, and one of his eyes still bears the mark of an opponent’s punch in a 10- round mill at Springfield, Ill., last week. Did Not Get Square Deal, “No, the ‘old man’ never gave us a Square deal at home,” he continued, raising his gaze from the floor and looking squarely and pleasantly into his interviewer's eyes. “He worked, but he wouldn’t bring much money home, and mother had to support the family. “When I was 8 years old, I was get- ting up at 3 a. m. to sell papers, then I went to school and afterward, until midnight, helped father in his restau- a I got only three hours sleep, you “By the time I was 12 these hard- ships and the exposure gave me rheu- matism 80 severely that I had to rat eg. pg But dad made me 8 of food, just the same, for blocks and blocks. ,

: One night, after work, I asked him | om Page 3, Columa 2, ae | Exonerated by Coroner’s Jury,

IGIRL WHO KILLED FIANCE, PHOTOGRAPHED IN HOSPITAL FOR THE POST-DISPATCH

é THERESA ‘SULLIVAN.

COURT PUTS LID UN MEAT onl

day Three Years Ago Fined by Judge Taylor.

A fine of $25 imposed upon J. T. DeLassus, a butcher of 2906 Easton ave- by Judge Taylor of the Court of will re- nue, Criminal Correction Saturday, sult in the Sunday closing of every butcher shop and meat market in St. Louis. DeLassus was tried for keeping his butcher shop open on Sunday three years ago. The Master Butchers’ Asso- eciaton was behind the prosecution of DeLassus and other butchers. The association made an effort to en- seven force Sunday closing of meat shops and had DeLassus and others arrested. DeLassus was fined in the police court, and appealed to the Court of Criminal! Correction. Judge Moore held that the city ordinance was unconstitutional. The association appealed to the Su- preme Court, which rendered a decision a few weeks ago affirming the consti- tutionality of the ordinance. DeLassus’ case was called for retrial before Judge Taylor. and in view of the Supreme Court decision, there was nothing to do but fine the defendant. Butchers Nice, Walz. Ehlhardt. Smith, Campbell, Blatt- ner and Timmerberg will also be tried on charges of keeping their shops open on Sundays. Officials of the association say that the ruling of the court will put the Sunday lid on every butcher shop in St. Louis. Persons violating the law will be prosecuted by the association. BOTTOMS GANG CASES GO OVER Continuances Granted Nine Mem- bers Accused of Vagrancy. A continuance until August 14 was granted by Judge Tracy in the City Hall Pelice Court Saturday in fhe va- grancy cases against nine members of the “Bottoms Gang.” At that time they will be tried by a jury. The cases were called for trial Friday but were con- tinued until Saturday and later until next Wednesday. All the defendants in these cases were arrested August 2 when the police raided Delegate Frank Hussey’s Hibernia Club,

‘aged Olive street. att = ee See « Butcher Who Kent Open on Sun-| | 'WEATHER MAN SEES NO

RELIEF FROM HEAT ON SATURDAY OR SUNDAY THE TEMPERATURES. .-78

There will be no abateinent of the present hot spell until Sun- day night, ac- cording to the weather man. when showers will temporarily refresh wilted St. Louis. Today and tomorrow will be fair and warimer. The official forecast: Fair and warmer to- day and Sunday; showers and cooler Sunday night, with southerly winds. The storm which centered . riday over Montana has traveled slowly eastward, and is today lowering over North Da- kota. Rains have fallen the last 24 hours in Minnesota, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and North Dakota, with lecal showers along the Atlantic coast and in the lower Mis- sissippi Valley. Except in the Middle Atlantic states and west of the Rocky Mountain divide, it is even hotter than it was Friday. The stage of the river is 19.9, a fall fee 8 Temperatures at 7 a. m. in other cities were: Boston, 74; Chicago, Louisville and St. Paul, 72; Cincinnati, Cleveland and Washington, 68; Denver, 66; Indian- apolis, New York and Pittsburg, 70; Kansas City, 80; Omaha, 76; San Fran- cisco, 58; Yellowstone Park, 52; Nome, Alaska, 4#.

HOW fAANY GLASSES HAVE You HAD To DAY THIS 139 My SIXTH? AUG.

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Parklet te Succeed Market. A barren wedge of ground between Fourth street and Broadway, LaSalle and Convent streets, the old site of the French Market, will be converted into a miniature park by the Street Commis- sioner Travilla. Grass will be grown and a fountain will be placed in the

middle. ~ Granitoid walks will run {through it. Som cnern & © & sii ag Hh Gc

DESERTS CHURCH 10 WED DENTIST Miss Josephine Ghio, Catholic, Se- cretly United With Dr. Wicker- sham, Protestant.

e Dr. William R. Wickersham, a den- tist in the Holland Building, and his bride, formerly Miss Josephine N. Ghio, a stenographer in the same building, departed Saturday morning on a honeymoor. t:'p to Atlantic City. They were married Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. R. L. Russell at the parsonage of the First Methodist Chureh, Glasgow avenue and Dayton street. The engagement of Miss Ghio, who is 2, and Dr. Wickersham, who is 45, had not been publicly proclaimed and was known to few outside of their mutual acqua ntances in the Holland Building. There Was a reason for secrecy. Miss Ghio is ~ member of a Catholic family. The Catholic .aureh dees not. permit its members to marry persons who have been divorced. And Dr. Wickersham was divorced only a few months ago. First Wife Loved a Cowboy, So Dr. Wic:..-1am bought railroad ticket. for himself and bride and ar- ranged all the other honeymoon details first. Then he and Miss Ghio obtained a license at the City Hall and hurried to Rev. Mr. Russell's home. The Lride then went home while the bridegroom spent the afternoon accepting congrat- ulatic ns. Dr. Wickersham’s recent divorcé at- tracted much attention by reason of the unusual allegations on which it was ob- tained. The dentist alleged that his W Rose, deserted him on a trip in the far West when she became enam- ored of Bert Daniels, a cowboy. She became so fascinated with the dashing plainsman, it was charged, that she went with him to his home in Arizona. The couple had been married for 2% ye.rs and have a grown daughter. Miss Ghio has resided with her fam- ily at 1221 Jones street. She Is dark- haired, olive-skinned and pretty. She is said to be related to well. keowe Italian families in St. Louis of the same name. FRENCH SLAUGHTER MOORS IN BATTLE Natives Attack Gen. Drude Outside of Casablanca, but Are Repulsed. TANGIER. Aue. 10.—General while encamped outside of Casa was attacked by 3,000 Moors. According to the latest report from the scene of the fighting, the assualt wag repulsed, the French artillery caused ie,

Drude, ‘asablanca, a very heavy slaughter among the na- | GIRL: WEE MAN SHE ‘TO DEATH N FIG! Le eee)

ee Theresa Sullivan, Hysterical in pital, Does Not Know That He! Fiance Is Dead Frori, Wound. - ‘

SHE SLASHES JUGULAR VEIN IN HARD STRU

Tried to Get Him: Away — Girl Gives « Herself Up and ee .

Weeping hysterically on her hour after he was taken there. after the stabbing. She wept so The young woman collapsed at 6 a. m. after a sleepless night spent in review- | ing the scene in which she stabbed her lover. She was take nto the City Hag- pital after treatment at the dispensary. While talking to a Post-Dispatch re- porter Saturday morning Miss Sullivan moaned and wept as if heartbroken. She said: “I didn’t seek him with the Inten- tion of hurting him, and don't know why I had my pocket-knife open In my hand. I waited three-quarters of an kour on the street corner for him, and grew so angry that I was beside my- wif. I thought I would go crazy when 2 found him drinking beer with other boys when he should have been with me. Then he called me a harsh name for interrupting him. He drove me across the street and choked me. In the struggle I must have cut him with the open knife in my hand. “We were to go last night to a nick- elodeon show at Broadway and Bremen avenue. Friday morning Landers met my sister, Emma, and asked her to tell me that he didn’t intend to keep the engagement. He gave no reason for this sudden change of mind. When Em- ma,told me that I said: ‘Well, he will keep it, if I have to go after, him and get him myself.’ Waited on the Corner. “Tl went last ni~ht to the corner where we were to meet and waited from 8:15 to 9 p. m. He didn’t come. I knew his usual haunts, and found him in a hall at Broadway and Penrose, drink- ing beer with five young men. “JT called him out and asked him why he didn’t meet me. he replied that he didn’t want to, and that he \.as through with me. I then seizeu his hat and start- ed across the street with it, hoping to ‘draw him away from his friends. “He sprang after me with an oath, and overtaking me in the middle of the street choked me. Forgetting the knife in my hand, I threw up my arm to de- fend myself, and cut him, He cried ‘Oh, my God!’ and I'll never forget that cry. He fell in the street and was carried to a drug store. As soon as I saw he was in good hands, I went to the police station and surrendered.” Miss Sullivan is an unusually pretty girl, with black hair and eyes. Her voice is musical and her language ex- cellent. She is a sorter for the Mat- thews Paper Co., 3200 North Broadway, and in intelligence ard refinement above her position. Sweethearts Two Years. Landers was 22 years old. He and Miss Sullivan had been sweethearts two years, and she says they were engaged to be married. When he failed to ap- pear Friduy evening at her home, [519 North Second street, at the hour ap- pointed, to take her to a summer gar- den, she set out to find him. Landers was lounging with several companion. at Eroalway and Peniose }street. When the girl asked him to step aside, he replied roughly, bidding her go away. She seized his hat and stepped back, by this ruse drawing nim from the group of smiling young men who witnessed the incident. What words passed between the two after Landers goined bis hat the wit- nesses did not hear. The girl suddenly drew a pocketknife from the bosom of her dress and struck out swiftly and blindly. Landers clapped his hands to his neck with a cry, and his fiancee, flinging the weapon from her, walked away. At a nearby drugstore It was found that Landers’ jugular vein was severed, and efforts to check the flow of bieod were unavailing. He died soon after reaching the City Hospital, without making any statement.

cot at the City Hospital, policeman on guard at her side, 20-year-old Theresa Sullivan begge piteously Saturday to be informed as to the condition of wo ianc Michael Landers, whom she fatally stabbed Friday night because failed to keep an ‘engagement with her. No one had the hentts her that he died on the operating table at the City Hospitals The girl is suffering from a nervous breakdown, the ph say. She surrendered herself at the Angelica Street Police wildly, that she was taken care of the matron of the Four Courts Jail. pital, was asleep there when her | }er was brought im Friday was not notified. On reading t ing papers she discovered he infuréd and descended to the ¥ room to as his condition. @he le he @Me@.ahalf hour after ten ‘an and wept because she ri"ssed him during his last moments, While Miss Landers was wee the reception room, Miss Sullivan, her brother’s slayer, was brovght in om the holdover. Neither girl recognised the other. = Miss Sullivagwent alone to the 4 lica Street Station. Trembling afflicted with palsy, she entered | staggered up to policeman Gallagher, . “I’ve stabbed my tover,” she moans I don't care what becomes of me Ho We were engaged two years, and cursed me when I asked him why ft a didn't keep an appointment with niet % wish I were dying instead of . I am tired of life.” The kindest We failed to comfort her. | WHEAT PLANNE BY LOCAL ‘ St. Louis Capitalists Raise § 2, 500,000 to Put Decemibe et : Over Dollar Mark, == :

St. Louls capitalists have me pool of $2,500,000 with which to t December wheat above the dollar m in the St. Louls and Chicago mag The nioney is on deposit with one the big local trust companies aad campaign will be launched itn few days, it is said. : Those whose names are connection witt» the projected | not discuss it at this time, but freely predict that wheat will ge m higher simply on the baste ot 4 and demand, even if there is a ulation. | , The biggest plunger in wheat 4 i" local exchangé just now is D Cor Another who ts mentioned as haying: interest in the pool is Thomas A Despite his repeated etatement r mM is out of the market, those whe the speculative game closely & interests heretofore allted with | fora Milliken wiil qiso be found on the } ing aide when the big upward ovet

