St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 24, 1908

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“VOL. 61. NO. 65. —rr —— — — —— ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1908. ———————_—_ PRICE ONE CENT | — —

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AMERICAN WIS | VANDERBILT CUP ' RECORD BROKEN George Robertson in a Loco- . mobile Makes Speed of | 64.3 Miles an Hour. i

1 — = NO SERIOUS ACCIDENT ate Rain Makes Track Slippery, but Drivers Skillfully Turn the Corners, —— — — WINNER OF RACE AND + STATISTICS OF TRACK EORGE ROBERTSON won in G a 90-horsepower American Loecomobile, his elapsed time being 4h. and 48s., &n aver? age of 64.3 miles an kour. Herbert Lytle, in a %-horse- power Isotta car, was second, his time being 4h. 2m. and 36s. The crowd surged on the track and the race was declared off with no other car finishing. The race was 11 laps around a track measuring 23.46 miles.

‘MOTOR PARKWAY, L. I., Oct. 24.— George Robertson, driving a 90-horse power American Locomobile, won the Vanderbilt Cup Race today and at the / game time. broke all’ American track records by averaging 64.3 miles an hour for the eleven laps around the 23.46 miles track. Herbert Lytle, driving a 60-horse power Italian Isotta, was sec- ond, being less than two minutes behind the winner, whose elapsed time was 4 hours 48 seconds for the 258.06 miles. The race Was run over a track made slippery and “dangerous by a drizzling rain that began about daylight and continued all forenoon, but there were no serious accidents, The only fatality fight, when a resident of Long Island ’ City stepped in front of a trolley car while dodging the stream of autemo- biles coming to the track and was in- _ gtantly killed. Many of the 18 cars that started were put out of the race by accidents to tires and machinery, and Foxhall Keene was burned slightly when his car caught fire. But there were no serious ac- eldents. At the time of the finish W. K. Van- derbilt Jr.'s 1l0-horse power German Mercedes, driven by W. O. Luttgen, was running third wit ha safe lead, so that to it must be accorded third place, al- though it was not permitted to finish. The overrunning of the course at the end of the race not only brought the contest to a sudden and unseemly end, but it resulted in one of the spectators being injured by James Florida. He had not been warned that the race had been called off and he came full tilt upon the crowd. When, realizing that he could not ‘pass, he applied the brake, it was too late. The big machine hit the crowd squarely and when they fell back, David 8. Schull, a boy of 18, lay in the road with a fractured leg. First American Wineer. Roberteen, a favorite in the betting, a victer, by reason of his e first American driver and his the first ef American manu- to be returned a victor in the in was the finish that it required announcement of Robertson's to determine the winner. Seldom the event developed a closer con- Off on a splendid start, the win- field on elapsed time at the round. On the second laps he repeatea this per- on the fourth he had a Haupt, driving a wonder- t:' race, In a Chadwick, first place and held the lead sixth lap, when Robertson to the front. seventh lap Haupt had diffi- a hot engine and Lytle, in car, winner of the Briarcliff up and challenged for first place. Robertson plunged on, however, and started on his final lap with a lead of nearly four minutes. Just when it seemed, however, that the result was @inched, the Lecomobile skidded on the Biairview turn and brought up in a The grandstand groaned when the news was called out, but two minutes later the announcement that Robertson again had his car in the race was greet- ed with a tremendous cheer. A few seconds later Robertson flashed across the line, Lytle, who had started ear- Her, having already finished, and the TEC Hi : BESEE 22 cE : | td: Halt |i:

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HO is the man Hannegan! Who is the man Hannegan! That’s me. For I’m just as proud of As an Emperor, Czar or Who is the man Hannegan! That’s me. H-A double N-E-G-A-N Proud of all the creepy H-A double N-E-G-A-N, Ts a name that a flame HANNEGAN! HO is the man Hannegan! Hannegan! That’s me. Who is the gent That’s deserving a monu -Hannegan! That’s me. H-A double N-E-G-A-N Is a name that a flame HANNEGAN!

