St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 20, 1908

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i a _ been notified and information | eo a EVERYTHING.” T. LOUIS POST-DISPATC Only Evening Paper in St. Louis with both Associated Press and United Press Service. | VOL. 60. "NO. 334. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1908 PRICE ONE CENT ~ BALLOON DROPS BOO FEET, THE DARTS UP AGAI Aeronauts Without Ballast Face Death During St. Paul Race. FOOD AND CLOTHES GO Last Pound of Weight Cast Away to Save Lives of Pilot and Aid. FEARED AN EXPLOSION Mueller, Aboard the United States, Afraid to Stop Gas Leak. ST. PAUL, Minn., July 20.—While the) ~ balloon race of Saturday was a failure as far as distances covered were con- cerned, it excelled any previous aero- nautic event ins America in the thrilling experiences it furnished for the occu- pants of the huge gasbags. How his monster balloon, the United States, which was a participant in the St. Louis races last October, hounced in the air like a huge rubber ball from a height of 8000 feet to the ground, then back into the air egain, at a terrific speed, was described today by Pilot A. E. Mueller. The United States miles. covered only 55 “pag Up 8000 Feet, “With W. G. Shepherd, my assistant,”’ said SR ‘“‘we had an up-and-down journey for 50 miles in the first hour. Then we began to sink rapidly on a : ] mm_eteal srove of trees. We had no ballast . left and our drag rope began to. catch in-the tree tops. I ordered Shepherd to throw out all the drinking»water and I unfastened the drag rope. It was ¢rash- ing from tree to tree, and the next time it caught I dropped it. “We then shot up 8000 feet. We went faster than we did when we arose from Lake Michigan July 5. So rapid was the rise that the gas, sO poor that it looked like smoke, , Was forced out through the lower neck of the bag. I was afraid to tie the neck for fear the bag would explode. At 8000 feet we took off our coats, in spite of the in- tense cold, knowing that we would have to use them as ballast when we began our 8000-foot drop. Drop At Terrific Speed.. “Then we dropped downward at a terrific speed. We had no sand left. When I threw out salt which we car- ried in a sack, it fell on top of the ' balloon bag, which showed that we fel} ' faster than the salt did. A paper which we threw out rushed upward, it seemed, at a terrific speed. “When 300 feet from the ground we threw out everything we could lay our hands on, revolvers, food, clothes, shoes and papers. We struck hard. The balloon bounded about 300 feet to the other side of a fleld and I ripped open the bag with the rip cord.” Impossible to Stay in Air. The aeronauts who participated in the face were disgusted because of their failure to make long distances. They unanimously blame the heavy gas with which the balloons werg inflated. It ~lacked buoyancy, and the aeronauts de- clare it was impossible to keep their ba}- loons in the air. Charlies A. Coey piloting the Chi- Cago, made the longest flight, landing at Blooming Prairie, Minn., 73 miles from §St. Paul. The Pommern, Dr. Julian Thomas, pilot, made only 62 miles to Warsaw, Minn. The others made the following dis- ' tances: America, 59 iniles; United-States, 6&5 miles; King Edward, 24 miles. Coey declares his balloon was the vic- iim of a “circular wind.” He says that before landing he believed he was in the vicinity of Lake Michigan. During his @light he sighted the Pommern sail- ing southwest. Coey characterizes (the Minneapolis gas as abominable for ballooning pur- poses. He wants to race the Pommern from Chicago on Labor day. Bight Drowned Near Boston. BOSTON, July 2.—Eight persons were drowned yesterday in this vicinity. aaa as A WARNING. "NFORMATION has reached the Post-Dis- patch that a woman is Soliciting money for the Post- Dispatch Pure Milk and Free Ice Fund. No person has been authorized to solicit money for this fund. The police have fea e fo the capture of this mn Se crcegagata by EDUCATED PIG ATTENDS PICNICS, DRINKS BEER AND WALKS ON HIS HIND LEGS Prosecutor Rowland Johnston Has] a Porcine Marvel in Strenuous Pet, “Teddy.” you can’t make a whistle out of a pig’s tail, but Rowland L. Johnston, Prosecuting Attormey of St. Louis County, has an educated pig that whis- tles. The pig also laughs, sings solos and walks on his hind legs. In fact, he is “the whole hog’ at Mr. John- ston’s new