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Ph HONEY MOON | ~ AID HS HOME BA oe + eesoized Bride Unable to Defend Self Because Leg Goes to Sleep. » GETS STUCK IN WINDOW , - a Mashing and smashing widow; Billy b aoa OR fondly in the direction of her hus- New Wife, street,” just off Central rent r # é . . Tere, 4 he . 2 2 “ a = 4 "You know I advertised for ; 1 og! s¢ nonce te er | ui. is Weighing 325 Pounds, Given Severe Mauling. Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. ,NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Lonely widow- ers. who are secretly contemplating a gecond trip through the connubial chute Without the sanction of their sons and @aughters would do well to visit the West Side Court, where Magistrate Cor- figan will produce “The Second Mrs. ‘Bicks,” in a domestic drama from real. 4 é life,; in which faree and tragedy inter- ‘mingle. Most of tl:e characters have al- “ feady held a dress rehearsal in court and all should be letter perfect. an _ pProminent speaking parts will be tak- en by Levi Hicks, 57 years old, janitor of the Edgemere apartments, on 104th Park ; West- Mrs. Amelia Hicks, 26, traveling as the second section of the Hicks matrimonial express; Mrs. Ella Fisher (nee Hicks), Hicks, a son; Mrs. Billy Hicks, his wife; Mert Hicks, another son; Harry egan, a delicatessen dude; Daisy, a dog ‘with a past. x). * Beene—House of Hicks. “Time—Midnight of his second wedding Plot of the Drama. dust because Hicks senior saw fit to the family name to a _ second ise the six little Hickses by the Mrs. Hicks interrupted the honey- toll by chasing the second Mrs. Hicks A through a window. With an utter dis- for the Fcurth Commandment _ the six Hickses proceeded to put the _ Hicks hut on the Rappahannock. “When he made sure that Mrs. Hicks os twice was out of danger the elder ‘Bicks waded through a labyrinth of broken pictures, crockery and furniture nd hied himself to a police court. When he told his story, Magistrate got busy and the court clerk t writers’ cramp indicting warrants for housebreaking, assault, slander, de- struction of property and breach of the peace. All the warrants reached their a a Hicks holiday. When the Post-Dispatch reporter - found Hicks in the basement of the big ent house he was trying to com- his mind by reading the history Ireland. ie cones Crocheting His Trousers, irs. Hicks, a genuinely pretty woman, ‘ with a greatness of girth that refused ‘be confined to the recesses of a huge hair, was industriously engaged in ting a pair of pants for her new d. _ s"¥ou'll have to excuse me,” she said apologetically. “I’ve just finished wash- and I feel like a bale of hay with- the middle hoop.” out th don't seem to get along very “well with the little Hickses,” said the ‘reporter, breaking into the hit-and-run game. 3 _. “And TI don’t think I ever shall,’’ said buxom bride. “Lie down there, ’ This to a poodle built on the r plan, with the legs so far that he was sagging near the ody about it, gaz- the gentleman ail Tick by, dear,’’ said Mrs. Hicks, iby tell your part and ‘I’ tell the est,”’ said Levi, laying down the boek he. had been reading. Bride Unfolds a Tale. » 2 % mts Wier i Ba ie le a case of nobody worked but fa- in the Hicks house ntil I came,” imued Mrs. Hicks. “He supported ) whole bunch of them while his first lived, and they hated to see me him.” Mrs, ” interrupted Hicksey. "Yes, and he tried three before he me,”"” added the bride. “Tne first Hicks died in April. I came to here in May. He was lonely and @ grew to like each other. We went t walking nights. You can’t keep a | indoors all the time, no matter r many wives he buries, can you?’ reporter voted in the negative, md Mrs. Hicks resumed: maiden-name was Amelia. Gre- Te. I come from up the State. I in’t have a friend or relative in the ‘ rot and when he asked me to marry im I gave him the perpendicular pas.. ed to wait a little while, and little while. We were married | Saturday night by a parsun in One and Fifth street.” Show him your certificate,” said : : y, Whereupon Mrs. Hicks took a of seven seconds and presently bearing a three-sheet poster all perrons of the matrimonial = / Sz, ‘ hy Gon’ t you put the license in the Hicks ’t care t this juncture Leyi took up the rae woe and with great attention to told how the first edition of the family had tried to prevent the edition from going to press. _ Detain Matrimonial Ventures. "My six children are a bad lot and =" no pe po it,” said the old 2 . . “My fret wife died 2 ». cm on April & I married the .,, Sitebe, bee ooven. minutes night.” SATURDAY—ST, LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—AUGUST 10, 1907 L. EWING is the man who is A leave their keys. @ graphers’ Union. o5 panies’ revenue from these messages Louis. almost constant use of the wire in St. Louis. It will mean to the strikers a total loss of § WHAT STKIKE OF ST. LOUIS TELEGRAPRERS WILL MEAN all powerful in the St. Louis Tele- Through him, if a strike is declared will come the order which will cause 500 men and 100 women operators to "A walkout of these men and women would affect more than $200,000 worth of mercantile business which is dependent on the It will stop the sending and receiving of 15,000 private messages a day in St. Louis, the com- being $3000 a day. It may lead to a sympathetic strike by union linemen and electrical workers, nearly 500 of ‘whom are employed by the Celegraps companies in and around St. $1500 a day in salaries, figured on the basis of an average of $2.50 a day. CENTRAL FIGURE AMONG LOCAL TELEGRAPHERS WAITING WORD eS att: be a N) et et ‘ we iy ee ie a2 EWING, PRES S7TLOUIS. TELEGRAPHERS UNION Pai aor “Who gave the bride away?” asked the reporter. “Nobody,” interrupted Mrs. Hicks, dropping several stitches in her ex- citement. “We went to’ Manning's restaurant for the wedding supper,” continued Hicksey. ‘“‘There were six or seven friends and Charley Williams acted as toastmaster.”’ “Was he the best man?’ **‘No, he’s the undertaker who buried my first wife. He was very kind to me at that time and I invited him to the wedding. While he was talking he re- ceived a call from the Morgue and that broke up the dinner. “We all returned to our apartments and were enjoying a social chat when we heard a pounding on the door. Sud- denly it burst open and in rushed Mrs. Laura Fisher, Mrs. Maggie Sclomon my two daughters and Billy Hicks and his wife. A few minutes later they were. joined by Harry, Finnegan.” ‘Is Finnegan a relative?” “Thank God, no/ . said the old man fervently. ‘“‘He’s been boarding with one of my married daughters on Jen- nings avenue in the Bronx for ever since her husband, Charlie, had his legs cut off.”’ “Finnegan's?” “No, Charlie's. while.”’ “Before I could move,’’ said Hicksey, “my daughter Laura grabbed my crayon from the wall ~nd broke it over my head, the frame pinning my arms to my Silue and making me helpless. Then they rushed at Mrs. Hicks and tore off her wedding waist.”’ Bride Sticks in Window. “TI started to jump through the win- dow,” said Mrs. Hicks, indicating an opening that would have to be elastic to make room for her. “I got half way through and that was all. While I was in that position they beat me unmer- cifully and finally pushed me through to the roof, where I was rescued by Mr. Winkler, the next door janitor.” “Couldn’t you defend yourself?” asked the reporter, surveying the athletic spread of the bride. ‘It’s a funny thing,” said Mrs. Hicks, “but just as they arrived my leg was asleep and I couldn’t move tas : “Which leg was it?” asked the re- porter. “Does that reall matter?” asked Le- vi with a suspicion of jealousy in his voice. He lived only a short Left Leg Goes to Sleep. “Yes,” said o»irs. Hicks. “We want the story right. It was the left leg. I always use it for a cushion.” “They broke everything they could lay their hands on. Then they took my first wife’s picture and left,” said Hicks. “There was an awful uproar and all the tenants in the house were awake. Amelia and I sat up all Satur- day, Sunday and monday night, as Fin- negan and the rest of them had threat- ened to come back and do it all over again.” “When we told the police,” said Mrs. Hicks, “they refused to make any ar- rests. But you ought to hear the Judge give it to Laura and Maggie Hicks yes- terday, and I'll bet he’ ll lay the law down to them today.” “Don't any of your. children visit you?” the reporter asked Hicks. « “I don’t want them to.”’ CONTRIBUTIONS TO PURE , MILK AND FREE ICE FUND Previously acknowledged .. .81505 22 City Salesmen and office em- ployes of the Steinwender- Stoffregen Coffee 3 ae No Name ....-: Mary Rose Ca@im ...++sseeeses Edmund P. Walsh A. BE. Whittaker ....... 2 00 CABDRIVER ACCUSES W. E. SLOAN Causes Milliner’s Arrest After Quar- rel Over Fare. William E. Sloan, of the Rosenthal- Sloan Millinery Co., appeared in the City Hall Police Court Saturday to an- awer charges of disturbing the peace, preferred by Frank Smith, a cab driver of 7237 South Seventh street. Smith said Sloan refused to pay for using his cab. The quarrel occurred near the Four Courts and a policeman ted Sloan. WIRES OF 14 CITIES TIED UP; 3600 MEN ON STRIKE! CONTINU ED FROM PAGE ONE. approved by the national officers of the union. ° Will Not Be Sympathy Strike. President Ewing said: “If the oper- ators strike here it will not be merely a sympathy strike. We will ask for an §-hour day and for strict adherence to the 10 per cent advance in wages re- cently granted by the, companies. This raise, we think, has not been properly applied in practice. We also will ask that seniority be recognized in making promotions.’’ “After the advance in pay was grant- ed, many who benefited by it was dis- charged, and ‘extras,’ who did not re- ceive the advance, were substituted. We think this unjust, and will ask that the men thus discharged be reinstated. ‘In addition to the general grievance as to the application of the 10 per cent increase, the St. Louis operators want the companies to furnish all typewriters used for the company’s business. At present the operators furnish these. Ready for Arbitration. “Weare -tirely willing to submit all our differences to arbitration. Presi- dent Clowry of the Western Union has expressed willingness to do this, but he has taken no step toward it. Owing to walkouts in all other cities, telegraph business in St. Louis is se- riously crippled. The action of the Postal operators in Chicago and Kansas City in joining the Western Union operators on strike cut off St. Louis from telegraph communi- cation with -those cities« except over leased and private wires. Western Union messages taken, ‘“‘subject to ueiay,’’ for Denver, Colorado Springs, Helena, Mont., Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, El Paso, Fort Worth, Dallas and New Orleans. In all of those cities operators walked out becaus@they were unwilling to work on wires manned by nonunion operators in Chicago. Officers of the local union baid Sat- urday that about 4000 operators are now out in the eleven cities to which the strike has spread. Union labor sympathizers would not use the wires. At the receiving win- dows of the telegraph companies many persons turned away when they were told that the Chicago and Kansas City wires are manned by nonunion opera- tors. The outgoing mail from St. Louis. to all points affected by the strike was heavier than it had been for years and the telephone companies had extra forces working on their long distance exchanges. These will be heavily oper- ated if the strike really comes. Admits Difficulty, Manager Bohle of the Western Un- ion local office said: were still “The business of this office is being. transacted as it was yesterday. Of course, Weare having some difficulty in getting messages into the cities af- fected and we are accepting them only subject to delay. “The operators have not walked out. That is all we know. “I cannot say what we would do if they should walk out. We will cross that bridge when we come to it.’’ In the absence of Manager Daniels, assistant manager McCormick of che Postal’s local office would make no statement Saturday. At the Postal’s receiving window, cus- tomers were told that all messages to Chicago and Kansas City would be ta- ken subject to delay. It was said that the full force of operators was at work. In the event that union linemen and maintenance department employes should strike in sympathy with the operators the situation would be greatly complicated. The big commercial houses and man- ufacturing concerns would be practic- ally without quick means of communt- cation in the event of a strike. Here another possible complication is suggest- ed by telegraph experts. Will Cripple Newspapers. Newspaper service would at once be affected by the strike. The papers em- ploy the operators who work on their leased wires, but for their special serv- ice they must depend on operators who are assigned and paid by the telegraph companies, | The effect on general business would be: far reaching, even if the leased wires should remain in operation. Quick communication between traders and cus- tomers would be cut off and heads of big enterprises would be unable to give instructions to their men in the field. It is estimated that the loss to the mercantile interests of St. Louis alone would be $200,000 a day. The New York Stock Exchange will be closed down if the telegraphers Strike becomes general, according to re- ports that reached St. Louls brokers. At the brokerage office of Charles Mc- Clure, Clark & Co., the opinion was ventured Saturday that the New York Stock Exchange could not possibly car- ry on operations with a big telegraph strike pending. ‘“‘Every wire in-the country,” said one of the Clark brokers, ‘‘would be crip- pled by a telegraphers strike. With de- layed quotations the market would be at the mercy of all sorts of raids and pandemonium would reign.” WORKERS LOSE NO TIME AT NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 10.—All the operators in the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Co., about 150 per- suns, walked out here this morning at lv o'clock in conformity with an order issued after a vote had been taken at a meeting of the local telegraphers’ union, The strike grew out of a demand on an operator in the main office to work with Chicago and nonunion men. The operator refused and was discharged by “~ ey ag chief. thin five minutes every key > office was silent. The me os” eal Bagg Pee + coats and left the building. In the branch offices of the Postal and in the morning paper offices, the messages were cut off when the order came, and all operators stopped work. While nothing has been Western Union, strike is likely. WOMAN !v LOS ANGELES CASE: HIGH OFFICIALS NOW AT KEYS Special to the Post-Dispatch. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 10.—Al- though about twenty-five men and wom- en were working in the Western Union main office today, they had little busi- ness to take care of, the strike in Chi- cago, Denver and Kansas City par- alyzing transcontinental business. The men at work are mainly wire chiefs, managers, superintendents and ex-em- ployes. One is a retired operator, now 74 years old, who has been in the gro- cery business for several years. The manager of the Oakland office is here at work, aS are several wire chiefs from San Francisco and Oak- land. The rest of the operators are strike-breakers from San Francisco and students, who want experience. Only one of the regular operators is at work. In the case of John Ryan, the opera- tor whose disc harge caused the Strike, the company Claims that by means of a hidden recorder tape fixed under Ry- ans key, it was discovered that he was continuously sending obscene and threatening messages to Sadie Nichols, a nonunion operator at Oakland, Pres- ident Small is expected here to assume charge. QUICK WALKOUT AT HELENA; CHICAGO WIRE CAUSES 17 HELENA, Mont., Aug. 10.—The e force of the local Western U nion office went on strike yesterday with the ex. ception of the chfef operator and his assistant. The strike was due te marking off an operator who declined to man the Cnhi- cago wire Before “the chief operator could re- quest anyone else to man it, the entire force, numbering about forty men, joined the discharged operator as he left the room, and all Wires were soon idle. WOMAN, “STORM CENTER GF “STRIKE,” EXPLAINS POSITION Special to the Post-Dispatch. OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 10.—Mrs. Sadie Nichols, the Western Union Telegraph Co.'s operator who figures in the strike, is a former resident of Buffalo, N. y, She is the divorced wife of Ernest 4. Nichels, formant @ policeman there, NOT al 2a athe done in the it is rumored that a nave: Nichols left her husband ten years ago. She has been an operator in the Peder Union employ in San Francis- co and Oakland for two Years. Samuel J. Small, national president of the Telegraphers’ Union, styled Mrs. Nichols as the ‘‘storm center of the strike.”" Mrs. Nichols said last night: “I had been greatly bothered by the operators at Los Angeles senaing uain- telligible messages on my wire. It was not that I was insulted so much as the impossibility of understanding what was being sent. Several night chief opera- tors tried to make out the stuff, and on their failure, I suppose, the trouble was reported to the higher officials of the company.” WOMEN IN GROUP OF STRIKERS AT EL PASO EL PASO, Tex., Aug. 10.—All the op- erators except one in the Western Union office here walked out at 3:15 o’elock yesterday afternoon. The strik- ers included two’ women. The local union held a meeting last night and adopted a resolution asking the Postal operators to walk out at 8 o’clock this morning. The day and night chiefs, day assist- ant chief and one operator are on duty at the Western Union. FOUR, WHO REFUSED TO MAN WIRES, RELIEVED AT DETROIT DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 10.—Four operators for the Western Union here last night refused to relieve on the Detroit-Chicago wire, and were sent home. At 10:30 p. m., however, it was stated at the Western Union office that all the wires were manned. The sending home of the four men and the fact that a dozen operators, due to begin work at 5 p. m., and who failed to report till.9 o'clock, were told that the night’s business was so well cleared up that they were not needed, led to a report that a Strike had occ urred here. ONE HUNDRED DESERT KEYS AT MINNEAPOLIS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 10.— With but a few exceptions, every West- ern Union Telegraph operator in Minne- ‘apolis left their instruments and walked out today. About 100 men quit and probably 10 are still at work. WHOLE FORCE OF WESTERN UNION QUITS AT HOUSTON HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 10. the Western Union operators, about 28, struck here this morning. Two of- ficials only are at work at the instru- ments, NONUNIONISTS JOIN UNION MEN IN SALT LAKE STRIKE SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 10.—The en- tire local force of Western Union opera- tors, thirty-six in number, walked out at 1:30 ociock yesterday afternoon fol- lowing the refusal of Manager A. W. Long to reinstate Operator R. W. Bart- lett, who was discharged for refusing to work the Salt Lake-Chicago wire, Bartlett declaring that the Chicago Western Union office was unfair. Two nonunion men went out with the members of the union. Only Manager Long and Chief Operator McDonald reported at work. COLORADO SPRINGS CLERKS AND OPERATORS STOP WORK COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 19. —The local force of clerks and Opera- tors at the Western Union office went on strike this morning. MANAGERS TAKE STRIKERS’ PLACES AT TOPEKA KEYS TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 10.—AlIl the men in both the ‘We stern Union ard Postal offices went out last midnight. The men stated to the Western Union manager that they would not handle any business to any of the points where the strike is on. The Western Union runs a force of four men and the Postal three. Both managers are operators and will keep the offices going. WASHINGTON OPERATORS ARE ANTICIPATING TROUBLE THERE WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Difficulty is anticipated here by the union op- erators of the Postal Telegraph and Western Union companies ff they are called upon to take message® sent by nonunion operators of Chicago. The union men have agreed “ stand togethér in supporting any © refuse to take a their members who such Csasages, : | 30 IMPORTED , Strike-Breakers to Operate promised today when the Western Union not do the companies much good when T0 TAKE J0BS UF CHICAGOANS , — Union Western Brings if Silenced Wires. CLERK IS ASSAULTED About 80 Men Trying to Do Business of “Both Companies. ; Mere CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—The breach tween the commercial telegraphers out on strike and. the telegraph company was widened and a finish fight was Telegraph Co. imported its first load of strikebreakers to man the silent keys. There were 30 men picked up in New York. They arrived this morning on the Twentieth Century limited train of the Laks Shore Railroad. The arrargements zor the housing and feeding of the men has been kept a secret, but it is believed that they will be kept or the plant of the company to prevent the’ possibility of their meet- ing with any violence at the hands of strikers or their sympathizers. The union men in the streets when the strikebreakers arrived said they would feel no alarm, that the operators were not good and that even if they were importing them into Chicago they could the men are striking elsewhere. 2 About 8) operators are trying to han- dle all the business of boto companies. A mass meeting of Western Union and Postal telegraph operators is being held here and it is likely that if the demands are not conceded by the com- panies the operators on the Associated Press and all Jeased wires leading from this city will be asked to desert their keys. Strike leaders here assert that they have sufficient influence over the leased wire operators to persuade them to quit, and that such action at this time will effectually tie up business, so far as the important Chicago end is con- cerned. : Postal Men Quit, The Postal operators, about 500, joined the ranks of the Western Union strik- ers vesterday evening. At 6 o’clock of- ficers of the’ union presented to Supt. Capen demands similar to those pre- sented last May and requested him to concede them at once. He refused. A signal was then given and all the oper- ators in the main office left their keys. It is said that 2500 union operators are idle here now and Chicago practically is cut off from the rest of the world. The commercial telegraph business is at a standstill and the _ situation is acute. , ’ A few nonunion men have been placed at the more important wires, but they cannot possibly begin to handle the business required of them. About fifty operators were at work this morning trying to handle the great business of the two companies. Postal Clerk Assaulted. The first violence occurred early to- day \ 1en a clerk in the main office of the Postal was assaulted and knocked down on Clark street, between Monroe and Adams streets, as he was on his way home from work. He was going north on the west side of Clark street when two men came out of an alley and attacked him. He was struck on the back of the head and knocked down. When he got up the men were running west.in the al- ley. NASHVILLE (TENN.) OPERATORS QUIT THEIR KEYS AT | P, M. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS,) SHV IL LE, TENN. “9 Aug. 10. —Sixty- NAS five went out on strike at 1 o’clock this af- ternoon. WESTERN UNION MEN AT MEMPHIS JOIN STRIKERS (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) MEMPHIS, TENN., Aug. 10.—All of the Western Union Telegraph Compa- ny’s operators at this point with the exception of the manager and chief op- erator went on strike this afternoon. The strike was caused by the dismissal of five operators who had refused to work with non-union men in the Dallas, Tex., office. The strikers also included the wire chiefs. It is expected that the night men will follow the action of the day force. 135 MEN QUIT AT DALLAS AFTER DISMISSAL OF ONE DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 10.—The entire ferce of the Western Union Telegraph Co. at this point, 135 men, walked out last night, following the dismissal of an operator, who refused to work with an operator in Denver who took the place of a striker. The Dallas operators declared that they had been advised that union men had been discriminated against at San Francisco since the recent strike, notwithstanding an agreement to the contrary, and that union men had been dismissed. from the Los Angeles office without apparent reason. The Postal operators here struck to- day. About 30 men are out. WESTERN UNION EMPLOYES AT DENVER LEAVE; POSTAL READY DENYER, Colo., Aug. 10.—All of the Western Union operators walked out yesterday afternoon. The immediate cause was an order to man the wires to Chicago and Los Angeles. There are 88 men out. Late in the afternoon the grievance committee representing the Postal operators presented a demand for a % per cent increase in wages, an eight-hour day for day operators and seven and a half hours for night oper- ators. Supt. Black being out of the city and not expected back until today action on the demand was deferred un- til his arrival. FT. WORTH REFUSES BUSINESS; ONLY A. P, LEASED WIRE FREE FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 10.—All Western Union Operators struck last night when news of a strike at Dallas was received. ‘They quit In a body at 9:30 o'clock and the company is refus- ing all business. The oftice in dark- ness. The Assoctated Preas than $50,000,000 Western’ Union telegraph operators | SON BEGINS SUIT AINST MOTHER VER MILLIONS Julia-W att-Morris-Cur- tiss Heiress to Great Watt Estate. 2 By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Papers served on Mrs. Julia Watt-Morris-Curtiss in a suit brought by her eldest son, Louis Morris, foreshadow litigation which will involve the disposition of the famous Watt estate in this city, valued at more and administered for many years by Mary G. Pinkney. Miss Pinkney is 94 years old and is credited Mrs. with being the richest spinster in this country. She lives in the Watt colonial ‘Tt ansion at Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Fortieth street. - Mrs. Curtiss is one of-three heirs who will receive the ‘bulk of the Watt mil- lions on the death of Miss Pinkney. It was learned tbat the bringing of the suit is coincident with the report of a romance, a future chapter of which may concern the marriage of Mra. Cur- tiss to a New York business manu. Al- though twice married and twice sep- arated by divorce, Mrs. Curtiss belves a wealth of happiness is in store for hea. Mrs, Curtiss Is Angry. Among the circle of friends who are entertained in the town residence of Mrs. Curtiss is Herbert Williamson, an official of Fairbanks County. Mr. Wil- liamson comes of a prominent family in Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Curtiss has a suite-in the Hotel Savoy, to which she returned shortly before 11 o’clock last night attended by three men, a woman and her butler. She wore a magnificent evening gown of white. The corsage was fairly ablaze with diamonds and costly jewels graced her shapely hands. A gray cloak was thrown across her shoulders and on her head rested a blue hat, trimmed with slate-colored plumes. ‘Tt is preposterous to question my mentality,”” Mrs. Curtiss said with spirit. ‘“‘I am as sane and shrewd as any normal woman. This trouble is a disgrace and ungenerous on my 80n’s part. I am not apprehensive of any harm befalling me in New York, but I do not propose to be annoyed with a suit which would perhaps embarrasg my estate. Son Supported by Mother. “T have granted my son an allowance of $20,000 a year for himself and his wife. I do not spend $360,000 a year, as has been reported. Whatever my disburse- ments are they are within my income. I have a son and a daughter who are minors and I do not think they side with my eldest son. “But Mrs. Louis Morris ts ambitious, and I fear she is instigating my son to have a committee appointed for me. Other members of my family are try- ing to coerce me.”’ Louls Morris and his wife are de- pendent on Mrs. Curtiss’ bounty. Busy bodies have discussed ‘what would hap- pen if Mrs. Curtiss remarried and di- vided with a husband the _ interests which formerly centered on her eldest son. Morris is spending the summer at Fairfield, Conn., in a magnificent coun- try home, which his mother gave him three months ago. Mr. Morris refused to admit he had brought suit against her. Her lawyer said, however, that papers in the case had been served on her three weeks ago calling for her appearance in the superior court in Bridgeport, Conn. She Is Called Incompetent. In the papers it is alleged that Mrs. Curtiss is incompetent to manage her affairs and the courts are asked to appoint a guardian. Intemperate hab- its are put forward as a contributory cause to her incompetency. Mrs. Curtiss retains the beauty which drew attention to her portrait painted by Chartran a few years ago. Mrs. Curtiss is 45 years old. She is devoted to her second son, Keith, aged 19, and a daughter, Miss. Charlotte, aged 17. Mrs. Curtiss is a favorite of Miss Pinkney, who, friends say, has assured the heiress she has every confidence in her. Every effort has been made to keep news of the suit from the public. Mrs. Curtiss first husband was Peter H. Morris, from whom she obtained a a divorce in 1897. She married Dr. Rol- lin A. Curtiss in 189% He divorced her in March, 1904. Lawyer Got Judgment Against Her. In April 1902, Henry H. Wibort sued Mrs. Curtiss for $23.500 “for services in calling upon and consulting with her in reference to inducing Rollin A. Cur- tiss to visit her, and in tracing and as- certaining the whereabouts of Curtiss, and calling upon him at various places and using efforts to persuade Curtiss to visit her.” Wibort got a verdict for $13,500. Mrs. Curtiss is a daughter of the late Thomas Watt, whose father, Archibald Watt, was the founder of the Watt estate. Mrs. Curtiss’ brother, Thomas Watt and her sister, Miss Grace Watt, of West 77th street, who is now abroad, will share with her the bulk of the millions intrusted to Mary G. Pinkney. Miss Pinkney was the. daughter of Col. Pinkney of Maryland. He left her $50,000 in cash at his death. Mrs. Pink- ney, her mother, became the wife of Archibald Watt, who had become a great land holder by the purchase of the John DeLancey farm. Watt became pressed for ready cash and Miss Pinkney saved him by lend- ing him $60, He taught her how to manage his big estate. At hia death he willed it all to heft, with the provision that she share it liberally with the other heirs. MILK DELIVERER STRICKEN BY HEAT WHILE AT WORK One Killed and Five Prostrated Record of a Humid Priday. But one heat victim was received at the City Uospital Saturday morning. Several other persons collapsed, but their condition was not serious enough ito send them to the hospital. Willis A. Green of 168 Etta street, Luxemburg, was overcome by heat while delivering milk. He is in a@ se- rious condition. The dispensary had calls for am- bulances from 4308 Easton avenue and Vandeventer and Laclede avenues, but has Kot ath tea” ne oe eee ae AACE RIOT PUTS. THREE IN BED One Greek May Die as Result of Birthday Celebration in Granite City. NO BULGARIANS HURT Police Find Leader of Beaten “a Forces Heading Second At- tack on Saloon. War broke out between the Grete ard Bulgarian colonies of “Hungry Hollow” in Granite City Friday night, and as the result of the conflict three of King George's subjects are In the hospital with lacerated scalps and battered sides, William Christ, most seriously injured, — may die. following a Greek celebration of John Parker's birthday, which led the party of merrymakers around to the saloon of Nick Alaback, king of the Bulga- rians. Alabatk, resented the celebra- vn In his saloofmand a riot started. — Tne Bulgarians aitacked the Greeks with billiard The i. fought back, but Wi t little chance against ne « of the Bulgarians, armed When the battle en was lying on the f cuts on the head and Pome Curist was covered with blood * vy streaming from a wound in his face and his body was battered where he had been kicked, and William George had many contusions on his head and facé@, . The remainder of the Greeks retreated, heading for the Blue Goose saloon, con- Yes ducted by A. D. Pappas, king of tHe — tribe of Hellas. Pappas rallied Greekg and marched out to renew the fight. Numerous shots had been fired in the neighborhood and when the po- lice arrived they found Pappas at tne head of his forces, armed with a pistol. ° He told the police that the Bulgarians were cleaning up the Greeks and he wanted to march to his rival's saloon and do some execution with his pistol. The police stopped the march and sent — the wounded men to the hospital for — treatment. . There has been bad blood between the rival colonies for some time and riots have been imminent for weeks. ™ rival factions. Greeks climbed on the bar of his saloon in their eagerness to fight and when ‘they did this he resénted it and his countrymen joined him in the battle, So far as the police know none of he Bulgarians was hurt. The police arrested several of the par- ticipants in the fight. rue Greek Bulgarian leaders cove = sions of the troub Simo the injured Greeks, said tha without provocat Bulgarian leader had leaped and proclaimed that no C wanted in Granite City. Alaback, o om Pg says the Greeks started trouble. WIFE'S DWORCE. BILL MENTIONS DOZEN WOMEN Suit of Mrs. Eunice Padfield Recalls Shooting of Her Husband in 1905. Twelve women are named in the di- vorce petition of Mrs. Eunice Padfield of Belleville, filed in the Circuit Court of that city, against Damon Padfield. One of them is Mrs. Ella Durphy of Chicago, on whose account Padfleld was shot and seriously wounded in the Grand Pacific Hotel Feb. 12, 196, by her hus- band, Dr. Durphy. The other deven reside in different parts of the country. Dr. Durphy shot Padtield because he found him in the company of Mra, Durphy in a room in the hotel. Pad- field was expected to die but recovered, Mrs. Padfield was at that time at the home of her father, Ex-Mayor E. PF, Wankler, on Fulton street, Belleville, She thought that her husband was ab- sent on business. The Padfields are understood not to have lived together since. Mrs. Padfield, as Eunice Winkler, had a local reputation as the first franinine bicycle rider in Belleville before she married Padfield. He was a member of a prominent St. Clair County fam- ily, and his home was at Summerfield. In her bill Mra. Padfleld charged her husband with numerous offenses be- sides his alleged association with other women. LOSES HIS MEMORY WHEN TEMPERATURE GETS TO 92 grees Ernst Wolter loses his and forgets his name. This has hap — pened to him several times since his — tne. vielen Net ee thera, | | The battle broke out at 11:30 p. m., ee the . When the temperature rises to 92 de skull was fractured in a mine accident —