* — That makes the pretty roses be? That’s me. That the spooks are always glad to see? That nabs a spirit every time he can? CHORUS. Divil a man can mediumize agin’ me. Has never been connected with— That’s me. II. That fears the sassy gadabout ? That’s me. Who is the man the town is simply mad about? The lady spooks and baby spooks are fond of me. I’m fond of them, too, in return, you see. -ment ? CHORUS. Proud of all the occult power that’s in me; Divil a man can spookify agin’ me. H-A double N-E-G-A-N, you see, Has never been connected with— That’s me. ; | 7

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HANNEGAN HAS DISAPPEARED- AND LAMBERTS KEEP MUM + Ap,

information as to whether Will, Hen- negan, the psychic, whose reported ma- terilizations have startled the entire country, hag disappeared from St. Louis was refused Saturday at the home of Jordan W. Lambert, 401 McPherson avenue, where he had been employed as a nurse. When a Post-Dispatch reporter in- quired for Hannegan, he was told by a maid that the psychic was in the house. The maid said she could not permit Hannegan to be seen without the con- sent of Mr. apd Mrs. Lambert. She went in to talk with them and upon her return she said she had changed her mind about Mr. Hannegan being in the house. — re = te) Mr. Lambert sent word, through the maid, that the Hannegan incident was closed, and that he would have nothing more tO say to the pubMc concerning the clairvoyant and his work. Anton Gilzenberg of 4820 North Broad- way, a brother-in-law of Hannegan, re- | fused to say anything about the report- ed disappearance. He said he did not want to hear anything more about Han- negan or his wonderful powers.

Zeppelin Airship Makes Flight. FRIBDRICHSHAFFEN, Oct. 24— The Zeppelin airship made another suc- cessful ascent this morning and maneu- vered above the city at the will of the pilots.

— — Globe-Democrat, Republic, Star-Chronicle and Times fact,that the circulation of

Keeping It Up! Again yesterday, Friday, Oct. 23, the POST-DIS- PATCH carried more columns of legitimate paid adver- - tising, less cheap legal, than all the other St. Louis news- papers combined in the same field, under the same con- ditions without special effort of any kind. No other metropolitan newspaper in the United States can show such clear and convincing evidence of its superiority in its home field. The Figures: Post-Dispatch 119 coums combined 10 5 The reas@n for this great supremacy is found in the home field is greater than that of all other St. Louis daily newspapers combined, selling as it does each day an average of one paper for every home in St. Louis where the English language is read. the POST-DISPATCH in its NAVY SCORES FARLY IN GAME WITH HARVARD A

Midshipmen Make Touchdown and Kick Goal Soon After Play Starts.

STRUGGLE IN THE RAIN

Uncle Sam’s Boys Favorites in the Betting—Team Little Changed.

ANNAPOLIS, Oct, 24.—Navy made a touch down and kicked goal, Score:. Navy 6; Harvard 0, ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 24.—After holdinf off all day, rain came on in a drizzle just as the crowds pouring through the gates of the Naval Academy headed for the football field to see the big mid- season struggle between the Midship- men and Harvard. Navy is the favor- ite in what betting is going on. Local enthusiasts who are counting on a vic- tory over the college men, figure it out in this way: The midshipmen eleven is composed of nine of last year’s players and is stronger than the team that defeated West Point. Harvard, on the the oth- er hand, is said not to be quite up to last year’s standard. Although it has a heavy and. powerful line-up, the midshipment liine is also strong. It remains practically unchanged from last year, except that Snyder, who is on the right wing, is expected to do something. The forward pass will undoubtedly figure prominently in the game and the midshipmen also .expect to gain much ground with the on-side kicks. Midshipmen. Position. Reifsnider guard tackle r N orth t end Robert Lang Dalton Richardson Sharpe, Yale, judge. PENNSY SCORES H INDIANS: IN THE FIRST HALE Keystone School Battles With Carlisle on a Muddy Gridiron. ite umpil lba s:- “Korbi re: field se n, ale, referee; Edwards, Yale,

