St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 17, 1909

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E He Attains Speed of 50 Miles an Hour and Almost Equals Wright’s Record.

CONTROL KEEPS APPOINTMENT a. _ HAS GOOD “hicago, Bell and MOTHER CAT, IN GREAT GRIEF AT THE DEATH OF A KITTEN, IS NOW NURSING A RAT Wellstonian Declares This Is Not a Nature Fake Tale. George Sink of 6179 Minerva avenue, Wellston, says he will swear to the appended rat-cat tale, no matter what less Distance Is Beaten by Rival This Year. Theodore Roosevelt may think of him. “T have on my premises,.”’ says Mr. ; ‘ Sink, ‘‘an old black female cat, which (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) has shown eccentricities heretofore. MINEOLA, N. Y.. July 17.—A climax Thursday cf last week she gave birth to three kittens. She was deeply de- : a eee teents Glenn Ht. Cur- voted to her litter. Last Se nee of a. tiss has been making at Hempstead | the kittens died, and the mother-cat was ag Plains, L. I., with increasing success, | inconsolable. She wandered around, ~ ame today when he sent his flyer 24.7 Batteries: Archer; Brooklyn, Umplres—Rigler

Ollie Jackson, Leader of Ne- gro Club, Was Armed When Caught by Special Officers.

| ‘Thousands See Flight Which Took Place Where Previ- ous Tests Were Made.

AERO CLUB RIVALRY IS CAUSE OF SUDDEN PL Miss Bessie Becker of 3529 Illinois av- enue, in charge of the complaint de- partment at Barr’s, visited Central Po- lice Station Saturday morning to give additional information regarding Ollie Jackson, a negro, manager of the Mod- ern Horseshoe Club at 2309 Chestnut street, who was captured through pre- arrangement with the police when Miss Becker went to meet him Thursday evening at Grand and Lawton avenues. Miss Becker was accompanied by Vice-President Anthony J. Ikemeier of the William Barr Dry Goods Company and Manager Allen of the store. She told Capt. Young the story of the in- fatuated negro’s attentions to her. Miss Becker is 20 years old, a demure bru-

HAS CHANCE OF. PRIZE

on x as Miss Julia Hoerner Plans an Ascent in ft Melba Tomorrow—She Has Been Elected — a Member of the South Side Aero Club. “Will Win Scientific Cup Un- PO Oe x OH Ae Lap ae I ok ae » Oo ae oe” BORO EP OP ae - ~~ a»

@PHHOVHHOD PO HOHOH HH HHOLOHY Three women made a balloon ascension Saturday in the § . back fence. _ . he has ever made. -» @eeded his former efforts

crazy-like, butting her head against the miles in 52 minutes ‘and 30 seconds and qualified as the first candidate for the | cup offered by the Scientific American. This flight is not only Curtiss’ best, but is the longest made with an aero- - plane in America this yeer. The cup ‘for which the aviator tried was offered _ for the longest flight of this kind dur- ing the current year, the only condition being that the winner must cover qt least 2% kilometers over a measured course before judges of the Aero Club of America and land within 100 meters of the starting point. Curtiss came to earth today barely within athe required distance, but the judges "decided that he had complied with all the terms of the competition. He will win the Scientific American cup which he also captured last year at Hammondsport, N. Y.; unless his flight is excelled before the end of the year. Many See the Flight. The flight, although made at an early morning hour, was witnessed by a crowd of 2000 persons. Curtiss Fose easily and Sate: _.wircied the course at a variety of al- titudes. At times his speed increased to 50 miles an hour, but the average for the whole distance was 28 1-4 miles an hour. At no time did he rise above sixty feet. His aeroplane was at all times under - perfect control. As on yesterday, Curtiss had favorable conditions for, his flight and was not bothered by the fog which hindered him on his first trial yesterday: morning, * but which lifted before his second and - -*guccessful flight. . In preparation for the aeronauts dou- bile effort, a triangular course of a mile and three tenths had been laid out on = Hemstead Plains and staked off with : three white flags at the turning points. _ There was no fog this morning but the pp ersese was too strong for ideal con- ' ditions and it freshened as the day ad- ywanced. The speed of the long flight ‘was comparatively slow, about 28 miles pa hour. ' Curtiss’ flight today is the longest Yosterday he ex- es remaintuy in the air 31 minutes, which was the sec- "ond best flight in the United Statcs . #rviie Wright holding the record win > a flight of 74 minutes ani 74 seconds ai ‘ : Curtiss’ bos: t is 53 minutes and 46 scc s macs Wilbur Wright retrained in vie