summer home on the Mer- amec River, near Valley Park. Even in his shoathood the porker man- ifested symptoms of s.renuosity ill in keeping with the lazy attributes of the rest of the hog family, so he was christened “Teddy” and made a house- hold pet. Now “Teddy” threatens to put Val- ley Park into the fleld as a serious competitor of Alton for nature- faking honors. The Johnston heal is on the crest of a hill overlooking Fern Glen, the popular Meramec River picnic grounds. It didn’t take ‘“‘Teddy’’ long to learn that the piecnickers there left plenty of good things to eat. He made Fern Glen his headquarters and thrived on picnics in porcine pulchritude. Regular Customer at Buffet, That was the way “Teddy” became addicted to the regular dri#king of beer. Now he goes to the buffet in Fern Glen every day, walks in, says ‘who'll buy?’ in hog-talk, and har- angues the customers of the place on his hind legs until somebody invites him to join in a bottle. Saturday the picnickers sought to have some fun with “Teddy.” He al- ways could drink any quantity of beer without making a hog of himself, but this time he got a drink of whisky. “Teddy”? had a headache all day Sun- day and Prosecuting Attorney Johnston guessed the cause. CUTS THROAT IN SLEEP AND WOUND AWAKES HIM William Pohlman,: 2006 Destrehan street, cut his throat early Monday in his sleep. He is a ‘somnambulist, and arose from bed, obtained a knife from his trousers and turned it on himself, without awakening, he says, until the steel entered his flesh. Dr. G. C. Henckler, formerly physi- clan at the South Side Dispensary, who treated the man, regards the wound serious. f Mrs. Gertrude Grénack. Pohlman’'s grandmother, was awakened at 2:30 a. m. by his sterterous breatbing, and found him unconscious. She summoned Dr. Henckler. | When he was révived he said the act of wounding himself awakened him, and that he tried to call help, but could not. After a time he lost consciousness from loss of blood. He probably owes his life to the fact that his grandmother fs a light sleeper. WOMAN FOUND DEAD; MAN HELD COLUMBUS, Ind., July 20.—The body of Mrs. Carrie H. Percifield was found west of the city last night. John Un- derwood, a street-car motorman, was placed under arrest by the authorities who assert they have evidence connect- ing him with the woman’s death. ‘The woman ‘was recently divorced from her husband. The Post-Dispatch is the only evening newspaper in St. Louis that receives or publishes news gathered by. the Associ- | ated Press. NEDRINGHAUS SONS TO MANAGE HS BIG ESTATE Will of Granite City Founder Provides for College Building. sides | BIG INCOME TO. WIDOW Annual Payment of $20,000 Provided and House Is Gift to Her. The will of the late W. F. Niedring- haus, founaer of Granite City, was filed for probate Monday. The value of the estate is not given or estimated in the will. The will provides that a trust company be formed to be known as the W. F. Niecringhaus Trust Co., to manage the estate. The directors ‘of this trust compafhy are to be the sons—George W., Albert W., Oliver B. and Lee I. Niedringhaus—and they are to select by lot one of their brothers- in-law to serve as the fifth director. The trust company is to give first to the* widow, Mary, the Niedringhaus homestead at 6105 Lindell boulevard, and its stable, horses, automobiles and household goods and is to pay her a yearly income of $20,000. Bequest toe College Made. The son, George, is given 260 ,shares in the National Enameling, and Stamp- ing Works, valued at $25,000. Central Wesleyan College of Warren- ton, Mo., is given $10,000 with which a building is to be erected to be known as the Niedringhaus Building. The balance of the estate is to be managed by the trust company and the profits are to be divided among the ll children, who, besides the four sons named as trustees, are Mrs. Lida West, Mrs. Jeanette Orthwein, Mrs. Maud Young, Mrs. Lucille N. Drew, Miss Irene Niedringhaus and Mrs. Lint Papin. Georgé and Albert Niedringhaus, sons, are named as executers of the will. The estate consists mostly of stock in the National Enameling and tSamping Works in Granite City, Tll., and of. real estate in Granite City and St. Louis. PLAYS SOCIETY MAN, RIDES IN AUTO, ROBS HOMES CHICAGO, July 2%.