PHILADELPHIA, Oct, 24.—Pennsyl- vania scores touchdewn,. Score, Penn. 5; Carlisle 0. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 24.—Al- though Carlisle is favorite in the betting, Pennsylvania was out for victory in this afternoon’s game with the _ redskins. Muddy, heavy turf was expected to handicap the Indians, who favor a dry, hard field. The latter, however, were confident of victory. Pennsylvania kicked back and the Indians started in to rip up the Quaker line. A double pass with a forward pass and several line plays game them the ball in midfield, where they lost it on a trick on side kick. Position. Carlisle. ...Ldittle Old Man Waseu Bear rrett eo uWee cen Lyon Littleboy Gardner Ballenti Tho udge— warth- more. ROOSEVELT IS EXPECTED TC SPEAK IN CHICAGO FOR TAFT Politicians Hear He Has Consented to Go There Next Satur- day Night. CHICAGO, Oct. %.—Chicago politicians are on tiptoe of expectancy today as the result of the publication here of 4a Washington dispatch stating that Prest- dent Roosevelt last night promised Pres- ident C. L. Furey of the Marquette Club to deliver a political speech here next Saturday night. The club is one of the largest Repub- lican organizations in the country and President Furey went to Washington recently in an effort to persuade the President to make just ene speech for Taft before the campaign closes. . Offi- cilals of the club stated teday that they had received no message from Furey and that they had no knowledge of the President's reported intention to speak here. Republican politicians today declared, the President's appearance on the piat- form would certainly swing the doubt-

ful Western states to Taft. TAFT HOUNDED LABOR — LEADER PETTIBONE TO HIS DEATH, SAYS DEBS

a. Socialist Candidate for Presi- dency Addresses Audi- ence of 6000.

Friday night, tore into Taft and Bryan to the huge delight of an audience of 6000 people, presumably Socialists, or at least those with SGoclalistic tendencies, and when he finished his 50-minute speech he retired bathed in perspiration, trembling with exhaustion and tottering from weakness. He went to the arms of his devoted wife, who hurried him between rows of young militiamen away from his shout- ing, applauding admirers to a room in the back of the hall, where he descendea a ladder to a carriage that was awaiting him in an alley and was driven to his private car and to bed. He was thor- oughly exhausted. Debs arrived in St. Louis at 6:15 Thurs- day night, several minutes late, and his private car was switched out of the Union Station and to a sidetrack along Clark avenue east of Eighteenth street. Glimpse of Debs Impossible. On Clark avenue several hundred So- cialists with a banner waited to see him, but he was so carefully guarded that his admirers did not get even a glimpse of his car, and after waiting for some time they departed. Debs is more -closely guarded than either Taft or Bryan on his trip. His car is filled with guards who are con- stantly fending off enthusiasts who wish to see him and who, if they were per- mitted to talk to him and argue with him, would tell him their little tales of woe and tire him out, for Debs is such a temperamentaliy sympathetic man that he lets things of that sort worry him. Debs’ guards do not attempt any vio- lent exclusion, but their force is felt, through his brother, Theodore Debs, his private secretary; Otto McFeeley, a Chi- cago newspaper man, and a host of oth- ers. But first of all, Mrs. Debs, the handsome wife of the big Socialist, de- fends him. Private Signal Necessary. If one has the proper credentials he can get into the Red Special private car, but that doesn’t mean that he can see Debs, who is carefully secluded tn a stateroom, where a certain private knock and a password is necessary for entrance. Debs works so hard and makes sO many speeches during the day that between them his wife keeps him incommunicado with the rest of the world. She makes him rest. Debs is tired out. ‘It is plainly appar- ent that the tall, lean-faced kindly man is feeling the effect of his campaign. When he was in the anteroom of the ar- mory waiting to be conducted to the stage, he paced up and down with bent head concentrating his mind on what he was going to say. And yet he stopped occasionally to smile that won- derfully magnetic smile of his that has made him more friends than anything else. He seemed well enough, but he was tired. “There is a report that you are suf- fering from tuberculosis,” was the blunt question put to him by someone. is All Right Organically. “Nonsense,” he said, laughing. “The only thing the matter with me is that I am tired. The demands of the cam- paign have been pretty hard. I have made 16 speeches since leaving Evans- ville last night, and I have been on the job a long time. I am all right, except that my throat is tired and I

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FRANK HUSSEY A LEADER OF GREEN HAT BRIGADE i i —3—