SERVICE AND ARE ACCEPTED Be 7 hree Orientals Will Help Depart- By ment Cope With Criminals of Their Race. Long Gee, Sing Fung and Leo Wing @re three new assistant policemen in St. Louls. Long, Sing and Leo don’t ‘Wear stars, but they are assistant po- © Weemen just the same. Col. John A. Laird, president of the Police Board, and Chief of Police Creecy agreed > Saturday to accept their services, gratis, > im running down bad Chinese, looking tor Leong Ling and otherwise keeping > erder in Chinatown. 4 “The arrangement was the outcome a conference between Frederick’ C, iwmann of 18 South Eighth street and the chict and board president in the “Ghamber of the Board of Police Com- Missioners: Mr. Husmann is a sort of > general counsel to the Chinese of St. wouls. He assured Col. Laird and Chief reecy that only about one-half of one cent of the Chinese in America are : Chinese. Long, Sing and Leo, he said, ‘are wil- to ald the police depaftment by re- rting when Chinese get into the bad by keeping their eyes on sus- bus Chinese and by running down tte when called upon.

SDEN, July 17. Princess Johann ot Saxony was thrown out of her bile while driving in the vicinity ecastic. She was injured about but the wound is slight.

Basse Quits Hospital, , duly 17.—Mayor Busse, who ® operated on for append!- ed from the hospital esi ae OR ny BAR oe a Once she jumped barrel of water and came near drown- ing. She showed every maonitas ‘aberration from grief. “I went out to the cat-house tn the back yard Thursday morning to sea if she was nursing her two remaining kittens all right. She was. ‘Now don’t jump. Be calm. This is absolutely true. “That cat was nursing her kittens and a big rat about their own size. I don't know how she induced the rat to take the place of the dead kitten. I’m only telling what I know.”’ Mr. Sink said Saturday morning the rat was still being nourished by the cat, which seemed perfectly contented. BLUE-AND-GRAY-EYED BAKER SEEKS WIFE IN ST. LOUIS No» Widow -Will Be Considered + Who Has More Than One Child. Any St. Louis spinster or widow who would like to look into a pair of eyes, one blue, the other gray, and hear a masculine voice pronounce the words “Will you be mine?” can arrange, by communicating with Chief of Police Creecy, to have that pleasant experi- ence. The only restriction is that the maid or widew must be between the ages of 25 and 28 years, and that no widow with more than one child need apply. The latter provision suggests that the wife-seeker has been reading the rules of a new St. Louis apartment house. John Rose of 480 Ashland avenue, Chicago, is the chief’s correspondent. He says in his letter that he has found Chicago women fickle, and was told that St. Louis women were more con- stant. The only one who came near suiting him there, he says, was a widow, and negotiations with fer were called off when he learned that she had three children. The blue-and-gray-eyed —_ is a bak- er, 30 years old, five feet) six inches tall, and earns $20 a week. He is a Catholic, and wishes his wife to be of the same church.

evidence of nette. Jackson is about 30. When arrested he wore diamonds on his fingers, in his shirt front and in his tie, worth about $2000, and carried a revolver. Sent Her 825 for Presents. Until Miss Becker went to meet him at the street corner he was known to her as “The Man With the Diamonds,”’ that being his signature to a letter she received from him Thursday morning, inclosing $25 which he told her to use in buying presents for herself, and request- ing that she arrange to meet him. Two or three times a day, for a week before she received the letter, Miss Becker had been called upon the tele- Phone in her office at the store by a nan who was trying to arrange a meet- ing. Friday morning he _ called her again, asking her if she was ready to meet him. He gave his telephone num- ber the Modern Horseshoe Club’s call. Miss Becker had supposed her un- known admirer was a white man until she got the-tetters*sTHen she recalled that last Chrlervanl a& negro wearing many diamonds had visited her depart- ment to return a child's wagon he had bought and that he had come there to use her telephone. She turned the letter over to Mr Ikemeier, who infermed the police. A trap was set for ‘‘The Man With the Diamonds.’ Miss Becker was instruct- ed to arrange a meeting. Special Of- ficers Kennedy and Bresnahan were dctailed to capture the diamonded negro. “Call me up at 3 p. m.,’’ the man whose ‘phone number was Central 5048 said to Miss Becker Friday morning. At that hour the girl called the num- ber and asked for ‘“‘The Man With the Diamonds.’’ She was told that he was asleep. Fifteen minutes later he called her up. He wanted her to meet him Friday night, and she said she was willing. Mecting Arranged, “Go into the drugstore at Twenty- third and Market, then,’’ said the voice over the ’phone, ‘‘and call me up from there at 8:45 tonight.” Miss Becker said she refused to go