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$43,250 SUM INVOLVED

Staté Official Claims This Amount Should Be Depos- ited With Him.

State Insurance Superintendent Van- diver has requested Attorney General Hadiey to proceed against the Mercan- tile —Town Insurance Co. of St. Louis because of the company’s alleged failure to account for $43,250 of assets. Mr. Vandiver told a Post-Dispatch re- porter at the Southern Hotel Saturday that this action was taken after his de- partment had made wnavailing efforts to get at the true condition of the. Town Mutual’s affairs. The American Benevolent Association and the Royal Fraternal Union are also under fire from the State Insurance ‘De- partment, Mr. Vandiver contending that they are spending too much money for Management. Concerning the charge against the Town Mutual Co., Mr. Van- div:‘r made this statement: “Some time ago the company began issuing certificates on its guarantee fund. The only purpose of a guarantee fund is to insure policyholderg against loss. Complaints to my office went to show that the certificates were pur- chased under the misapprehension that they were shares of stock in the com- pany. ts Not Made, “A mutual company cannet, of course, issue stock. “The town mutual law, which I en- deavored to have repealed at the recent session of the Legislature, permits the members of the company to guarantee | policyholders and thereby create a guar- antee fund. “But the money so collected must be deposited with the Superintendent of In- gurance. In the case of the Town Mu- tual this requirement was only partially -_ complied with. The company proposed to sell guarantee certificates to the amount of $100,000. They have already disposed of about $60,750. Of this amount only $17,500 is on deposit at my office. “Recently I sent one of my assistants to the Town Mutual's office to make an investigation of the books. The result was so unsatisfactory on account of the condition -of the company’s accounts that I decided to place J. W. Daugherty under oath to ascertain the facts. His disposwition was taken at my office in Jefferson City. He could not or did not explain the whereabouts of the $43,250. - ‘In response to questions as to whether he paid dividends on the guarantee cer- tificates Mr. Daugherty’s memory was very hazy. He saii that he thought he paid some dividends, and when asked if his books would show what he ,had paid he answered that he had kent no record of the dividends. “His testimony was most disappoint- inz and I decided to refer the whole matter to the Attorney-General for ac- tion. “T @islike,”’ continued Mr. Vandiver, “to make these matters pubtic, the com- pany’s officials declaring that I am in- juring their business, At the same time I feel that I have given them ample op- portunity to straighten out their affairs and, besides, the puplic is probably en- titled to know the facts. “There is no prejudice on the part of the Insurance Department against this company. On the contrary, some of my warmest personal friends are connected with it. David Glenn, president of the Birst National Bank of Cape «iirardeau, @nd other well-known citizens of that jocality are prominently associated with the Town Mutual's affairs.” ‘Mr. Vandiver declared that only a few of the fraternal insuray¢ee companies ere open to criticism. “There is to be no general investigation of them, as has been intimated, because there is no need for such,”’ said Mr. Vandiver. Secretary Daugherty of the Town slu- tual Co., said to a Post-Dispatch re? porter: “We know of no grounds for complaint against us, have heard ncth- ing from Mr. Vandiver and have there- fore taken no action in the matter and have nothing to say.” A. 8. Burden, manager of agencies for the American Benevolent Association, and F. H. Pickrell, representing the Royal Fraternal Union, deny that Mr. Vandiver has ground for action agaist their organizations. THRICE RECONCILED WIFE AGAIN SEEKING DIVORCE Fourth Case, Like Predecessors, Charge Alton Man With Cru- elty to Spouse. For the fourth time in two years Mrs. Elizabeth Walters of Alton, has filed suit for divorce from Charles S. Wal- ters in the Madison County Circuit Court. In all four petitions she has charged cruelty. Three times recon- cililations have been effected and the suits withdrawn. Im the pending suit, the wife alleges that Walters, a glassblower, threatened wks a seveiver, tn tho te complained that h

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Present Free Bridge Bill Has Another Obstacle to Overcome.

BRENNAN AT HEARING

Sees Failure of Resolution to —.Visit Location and Leaves.

Signs of a fight by the House of Dele- gates On the bill locating the free bridge at Chouteau avenue have become por- tentous. following almost unanimous advocacy of that site at a public hear- ing before the Council’s Committee on Public Improvements. ; The first intimation of opposition in the City Council came with a resolution urging members of the Municipal As- sembly to visit the proposed site and the shore opposite St. Louis before voting on the bill. This resolution was _ introduced by Councilman John J. O’Brien. He said that he had investigated the topography of both banks of the river and was convinced that a bridge at Chouteau avenue would be difficult and costly to build. The eastern approach, he said, must be a mile long, Over ground that was swampy and subject to overflow. The resolution was killed by the votes of Councilmen Crunden, Lambert, Nor- vell and Moellman.. Councilmen O’Brien supported it. Other members were ab- sent. The bill was then sent to engross- ment. When it was reported back two members were absent. This, defeated the emergency clause, which required 9 votes—two-thirds of the membership. The bill was passed by a vote of 7 to nothing, with six members absent. Its fate in the House of Delegates is expected to furnish new excitement for its advocates. Shows House Opposition, Significance was attached to the pres- ence of Belegate W. J. Brennan just preceding the introduction of O’Brien’s resolution. Brennan is a member of the Joint Committee on the Free Bridge Site, but is avowedly hostile to the Chouteau avenue site. He is also a member of the ‘‘combine”’ in the House of Delegates. It is generally believed that the majority in the House wili op- pose Chouteau avenue and if not suc- cessful in compelling a change will at least greatly retard legislation relating to the bridge. The-public hearing that preceded the meeting of the Council was an hour and a half of triumph for the partisans of Chouteau avenue. They were out in force, 300 at least appearing on the floor and in the galleries to help their cause by speeches or applause. In the throng was a sprinkling of citizens from North St. Louis and a few official representatives of mercantile or- ganizations in that section. Both op- penents and advocates of Choteau ave- nue were to have been heard. Those favoring Chouteau avenue were re- quested by Chairman Norvell of the Public Improvements Committee to open the argument, however, and when they concluded only one objector spoke—J. F. O. Reller. Kehr’s Argument Telling. Edward C. Kehr, former member of the City Council and of Congress, made the most telling argument in favor of Chouteau avenue and seemingly dis- couraged the last opposition to the Joint Committee’s report. Before the hear- ing began several representatives of North 8t. Louis announced that they would speak for their section of the city. Among these were Charles C. Crone and J. F. O. Reller of the North St. Louis Citizens’ Association and of the North St. Louis Business Men’s As- sociation, respectively. Crone _ after- wards said that in the interest of prompt action he was willing to ac- cept Chouteau avenue. Engineers, after scientific and careful investigation, have recommended Chou- teau avenue, Mr. Kehr said, and unless their finding was reversed by other en- gineers more capable, the report should be followed. The speeches in favor of Chouteau avenue were begun by Councilman Moellman, chairman of the Joint Com- mittee on Location. He recounted thig labors of the committee and its experts and asked that their judgment be ac- cepted. Sheridan Webster, representing the South Broadway Merchants’ Associa- tion and the Committee on South Side Location of the Bridge—constituted of delegates from several organizations— championed Chouteau avenue. “The people of North St. Louis should be satisfied to give South St. Louis a bridge,” he said. ‘i‘the North End has two now, and will have thr-e in the course of two years. North End Crowded Now.

additional traffic which the free bridge will bring to that section could not be handled unless the trackage is propor- ionately increased. It would cost a vast sum of money to augment present facilities,”’ ‘ Fear that the Termihal Railroad As- sociation could prevent the construction of a free bridge on the North Side by entangling the city in costly litigation over necessary approaches was one of the arguments wsed by Frank H. Ger- hart. He said the Terminal owns all the available land east of Broadway and north of Washington avenue. Gerhart charged that the present “quibbling’ about the site at Chou- teau avenue was inspired by the Ter- minal Association and used, like the arguments against the validity of the bonds, the manner of voting for the project and the constitutionality of the

James Baker, Mr. M. 8. Forbes, Mrs. a first to be A. Toomey, and Mrs. C. C. Tuyner. entire project, to defeat the people's wishes. -}CANDYSELLER: KISS: . “The district east of Broadway and \ north of Washington avenue is already congested by tracks and factories. The cae ae Magee eS eta 4 > , ee : ‘THIS CHILD IN STORE

BLOSSOM, SQUIRES} CONFECTIONER MUST PAY $250 FOR KISSING GIRL Blossom Squires Ran Home in Tears After Greek Ca- ressed Her. A kiss stolen from this 12-year-old girl is worth $250, according to a ruling of Judge Pollard in the Dayton Street Police Court. She is Blossom Squires who lives at 3926 West Belle avenue. Sunday night she went.to the store of James Skornos, 77 North Vandeventer avenue, to buy ice cream. he had made her purchase when the Greek leaned over, caught her by the cheek and drew her to him, kissing her full on the lips. The child broke away and ran home in tears. Skornos was arrested and Judge Pol- lard fi,ned him $250.

Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup re- duces inflammation while children are teeth- ing. JOHN W. GATES WILL LIVE IN ENGLAND REST OF LIFE Capitalist and Horseman, It Is Said, Will Return Only Occasionally to This Country. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—John W. Gates has gone to England to settle there, like Richard Croker, live the life of a country squire and keep up a big rac- ing establishment. This, it is stated, is the true meaning of the auction of C. E. Durnell’s sta- ble, to take place Aug. 16. Durnell has announced that he is going to England and it is said he will gather a stable of English-bred horses, which he will race for Mr. Gates. Mr. Gates, the story also says, will retain his citizenship in the United States. His son will represent him here, but he will seldom favor this country with a visit.

The Best of Everything At the Saddle., 204 North Sixth. MARE ADOPTS A CALF, NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT? Feeds Little One and Keeps From Its Mother by Use of Vicious Heels. Tiere’s another nature story from Up- per Alton. It doesn’t bear the “U. S. Inspected and Passed’’. stamp, but it is vouched for by persons who have never been considered eligib'e for mem- bership in the Ananias Club. A trotting mare belonging to J. W. Hackett has adopted a Jersey calf. I'rom the day it was born three weeks ago the calf has shown a strange fondness for the mare. It has desert- ed its mother, Bossy, who, deeply grieved, chews her cud and contem- plates habeas corpus proceedings. The calf las taken the place in the mare’s affections made vacant by the death of a colt. From its new-found mother the little Jersey obtains suste- nance of the good old-fashioned kind. The mare fights to protect her adopt- ed ward and shows a pair of vicious heels to Bossy whenever she comes near. PIASA CHAUTAUQUA. 24th Annual Assembly now being neld;: program includes W. J. Bryan, Senator La Follette, “Bob” Taylor and many others. Special excursion rates via C. Pp. & St. L. Ry. Get program and time of trains at 511 Chestnut street. Tele- phone Main 2642; Central 2622.

O’Sullivan Clerk te Chief. Policeman Martin O'Sullivan has been transferred from O'Fallon Park Station to headquarters to act as secretary to Chief of Detectives Smith, a place made vacant by the resignment of vid Vansant. O’Sullivan is considered one of the best clerks in the department. ; 4 ‘ISMISSED FOR HIDING IN ATTIC Dougherty Loses Job Because of Call on Woman at 3 A. M.

SHE CAME TO DEFENSE

Mrs. Williams and Her Sister Say They Called Him Into House.

After a Police Board hearing that re- sembled a divorce trial Patrolman Martin Dougherty of the Carondalet district was found. guilty of being too friendly with Mrs. Ella Williams of Broadway and Haven street and was dismissed from the force. . Dougherty declared that his atten- tions to Mrs. Williams were in the line of police duty only. His appearance be- fore the board followed a sensational scene at the home of Mrs. Williams’ sister, Mrs. Emma Whitaker, at 3 a. m. July 14, when Mrs. Williams’ husband found Dougherty hiding in the attic. Mrs. Williams appeared as a witness for the prosecution, but her testimony was in defense of Dougherty. “My wife and I had been separated for four days,"”’ said Williams, who is a carpenter, ‘“‘when something told me to go to the home of my sister-in-law. When I arrived after midnight I found the house in darkness. When I knocked at the door there was a rush of foot- steps inside. I distinctly heard three persons moving about. “I waited nearly ten minutes and tnen knocked again. I heard my wife's voice and called to her to let me in. A few minutes later she opened the door. She had to remove a bookcase to do so, as it formed a barricade. Found Policeman in Attic, “When I got inside the house I struck several matches and searched the vari- ous rooms. Then I observed that the door leading upstairs to the attiob was locked. “I demanded the key. My wife, after some hesitation, gave it to me, and I opened the door and ascended the stairs. Holding a lamp above my head, I saw Policeman Dougherty in a crouch- ing position, with hia right hand on his pistol holster. I asked him what he was doing there and he chased me from the house. ‘“T have seen Dougherty in conversa- tion with my wife near a gas tank a few blocks from our home at least twenty times in the last month. Cne morning ‘when we were conducting a restaurant on South Broadway 1 got out of bed at 2 o’clock. Dougherty and my wife were standing in the front part of the restaurant. When T appearéd on the scene Dougherty jwnped to one side away from my wife. Thcy had heen’ conversing in whispers.” When Mrs. Williams appeared in the boardroom she carried a copy of the Post-Dispatch containing her picture and an account of her marital trou- bles. When Vice-President Bland asked her what she had to say regard- ing her husband's charges she replied that the story in the newspaper was correct in every detail and that she had nothing to add, Says She Called Dougherty in. “It is true that Policeman Dougher- ty was in my sister’s home the night my husband refers to, but there was liams. ‘‘My sister and I had been alone in the house and we thought we heard a noise. We beth became frightened and when Policeman Dougherty passed we called him into the house. He had only stepped in when my husband be- gan knocking at the door. Owing to trouble I had had with my husband I thought it that he should not see emer ‘As for Dougherty visiting our res- taurant, that is also true. The place was open to the public and he had as much right to go there as anyone else. I met Dougherty on the street several times, but never by appointment.’’ “Didn’t you tell me that you loved Dougherty more than me?’ asked WIi- liams, cross-examining his wife. “I never did anything of the sort,” said Mrs. Williams, turning sharply around ana facing her husband, who sat only a few inches away. “Didn’t you tell a certain police ser- geant that ‘any two persons have a right to love each other if they just can’t help it’? “Never in my life did I say such a thing,”” exclaimed Mrs. Williams an- grily. “I said that love is something that God put before us and that it is not to be trifled with.” Dougherty declared that his relations with Mrs. Williams were strictly proper and within his duties as a patrolman. He ig married and lives at 030 Michi- gan avenue. mre

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nothing wrong in that,” said Mrs. Wwih-, Instrument Under He Pillow. LETTER MADE THREAT “Look Out, Your Child ' Nil Be Stolen,” Mysterious Missive Said. We 7 A mother who lives at 96'Tyler ave. nue so afraid her babies will be kid= naped that she puts a long surgeon's” knife under her pillow at night. ee - Her husband is Dr. A. F. Kleykamp and the knife his wife takes to 4 with is the longest-bladed and shat knife in his collection of “I would hate to take a human Ws but they had better leave my bablen alone,” said Mrs. Kleykamp Saturdl epee ; 2 ae ‘ :@ ’ sere wee, 0 leat Ss her eee would fight to the death for her babies Letter Threatens .:duaping, * Mrs. Kieykamp’'s fear is car the following m~*~‘erious letter; . ~ "= “Kleykamps: Look out, your ¢ will be stolen. ITALIA Dr. Kleykam» laughed at the and said he believed it was a to the mother it was anything * was most serious to her, and she ¥ almost prostrated with fear. ° wats Since iving the.letter Mrs. Kigy: kamp has ‘hot let either of her two” bies out of sight of neree’ or I \ * 4

pends upon children’ are Grace, Edith, 17 months old. Apparently a rubber stamp for the letter, which is mispelling in the word “Ital regarded by the police as f an Italian did not write it. an ignorant Italian might meee es » take. ; Nia! . o i Se s ¢ the letter is fro ieee id “eink ah Tae + - 7 = ot 4 ae ** , a 4 = ee EN : - “2 G. MecNatr, grar be ri, der

Se ‘Fight Over An altercation between owe 01 and Tony Walliweber, two rood eR pressmen ,over who should | trunk from the residence of J. Hi Knie on Webster avenue to Sap pington cost Newton a fine of $l and $¢ costs in Justice Jacobi's cour Kirkwood. "sae Small een &: ) LAs 25.00 * Pueblo, - ba hi. fal : } Colorado Springs: F AND RETURN SOOOOOOS

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ee piu ee . : : ae Saat’ THY Rei Fe : fits Re a cae a aa is, a ies 2 4 nie P : ' S POST. DIS PATCH little helps. Remember, though, that it is not| well to strain yourself in this sort of weather. by JOSEPH PULITZER, Dec. 12, 1878 | The world’s acquired momentum from your pre- by The Pulitzer Publishing Co, vious efforts is sufficient to carry it through the 210-212 WN. Broadway. : + month of August. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: BY MAIL IN ADVANCE. SO OG oe A A Aha NO et GS oR ER “WATCH ME SMASH THE JERSEY SKEETER!" It Surely Has Been an Annoying and Pain-I nflicting Insect, But, Bloated With Blood, It Seems Less Agile Than of Old and a Post-

‘Being Brief Comment on Little Items in the News of a Day. Free baths are not immunity baths, as the name might suggest. Dispatch Cartoonist Joins With Ida Tarbell in Predicting That It Will Be Crushed.

hbo a>. reeerlUmle Congressman Cannon of Illinois concluded an address at Old Salem with the remark: “Thies is the only Chautauqua at which I have spoken this year and it is the only one at which I shall speak.” As most of the other presidential candi- dates are speaking at all of the Chautauquas this is either a crafty attempt to stir up an anti-Chautauqua movement or an indication that Uncle Joseph is inclined to resent that method of campaigning on the part of his competitors. In either case let him beware of the wrath of the Chautauquans.

eee, Sata: hdhesteneen * 1 7 eo ..ea re *Datly and Sunday, one re eo er Daily without Sunday, one year.............$3.00 Sunday only, one WEG. LG cAiestcbvcweebcasecescdae Pe > See Pee -~ _- ~ me Peary’s failure to make a “dash for the pole” — . {renders this summer unique. - 7 « While Vardaman is gracefully bowing to the — will of the majority in Mississippi he might wats : include an apology for underestimating their ae ‘Bg telligence. 3 “a @ eS Se = -.7* Ses -.\@. @s*° *, ea *® + > e — py ee noe Ps or St. Louls exchange. ; CIRCULATION AVERAGE FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1907

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things for the future and when if comes to pun- - ishing the unregenerate they move grandly and irresistibly. tee ne may be that the rush to Sunday grocery stores 4s for confectionery. | eondition of a % railway if the facts do not warrant it, and it is @ matter even more serious, after all this back- tng and filling to drop the subject without giv- ing the public any substantial assurance that omega once admitted have been corrected. port repeals her ordinance prohibiting the dis- wer of flags over her streets. _ lowers real concern. ; that there is nothing in that to laugh at. _ do little with the Railroad Commissioners who _ have made a spectacle of themselves in the Mis- - gouri Pacific case. ‘the intelligent voters of the State remember them and act accordingly official incapacity and _ indifference will go unrebuked. as the people are in having this scandal put at pest in the right way. Evidently the politicians of the State Board are incapable of any useful pervice in that direction. “No one seems to care for a blind man and his Public opinion is what goes on in the minds of “2 yea a - ae Z &. vol Sunday, - 260,939 Daily 170,153 Largest Circulation West of the Mississippi River. “FIRST IN EVERYTHING.”’

GOING AWAY? Upon request, the Post-Dispatch will be mailed to subscribers while out of the city. Address may be changed as often as desired. Terms by mail 45 cents per month in advance. LEVITY OF THE BOSS. Chairman Essen of the St. Louis County Re- publican Central Committee, in his capacity as boss, is disposed to make light of the new law for the removal of delinquent public officers. He and the men for whom he speaks have as- sumed a “bring-on-your-bears” attitude and they await the worst. This may be mere bravado and, whatever it is, not much importance can be attached to it, but when it is explained that this great dissatisfac- tion with conditions in the county is due to the fact that “the county is a big one” it is evident that there is some levity in the pro- nouncements Big counties do things in a big way. They go to the bad on a large scale, they repent ma- jestically, they gloriously resolve upon better

St. Louis County is big indeed, but it is the size of its dissatisfaction precisely and not par- ticularly the bigness of its territory or its pop- ulation that should give the boss and his fol- They will find in time -_ i he hee — oe As candy is now said to cure alcoholism,

it hip hip hi. i i A AN INCAPABLE BOARD. Probably it will be found that Gov. Folk can

They are responsible to the people and unless It is a serious matter to condemn the physical great railway; it is serious mat- ter to commend the physical condition of a great The railroad company is as much interested

— The country will never be safe until Logans- hp Lp dir. — MR. GALLAGHER’S DOG.

” gays Mr. Gallagher. - But a whole city was touched to sympathy by the Post-Dispatch’s recital of his troubles, and public opinion may be depended upon to correct ‘s neighbors. Mr. Gallagher’s neighbors will bably take care in future that he and the : dog that guides his steps are not mo- ested by the vicious cur. ‘ same issue of the Post-Dispatch contained ther dog story which may perhaps have a sug- lve bearing on this one. The pet dog of a ral boy was “tin-canned” by some _ cruel ths. The poor little animal was so frightened » the experience that it jumped off a bluff into river. Sometimes the wrong dog is “canned.” If general and neighborhood public opinion do it promptly relieve Mr. Gallagher of his ibles he may secure ample protection by re- to a police court. aS : umaliest of two fat men has won a race n St Louis. But this may be no bad omen eitn "

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make his mark and die.” Huxley quali- @ the idea. “Very few of us,” he commented, n expect to make our mark. The best that pat us ood GSENPENG'S push and pass TE ve is helpful truth ot’ he humblest; the een .>. i a

It appears that Gov. Folk can hit a preacher as well as a crook. , “JAI ALAI” AND AMERICANISM. When President Roosevelt comes to St. Louis in October he will make a speech in the “Jaj Alai Building” It is fit enough for the purpetse. ,

, We need of its ‘construction was being done Jai Alai as a development of world politics seemed more im- portant to some world politicians than Ameri- can progress by American methods. Now we know that Jai Alai was not perma- nently in our line. We know that our line is American progress, and not the forcible exchange of vices or “near-vices” with other peoples through the processes of “world politics.” When he speaks in the “Jai Alai Building,” President Roosevelt ought to have a good deal to say an American progress for America. No MJ . Par rte, * "8alteeg i! NN

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JUST A MINUTE With Post-Dispatch Poets and Humorists

ST, LOUIS COUNTY A Description for the Post-Dispatch By Clark McAdams.

