St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 29, 1910

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VOL. 62, NO. 343.

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ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1910. ~ PRICE ONE CENT

EDITION * adios re" he interestgd in 4 ’? itis

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Oifieha, Thundershowers this afternoon or tenight, cooler to- night; Saturday fair, with moderate temperature. Stage of the river: 7 feet, of & feet. Missouri and Il}inois—Thunder showers to- night and this afternoon: cooler tonight; Sat- urday fair, with cooler in south portion, ders crv ei 8 a fall

TWO MARRIAGE CEREMONIES JOid PROF. PERCIVAL CHUBB AND MRS, WALTER L, SHELDON

ST.LOUIS BANKS RATE ON LOANS NOW SIX PER CENT

‘| Mercantile Trust Co. Sends Out Official Notice to That Effect. HAD BEEN 5 PER CENT

s a Other, Institutions Say They Also Haye Been Charging Higher Interest.

Six per cent is now the price of money to borrowers in the leading St. This standard, which has been Louis banks. informally established for some time by several of the banks, was fixed in a formal notice sent out within the past few days by the Mercantile Trust Co. to a number of its customers. The notice stated that existing and future demand loans would be made at the rate of 6 per cent, instead of 5 per cent, former'y the prevailing rate. The recipients of the notice are said to have been mostly occasional borrowers of the Mercantile, who are customers of other banks. inquiry at the Merchants-Laclede, Me- chanics-American and Third National banks by a Post-Dispatch reporter Fri- day brought the statement from offic- ials that o4% and 6 per cent, chiefly the latter, have been the rate charged on their recent loans. GLADYS KERENS S ENGAGED 10 A PHILADELPHIAN The Announcement Is Made in a Cablegram From Vienna.

IS: G.- H: -GOLKET Bride-Elect Is 21 Years Old and Inherits Her Moth- er’s Tact. HE

By Associated Press. VIENNA, July 23..—Announcement was made today of the marriage engagement of Miss Gladys Kerens of St. Louis, Mo., daughter of Richard Kerens, Amer- ican Ambassador to Austro-Hungary, and George H. Colket of Philadelphia. Fiance Is Wealthy. Colket is a very wealthy young Phila- delphian. Friends of Miss Kerens in St. Louis said Friday that he had been attentive to her for the last two years and that he pushed his suit most vigor- ously. He came to,St. Louis several times for the sole purpose of seeing Miss Kerens, and frequently instead of writing would send telegrams. Colket was a guest at several house their estate at Elkins, W. Va. though he and Miss Kerens seemed very much attached to each other at these times and on other occasions when they were together, the friends But parties given by the Kerens family at.) [TWO POSES OF MISS KERENS AND HER FATHER’S AMBASSADORIAL HOME IN VIENNA

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Miss GravYs KERENE KAJIWARA PORTRAIT MN15s GLADYS HERENS DAV/I$ AN® BIlCHKEMW FY Fe PerrTReaiyr > 54 £ . Se, % oO: i > We : . ¥ - —-- —_ A Maes 5: | ‘ ; | , $ bf ; ¥ 1s : fs. : P| hes Secretary and General Coun.” sel Removed at Meetings of ~ “RUMP” Attempt to Get Backing Appeal From Receivership ‘ > Ba eae ; ' = . ; $ 4 a : Rs ss - . : / i es ad 1 ee 3 yy, > . 4 1% sia ras mm 4 : : 4% * y 5, +. 1g * ’ Harry B. Gardner formally was ousted™as secretary of his twin concerns, the Continental — Life and International Fire As — surance rar Gillespie was discharged as companies, and boards of directors held in the Syndicate Trust The appointment of receivers the companies by Judge With- row and McQuillin was ap proved in resolutions, and the ac- passengers aboard the steamer, accompanied by Miss Ethel Clare Leneve, his typist. Crippen and Demand Causes Increase. One of the leading St. Louis bank- said, in explanation of the in- crease, that an unusual demand for me of the young woman thought that sev- “a eral others had as good a chance as Colket.