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SHAKES, RATS AND RABBITS MOVE TO HILLS Pests Spread Horror Among the Cottage Dwellers at Clifton, TL. St. Louis summer cottage dwellers on the bluffs at Clifton, Ill, are count- ing themselves among the flood suffer- ers. The water hasn't touched them, but it has sent them all kinds of “critters’’ that they hate to touch, or even to look at. The snakes, rabbits, rats, animals and insects of every deschiption which live under the bluffs never let a flood over- take them. They begin climbing before the farmers begin patching the levees. By the time the back water from the Missouri reached the “iifton neighber- hood a few days ago, all the denizens or the hollow were out of their holes, trespassing on the domain of the cot- tagers. In the yards surrounding the cottages of William Georgia, Daniel Fisher, Wil- liam Hamilton, William B. Reedy, R. Meston, W. Watson and other vacation dweilers on the bluffs, rabbit hunting has been good for several days. Rats, bigger than most traps are built to catch, scurry about basements, and snakes in the grass drive children screaming to porches a dozen times a day. Most of the snakes, it is be- lieved, are harmless, but the children do not care to take the risk of investi- gating. Rattlesnakes and other deadly reptiles are not unknown in the Clifton neighborhood. The cottagers are still standing the siege, but some of them talk of return- ing to the city if the pests do not de- part with the receding waters. REDUCTION ON DRESS GOODS IS AGREED BY TARIFF CONFEREES Five Per Cent Below Dingley Rates Is Extent of Lessened Rate. WASHINGTON, July 17.—Tariff con- ferees agreed to a reduction of 5 per cent in the Dingley rates on women’s and children’s dress goods made of cot ton warp. When the conference adjourned for luncheon, three changes in the wool schedule had been agreed upon. All of these were reductions, the lower duty on women’s and children’s dress goods being made on woolen fabrics weighing four ounces or over to the square yard, and woven into cotton warp. A reduction of 6 per cent was also made in the duty on yarns valued at 30 cents a pound or less. The duty on tops which was finally decided upon, was made in accordance

with the reduced duty on yarns, and is 4 street, in proportion to the difference in cost of manufacture between scoured wools and spun yarns. By adopting these three changes, the conference commit- tec has disposed of the entire woo! schedule, the other duties agreed upon being the same as those of the exist- ing law. The cotton schedule was laid aside this morning, in order that the wool proposition could be disposed of. Two Killed in Shooting Affray. MERIDIAN, Miss., July 17.—At Union, a small town near here, Joseph and Peter McDonald were killed and two others seriously wounded in a shooting affray today. A telephone message re- ceived here asked that physicians be sent as’ once,

SURGEONS WILL STRETCH INJURED SCMTIC. NERVE =-— Unusual Operation to Be Per- formed on‘Former Turnkey, 69 Years Old. Surgeons at the City Hospital Satur- day prepared to perform the unusual operation of stretching the sciatic nerve in the right hip of James Berry, 69 years old, a veteran Police Department turnkey, Setatic last June to quit his work at the Carr Street Station. He has been unable to straighten his right hip. Internal reme- dies have falied to help him, and he con- sented a few days ago to the last re- sort of a surgical operation. Drs. Shut. and Bunch of the hospital staff said Saturday that an_ incision would be made at the hip joint, ex- This nerve,