POEMS BY THE COPY BOY, Overlooked. hiho The summer’s almost flew and no one says Vacation you The other people come and go but as for me I do not know it would appear my Goose is cooked and That i have bin overlooked which is the offis’s Own loss but shows where i stand with the boss o Woe and what of equal rites i am supposed tew rest o’ nites Which is a grate and cruel wrong that offis boys have suffered Long and why Are they sum special breed of humankind that Does not need a spell Frum toil tew put on flesh and keep the brane alert And fresh are they Not constituted like all other people are Sure mike and organs and dimenshuns have like other folks It is tew laf oddsbodykins and dubble Whew do They not) have brane wurk tew do and would vacations not Repay the offis Yea o yea o yea bijo How this concern would fail if my think tank purchants should ail And yet unhappy circumstance the management will Take the chance REASONING WITH HIM, A dog trotted under tne milk wagon. “Hey,” said a citizen. “That dog is frothing at the mouth.” The milkman only smiled. “Hey, there’s a mad dog under your wagon!” the citizen shouted. The milkman stopped his team. “Did you say mad dog?’ he asked. a: eg “Dont you know that mad dogs run from water?” **Yes.”’ “Then would you call a dog trotting under a milk wagon a mad dog? Gid- dap!’’ ‘“‘Boss’’ Essen seems to have mastered the political Essentials. DADDY OF ALL THE BROMIDES, “Well, the Browns were not beaten yesterday, anyway.” “That so?” “Yes. It rained.” FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE, The explanation of Judge Landis’ name igs very interesting. His father was a surgeon in the army. Struck by a cannon ball at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, he miraculously escaped. The son, in commemoration of the escape, was named Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and he has risen to the distinction of fining Standard Oil $29,000, 000. This opens a new field of acquain- tance. Glad to meet the Judge, and hope to have the pleasure of meeting the following gentlemen: Missionary Ridgeway, ‘Appomatox Anderson, Get- tysburg Smith, Chickamaugua Jones, Bull’s Run Baxter, Spottsylvania Court- house Campbell, San Juan Hill, Wilson’s Creek Williams, Fort, Donelson Fish, Wounded Knee Webb, The Wilderness Watson, Pittsburg Landing Loomis, Dajo crater Thompson, Siege of Vicks- burg Simpson, Sherman’s March to the Seabrooke, Cedar Creek Cartw right and Santiago Bay Stevens. COUPLET. Talk, and the world talks with you; Think, and you think alore. No one says anything of one !mport- ant feature of the Standard Oi] flne— the costs. A St. Louis girl has killed a man for not keeping an appointment with her. Sufficiency. :

eceaabenmes : T. LOUIS COUNTY, which Gov. Folk has selected as the scene of his S next big battle, possesses many natural advantages for a first-class mid- Its vast prairie reaches, which enable combatants to espy one another at great distances, assure alertness and early action. Its remarkable acoustics, which make it possible for opposing forces to make out what they are calling each other when far apart, imbue the fighters with ex- summer ruction. ceptional eagerness. The county is bounded upon the south by the Paddle and Saddle Club, on the west by Fred Essen, on the north by the Field Club, and on the east by Mark Gumperts. It is very fertile, the principal products being Republicans, commuters, adulterated milk and righteous indignation. The capital is Clay- ton, the popular pastime is rocking the canoe; golf is played in some of the more pastoral parts, and the password is “You are arrested for speeding.” Nowhere else in the world has the club idea spread as it has in St. Louis County. The Country Club is the finest in the world exclusively for farmers. The Glen Echo Club has the biggest mint -bed north of the Ohio. The St. Louis County Hunting and Fishing Club has a fine hunting preserve stocked with large coveys of bottled beer. The Ace-of-Clubs is maintained by the W. C. T. U. to keep people from drinking the intoxicating waters of Creve Coeur Lake. The Louisiana Club is the most exclusive in the world. It has 178,000 members. The Busch Grove Aero Club sends a balloon up every ten minutes to see if Folk is coming. St. Louis County was settled by Puritan stock, and it has never embraced those free and easy morals into which most of the country has lapsed. The Blue Laws are rigorously enforced. Nobody in the county smokes, drinks or chews. Swearing is unknown. The Prosecuting Attorney tirelessly hunts evil with a beanshooter, and the Sheriff makes everybody run along to Sunday school. tect it from the follies and foibles of the rest of the State. missionaries are sent across the border to labor with the heathen in the city of St. Louis. The Democratic primaries are held on the target range back of Jefferson Barracks. The automobiling in the county is the finest in Missouri. have cars, and buggies and wagons going out from the city are held to a strict accountability for interference with the sport. The Olive Street road is oiled with olive oil. The county’s quarrel with Gov. Folk is due to the dis- pleasure with which certain persons in the county regard the State adminis- tration. Being extremely Puritanical themselves, they naturally regard the Governor as a lax official who rules with a soft palm, where he should rule Their severe strictures have annoyed the Governor, who do not have all the moral advan- Great numbers of A i] the people with an iron hand. came from a part of Tennessee where they tages. The battle will become historic, for it will probably mark the end of Puri- tanism in St. Louis County. The more Bohemian element has been growing of late, and it is likely that with the Governor’s aid it will overcome the peo- ple who have kept the county different. If it does, St. Louis County will be overrun by persons out of sympathy with its old-fashioned morals, the quaint old clubs will decay, brewery wagons will roll across the line, cigarettes will contaminate the pure air, the shell game will displace dominoes, and the county will become like any place else. ew Que

THE ROMANCES OF VACATION. Advice to Girls From a Post-Dispatch Expert. By BETTY VINCENT.

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your vacation. Perhaps you are just go- ERHAPS you are just back fron. whatever they may be. You Pp ing or are in the midst of its enjoyments, are liable to bring home with vou the memory of some new man acquaint- ance with whom you have walked and driven or played tennis, and the tirst Week of your return will be spent in looking forward to the letter he promised to write. He didn’t quite propose in the country, but you will expect that letter to contain the formal declaration of his affections, and under the temporary Rlamour of reminiscence you may have decided your answer will be a favorable one. And then the letter does not come. You look for it day after day and think, perhaps, he got your address wrong, and you write him, and there ig still no answer. Well, you have taken a summer flirtation too seriously, that’s all, and you must go to work and forget all about it as quickly as possible. Don’t let him be the first to laugh at you. Laugh at yourself and then forget.

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A Spiritual Suggestion for Today AM heartily sorry for those persons who are constantly talking of the perishable nature of things and the noth- ingness of human life; for, for this very end we are here, to stamp the perishable with an imperishable worth.

| WOLFGANG VON GOETHE,

FROM LETTERS ‘X°" PEOPLE Nh agg column is open fur discussion of ions. Letters criticisms concerning the ost-Dis- patch are invi

|general merchandise moving,” dent of the Wabash. The railroads are to sds a

Sidewalk Menace. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Kindly lend your assistance to abate & nuisance, if possible. worse than roller skating on the sidewalks. I have reference to the express toy wagons and flying dutchmen which. not only in the day time, but up to 10 at night, are seen on the pavements to the great inconvenience of pedes- trians, in the cool of the evening. One little ruffian last evening, ac- companied by a dozen of other lads, just playing, you know, knocked a lit- tle girl into the curb. , A TAX PAYER. Cass Avenue Racket, To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. What right has “Con-Con” to dis- turb citizens on Cass avenue by noisy repairs of tracks for the second time in a short time. Have they a priv- illewe to keep up the noise all night? Is this not a disturbance of the peace. DISGUSTED CITIZEN. Coliseum Delay. To the Editor of the Post-Dianatch. Why do the Coliseum people drag along with their building? they have not started to tear down § Trhrie'’s Cave and even when they start they have got the alley to change and a foundation that will be something marvelous to construct with the ex- traordinarvy caves that are already there. They should wake up and do something, so as to be able to have a horse show in the convention hall this winter. MERCHANT. Destructive Children. To the Eéitor of the Poat-Disnatch. T have often thought real estate agents were hard on people with chil- dren, but now I don’t blame them. Some people won't cortrol their chil- dren. and thev are so destructive, they trv to tear up everything. Some peo- nle would not slilow such. but the agent has to treat all alike. People want to keep away from the noise. i Wine Cave Abuses, Toa the Eé¢itor of the Posat-Dlenatch. Will vou be kind enough. and fn the interest of the public publish this letter in vour valuable naper? It seems that most of the people of St. Louis, both citv and county. are not aconainted with the disgracefvl conditions that ex- jist in them so-called wine gardens or dancing halle along South Broadway and Lemay Ferry road. If only Gov. Folk could have been an eye-witness to the seenes that I have seen enacted at a Lemav Ferry road wine cave and dancing halls 'ast Sunday. T am a Re- mublican, but T have to admit that our Governor is right when he savas &t, Toule County ts the worst eounty tn the State. Tt is up to Sheriff Hernel to wipe out this stigma and enforce the law, °* well as the law regard- ine minors. He will find that the de- cent peonle in the connty will support him, if he tries to do so, A FATHER. Widower Won Prize Beauty. To the Editor of the Post-Disnatch, ~ The Post-Dispatch omitted to tell ite readers the verv intereating fact that it was a widewer who had the rond foar- tune ta be picked bv the most beantt- ful girl in St. Louis. who won first rize in vovr heente ennteet, : CARONDELET WIDOWER. Grocery-Sloon, Tr the Fdttor of the Post-Dianateb. I would sav in answer to self-support- in: drunkard’s wife. let that dear ledv eift down and find out the cause of her husband's drunkenness. Ten to one <he has herself to blame and not the gro- cery saloon keeper. Fever if it isn't 7“ fault and he ia a natural drvnkard, it the saloon man’s fault? T sav Bo When a man comes in a saloon for a Arink the bartender don't force him to pag 1 ypcnten Bn a saloon ean roud o that Tro hee a wife mv husband h never heen under the inftnence of lia- uor. Thet goes to show that vou don’t have to be a drunkerd because it is handy. A man will always show his Pry A GENTLEMAN SALOON KEEPER'S The Presidential Procession. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Horses for the presidential edge sion “because they are far more d nified!” If must have animals the Mis- sourl mule¢! The popular verdict in the Rockefeller case: Fine! When Gen. Grant peddled firewood in St. Louis : ; ; he must have sold a good many big sticks. = « Rebating is abating. The Roosevelt is at Shooter Island, but will © not shoot northward this year. * It wasn’t the dog, but the dog’s owner, that . got away with a part of the iceman’s ear. Love : me, love my animals. - - ° “There has been no decrease in the volume of says the presi- long and prosper.

‘Answers to Post- Dispatch Readers Look in Sunday edition for answers seiietiea: | more than a few lines. Write but one i addresses not given. r : | Post-Dispatch; postal cards, if conv A.—See Answers Aug. 6—Chemist. A. B. C.—Bee Answers Aug. 8—halir. | F. R.—Chinese potatoes at Chinese groceries, — W. 8S. P.—Military drill books, Public Library. |. H. H. H.—Write Panama Commission, Washington. — A.—Engagement ring would scarcely a an appro: priate birthday gift. M. J. L.—Administrator may sell eatate by order of Court if heirs are insane. JENNIE.—Washing the hair too much may deprive it of necessary oil and make it dry. Agnes—‘‘Prices are easier’ means that their ten- : dency is to go no higher or to become lower. : WAIT.—Bartender may lawfully refuse to serve anybody whether a minor accompany or not. L. O.—The tailor whom you employed to clean your — clothes is responsible if the person employed by him burned them. men F. A.—For Chain of Rocks, take Broadway car to Baden; then, with permit from Water Commissioner take municipal line. WILL.—There is‘no “swinging average’ aay: smokestack. It must be guyed at every » oR ecor- ner and must stand rigid. 3g J. T.—If your fiance’s parents wish you to do 80, : it would not be improper for you to go with him 2 his home on his vacation, is C. H.--It isa month from May % to June &, from June 24 to Jily 24, and so on. We do not see how

contract. . X. Y.—Tenant of flat, house or store, renting oS the < month, must give a months written notice befo re vacating. 3 H. C. O.—Some reader may tell you how few and ~ what words can be made using only the letters in two alphabets, any definable word, compound words and names being used. BEN.—To make a sluggish mind active give ercise, Be up-to-date in everything. Th nk, talk. Let nothing important escape your at Imitate bright people until you can be bright yourself. i H.-~For Irish village: Irish songs (Mooré’s melo- — dies preferred) and Irish dances, such as jigs and reels. If there is room, have stereopticon views of Irish life and scenery. They will not fail to be at- tractive. CARE OF THE TEETH.—A simple dentrifice: Equal parts of chal dered orris root. it @x- teeth clean. CHICKENS.—W. O. writes that there is no for chickens with the blind staggers. To prevent wehe disease, see that they do not have too much poultry or rich food. Give them plenty of water and keep the coop clean. W.—Pullman service rules require that conductor shall be at least 5 feet 6 inches tall and at least 2) years old. Other requirements are that he y # 1 have been employed at least five years, with satisfactory recommendation from former employer. G. H.—A physician says that if the dog was mad, or has not gone mad since the bite or poole it is very improbable that there is any danger. Car- bolic acid, however, should not have been used, but if the arm has healed and the dog has not gone mad, forget it. -H. M. M.—Ex-Secretary of State McGrath writes: Why send a person to Jefferson City for the statutes and session acts? The clerk of the Circult. Court in every county in the State, including the city of St, Louis, has the Revised Statutes and Fake for sale and reference. ANX.—Exercise to reduce hige one and abdomen: the usual standing position. ise the = oe ee ‘4 alms forward. Bend the body torware, Keeping the cnons absolutely rigid, and touch the the ers. Usually this ia im ble at. the head, the elbows rigid and close to ti of the fin rat gradually stretches the muscies first, but practice and limbers them. R. B.—The greatest cataract in the world is a wa- terfall far surpassing Niagara and the oe Falla. in size, grandeur and volume. It is in @n impenetra- ble forest, 1000 miles boat from the nearest city. It is on a river dividing Bes Brazil from Argentina and is — oer Fa eB of. shane ae Niagara, of water ls @ higher than t greater in Bh yo 5 cent larger. It is more than twice the width of celebrated falls of the Zambesi, a READER.—The two largest pictures of which we have a record is one reds a French artist eight years (funeral o Garenene whic ures square yards, and the one painted by oueen Geo of Paris—S07 square feet. Some of his easels feet high. It represents ae srews in the otel de bh , led by La of the Bastile. More than 000 ‘ite- At the World's Fair there was a p representing a scene in the Al picturing the Bay of Na = one ate Pa owl in n has ene 10 2 0 tee feet "hae ‘ond yo ag it perfect in its

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Antidotes for Love Melancholy From a Post-Dispatch Writer. | BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH.

UMMER is not only the silly season, but judged by the usual records of every day’s news, it Beem to be the suicide sea- Almost every day we read of a man or Woman self slain for the love of another. Warm weather seems not only to induce love in the human heart, Dut also to foster love melanchoiy. Woes and blighted loves undoubtedly seem much harder to bear when the thermometer soars and sizzles in the August sun, and more than the ordinary tweasure of philoso- phy and common sense is needed to bear trouble in midsummer. The possession of an analytical mind NIXOL is a good antidote to the love melan- choly that in the summer months be- sets the star-crossed lover. So long as he can say to himself, ‘Do I really feel this way because Arabella rejected me, oF just because it’s 90 in the shade?’ he is in no danger of seeking a too des- perate remedy for his discomfort. But the best guarantee against a permanent- ly blighted heart is a healthy pédy that will sleep and eat so long as it is given enough exercise, no matter what one’s sentimentai troubles may be. Once in a@ very great while perhaps a physically healthy person commits suicide. But suicide for love or any other motive seems to me a sort of mental disease. GREELEY SM'ITw It is a sudden destruction of the sense of the future, 4 cutting off of the mental ver- spective that ordinarily en- ables us to see the flowers of hope and happiness bloom- ing in the field of tomorrow which wd must live tnrough the darkness of today to pos- sess. The sane lover, realizing that nothing in the world is final, he will reaiige from his own memories that the trag- edy of the present needs only the softening light of a few years upon it to make the com- edy of the future. How is the frame of mind of the youth parting from his first love because cruel parents are sendirg him away to school? row amused is the man he becomes wien, £> years later he fails to recognize in the stout, red-faced lady at his wife’s tea this same She whe made the ctar- light of his boyhood unti! she recalls herself to his recollection. No we, however deep or black, is permanent. Soday’s tears are tomorrow's laughter. The broken heatt, iike the broken leg, is sometimes stronger after the plaster of time has pieced it together. Time and exercise are the consulting surgeons in the delicate operation of setting the broken heart, and they have never yet lost a case when given a fair trial.

LOVE AND A BAD TEMPER.