—Edward Fake, alias Stebbins, alleging himself to be the son of a rich San Francisco woman, and George Stafford of Louisville, Ky., were indicted today as a consequence of spectacular robberies committed with the assistance of a large red automo- bile. ™ The method of the two men was to drive up to we home selected for their depredation, comport themselves. as fa- miliar callers and then escape with whatever loot they had been able to gather. They were fired upon several times by the police un the North Shore suburbs. Fake, who claims that his mother is worth a number of millions, blames ex- travagant ....ng for his Madmen LS 8 ey Et CS, et tts — St. Louis, July 20, 1908. Bulletin 68 For 68 Consecutive Sundays Excluding Special Sunday Editions The Sunday Post-Dispatch Has Been First in Sunday Advertising And again is true to its motto, “First in Everything,” by being FIRST in City Circulation FIRST in Country Circulation F FI T in St. Louis Merchants’ advertising T in Foreign advertising FIRST in Wants and Real Estate advertising Yesterday’s Sunday Figures: Post-Dispatch... 1 6&2 Cols. Globe-Democrat .... Republic......++..+. « 145 91 Sunday Post-Dispatch Excess Over Republic *ee ee Over Globe-Democrat « v1 17 +o 9 The above measurements are on a column for column basis. The Why and the Wherefore: The he sales of the POST-DISPATCH in St. Louis and Suburbs every Sunday or BINED lan greater than those of the Globe- Democrat and Republic COM- the same field ” Yesterday’ s Sunday, July 19, circulation figures: 253, 666 B= Circulation books open to all 4 “First in Everything” SETTLES HIS ESTATE, THEN DIES BY GAD we eee Former Trunk Merchant Leaves Farewell Notes and Cash at Bedside. NAMES AN EXECUTOR Door of Wood’s Room Is Bro- ken ‘Open When Other Roomers Are Suspicious. After writing a leter to his sister, naming the man whom he wished to act as side of his estate, and placing checks and money aggregating nearly $600 on a table at his bedside, where they would readily Wood, 62 years old, connected one end of a rubber tube with a gas jet, placed the other end in his mouth and opened the tap. He was found dead in his room at the home of Mrs. W. C. Richards, 4532 Cook avenue, at 2:30 a. m. Monday. Dr. H. L. Galoway, 1232 North ‘Taylor avenue, said life had been extinct several hours. Fails, but Pays Debts. Recently Mr. Wood failed in the trunk business in St. Louis, and for two months he struggled to pay off his ob- ligations. He had completed this task and had a balafice to his credit, but he felt he was too old to embark in business again. Rather than be dependent on others for a chance to make a living he killed himself, his friends believe. A note found on the table Yr ad: “Please notify “Mr. John A. Meisel. I want him to be executor of my will. I am not fitted for business like I used to. be.”’ A sealed letter was addressed to his sister, Mrs. David A. Harper, 612 Green street, Brooklyn, N. Y. It has been forwarded to hery : Wood until recently was in the trunk business at 1545 North Seventh street. He met reverses there and ent@red the employ of Herkert & Meisel, 608 Wash- ington avenue, of which John A. Meisel is president. He was regarded as a good salesman, and was not known to be dissatisfied in his new position. Checks Beside His Bed. Two checks drawn in his favor were found on the table beside him. These indicated that poverty could not have been the motive. One of these, for $297.33, was signed by the T. L. Horn Trunk Co., and the other, for $228.84, was signed by W. F. Herkert, treasurer of the St. Louis Trunk Hardware Manufacturing Co. Besides these checks there was $54.85 in cash. Wood was unmarried and so far as known had no relatives in St. Leuis. Other roomers at his home broke down the door when they smelled the escap- ing gas. John A. Meisel, chosen by Wood as his executor, is out of town. “Mr. Wood transacted most of his business through Mr. Meisel,’” said Frederick Herkert, secretary of the Harkert &@Meisel Trunk Co. ‘‘He had a pretty bad failure, but he paid off every dollar and I can’t see why he killed himself. He came from the East about four years ago.”’ UMBRELLA CARRIERS ARE HAVING A PICNIC, BUT NOBODY ELSE IS This Is One of the Days When You’ve Got to Belong to a Union or Get Wet. THE TEMPERATURES, Midnight 2 a. 4 a. 6 a. 8 a. Umbrella Carri- ers’ Union, Local Noe, i, ig having an outing and pie- nie in St, Leuis teday, These who don’t belong are serry, The sym- bel of the erder is a rainstick, ram- pant, The outing be- gan last night and will continue to- morrow, if the present plan is carried out, The program: “Bhowers tonight and Tuesday; ris- ing temperature.” e river stands m= at 23.3 feet. It is expected to continue stationary or to rise slowly. The Illinois River wil! re- main stationary or fall slowly and the Missouri River will rise slowly below Boonville. IT WAS SO QUIET IN THE COUNTY SUNDAY J COULD Missouri—Probably local ‘showers Monday night or Tuesday, with rising temperature. Titincts-——-Probably local showers Monday night or Tuesday, with rising temperature. lowa—Local showers Monday night and in east portion Tuesday; slowly rising tem-] ' be found, John D. sett fon eT Oe | "oe = me bo. . WIPE een, ‘ plate serene names,” «cee geencemnAnAnseAhOre IPN ee ae “Ms Ersiik CANT © re Ouse Mt Piet - i i WAGES INCREAS 197 PER CENT 000 PRICE WASHINGTON, July 20.—The average wages per hour in 1907 were 3.7 per cent higher than in 1906, the regular hours of labor per week were .4 per cent lower than 199% and the number of employes in the establishments investigated was 1 per cent greater than in 1906, | These are some of the facts of inter- est in a statement issued by the Bureau of Labor as the result of an investiga- tion of the principal wage-earning occu- pations in 4169 establishments, represent- ing the principal manufacturing and mechanical industries of the country. The article {is entitled ‘“‘Rates of Wages and Retail Prices of .Food, 1890 to 1907.” Price of Food Advances, Investigations covering the sales of 1014 | dealers in 68 localities show that the re- tail prices of 30 principal articles of food, according to consumption in repre- sentative workingmen’s fandvlies, were 4.2 per cent higher in 1907 than in 1906. As the advance in retail prices from 1906 to 1907 was greater than the advance in wages per hour, the purchase power of an hour’s wages, as measured by food, was slightly less in 1907 than in 1906, the decrease being one-half of one per cent. The average hourly wages in 1907 were higher than in any other year of the 18-year period from 1890 to 1907, and more than 2 per cent higher than the aver- age in any year from 1890 to 1900. As compared in each case with the average for the 10-year period, 1890 to 1899, the average hourly wages in 1907 were 23.8 per cent higher, the number of employes 44.4 per cent greater and the average hours of labor per week 5 per cent lower. The average price of food in 1907 was higher than in any other year In the 18- year period. ‘ihe average price of principal articles, according to fam.iy consumption of the various articles, was 20.6 per cent high@ in 1907 than the average price for the 10 years 1890 to 1899. Compared with the average for the same 10-year period, the purchasing power of an hour’s wages in 1907 was 6.8 per cent greater. The increase in the average hourly wages in 1907 over 1906 was quite gener, occurring in # of the 41 industries in- vestigated. The greatest "increase was in the manufacture of cotton goods, where the average wages per hour in 1907 were 12.9 per cent higher than in 1906. in the manufacture of paper and wood pulp the increase was 10.1 per cent, in eight other industries the increase was & per cent, and in 99 industries less then 5 per cent. In one industry, Bessemer steel, there was a decrease in wages of 0.9 per cent. In the 41 industries, weighed according to importance, the increase in wages per hour was 3.7 per cent. Of the 9 ar- awa ant eg ticles of he tae ere Maher in poten Sh RAY FOR GIANTS! G-f-A-A SMASH ROOTER 15 HURT C. Julian Haas, a New, York paint salesman, left 75 cents and a shirt at the National League Baseball Park Sunday afternoon. In exchange for them he received $3.50 and a black eye. Police Commissioner Sland tried to prevent local fans from attacking Haas for shouting for’ New York instead of for the home team. Mr. Bland himself was surrounded by angry Cardinal rooters and was pushed back into a chair after he had ordered a policeman to put a stop to the dis- turbance. _, “You've got the right street and num- ber, but the wrong city,” yelled the St, Louis fans in the grandstand when Haas started to root for-the Giants and say unkind things about the Cardinals. “O, I guess not,” he retorted. T asked for my transfer when I paid my fare.”’ “Back to the three rear seats. You're smoking,’ shouted the Cardinal rooters. “Shut up! Don't talk to the motor- man,” sang Haas. ‘‘Hoo-roo, Hoo-roo, New York,” he added, excitedly, as Mike Donlin connected with the ball. “They’re off for Central Park,” he shouted, waving his arms as the little white sphere sailed out toward the bul- letin board. ‘“‘Where do you think you're at? The Demecratic convention?” sneered a grandstand regular. P “Get off the lunch,” said Haas. “This is a ple-eating.contest with the Giants doing all the chewing.” This exchange of gags was good-na- tured enough at the start when the Cardinals were in the lead. But it was . hotly contested game of 16 innings and the patience of the Cardinal root- ers wore out in the ninth inning, when the Giants tied the score. Haas was wild with delight. “Go buy your team a croquet set,” he yelled, derisively. ‘““‘They can’t play this game. Send ‘em back to the ping-pong circuit and let ‘em hear the melodeon and look at the family album. Mamma, put Bliss’ bib on’ and wipe little Eddie Karger’s nose. O wow, O wow, O wow.” ‘That will be about all from you,” sang 63 Cardinal rooters in chorus. _ With. one accord they advanced on -Haas, who sat just back of the press box in the center of the grandstand. From somewhere near the floor sound- ed a weak and plaintive cry: “Please take ‘em off.” Fensky’s park policemen and Creecy’s real ones responded. They found Haas at the bottom of the heap. After he was rescued Haas insisted that he be reimbursed sor hie shirt which the crowd tore off Secretary Seekamp gave him $8.5. “Now,” he said, “if you've still got. that transfer use it. Hope you never come back.” “I won't,” said the shirtless New orker, =e [ACTRESS AND HER HUSBAND WHO LOST HIS : REASON AND IS NOW IN GUARDIAN’S CHARGE LESLIE ‘CARTER. WHITELAW. AND Discharge: Follows — Political Activity of Attaches of Big Law Firm. Glendy B. Arnold,, brother-in-law of William C. Connett and F. 8. White- law, attaches of the law firm of Boyle & Priest, have been ‘‘fired.” Both Arnold and Whitelaw favored the nomination of Connett by the Demo- crats for Circuit Attorney. Judge Priest preferred. Carl Otto, according te Ar- nold, Arnold declares that the wrath of his superiors was further provoked by the charge that he has decided to supjort Dave Ball for the Democratic nomina- tion for Governor. Priest, he‘says, fa- vors Cowherd., ‘ Wants, Connett to Win. “I have taken no part whatever in the governorship,” said Arnold Monday. “In fact, the only interest I had in this campaign was in the candidacy of my brother-in-law, William C. Connett, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for Circuit Attorney. It Was of no im- portance to me who will be nominated for Governor and I have never done anything for or against any of the can- didates other than to state in private} conversation my’ intention of voting for Ball, “I wanted to see Mr. Connett nomi- nated and Mr. Whitelaw and myself did what we could to further his candi- dacy. In being for my brother-in-law, I suppose, I added insult to injury be- cause Judge Priest is supporting Car! Otto for the nomination.” Arnold discovered that he had been “let out” in a peculiar way. New letterheads ordere@d by the firm re- vealed it. The old letterheads bore merely the firm name, and the individual’ names of Wilbur F. Boyle and Henry S. Priest. Last week a package of new letterheads arrived. They bore in addition to the names of Boyle and Priest the names of George T. Priest, Thomas M. Pierce, fhomas E. Francis, V. H. Roberts and Robert E. Moloney. Roberts was newer than Arnold in 3 and His Millions Now in Guardian’s Care. ABANDONED BY HIS SON Magnate’s Feud With Stage Star Was Blazoned Before ~~ World of Society. HERITAGE CAST AWAY Destined Successor Spurned Wealth and Left Him Forever. CHICAGO, July 20.—Lestie Carter, for- merly president of the South Side Ble vated Railroad Co. and prominent in financial affairs and former husband of the actress, was today adjudged mental- ily incompetent to manage his own af- fairs. Charles E.' Soule was a conservator under bond of $110,000. | Mr. Carter has been seriously {ll for — several months, the result of gas poison- — ing. 8 en Leslie Carter, a sister. Witnesses declared Mr. Carter’s condition was: fa divorce which she had sought. “T’'ll show him I can make his name more famous than he could have made it in a thousand lifetimes,” said Mrs, erage P4egteeky Les make contracts the south side “L” Mr. Carter The petition was filed by Miss Hele