rheumatism compelled Berry posing the sciatic nerve. which is nearly as thick as a lead pen- cil, will be drawn with delicate instru- ments into a straighter position than that in which the surgeons expect to find it. The physicians believe that the nerve has become bent and stagnated, and that until this condition is relieved he will be deprived of the use of his leg. Operation Seldom Tried. The operation is one which has sel- dom been tried in St. Louis, and its results are not considered certain. This was explained to Berry, who replied that he was willing to submit to any operation which would give him a chance of being able to walk again. When the nature of the proposed oper- ation was explained to him, Berry said he wanted to see it performed. He was told that chloroform would have to be used, and reluctantly gave his consent to the anesthetic. The physicians say constant walking may have caused Berry’s trouble, which had its origin before he left his beat nine years ago. He was for 15 years the patrolman on the old Lindell Ho- tel beat, around Sixth street and Wash- ington avenue. He drew a patrolman’s pay for some time after becoming a turnkey. His son and son-in-law are policemen. BOY, 12, FINDS $10-A-DAY POCKET MONEY ABOUT RIGHT Took Gold Piece From Father’s Pocket and Had 40 Cents Left at Night. Henry Schaeffer, 12 years old, son of George Schaeffer of 817 North Tenth awoke early Friday and at 7 a. m., while his father was still asleep. took a $10-gold piece from the latter's trousers’ pocket, and started out. When he was taken to the Mounted District Police Station Friday night he had but 40 cents in his pocket. The boy was arrested at Forest Park Highlands by Mounted men on suspicion. The little fellow took in every attraction at the resort, and ate popcorn and peanuts till he could hold no more.

alee A Sleepwalker Falla From Window. CHICAGO, July 17.—Joseph Donovan, while walking in his sleep, plunged from a fifth-story window of the Ironside Hotel last night, alighting on the pave- ment below, but escaped injury, aside {from a sight fracture of the:left ankle

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HATTER FEARING REBUGS SPENDS NIGHT ON PUMP —_ -_ Alfred T. Matthews Guards ‘His Home, and the Village. of Glendale.

Alfred ye Matthews, St. Louls hatter sat on the pump handle at his premises in Glendale all Friday night watching for incendiary tramps and incindentally serving as the villiage fire department. Mr.’ Mat that tramps are trying to burn Glendale off the St. Louis County map. The village is about 14 miles from Union Station, at the junction of the Frisco Railroad and the Berry wagon road. A barn near the Frisco station, be- longing to George Theisen, burned Fri- day evening. Last Tuesday night a barn belonging to Mrs. William H. Spahr of Maplewood, on her premises at Glendale, was destroyed by fire. Shortly before the blaze was visible, Mr. Matthews, looking from his window, saw three tramps coming out of the barn. The following night the $12,000 house belonging to Mrs. Spahr, which had been vacant three months, was de- stroyed. Mr. Matthews thinks tramps, either by accident or intention, caused the three fires. They get off freight trains at the station, he says, and sleep in barns and vatant houses. I'riday night when Mr. Matthews got home at 11 o’clock and saw Theisen’s barn still sending up sparks he drew three buckets of water and sat out un- til daylight, with one eye for tramps and the other for possible blazes from the smouldering ruins of the barn. GOOD GROWING WEATHER IS PROMISED AND CITY DISH WILL BE PLENTIFUL THE TEMPERATURES. thews is convinced

marked the con- stant reader, “that a writer in a morning news- paper deplores the fact that St, Louis has no dis- tinctive dish to tempt conventions and tourists.”’ “I reckon,” re- plied the patient listener, “that writer hasn’t lived in St. Louls very long.”’ “Why, have we really a distinct- ive dish?’ “Boston has her / baked beans, Bal- |/ timore her plank- ed shad, San Francisco her, savory snails, and St. Louis’’— “A-h-h,” uttered the constant reader, eagerly. —*and St. Louis kraut.” The forecast: Fair and continued

has her sauer- warm tonight and Sunday; easterly | winds, shifting to southerly. Missourt, Illincis. lowa-—Generally Laas Same Sea Seven Ae eh