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Miss Leneve do not know they are under suspicion. They have been allowed every liberty. The other passengers of the- vessel, Capt. Kendall wires, are also in ignorance of the identity of Crip- pen and Miss Leneve. Capt. Kendall's message says: “IT had my first suspicions after the Montrose had been out two hours from Antwerp. I watched the couple closely, and came to the conclusion that the man was Crippen. He was booked as a merchant, and the girl, disguised as his son, as a student. Crippen has been reading constantly, is very nervous and does not sleep well. Miss Leneve is gay at times and at others appears worried and watches Crippen with tearful eyes. “T have watched the man closely ever. since he came on board the boat, and I am sure today that he is Crippen. I had read fully of the case when in England and had seen the pictures of both the fugitives as printed in the London papers when I was in Antwerp. There is no doubt of the identity of the couple as Dr. H. H. Crippen and Miss Ethel Clara Leneve.” CANADIAN POLICE EAGER TC ARREST SUSPECTED PAIR By Associated Press. FATHER POINT, Quebec, July 29. —.Y" h the determination today that t’ _ steamer Montrose, which is be- 1} ved to have on board Dr. Hawley H. Crippen and Ethel Clara Leneve, will not be boarded by officers of the law probably before Sunday morning, when she will stop off here to take on a river pilot, immediate interest among the assembled crowd of detectives, reporters, photograph- ers and villagers, shifted to a lively contest between the Dominion au- thorities and the provincial police, both jéalous of the honor of making the arrest. Detective Charles Gauvreau is here and shows a letter from A. P. Sher- wood, chief commissioner of the Do- minion police, authorizing him to take Dr. Crippen and Miss Leneve into cus-

tody if he is sure of their identity. He is warned not to give the prisoners an opportunity to harm themselves. y to Prevent Tragedy. The authorization reads: “If sure of your people make the arrest and keep the prisoners in separate cabins; and make certain that no chance is given either of committing suicide.”’ However, there is another side. Chief of Police McCarthy, of Quebec, is also on the ground, and he is armed with a warrant from the Government of Que- bec Province which he is instructed to serve on Crippen as soon as he finds him. Beyond these two men this little vil- lage fairly swarms with police and pri- vate detectives, anyone of whom would be glad of the personal glory attaching to the apprehension of a man who, after spending several years in Canada, got mixed up abroad in an affair that. if the charges made are borne out, does not reflect credit upon the Dominion. Then, too, there is that matter of $1250 reward offered for the capture of Crip- § It would seem that Chief Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard would have the say as to who should lay hands on the fugitive or at least exert much influence as the arrest cannot be made until] Dew has established the matter of identifi-

cAtion.. The Laurentic, upon which Dew is & passenger, will be off this point between 3 and 4 o'clock this after- moon, according to wi.eless reports. It fe expected that while the steamer is taking on her pilot, Dew will communi- cate with McCarthy and Geuvreau and the further procedure involving the Culture Usages. .A double marriage ceremony united Mrs. Walter L. Sheldon, widow of the founder of the Ethical Culture Society in St. Louis, and Prof. Percival Chubb, one of the New York leaders of the Same organization. A dispatch to the Post-Dispatch Friday from Salisbury, Vt., stated that the wed- ding ceremony attended by the friends of the couple was conducted by Dr. J. L. El- licott, leader of the Hudson Guild of New York, but that the legal marriage took place at a prior ceremony, per- formed by Magistrate Dickens, the local justice of the peace. The laws of Vermont do not author- ize leaders of ethical culture so “ties to perform marriage ceremonies, limiting that function to magistrates and minis- ters of the gospe!. For this reason the double ceremony was necessary. The second ceremony, conducted by Dr. Ellicott, was of a poetic nature, and was said by guests to have con- tained much beautiful imagery. Mrs. Sheldon and Prof. Chubb an- nounced their engagement several months ago. He is well known to mem- bers of the Ethical Culture Society in St. Louis, having frequently officiated at the Sunday lectures of the society in Memorial Hall. He was a close friend of the late Prof. Sheldon during his lifetime. Mrs. Sheldon, being independently wealthy, lately made a gift amounting to $38,000 to defray the greater part of the cost of a hall, to be built on Grand avenue as the future meeting place of the society and its Sunday school. The hall will be a memorial to Prof. Shel- don, who was the leader of the society’s work here up to the time of his death. Prof. and Mrs. Chubb will reside in New York and at her summer resi- dence in Vermont. money was being caused by the gen- eral investment in lanl, and by the expansion of business. Another banker remarked, “the dif- ference between American banks and those of France and Germany is that the European banks, as soon as they see the slightest indication of an in- greased demand for money, raise the interest rate. ° Our banks, on the other hand, wait until the increased demand has caused nearly all their money to be loaned. eFstus J. Wade, president of the Mercantile company, said: “The finan- cal outlook is very brigt—better, in fact, than for months. The raising and lowering of the interest rate is a frequent occurrence, depending oa the immediate state of the demand on various’ banks.” KREISMANN PROMISES FREE BRIDGE SPANS BY JULY |, 1311 The main channel spans of the free bridge will be placed by July 1, 1911, ac- cording to assurances given Thursday afternoon by Mayor Kreismann in a speech to the West End Business men's Association, at their tenth annual outing at Delmar Garden. He contended that the progress of the work was satisfac- tory, in view of the difficulties that had to be overcome, and said it would be more rapid from now on. The Mayor was announced to speak on the proposed additional bond Issue. In explanation of not discussing that he said: “TI am sure that whatever plan the Municipal Assembly indogses will be tne one that the city wants, and I will indorse it, providing that it does not wrest from the city the control of the