The Vice of Lovers’ Quarrels and How to Avoid Them Set Forth BY HELEN OLDFIELD.

f happens often in lovers’ quarrels that umbrage is taken without sufficient cause, that offerse is imacined where the cffending party is altogether guilt- jess of malice aforethought. He or she sees that the beloved is provoked, and, unconscious of wrong intent, is ata loss to understand the injured air, to account for the cioud upon the sunshine of love’s bright day. ™ It is difficult to apologize, still more so to atone, when one has no idea wherefere atonement is expected. In this case it probably is the best plan to *“gmile and never refer to the trouble,” trusting that the cloud may biow over, There are people who are adepts at walking and since “‘least said soonest mended,’’ this is good practice when it can be done. It is to be said for the credit of human nature that there are few people who willingly will wound a trusting, loving heart. Such action presupposes | Reddy thé Rooter. Cy G3 2

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EADERS of the Post-Dispatch are invited to discuss the question of the proper sphere for women, which Charles. Schwab and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Make your letters brief and to Address them Woman's Sphere, Post-D1spatch, St. Louts, Mo. Charles Schwab, who is a millionaire and was formerly head of the Steel Trust, says: “Put girls in the kitch- Teach them housewifery. “Cake women out of shops, stores, business offices; out of studios, colleges, laboratories Let them work as domestic servants.” Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, who leads a very large section of New wealthy, says: nature intended woman to be man’s equal. women have no place in business or the professions, or to say that they should abandon every ambition except that of becom- ing wives and housekeepers implies that the feminine brain ts in- I shall never admit that, for I do not Cit “Tt 1s my belief that To say that

THE EELSKIN BRACELET CHARM.

Capt. Kegel’s Recollections of Bovhood, Chicago Inter-Ocean. Analysed by the

some men know about boys, even though they were once boys them- selves, and knew at that time prac- tically everything about a boy and his ways that was worth knowing. | For instance, we find Capt. Kegel of Huntingdon, Pa., telling the news- papers that the reasons why boys have cramps so often while swimming in these days is that they do not take the precautions against them which boys used to take in his time. Listen to him: “Why, the most simple rules to keep away cramps are not being observed by the boys. Now, when I was a boy not one of us thought of going into the water until we had placed around our ankle a bit of eelskin. I have never known a boy with an eelskin bracelet to get the cramps.” Listen to him again: “Another preventive of cramps is to hunt out some nice pool filled with yel- low mud and plaster yourself with the stuff and let it dry on you. Then you dive into the clear stream, and it is simply impossible to be taken with cramps.” And then lsten to this: “The trouble with the kids of this generation is that they are too fastidi- ous about their swimming.”’ Nonsense. The trouble is not with T is truly marvelous how very little

the boys, but with Capt. Kegel. Like many other men the captain evidently got out of touch with boys when he himself ceased to be a boy, and out of fympathy with them, and, consequent- ly, ls not in their secrets. Boys have not been standing still while everything else in the world has been moving on- ward and upward. LKelskin bracelets may have been all right as cramp pre- jventives in Capt. Kegel’s time, and the yellow clay daub may have served where eelskins were scarce, but to in- sist that boys should cling to eelskin vpracelets and to yellow clay coatings in the face of the advancement which has been going on in every other walk of life is absurd on the face of it. Capt. Kegel simply belonged to the eelskin and yellow clay period, that is all. His grandfather might have told how boys in his time prevented cramps by rubbing the backs of their necks with the cores of crab apples, or turn- ing around three times on their heels before diving into the swimming hole. In times later than those of Capt. Kegel cramps were always prevented by permitting the other boys to flatten rnud balls on the stomach of the boy who had symptoms, or by bringing up a mouthful of sand from the hottom and ' turning black in the face before “givin’ in.’ Only boys know now how cramps are prevented and much will depend upon the place where the boys will go in swimming.

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| THE WAR ON LOVERS.

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The Observer at the Soda Fountain Télls of New Obstacles in the By HOMER CROY. r the Post-Dispatch.

G fer a feller what’s got a steady. I see OT a seat waitin’ for y’, Brad. I'll fix yer up the best sody to be found in the city limits, so make y’self to home for ten minutes. grad, boy, I’ve got some troubles I wants to talk over. thing I wants to pour out my heart about. It's some- The world looks mighy blue today by the Post-Dispatch that the law and everybody else has set down on lovers in Alton. It tells as how they’ve been drove from one spooning spot to another, from the steps of the Presbyterian Church to the Alton s3ridge rubber-neck road, and now they’re makin’ their last stand in Centr’l Park. Brad, does the signif-cance of that soak «in? grasp the outcome of that? Everywhere |Everywhere law and science is turnin’ provin’ every edition that there aren’t shape of cops steps up and gives science Fer a feller that’s been thinkin’ out Does yer sody-fogged brain they’re wagin’ war ‘’gainst us lovers. its fangs on us lovers. The docs are any sech thing as love. An’ law in the a shove along. the best dictionary words to ask that great question with, fer him to see every day there ain’t any such thing as love, and fer him to get jabbed under the slats with a cop’s prod, it is discour- agin’. Brad, I asks you, where can a feller his life? whisper heart messages to the light of I gives the dismal answer myself—Nowhere. Love can’t be made in the parlor where there are a piano and enlarged pictures of her old man and mother and and parks are snatched away from us, the fam’ly album. Since church-steps what, Brad, is left? If us lovers can’t have the parks and roads, we'll love ‘in silence, just Hke they do in a novel, and never say a syll’ble about it to her—not when it has to be done in a piano cell. As won't be more marriage license clerks, the society column. S-long, Brad. Y’s better buy some fl walk with her tonight. S-long.

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A QUIET EVENING AT THE JARRS. The lady of the house opens on voice culture and the: ; it told for the Post-Dispatch. gS). By ROY L. McCARDELL. ws ‘4 ID you ever notice that you have a most un- [) pleasant way of raising your voice?’ asked Mr. Jarr, when Mrs. Jart had finished reproving one of the ldren. “I know I have a good many ways that are unpleas- ant. That is, they are made unpleasant for me,” fre- plied Mrs. Jarr. “The way of raising children is made unpleasant for me, so unpleasant that I have no doubt you are right about the way of raising my voice!” “Oh, don’t get touchy about it,” said Mr. Jarr. “It's only a habit, only thoughtlessness, I know.” “And do you krow its only a habit and only thought- lessness the way you find fault?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “Oh, come now, I wasn’t finding fault,”" said Mr. Jarr. “I don’t know what else you were doing; I don’t know what else you are always doing,”’ said Mrs. Jarr, |@ with a sigh. ‘It’s all very well for people who have nothing to worry them to. * cultivate a well-modulated voice, but if they had to work and worry like do they’d forget how they spoke, together with the other niceties of life that ae ie have forgotten, too. Still, do you think ft is kind to remind me of it?” - “T really think that we get into the habit of nagging children and thom around us without thinking,” he began. “Now, for instance, a child breaks j cup or a dish. The child is frightened, he wouldn't have broken the purposely. Instead, however, of cautioning the child calmly to be more ful next time, the parent will invariably scream at the child, scold and a it and often shake or slap it. fe, « “This sort of thing goes on continually, and, to my mind, it hardens the child. A child used to brawling and quarreling falls into the same habit with

eS ee to dare the thing it replies to the loud-voiced parent in kind.” “Children, leave the room!” exclaimed Mrs. Jarr. The children reluc did so. | “O, don’t send them out. I’m not saying anything!” said Mr. Jare. = ae “If you are going to encourage the caildren in disobedience,” said Mrs. Jart, “at least you can do it when I’m not present. But if you do insist on encourag: ing them, call them back and I'll leave the room!’* te “I'll leave the room myself!” said Mr. Jarr. “Doggone it! I was only” speaking generally, and now you'll have the children believing that I >» scolding you, and I was just’*— “You just were scolding me!”’ said Mrs. Jarr. nothing that I do is right in your eyes!’’ “Great Scott! exclaimed Mr. Jarr. “You make me do just what I was tale ing against. I wus only speaking about the habit of scolding for nothing or for little things, and here you’ve worked jt .all around as if I were doing the ve thing I was talking against.’’ 7 : “You mind your own business!’ said Mrs. Jarr sharply. ‘“‘There is no ing or fault finding in this housé unless you do it. aI will run the house, provide for it, that’s your duty!” i oes “), very well,” said Mr. Jarr, resignedly. ‘I only know if I come home and talk to you about the office you tell me net to talk shop, if I read you | Im not interested in my home, and yet when T do try to talk of home thing you always deliberately mistake my meaning!” “I do not,” said Mrs. Jarr, sharply. “You were sayirg that I scolded | children about every little thing!” : “I did not,’”’ replied Mr. Jarr. “I just mentioned generally that children lectured too much, if they accidentally broke anything about the house, so on!’’ ‘“Huh!"" said Mrs. Jarr, grimly. today.”’ “He did, did he?” cried Mr. Jarr, excitedly. “And I suppose you let & Mave it?’’ : “On the contrary, ! took it away from him twice,” said Mrs. Jarr, “But 4 he was scared when he found what he had done’’—— “You didn’t whip him?’ said Mr. Jarr. *“Inaueed I did,” said Mrs. Jarr. “T hope you gave it to him good,’ said Mr. Jarr, “the little rascal!” “You are always scoiding “Little Wil'tle broke your meerschaum pipe Ho ook

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(alg FOOTBALL GAME PROMISED St. Louis U. May Meet the Carlisle Indians This Fall on Gridiron.

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The present outlook is that one of the biggest football games of next fall will be played here in St. Louis. The Struggle is to be between St. Louis University and the Carlisle Indians some time late in November. The date has not been definitely set. After St. Louis U.’s triumphant» sea- son last fall there was some effort made to book a post season game with the red men, but the contest fell through. Then the athlete authorities at the local school endeavored to arrange a game for this coming season, but Carl- isle was undecided whether it would take a Western trip and was unable to sive a definite answer. But now a date with Minnesota has been agreed upon and as the Eastern team is to come West to fill it, the Grand avenue school is confident that provided they offer sufficient financial inducement to the Indians they will make the trip from St. Paul here to take a Western trip and was unable to play Cochems team. The Indians rank with the best teams in the East and furnish the big elevens spirited contests. Never beaten by a large score and very often victorious, Carlisle has come to be considered one of the five strongest teams in America. At the World’s Fair here in °04 Car- lisle played Haskell out in the Stadium and St. Louisans then had their first peep at the Eastern red men. Carlisle won the game easily. If St. Louls U. screeds in booking the game with the Indians it will have one of the most attractive schedules in the West. Kanse~ Nebraska -and Washington are certainties, and with the Carlisle game to top these three off St. Louis would be treated to as fine a football program for ’07 as will be of- fered any city in the country. WEEKDAY LEAGUE STARTS PENNANT RACE AUS. 13 Management Decides to Begin Sea- son With Four Teams—Arni Is President. What is considered will be one of the fastest amateur leagues in the state will start its pennant race Aug. 19 with games at Kulage and Empire base- ball parks. The teams pasticipating will be the Jersey Farm Dairies and

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University Players Becoming More of Factor Each Year, Says Tenney.

There is one place where illiteracy does not count against a man, and that is on the baseball field. Fred Tenney, manager and first baseman of the ,Boston Nationals, who are play- ing here, is authority for the state- ment. But at the same t:me the prejudice against coHege players is also dis- appearing, says Tenny. There are more university educated players in the game now than ever. ‘T never thought that a ball play- er had to be a corner saloon bruiser to make good,” says Tenney, “so I felt no compunctions of “conscience when I signed a contract with Boston 14 years ago. There are players and ball players,.but at a class I don’t be- lieve that the man with the university education is any better than the oth- er. He comes to the team with a bet- ter developed brain - 1d that may help to quicker grasp some of the fine points, but in natural ability the lat- ter may excel, and he will hod his place while the othcr may be turned aside. ‘‘An illiterate man may be a heady ball player. I have known of several cases bearing out this statement. These men were born players and the lack of education could not keep them down. “When you pick up a college player who has ability then you have a very useful man for your team. They are always very welcome additions to any as CENTURY FOUR ON SCHUYLKILL RIVER

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‘ NEW YORK LIKES NILES. Niles is one of the most remark- able players in the country, and is making’ most ~ remarkable _ record. When St. Louis first drafted him they didn’t know where to drive his peg. McAleer tried every position on the diamond and the field with him, un- til by acident he put him at third base, his regular place, and he imme- diately started a smoke.—New York Evening World. SLOW BALL AND HITS. Latter-day ball players are begin- ning to argue against the old tradi- tion, and assert that a hard pitched ball can not be batted further than They offer as proof year, but from which he was thought to have recovered. His recent defeat at Liverpool, when he finished last in a field of four horses, caused Mr. Croker to send the colt back to his Glencairn farm in Ireland, where treatment is now being given for tlre trouble. MAY IRWIN, BOAT OWNER. May Irwin, the actress, has entered her motor boat Delewana in the con- test for the gold challenge cup races to be sailed on Chippewa Bay, August 13-15, inclusive. Simplex XI., owned by Commodore Bourne, of New York, has been named by the Thousand Islands Yacht Club as one of the challengers. Delewana is the entry of the Clayton Bay Y. C. TWO FAST GAMES ARE PROMISED TODAY FOR MILK FUND BENEFIT

Mechanics’ Bank and Central High Teams in One, Railroaders in Other. A double header of amateur baseball will be played this afternoon for the benefit of the Post-Dispatch Pure Milk Fund. will be the scene of the struggles. In the first game the Frisco and Wa- ) teams of and Free Ice Kulage’s Park the Railroad League will come together. bash The Frisco bunch are at present leading the league and The Wabash team, being the tail of the league, are hopeful of giving the champions a good tussle as they have bid fair to continue so. although enders SC ETT ENTS SANS SS Ce ee ae >. NILES STILL HOLDS THE LEAGUE LEAD WITH BAi a i

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28} + a N. ¥ HOO Wash. ... st. I Conroy. Cross. HOWELL. sé Sullivan, os ~ — or Bkin, : S2S2S85 ee Le 22AERLZ team, they are well-behaved and eager to learn. Then, again, they cost nothing. It may require several thous- and dollars to purchase a minor leaguer, B'ank’ship. Wash. Smith, Chicago ... Cheebro, N. Y.... Thielman, Cleve. . Rickey. N. Y one coming slow. '» “Local anglers are restive these days, ‘the hot weather of the last few weeks “guggesting the cool retreats along the Yivers and streams of the Ozarks.. in their new lineup several good play- ers, prominent among them Tozier, their pitcher. The first game will be seven innings ne the St.,Marks at Kulage} and Russell E. Gardner’s Banner Buggies and Hauptmann’s Anna Helds at Empire. “These teams comprise the Weekday 3 of this that a batter in hitting out fungoes, which he pitches to him- self, can often hit them over the fence. a ee ee eee ATTENDING TO BUSINESS, No championships have yet been won by managers who give up valuable time — be > > tyhstol Sashonen ab wet —- ae =3 — —a> -_—--

- The fishing and hunting clubs in every “pection of the state are crowded with “men and women, a majority of whom ‘eannot bait a hook, but who are am- . bitious to land the succulent bass or ‘the juicy jack salmon. A party of six St.. Louis sportsmen and politicians left a few days ago for ‘a two-weeks outing at Paydown Club on the Gasconade. Jt was well provided with all equip- ments for a _ successful trip. The party was composed of James W.. Corcoran, Walter Dwyer, John Hines, William Miller, P. S. Naughton and Fréd Hawes. Each of these gen- ¢tlemen are expert anglers, and there | a . Will be trouble for the bass that fre- quent the waters contiguous to the Pay- S _ down. Fred Jacobs and Allen Baker of the _ Merchants’ Exchange went away last might for a ten-day fishing expedition. : : They will rendezvous at the Lower _ Black river, which is a stamping ground for bass. Two weeks ago they were fm the same place, and,suceeeded in B _— a whole barrelful of this gamy _ *») Phey expect to do as well this time, 3 id their friends are anxiously await- 7 their return. CHAMPIONSHIP BETWEEN JONES AND EGAN TODAY