Louis Aero Club’s new balloon, Missouri, Saturday with H. { Honeywell as pilot. They were the first women who ever ascendes from St. Louis in a balloon, and it was the Missouri’s first flight.” The flight was hurriedly arranged and apparently was ma to forestall the ascension of Miss Julia Hoerner, who planned to | up Sunday with Capt. John Berry, under the auspices of the Sout! St. Louis Aero Club, a rival of the Aero Club of St. Louis. One of the women who ascended with Honeywell’ was his wife. The other was identified by women spectators as Miss Ada Miller. The third refused to reveal her identity. The stamt was made from the Rutger street yards of the Laclede Gaslight Co. at 11:20 a. m. Great secrecy was thrown about the preparations and the women who made the flight remained concealed near the office of the gasworks until @ll was in readiness. Then they hurried gcross the ya A and were helped into Dasket

by Honeywell and his assistants. — Mrs. Honeywell, clad in a white duck © suit and wearing a white yachting AD, was the only one of the women Who re= mained on her feet when the started skyward. The- others 4 cushioned seats which had in the basket. for them. ~* As the balloon rose into Mrs. Honeywell leaned over of the basket and waved her ha the 30 spectators, most of whom we women. Her companions waved h Kerchicfs. AM Women: Show No trace of Paar and Smile as If Off for Holiday They showed no signs of excite- ment and they .were smiling as though off for a holiday. The balloon sailed toward the southwest until it reached a height of 500 feet. Then it veered to the west. Half an hour after the start Hon- eywell could be plainly seen throwing out the long heavy dragrope. For a few minutes the balloon seemed to be becalmed. Then it appeared to dou- ble back on its course and flew dli- rectly toward the point from which it started, It became becalmed a second time when it was directly above Broadway and Walnut street, The balloon passed over the southern section of East St. Loyls at noon, bound southeast, Crowds in the business district watch- ed the balloon as it hung over Broad- way. The large black hat worn by Miss

Miller was easily distinguishable, it was the sign which told hundreas™ ‘St. Louisans that a woman: had owe: in a balloon here for the first time. Miss Miller wore a neat-fitting tailored sult end the third woman f party wore a blue cloth skirt, a- shirtwaist and a broad-brimmed sailor hat. : There has been rivairy between — Aero Club of St. Louls end the Bou St. Louis Aero Club, which is being 0 ganized by M. A, Heimann. The announcement that a would 4scend in Heimann’s balloon ¥ published Saturday. Within a few het i Honeywell had organized his pia . | Secretary Kearney of the Aero C€ of St. Louis was not let into ‘the # cret. He expressed surprise learned that the Missourl was pense, The balloon, which had never mm a flight, was bullt by Honeywell was completed only a few days ago. has a capacity of oad cubic feet « gas. Young Woman Joins Aero Club and Plans an Ascension in the Melbé Miss Hoerner has planned to make an ascension in M. A. Heimann’s balloon, the Melba, in which Capt. Berry and Andrew Drew of the Post-Dispatch staff made a record-breaking flight last Tues- day. Miss Hoerner was formally enrolled as a member of the South St. Louis Aero Club Saturday. She regards this as a high honor and says that she is ambitious to become an expert balloonist. “Ballooning is most fascinating to me,” she said Saturday, “and I am not the least bit afraid to go up with Capt. Berry. I do not think it Is nearly so dangerous as automobiling.”’ Miss Hoerner is secretary to Emil

INTERNATIONAL MERGES WITH GREAT AMERICAN LIFE CO, J. L. Babler Mentioned as President of the Consolidated Corporation. Negotiations are pending for the con- solidation of the Great American and International Life Insurance Companies of St. Louts, whose combined assets and insurance in force amount to $5,500,000. J. L. Babler, president of the Inter- national Insurance Co., will head the consolidated corporation.

The proposed new board of directors consist of Walter 8. Dickey of will Kansas City, chairman of the Republi- can State Committee; Peter J. Doerr, Dr. E. A. Babler, William B. Cowen,

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Clause, third vice-president of the Afie” heuser-Busch Brewing Association, she lives at 2915 Accomac street. She has long known Hetmann, facturer and owner of the Melba, she herself did much of the actual ~ work of sewing the big aerostat to gethe:. For nearly two years, Heimann Miss Hoerner, after her dally work 4 to the Heimann balloon factory | Thirteenth and Rutger streets and at one of the’ electric sewing mact She’ did this without pecuntary 1 ward because of the deep interest aeronautics.

— = NIGHT a JURY on ONE 1S GUILTY OF 3 Three of Accused Men Are ted After Trial Lasting 23 Days. Special to the Post-Dispateh. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn, July the Criminal] Court here the « turned a verdict tn the u sa ) rider trial finding one + 7x. “