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We nearly _ beat all 4 Our home merchants know a good thing when they see They are in business to sell their merchandise and they have learned by experience the best and cheapest way to do it. Yesterday, Thursday, these St. Louis merchants, without special reason of any kind, bought 69 columns of display advertising, announcing their bargains, in the POST-DISPATCH alone, while these same merchants were satisfied to distribute ONLY 74 COLUMNS in all four of the other daily papers of St, Louis, namely, the Globe-Democrat, Republic, Times and Star, ADDED B= In no other metropolitan city in the United States does any one daily paper:so far outclass all competition as does the POST- DISPATCH in St, Louis, as the above figures We have often given many reasons for this, but one is sufficient—namely, the bona fide sales of the DISPATCH in the city of St. Louis and suburbs every day of the week are GREATER THAN ALL FOUR of its competitors named above, COMBINED. The POST-DISPATCH First in Everything books POST- each and THOSE OF epen to A School Romance. A news telegram to the Post-Dis- patch from Philadelphia says_that the engagement is the result of a ro- mance beginnig during their school days. Tristam C. Colket, George’s brother, of the firm of Pennington, Colket & Co., bankers. said Friday that he expected to hear of the en- gagetnent as his brother had gone to visit the Ambassador's family in Vi- enna early in the summer. The romance began at a dance given by the graduating class of the Hill Pre- paratory School at Pottstown. George Hi. Colket was preparing at that school to enter Yale from which he was grad- Wated in 1907. Since then he has taken & post-graduate law course at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, where he is now in his senior year. Two years ago Colket accompanied the Kerens family on a tour through Eu- rope and he returned to this country to study for the bar. Then a misunderstanding with the Kerens family arose on the matter of reiigion, casting a gloom over the stu- dent’s prospects, one of his bosom friends at Philadelphia intimated Iriday, but the trip to Austria-Hungary and the announcement just received shows that everything has been satisfactorily ar- ranged. Miss Kerens is a Catholic and her flance a member of the Protestant Episcopal -church. Miss Kerens Is 21. Miss Kerens has been much admired and courted since she made her bow to St. Louis society. Her mother is a woman of tact and grace, which helped to make her a social leader, and the daughter inherited the qualities. Miss Kerens is 21 years old, tall, slim, bru- nette and graceful. The coming-out party given to Miss Kerens in Washington three years ago was an évent of the season at the cap- ital, but it was eclipsed in magnificence when she made her debut in St. Louis 18 months ago. There was a cotillion at the Kerens home in Vandeventer place which was the talk of the winter. The illumination of the huge ballroom was a moon fashioned of silk and elec- tric lights, and one of the unique num- bers was made interesting by a band of masked robbers, who rushed in with drawn revolvers and kidnaped their partners for the dance. Miss Kerens was educated in a school at Washington, and spent a season there with her mother. She made many trips to Europe, and has a wide ac- Guaintance in Continental social cir- cles. Family Conspicuous in Society. Col. Kerens and his family were con- spicuous socially before he entered poll- tics, and the eddies he encountered there did not for a moment take the family out of the center of the gay whirl. Mrs. Kerens was with her hus- band during the famous senatorial dead- lock in 195 at Jefferson City, and ex- tended social favors to the wives of members of the Assembly. Col. Kerens rented what was then the McCarty House, and it was the scene of almost continuous gaieties. It has since been torn down. Mra. Thomas K. Niedringhaus also aided her husband, and vied with Mrs. Kerens in social activities. This was before Miss Gladys entered society. : ysenburg against the current until he reached the outmost hand and was pulled to safety. , All three men were thoroughly ex- hausted when they reached the shore. Keon spent three months in jail, at a cost to Grafton of ® cents a day, rather than pay his poll tax. Friends finally paid his fine and costs, aggre- gating 383, and procured his release. He had been sentenced to six months.’ SPANISH PRETENDER WANTS FIGHT SAN SEBASTIEN, Spain, July 29.— Don Jaime of Bourbon, the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, to- day issued a manifesto to the Car- lists in Parliament, congratulating them on their loyalty to the Pope and their defense of the church, and declaring: "T think the day is not far distant when my followers must rally te our

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. AMBASSADOR R.KERENKS NEW HOMEINVIENNA DYING PHYSICIAN MAKES STUDY OF HIS OWN MALADY Dr. Frederick Kidder Records Progress of His Disease, Cancer of Kidney. ————-