__ Tournament Begin Final Play ihe at Wheaton. Bp to the Post-Dispatch. ~ WHEATON, Ill, Aug. 10.—Herbert -F. Jones of Wheaton and H. Chandler ‘Bgan of Exmoor, started on the first 18 holes of their championship match play early this morning. The second half of the 36 holes will be continued . present title holder, was the big sur- ‘prise of yesterday's play. The match “was a splendid exhibition of golf and @n extra hole was necessary to decide winner, Jones winning 1 up in 19 ved 5 n had compar.tively easy sali- tng in his matches and though never forced, to play his best to win, never- ‘theless turned in the best card of the tor ment, a 73 in his match with Howland. ssi Jones shewed championship grit ana power in his match with Saw- rp and may give the ex-cuampion lay an unexpected beating, but Bigan is picked on all sides to win fhe hatch and come back into his own as he Western champion, | Sheotea Woman; Kills Himself, | LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 10.—Despond- ent and jealous, Joseph Knadel shot \ irs. Kisie Parsons and then killed “himself. Knadel entered the room Where the woman was sitting and fired at her without a word. The bul- fet struck her in the left breast. Then m turned the revolver on himself and leted a wound above his right eye ich caused instant death, Mrs. Par- s is an attractive widow with a 4 years of age. Knadel is a

ey Baseball league which was formally organized yesterday afternoon at Hotel Jefferson. There were seven other ap- plicants who would perhaps have de- veloped teams but the managers who put up their forfeit money had confi- dence in each other and considered these four teams would make a staying race and voted not to delay organiza- tion. Two other teams may be entered next week, but the sched&le is ar- ranged for four teams and every thing is in readiness for the start one week hence. A meeting was set for Tuesday after- noon, though every detail of the league was arranged for at the organization meeting. By-laws, schedule and grounds were arranged. Any one of the teams are ready now to make the start, be- ing fully equipped. |The Jersey Farm Dairies and the Banner Buggies will play a try out game at Empire park Wednesday afternoon just to keep the players on edge. A game will also be arranged between the St. Marks and Hauptmann’s Anna Helds. Arthur Foell, a Southern league player presented credentials and applied for ppointment as umpire and was offi- cially appointed by the president. Melville I. Arni was made president of the leagyie; Clarence Nangle, vice president; J. G. Lee secretary and Clem- ent Hackett, treasurer. S. Smith was made supply agent.

ag THE BiG LEAGUES AT A GLANCE HATIONAL LEAGUE. ——_—_—_—

Yesterday’s Resulia. St. uis 5-8-2. Boston 4-8-2. Bat- teries— be, Fromme an Noonan and Marshall: Bou tes and Needham. jladelphia 0, Chicago 1-6-2. art rridon acklitsch: Lun Moran. York 2-4-0. c- and and n Gultatinn hillippe ana Phel ps; nasty and Bresnahan. 1 Club. Chicago .. Pittsburg one New York .. Philadelphia rooklyn eeseeee incinnati oston ss? * ST. LOUIS ooin Pct. . 730 . 604

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but no such outlay is necessary to se- cure a collegian, if he comes direct from his university. “T expect to see the colleges a feeder for the major leagues to a greater de- gree than ever in future years.”’ Boston has several university men on its payrolls. Besides Manager Tenney, there are outfielders Beaumont and Randall, Pitchers Pfeffer and Flaherty, and Catcher Snook. The latter is the famous Lafayette College football star, who has recently joined the Boston team. The wisdom of a manager is seldom given credit. Only on such occasions as when his tactics bring results is he the ‘‘good manager,’ though he make the same ruling one week hence and the outcome of the game may g0 against the home team, it is then when uncomplimentary discussion rises over the assemblage of fans. Yesterday when McCloskey replaced Beebe with Fromme the Cardinals were two runs behind. It was the belief among many that Beebe could as well hold the Doveyites down as Fromme and as long-as he would get the credit of the loss of the game he may as well cogtinue to pitch. The wise move is an old story this morning. Fromme held the _ visitors safe, and while he was doing so the Cardinals pounded out three more runs and won the game. Beebe was not hit hard, something he never permits, but what hits that were made and coupled with an error the visitors piled up four runs of his six-inning delivery. Last Sunday the Phillies could not make one tally in ten innings. Beebe might have held the visitors safe. Again he might not. As Fromme pitched good ball the visitors’ score was not increased and as the score was to the Boston’s advantage when he went in he gets credit for the game, which, incidentally, is his first victory of this season. Because of rain yesterday the Browns and the Highlanders will engage in a double header this afternoon, Today will end the Browns’ Eastern invasion and they will make the trip direct home and open at Sportsmans Park with the Washington National as opponents.

Wanted Dry Weather Plows. GUTHRIE, O. T., Aug. 10.—Because consignment of plows, which C. L. 4a Mragner of Kingfisher bought of the Sattley Manufacturing Co. of Illinois, were alleged by Wagner not to be dry- weather plows as were contracted, he refused to pay the sum of $302.50 for the plows and was sued by the com- ny in the District Court of King- isher County. The company lost its suit in lower court and appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Wagner al- leged the plows were tried in hard round and wo not stand the test. er has brotght a counter suit age net the company for $1000 damages. claiming that had the plows been as Stagg tan ae ae aor sold 200 of em during e business y profit of $5 each. ines Will Ask Otoes to Be Guests. BEATRICE, Neb., Aug. 10.—The Exe- cutive Committee of the golden anniver- sary has asked F. M. Barnes of Barnes- ton, and he has consented to make an effort to get a number of the older Otoe Indian chiefs to attend the celebration here next month. The Otoes were the first dwellers in this lecality and were always friendiv towards the white men. During the first few years the early settlers were greatly aided by these friendly Indians during the severe win- and the old pioneers of this vicin-

‘ lito the ters, ity are ready to extend the glad hand Otoes when they visit Beatrice. GRIFFITH AFTER PLAYERS. Clark Griffith is negotiating for players all over the country to brace the demoralized Yankees. Third Base- man Louden of the Dallas Team of the Texas League has been purchased and, it is said, will join the Yankees September. Louden’s price, was -about $1500. Grif is also negotiating for Bell, the crack eenter fielder of the Butte (Mont.) team. In a recent double-header at Seattle, Wash., Bell went to the bat nine times and made eight clean hits. Two of the drives were for homeruns, In seven games last week Bell made 17 hits. early in it is said, NEEDS SYMPATHY HIMSELF, Joe Cantillon says he fails to see how any one in the country could have done any better than Lajoie with the Cleve- land club. CCG..LINS THE MAIN STAY. If the Athletics make the finish that Manager Jones of Chicago expects they will pull off, it will be another case of one man doing wonders. With- out Collins in the infield, Mack’s men did not figure to be in the hunt. With Jimmy playing back to his old form at the third sack, the whole team im- mediately took on a championship ap- pearance that set the rest of the clubs woozy. IT MAY BE SO. From the efforts of American League managers to get young pitchers it would seem that they realize that the increase in batting in B. Johnson’s organization this year is due to the weakening of the slab stars more than to any brightening of the many batting eyes. ALL PULLING FOR ORBY. Local sympathy is being expressed by horsemen over the report from England that Richard Croker’s Derby winner, events to be run Sept. 11. Orby has kidney trouble, which developed last ‘the joint account of Durnell and Gates. Orby, may not be fit to start in the St. Leger, one of England's famous stake /0900 mempers who use 600,000 golf balls to the political end of the game. The winners are always men who pass upon ther wire pulling and look after their players. AHA! A PLOT! There is only one thing left for the New York clubs to do now, and that is to make is miserab!e for the other clubs fighting for a position by putting some one out of it. There is no doubt that will happen. It’s a cinch the Eastern clubs will do all they can to beat the West to let the. Athletics get in line for the pennant. NOT TO BE BELIEVED. Since it is declared sea gulls can talk, a few of these birds are to be brought to St. Louis to coach the Marathon swim aspirants. GOING BACK TEN YEARS, The recent visit of the Browns to Boston reminds the Boston Globe that 10 years ago Cy Young and Jack Pow- ell were the star pitchers of the Cleve- land club. WHITE SOX TO CUBA, An agent of the Cuban National League is in Chicago ‘negotiating with the Sox with the purpose of having the Champs go to Cuba this winter and play there against the Cuban teams. George Davis is handling the affair for the Sox, and it is practically certain that a team will make the trip, starting about Nov. 1.

5 “BOOTS” TIPS WRONG. The reason for ‘‘Boots’’ Durnell’s tem- porary retirement, it is said, is that a lund of $40,000, which John W. Gates is | alleged to have left Alonzo B. Hudson ‘to bet on Durnell's horses, has been | tons already in bets advised aoa The money, according to report,\ was placed with Hudson at the time) Mr. Gates left for France, to be wagered for WALK 250,000,000 MILES, England has 2,000 golf clubs with 300,- per week and walk over the links about 250,000,000 miles per year.

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RAILROAD LEAGUE IN THREE GAMES TODAY Three games will be played in the Railroad League this afternoon. The Frisco and Wabash teams play a double header with the high school-bankers’ game at Kulage’s Park for the benefit of the Post-Dispatch Pure Milk and Free Ice Fund. The other teams play a double header at the Ellendale Park in Maplewood. These two games will be between M. K. & T. and the Vandalias, and Term- inal Association and Missouri Pacific. As all four of these teams are evenly matched, the Wabash and Frisco teams being the two extremes, Frisco leading and Wabash bringing up the rear, but close behind the others, the results should be well worth noticing. The games at Ellendale will begin at 2:30 o'clock. Joke May Cost Man Eyesight. BEATRICE, Neb., Aug. 10.—David Pahl, an old resident of this tity, met with an accident that may cost him his BANKERS TO PLAY IN THREE CONTESTS BANKERS’ LEAGUE STANDING. Club. Third National Mechanics-American Mississippi Valley Union-Boatmen’s 6 Commonwealth ’ This afternoon besides the game the Mechanics American Bank plays with | the Central High School team, there | will be two regular scheduled contests. | The Mississippi Valley ranking third in‘) the league progress will meet the lead- | ers, the Third National Bank at Empire | Park and the Commonwealths and Un- ion Trust-Boatman’s Bank teams will clash at Zimmerman’s Park. The race for the pennant is close this year, and the leaders will have several hard games in succession now,

First Orchard Crop Sold, YALE, O. T., Aug. 16.—The first sales of this year’s apples by the entire or- chard’s crop were made here. Spencer Bros., C. W. Berry and C. M, Dunn sold the crop from their orchards for a lump sum to parties representing Chi- cago commission houses. It is estimat-

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and will start at 2 o’clock. The second will begin at 3. Central High School and the Mechan- stag American Bank team will clash in a game’ which should be to followers of amateur sport one of the most in- teresting of the summer. Both teams are in excellent condition and should put up a fine article of baseball. The Mechanics have been playing every Sat- urday for three months and have per- fected their style of play considerably. Bob Ecoff and Chase, formerly Central High men, will play against their old school. Cherbonnier, once with Manual Training School, will pitch to Ecoff. The school bays have not played a game since the time they whitewashed the Seattie nine in a no-hit game, which was two weeks ago. But since that time, they have had the best kind of jtraining for youngsters, a rest. They have indulged in a few light practices this week and will go into the game in fine trim. Yesterday evening the team was doing stunts on the Forest Park diamond as a final work out, and kept the field busy until the sun went down. Rowan and Reker, the best schoolboy battery that ever performed locally, were hand- ling the ball like > sD leat

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AA. ‘Giecta to the Post-Dispatch. son ‘NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 12 noon.—The market clesed active and feverish prac- - _8 6 points. *Yfeally at the low point for the day, the losses of the general list averaging 3 eoa. There seemed to be little support at any time during the session and as was canticipated, the bank statement was hardly as good as was expected and t#tocks sold off further after it had been received, reaching their low points - “or the day just before noon. sig close, is that the market will break again Monday. rrihares. Some market opinion, based on the character of Total sales, 521,000 F** "NEW YORK, Aug. 10, 11 a. m—With heavy selling in progress the first hour the deciine ran in isolated cases to 5% points. The declines for leading - issues during the first hour were Union Pacific, Reading, 3; Norther. Pacific, 3%; Great Northern, 3%; St. Paul, son, 24%; Steel common, 1; Chicago & Alton common, 5%. Amalgamated Copper held around 75, the low for the first 44%, under the close of Friday 2% points, and Sugar lost 2% points; Cnn ie Southern Pacific, 3%; 1%; Atchi- 4%; hour being Smelter, ; American Locomotive common, 3%; Steel preferred, 1. * somes oversold and has a rally. ¥ ~ ser } f= oe totems A slight dullness set in after the first hour, in which - ~s oe - a” _ The general domestic news Saturday is bullish. Western railroads report in- - Greases in earnings and prospective further increases. Railroad managers, ,. eluding Harriman, are optimistic, and the Steel Corporations wt Beptember will show gains in new business over July and August. eee London market came lower, with still further declines in consols. in- efficials say These *"London stock price movements are dependent more on the condition of the eemoney market, which, according to this morning’s advices, sadurbed condition. ‘New York banks lost $2,271,000 on the week’s currency ogione too flattering statement is expected. . The expected bear attacks were shown clearly in the first half hour of while Union Pacific and Southern Pacific declined 3 points from ree o = ; * ; Atte market, remain in a dis- movement and a . aPriday’s finals and Amalgamated Copper i%c. The decline was general dur- Ang the half hour, but not more than 1% points average. 7

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vt “When workmen reported for duty at certhe Pierce Building, Fourth and Pine “st streets, Saturday morning they found evtthe building guarded by a sergeant and itt meven patrolmen. we The sergeant told them that further 7. construction work and interior finishing had: been forbidden by the Building *¢; Commissioner. Despite the protests of 1, the contractors the men were not per- crmitted to go to work. “Tl cannot permit any more work to on the building untibh the fire are complied with,”’ said “*t Building Commissioner Smith. “The al company has failed to keep its promise ~ fo me that it would inclose the stair- ragcases in firebrick or tile so as to afford ‘ safe egress in case of fire. These closed stairways were to have taken oe mothe place of fire escapes. | jee,“ insisted that there must be a safe 3 ‘of escape other than the eleva- ’ tors. I understand that the building is an ctically complete, except that the = = totes on the ground floor have not pAobeen finished. These will bring a big oi pemtal and I think the company will »rsee that it will be better to comply with «9! instructions than to lose this ; ecrevenue. The tenants already in the * building will not be interfered with."’ ~ “I cannot tell what I will do until I _.e@emmunicate with F. C. Bonsack, the " said ‘Manager Silver. “The Sinaing ts still in his hands. Hie is out . of town.” "é te At Mr. Bonsack's office it was said that he Is in Denver and that he is not expected to return for three weeks. DEAD ANIMAL CONTRACT BILL AROUSES COUNCIL ‘ = Parliamentary Jugglit Juggling Results in Proposed Measure Being Put on File. The bill to authorize the Board of 4 Public Improvements to let a contract ; x ~~» tor the removal and disposal of dead E was filed in the City Ceuncil after considerable parliamentary

of a plant within the city lim-

COTTON FUTURES QUIET AT ABOUT STEADY LEVELS Visible Supply Shows Decline, but Is Still Large—Cables Nominal. NEW YORK. Aug. 10.—The Chronicle esti- mates the total visible supply as 2,683,000 against 2,108,000 last year, and the Americar supply at 1.601.000, against 1,083,000. These axures ‘show a decline from last week of 9, ca nein over 1 of 514,000 and decrease of 105,000 from 1905. Cables were about as expected, and the local market showed little animation following the heavy covering of yesterday, hich it was believed left the position for the time being some- what weaker. The absence of rain in Texas Was again a sustaining factor, but there was no eagerness to buy. In fact, it Me iw mt to look as if the drouth in Texas has done the Dest for prices at the moment, At any the pros- gz also im- pressed by reports Be tae B, s from aco, Fort Worth and Dallas, claiming im- provement as a result of the dry, hot weather. Seanwhile. weather sharps are, on the con- trary views as to the exact status in Texas, some claiming the crop has been materialiv cut off and others that the loss is incon- he yh ae gen Bulls are lacking the courage f their convictions, and it «Sed as if some- thing fresh must come their way to pre- vent taking of small profits when possible. Liverpool due 2 down. NEW York COTTON CLOSE.

January March There were no price changes in any of the important spot markets, which were general- ly dull and narrow. Receipts continue light. MAN FINED FOR KICKING GIRL B. B. Hulbert, Photographer, Pays in Police Court. That B. B. Hulbert of 3721 Olive kicked Agnes Connolly of 916 Cass ave-

35 cents, was the view held wy Judge Tracy, who fined him $10 in the City Hall Police Court Saturday. {emma Schneldt of 2636 Lemp avenue, who was arrested with him, was discharged. Hulbert and his companion were ar- rested Thursday night and gave the names of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baker. They are employed in the same photo- graph studio. Hulbert has a wife and three children.

Grocers in Line, The “lid’’ will be clamped down Sun- day on the 1,500 grocery stores owned and controlled by members of the St. Louis Retail Grocers Association. It is estimated that two-thirds of the grocers in St. Louis are members of the asso- ciation. A movement to close the gro- cery stores on Sunday has been in prog- ress for some time At a meeting of the association a resolution was adopt- ed to close the stores on Sunday. Lo- renz recvere, president of the associa- tion, told a Post-Dispatch reporter Sat- urday that the resolution will go into effect Sunday. He said the non-mem- bers of the association would likely fall in line, as many of them favored Sun- day closing. The aeatte of the grocers to have Sun- day as a day of rest is responsible for the action, closing the stores. Many of the grocers have been closing their steres on Sundays for years, others have kept open to get the Sunday morning trade. rk give orders Saturday for her Sunday he se nd will anne have to feed her children on scraps ‘ a Training School Excursion, The managers the Training School will give their next excursion on the steamer City of Providence Saturday, Aug. 10, leaving the foot of Olive street at 6 p. m.

| housewife who neglects to: mue in the face after an argument over M @rancis, Gre. & “o.. 214 N NEW YORK "A Aug. STOCKS, a Sales. a Low *Ajlis-Chal com fd rth st.) 10.