The feelings of Mr. Hussey, the explo- sive member of the House of Delegates, have been deeply wounded because he was not mentioned in the account of the Green Hat brigade published in Fri- day’s Post-Dispatch. “Say, you ought to get wise to the guys that are leading fashions here,’ said Mr. Hussey to a Post-Dispatch re- porter. “I was the first one in the city to get One of them hats. I saw John W. Gates and some of them big guys down in French Lick wearing them and you bet I was on the job In a hurry. Soon as I got back to St. Louis I order- ed one, “Real thing in it, ain't I? And look at the lining. No near silk for mine. The genuine article imported from Cairo, Illinois. Say, and fasten your lamps on this hand painted waistcoat of mine. What do you think of that shade of green? Where did I get the waist- coat? Well, I don’t mind telling you i al Count Boni sent it over to me with a bunch of grapes. “Say, I feel sort of leary wearing one of these head pieces though. Seen Sim Harris since he got one? He's chas- ing around as if an automobile were af- ter him, He's got me so I can’t get away from: him. “He comes over to my office about ten times a day and wants to tell me the life story of everybody in the Republican party from Cannon down to himself. }. You can’t loge him. “The other day I told him to go over to Colin Selph’'s office and I would meet him there. I found out afterwards that it took Selph two hours to get rid of him. Next time he comes I'm going to send him over to see Dwight Davis. He's got more time than T have. “If it’s the green hat, I guess I'll have to ditch mine. Anyway, us wealthy dogs, you know, get a hat every week or So. Don’t laugh. Whistle.”

40H, THANKS, SAYS ROOSEVELT 10 THE MIKADO WASHINGTON, Oct. 2%4.—Ambassador O’Brien at Tokio, today presented to the Emperor of Japan the following mes- suge from President Reosevelt, convey- ing the thanks of the American people for the treatment accorded the officers and men of the Atlantic fleet on its voy- age to that country: “His Majesty, the Emperor of Japan: Through the American Ambassador I wish in this persona! manner to extend ts Your Mojesty the thanks of the American people for the signal generos- ity, courtesy and hospitality with which the American fleet has been received on ite visit to Japan. The people of the United States have been deeply touched by this fresh and striking proof of friendship and regard. The officers of fleet report that, hearty though their reception has been everywhere else, it bas nowhere been more hearty, nowhere more hospitable than in Japan. On be- half of this nation I desire to express rmy wiedgments to you and to sey how deeply this nation appreciates this fresh preof and seal of the ancient friendship between the two peoples. Your message to me was not only deep- ly appreciated by me, but when pub- ea ete en ao

jished gave a lively satisfaction to all}

PEALTY REPORT S'TAINTED,’ JUDGE SALE DECLARE The exceptions filed by the city to the report of the commissioners appoint- ea to appraise the property along King’s | highway, southwest, have been sustained by Judge Sale, who declared the report of the commissioners “tainted.” Objections to the commissioners’ re. port were made on the ground that cer- tain property was valued too high. The report was signed by Louis H. Loh- ineyer and M. J. Murphy. The third commissioner, Charies K. Skinker, re- fused to sign. lohmeyer admitted being an office as- socilate of Pulaski Langaller, who ap- peared before the commissioners fn be- half of property owners. The report was filed as a part of the city’s suit to condemn property on King’s highway with a view of making that street a boulevard in the south- western part of the city. EXPLOSION IN PORTUGAL PALACE LISBON, Oct. %—What is described as @ “gas explosion” occurred today at

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KENTUCKY JU FREES WIFE WHO. ~NILLED Bl ten Law Meets Response in Breathitt. i$ CHEERED IN COURT. oe Tells Her Story in Courthouse, Scene of Many Feud .. Incidents. — — Bae — — — CAUSE FOR JEALOUSY oo — r — er — and Promptly Used Her Deadly Revolver. — N — * Special to the Post-Dispatch. — JACKSON, Ky., Oct, %—The unwrit- ten law was invoked by 4 woman in- the Breathitt County Cireult Court to- day, and amid the cheers of the crowd that filled the Jackson Courthouse, Mra. . Nancy Murrill was declared “not guilty” of the murder of Miss Mary Terry: Several months ago Mrs. Murrill shot Mary Terry to th at the latter's home fn the coun here. The slay- ing was an act of vengeance for out- raged honor. It was woman wreaking | upon man. Mrs. Murrill was a hardworking — and fsmily, She discovered that Miss her husband from her; : , * at bani Like most ntain 2 rell was —— — ‘use of. firea and did not hesitate to use them. when occasion seemed to require. Satisfied of the guilt of: her husband and the younger woman, the wife waited yntil she learned of an appointment Murrill had made to visit Mary Terry at her home. |. * Mrs. Murrul, armed with a revolver, went to the place and saw her hus- band enter the house. Creeping to the door, she rushed in, found her husband . and Mary Terry, and shot her rival to incidents connected with the Hargis- Cockrill feud. At its doorstep Lawyer: the street, and lay there in hiding until the shades of night enabled them to

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