The body of Dr. Frederick Kidder, whose death, at Affton, St. Louis County, was due to cancer of the liver, will be taken Friday afternoon to Show- hegan, ‘Me., his old home, for inter- ment. Dr. Kidder was 66 years old and forty years he nad practiced medicine in Aff- ton without ever having a sign on his office. During the progress of his dis- @a4se, the fatal termination of which he knew was inevitable, Dr. Kidder made an intimate study of his own case, as appears from books in his. private li- brary dealing with cancer of the liver. He seems to have sc#sht for descrip- tions of symptoms of the disease and when the symptoms appeared in his case he set down the dates on the margins of the leaves. The first, date entered was eight months ago... After that, at frequent intervals, he set down dates on which advanced sysmptoms sppeared. Collected Rare Books. He studied his disease, not that he might combat it, but to trace its devel- opment along typical lines, which he could do more successfully in his own case than from the imperfect descrip- tions of his patients. He was a collector of rare medical books and had a large library of Fn- giish, German, French and Latin works, in all of which he followed the progress of his malady. Two months ago he was compelled to take to his bed and Dr. John Tittman of Kirkwood was called to attend him. The entry of a date on the margin of a leaf in one of his books shows that as late as a week ago he had been study- ing his symptoms. Dr. Kidder’s practice extended over a large part of St. Louts County. and he often traveled long distances to visit his patients. After he became un- able to go to them, they were brought to him. A week ago a little child was brought to his bedside for treatment. His surviving relatives are his mother, Mrs. Lillian Burgess of Showhegan, Me., and three sisters, Mrs. Hugo Doer- ing of St. Louis, Mrs. Hugh Meehan of Chicage and Miss Ruth Burgess of Showhegen, Me. o

Aldrich Rullding $300,000 House. NEW YORK, July 3.—Senrator Nelson W. Aldrich has awarded contracts here cost more than $300,000 on his property

flag. I will lead tne battle.” | ERNE ERE A i 8 A A Me oN for the erection of a country home to/}'

YOMEN CLAIM YAMIE BABY’ (DOG) AND SUE FOR II Ten-Dollar Boston Bull Has Already Run Up Costs to $40. : The coquettries and fickleness of “Baby.” a Boston bullpup, is comp- licating legal proceedings in the county justice courts and piling up costs for his two admirers and claim- ants. Mrs. L. C. Martin, 3907 Windsor place, and Mrs, P. L. Horsfall, now of Web- ster, but formerly a neighbor of Mrs. Martin, both claim “Baby” for their own. “Baby’’ and the two women were in Justice Werremeyer’s court In Clay- ton Friday. The Justice said that, like Solomon, he would let “Baby’’ decide which of the two womep was his legal owner. He directed each to call the dog and said that the one whose call he answered could have him, Answers Both Calls. Mrs. Horsfall called “Baby,” and “Baby” ran to her and pawed at her skirts pleadingly for a caress. But while “Baby” was still pawing Mrs. Horsfall’s skirts Mrs. Martin called him. “Baby” looked shyly up at Mrs. Horsfall’s anxious countenance, and then, wagging his tail coquettishly, dashed over to Mrs. Martin. “Stand up, ‘Baby,’” commanded | Mrs. Martin. To the great joy of Mrs. Martin and the edification of the court, “Baby” stood upright on his hind legs. He was still standing when Mrs. Horsfall called him, and away he ran to her again. After “Baby” had given several more dem- onstrations of his vacillating affec- tions, Justice Werremeyer granted a change of venue to the court of Justice W. C. Meyer at Jennings. Mrs. Martin says that when she left the city some time ago “Baby” romained behind at the residence. When she returned she says she found that her neighbor, Mra. Hore- fall, had moved to Webster and that “Baby” was gone. Not Same “Baby.” — Mrs. Horsfal) says that this “Baby” is not Mrs. Martin's dog “Baby” at all, but an entirely different “Baby.” She says she got him after she moved to Webster, Mrs. Martin says she got the dog from a vaudeville actor. She says he is worth $10. The costs tn the case already amount to $40. Mrs. Hors- fall says she values the dog at $100. GIRL WALKING IN HER SLEEP SHOT DEAD AS A BURGLAR NEW ORLEANS, Ia., July 3.—Alma

tion of Gardner and Gillespie in appealing to the Supreme from this ruling was denounced as not to the best interests of the — a x 2s ert ». = - aa : ine Ay 3 ‘ PS rg > Tew ae =>: af me 4 reg r directors who sued fer the , advised them to ignore this, and convened first in room 1007, which is unfurnished, but for which the ing had been called. They went threugh the formality of an adjournmest t — room 100, where they ceuld sit 1 and then began the real business ef morning. Directors Oppose Gardner, i It had been Gardner's intention t@ have the directors pledge Se for his bond on appeal from the app ment of receivers, but in this he | nally failed, the majority of directorates being against hirn. There were present five of the presence of Leahy, who sat | Miller and advised him at each step @ the meeting. — Dr. Thomas Miller, son of the Harry M. Coudrey, who severed acting to the best interests of the pany, and declaring his office and it unanimously was adopted. — was elected to replace him. action was taken next as to ¢ Hit Fi : Ft a 4

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