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‘ York Curb Close. 0. ., e 214 N. 4th st.) ‘seas W YORK. Aug. 10. ee \Asked. American Tobacco common .. Boston Consolidated prttish Columbia Copper.... Cumberland Ely Davis Daly Dominion Copper, El Rayo Foster-Cobalt Furnace Creek Giroux Mining Guanajuato Havana Tobacco common . do preferre International Manhattan Transit Nevada Utah Nipissing Mines Old Hundred Otis Elevator do preferred Standard United Copper common White Knob Copper common do preferred Chicago Stocks. (Francis, Bro. & Co., 214 N, new stock.

4th st.) Aug. 10. Bid. |Asked.

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Open. ..5. 90@95 «5. 90@9 .. 25. 00 be . 5. 95@6e 5. 80aS5 6. 85@90 5. 8590 5b. 90@US Sept. Dec. Jan. March GOMPERS HERE, SAYS STRIKE IS NOT OCCASION OF VISIT American Federation President Hopes Operators Will Settle Trouble Soon. Samuel Gompers, president of American Federation of Labor, Saturday morning at the Laclede Hotel, departing early in the afternoon for Hannibal, Mo., where he will lecture to- night. He told a Post-Dispatch reporter his visit here had nothing to do with the telegraphers’ strike, although he might see representatives of the telegraphers’ St. Louis organiation while here. “I am taking no part in the strike just now,"’ said Mr. Gompers. ‘‘The Officials of the telegraphers’ organia- tion are handling the situation. It will

the spent part when I am called on. All I wish to say now is that I hope the telegraph companies will do something to affect an honorable settlement of the existing differences. I hope a settlement may be made before sane strike begomes too widespread.” ; Mr. Gompers said he als not know

Be tau eran” 7 Oe New York Stock Quotations | 3 be time enough for me to take some: FUTURE PRICES. ST. L.OUTS.

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BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY. BUT Nominally 24c finally 19@21c: ivnw20c —Receipts, packed EGGS through cases. cases include cases include count, POULTRY—Live roosters, 5c: TER—Creamery. extra, cases returned,

: firsts. country, 46 local cases Shipments, 709 cases; d, 194c; strictly fresh fi l, 174¢c; current receipts, c.. chickens, old turkeys, in pails, 17\4c: and fowls, in small way, 22 @28c: seconds, meme ladle R61 extras, rsts, case 10c; hens and toms. 124%4c; young turkeys, 18c for 2% pounds and over and 23¢ old, &c; age, lic; Be. Live iced, Pere on. ters. oe 8 ern twin 60 young prints, Swiss. choice, 14% 13%@ NIONS—Home-grown TO@S0c per b SAUERKRA per half-barrel. BEANS — UCU MBERS—Home- -grown, STRING $1.25@1 ae bu_ box PEPPERS loo T t “RN IPS—New spring pigeons. we a chickens. 1314c. CHEESE—On orders, mericen, old. ‘31 @22c; for less; ducks, chickens, geese, dozen, Chickens, ‘afc on 8c; 7T5ec: fowls, an pring dressed 10c; te choice, 6 Gucks, uc; .. Soe new, 18@19¢: red pound: daisies, horns. 14 4c; finbureek. new, gag 14e.. u loose, UT—New, Home-grown 90c home-grown, -Home-grown, 30@40¢ bu for flat and 55@60c for globe. LETTUCE—Home-grown at from 20@30c for loose. young, 9c; aver- old geese anc roos- @ic; Bpring North- Le: 14@14tec: brick. and yellow. city made at $2.35 round loose, 40@60c per bushel per ETS—New home-grown, 30@40c pét bu. Cc RASS $1.40@1.00 for large hope "riday car of hogs on the Wiggins Ferry Ratiread checked up one hog short. Officer Hanson later saw three The driving a porker along the levee. he men Scattered when they saw the officer, but Hanson captured the hog and locked it In a pen as evidence. were a out by thé rail- el tenes Officials c « Pat Cavanaugh, ohn Stark and Jo x ag oe with tak- ing the arrested Cava- fone and

LIVESTOCK. RECEIPTS—Cattle. 1000; hogs, 2500; sheep, 100; horses and mules, 50. CATTLE—Around 380 natives were tt- ceived, about half of which were through consignments, the balance being salable of- ferings. They were mostly common graders and brought steady values. A few pretty good steers were included in the 700 South- ern cattle received, as well as the fair proposition of other kinds. Trading was active at steady to strong prices. SALES—NATIVE HEIFERS.

No. 1 » STOCK STEERS, Mah. » ~-. NATIVE BUL LS. 3 00 Bincsdaes: VEAL CALVES. : a via Be ce ARKANSAS MIXED. 27. ll, || eS ARK ANSAS BULLA. Te Decks: CO cues ARKANSAS COWS aoe |. Faas 2 00 ARKANSAS CALVES. anise Beeabiwte |e Beuce Cae ste Bien OS OKLAHOMA STEERS. : edgy (* pee yes. Sn 4 . S45. OKL AHOMA BU LLS ‘os Ree ace ee 2.... 825 e.). oe OKLAHOMA HEIFERS. 3 40 ARS ee OKLAHOMA COWS. . 7a : ° a 2 FSS = Mii’ RO! HOGS—T he run Ww as fair for y AES. and the quality pretty good. The market opene! a dime higher -— trading was active, chotce lights selling up to $6.55, with the bringing $6.25 to $6.4 ” ADAIARAXARRBDAHD ay et ** 1% *)4 we So ae SH EEP—But A. received. Market un- ed, chang

e---———r | East St.Louis News o_O A tub race on the lagoon by well-known merchants will be the feature of the Retail Merchants’ annual basket picnic at Lans- downe Park Sunday. Dividing favor witn that event will be the fat men’s race for merchants weighing over 200 pounds, The country store, spoon and egg race for girls, swimming races for men and women, and two baseball games, will Keep the visitors excited most of the afternoon. An attend- ance of 20,000 is eXpected and street cars will run to the park each one and one-half minutes during the day and evening. Walter Kelley, catcher for the Ziegen- hein team of the Trolley League, left Sat- urday to accept the position of catcher for the Dallas team of the Texas State League. He was considered one of the best catchers in the Trolley League. Edward Bardens, Horace Row and Robert Bennett were arrested Friday night, fol- lowing a fight in Bennett’s saloon in Alta Sita in which several shots were fired and LGennett was severely cut about the face and hands with a bottle. Patrick Dwyer,. who participated in the fight and who Is chdrged by the other men with firing the shots, es- caped. The funeral of the 8-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jackson of 1201 State street, who died Friday, was held Satur- day afternoon from the family residence to Mount Hope Cemetery. Isaac Cohn and wife of 1731 Market ave- nue left Saturday night for a three weeks’ trip to New York, Boston and Niagara Falls. The Excelsior Tool Works signed an agree- ment with the striking machinists Friday and the union men have returned to work in the plant. Mrs. Mamie Gluch has filed a sult In the City Court for a divorce from John Gluch, and asks for the restoration of her maiden name of Mamie Cummings. They were mar- ried Nov. 22, 1904, and lived together until March 15, 1905. Mrs. Sophia Taus filed a suit In the City Court Friday for a divorce from Joseph Taus. They were married Jan. 2, 1906, and lived together until July 20, 1907. Mrs. Taus requests that her maiden name of Sophia 3ieck be restored. EAST SIDERS MAY HAVE 10 BUY BOAT FOR NEXT OUTING Warmness of Boosters’ Fun-Making Thought to Have Prejudiced Steamer Owners. The staid and conservative qualities of the East St. Louis business men composing the East St. Louis Commer- cial Club were forgotten during the club's “‘stag’’ excursion Friday night on the steamer Alton, The night was warm, but the members made things warmer, and the temperature of the participants was not unlike that of a small boy out in the sun when the thermometer stood 104 in the shade, and the shade was a mile away. The official attendance was 365, one for each day in the year, and they had a year’s fun in four hours. It seemed to be the unanimous verdict that the club should rent *he boat each year. It was suggested by some that they buy the boat, as the owners might re- fuse to rent it to them again. An or- chestra, mandolin club and glee club furnished the music, but to spectators on terra firma it is doubtful which made the most noise, the hilarity or the music. President E. C. Sendelbach was pre- sented with an elegant solid metal tea- set, in appreciation of his boosting services. The set was not solid silver, but solid pewter, guaranteed to last sev- eral weeks without rusting. Dan Mc- Glynn made the presentation speech, and the teaset, which was the exact size of a plepan—and was a plepan— mounted with miniature bowl, pitcher and toothpick holder, was buried in a mammoth trunk. Mr. Sendelbach replied by presenting John 8. Bratton with an immense fruit basket containing a lemon. This was Bratton’s seventeent:. lemon. When Mr. Bratton began to reply from his point of vantage on a chair, Rob Thomas, armed with a megaphone on the upper deck, pulled off an auctioneer scene as a counter attraction. Assisted by C. G., Derleth, Thomas swamped the proceed- ings until Bratton pulled his watch, outwinded and squelched the opposition by answering, “And the mule said Hee- Haw.”

: - TRACTION PREFERRED STOC! SELLS 1+ 01 i

vo Eastern Holders Are Said to Be. Letting Go « Account of Losses in New York Market. sie

by St. Louls sentiment. about steady, tion issues. Full Session.

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$1000 E. St. L. & S. Se at 97%. 50 National Candy 2d pre ferred at 80%. 10 United Railways prererred at 66%. 10 United Railways preferred at 66% 10 United Railways preferred at 66%. 4 Union Sand and . at 120. 5 United Railways preferred at 6@\%. United Railways preferred at 66%. 5 Commonwealth Trust at 308, 10 United Railways preferred at 6514. 100 United Railways preferred at 5. 10 United Railways preferred at 6i1 8 St. Louis Catering common at 1. 25 United Railways preferred at Gh. 10 United Railways prererred at 65. 5 National Bank of Commerce at 257. 5 United Railways preferred at 65 ——-_—- @—__-__-— St. Louis Banks. ook ; Bid, \Asked|vatue.

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Mercantile Trust Mississippi Valley ... Missouri-Lincoln a

Title Guaranty . Vandeventer .. West St. *Ex-dividend Grain in St. Louis Elevators.

S15 aby BGdta BSE has 57| 106,500 403 04.24: 80,537 1 857.381 43,338 “55.354 10,408 1 “red wheat. | 1,749, pak, 2,272,561 . 2 hard wheat. 233,824) 646, . 2 mixed corn 4 (0. 2 white corn 03.804 7 6,163 BURIAL PERMITS. Holden Mary, 38, 3875 Windsor pl.; carcinoma, Susan MeCloskey, 56,, Poorhouse; dementia. Minnie Aspacher, 28, 1114 N 24th; peritonitis, William Story, o* 3921 N. Bay wa accident, John McManus, 742 8. 7th; cancer, Marie Trumpold, “38, 708 Pope; malaria. Louis Gesser, 74, 2704 McNair; eretet. Ernest Ellsworth, 22. 4716 Page: abscess. Louisa Bowler, 70, Female Hospital; nephritis, Emma F. Allen, 54, 8700 Delmar; carcinoma. Patrick Shanahan, ‘41, 2205 Case; delirium. Antonio Hogan, 65, Harris; diabetes, Anne Scearry, 19, 3933 N. 25th; phthisis. Laura Koehne, 1421A N. 23d; peritonitis. John Matholland, 5%, 1547 Tower Grove; sar- coma Mathilda Shoemaker, 84, 2024 N. 22d; anaemia. Carrie Houston, 12, 2225 Olives pneumonia, Thomas McGrath, 64, 2623 Dickson; septicemia. Cora Ald 86, 2111 8. 7th: pneumonia, Hattle ckson, 36, city; pneumonia. Riley Smith, 46, 3018 Cass; nephritis. Maggie Robertson, 54, 122@ Spruce; nephritis. Wm. Bell, 2111 Salisbury; delirium tremens. Frank Dengman, 40, 511 Clark; enteritis. Louls Bergman, 10, 2405 N, i4th; congestive chill.

MARRIAGE LICENSES. Ben Megeff 819 N. 14th at Mollie ilk 710 Wash st Charles M. Campbell ....-+- Olga Guthenow Joe Trendle 4349 McKee av e - 2201 Me st Josephine Weltig . seawall map st Edwin H. Stern ..1318 Blair av hoes R. Rosenblatt.......+-.-929 N. 13th st Charles L. Hopper 30389 Lawton av Fed S. Harrison Saas. Adolph F. Geigling ..+c....Fort Worth, Tex Estelle E. Koken St. ‘Louis Charlies L. Spaun.. av Agnes Alien av Herman Specter st Apnie Weinberger .+-+++++- av Walter B. Yost ... av Grace Hockmuth av Jasper Robinson av Mollie Sime Everet Dixon. Kdna Poston Frank Kollinger. secee Margaret Henzl. Theodore Vogel Marie Sleving «...«+-+e+«*- Jacob M. Todd.....+--+ee++. Lida M. Shelby... Wedding Rings, $3.00 to $20.00. Finest quality, solid 18k. gold. MERMOD, JACCARD & KING. Catalogue free, Broadway, Cor. Locust. .4130 Shenandoah * 4130 poe ge ton 912 Biddle "i904 Franklin 1119 N. Union 3609 Castleman .1835 Franklin seasoonre Columbus, Ohio ceuswaeeds " Boune Terre, Mo errr eT - Bt. Louis, a ...§8t. Louls, “on Mo il fi eee eeeeeee petaws Astoria, 20s ey Grove,

BIRTHS RECORDED. and L. Withey, _ and R. Maul, 3114 N. and M. 4™K 2"; 3 BEE pEEe es a2

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3038 Com Bullding. ST. LOU , habe abtns Capea gat 6 Ff J = a . $ —_ a ge lL. 96 e of the above duptatio S are fr es, All are eubject to Bond Quotations.

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ture. We allow 2 deposits Capital, “surplus and $8,500,000.00

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+ Story of E. C. ‘Gallagher’s Afisfortune Arouses Much 7 Sympathy. |

BULLETS FOR’ BULLY

City Employe Wants to kill (Canine Scrapper With- out Delay.

BLIND MAN FORGIVING

Says Owner of Vicious Beast Has Promised to Keep Animal Tied.

Cc. E. Gallagher, the blind man whose Gog guide has been terrorized by a vicious dog, has learned that he has more friends than he believed possi- ble. Scores of men have called on him at 1513 Olive street since the Post-Dis- patch printed a story about him, and have offered their aid in ending the annoyance caused by the dog bully by ending his life. To all of these offers Mr. Gallagher has said that he did not want the vicious dog harmed and that he believes he will have no trouble hereafter. “It seems like everybody’s a friend ef me and my dog,” said Mr. Gallagher. “That piece in the Post-Dispatch brought me friends I hadn’t heard of for twenty years.’’ Mr. Gallagher’s dog, “Kano” is a wonderfully intelligent animal who led his master around the streets and pilot- ed him safely through the thickest crowds and over the most dangerous street crossings. A short time ago a neighbor got a large vicious dog and this brute developed a bitter hatred of the blind man’s dog and whipped him

time he showed himself. outside. FRIENDS OFFER TO KILL VICIOUS FIGHTER OF BLIND MAN’S GUIDE THIS IS THE BULLY DOG THAT TERRORIZED BLIND MAN’S CANINE GUIDE. HIS MUZZLED. MASTER HAS AGREED TO KEEP HIM TIED OR

He even went inside the blind man’s only wished the owner of the vicious shop and fought Kano, and when the blind. man protested the owner of the vicious dog laughed at him. The Post-Dispatch told all about this Thursday and the next day the blind man had friends he had never even dreamed of before. They came from all parts of the town. One of them was a city sidewalk inspector. After he had introduced a ag y tt spoken blind man’s dog he said: age or where is this other dog? Show him to me, I’ve brought my revolver along and I’l] finish him in a jiffy. The blind man protested that such @ thing would never do and told his vis- itor that he thought he would have no more trouble from the vicious dog. “All right, just let me know if you do and I'll put a bunch of lead through him,”’ sajd the city employe. Another caller was an officer of the Humane Society, who told Mr. Galla- gher to notify him if the vicious dog bathered him again. “Tf you'll make formal complaint I 11 make short work of the dog,” he said. But the blind man is one who loves peace and seeks to avoid trouble. He

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