St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 22, 1910

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UIGUST A. BUSCH PRESENTS $6000 T0 Tht EAGLES *; Understand: You Need Money” He Says Over Telephone. “WE DO” HE IS .TOLD 2"It’s Yours” He Declares.— Sum Completes Prize Drill Awards. ST. LOUIS 2000 #2IN City Is Swarming With Mem-/ bers of Order and More Are Coming. Thousands of Eagles’ hearts were re- joiced shortly before noon Monday when James C. Shanessy, president of S>. Louis Aerie No. 41, received a tele- rlene message at the local headquar- ters. The speaker was August A. Busch. “Hello!”’ he said. ‘Is this Mr. Shan- essy?"’ **Yes,"” was the reply. “I understand that you Eagles need a little money,” said the brewer. “We sertainly do!"’ was the response. ' “How much?” asked Busch. “Well,” said Ghanessy, “five of us raised $12,000 toward the prize money for this convention, but we need $6000 more.” “Six thousand?” said Busch. “*Yes—six thousand,” replied Shanessy. “It's yours,” said the brewer. “I'll mail you a check at once. St. Louis is a good town, and the Eagles are good ‘fellows. It would never do to have them go away and knock the fourth city in the United States.” Shanessy hung up the receiver with a trembling hand, after a vain attempt at thanks, and rushed out to spread the joyful tidings. LOUIS POS Ont) Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. ‘VOL. 63. NO, 2. * [PARTLY CLOUDY TUESDAY AND FORECASTER PROMISES TWILL BE SOME COOLER THE TEMPERATURES. Yesterday's Temperatures. 38 at 3 p. ™. 76 at 5 a. m™. St. Louls has six hundred thou., plus eighty-seven thousand now; but people here will be so dense ‘twill be a mil- lion, ten years hence. Ted forms a new “short, ugly’’ club, with corre- ondents as the hub. Some say that he is going daft, opposing Sherman and Bill + Taft. But Bill himeelf is foxier still than Ted, “the Sage of Sagamore Hill,” for, in his yacht fourteen newspaper securely lodged, men he dodged. Of August this is week the last. The summer time will soon be past. Said Hamlet, ‘“‘My prophetic soul!’’ We soon will have to order coal! The official forecast; Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; slightly cooler Tuesday. The stage of the river is 4 feet; neo change. SWALLOWS AN ASSORTMENT LIKE A MAGPIE’S HOARD; TELLS DOCTORS AS HE DIES Frank W. Wilson, an advertising solicitor for the National Telephone Directory Co., 338 Frisco Building, died Monday ‘morning at Cairo, IIL, after swallowing a shoe-button hook, a hatpin, three keys, a lead pencil, a belt buckle, a toy pistol, three nails and a thermometer. Albert von Hoffman, Wilson's em- ployer, told a Post-Dispatch reporter that Wilson. suffered from nervous breakdown in April and went to the home of his mother in Cairo ta re- cuperate. He left his wife and five children at their home, 6547 Joseph street, St. Louis County. Six weeks Busch went later to Faust’s réstau-fago his wife died, but his condition rant, accompanied by Robert W. Aull, former Park Commissioner of St. Louis. There he met James C. Shanessy, Wwil- liam J.. Flynn, Louis Geismann, Rudolph F. Hoffrnan, Jonn’ F. .Eletter of Kan- sas City and Senator Thomas F. Grady of New York, who had assembled to confer, about the matter of the deficit. “T will make good any deficit you may have,” said Busch. The offer was made in the name of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, of which August A. Busch, son of Adolphus Busch, is the first vice-president. Word was spread at the same: time that John'8. Parry of San Francisco, special agent for Grand Worthy Presi- Aent Hering of the Hagles, has trav- eled 23,000 miles in the last four months boosting the convention which opened in St. Louls Monday. Several thousands of the 360,000 mem- bers of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the United States and Canada were, on hand Monday when the St. Louls Com- mittee of 20, headed by Campbell Allison, lawyer, got through receiving them at Union Station. Many members of the order, aside from ‘the four big committees which were in session for several days at the Planters Hotel. arrived as long ago as last Friday. ~~ Eagies came swooping down on the city all day Saturday and Sunday, and ohe small hotel on Pine si eet put 50 of the feathered fraternity to bed Sunday night. At noon hundreds of members of the order were racing around downtown streets looking in vain for hotel accom- -modations, ; ; The first crowd that Allison and his ‘confreres greeted Monday morning was 300 Eagiles from the Southwest, who came in on a special train of 10 coaches on the Frisco Railroad. Soon afterward a Chicago & Alton special rolled in, bearing 200 mem- bers of the order from Chicago and intermediate points. After that came a train on the Baltimore & Ohio with 20 delegates from New York. “Big Tim” Sullivan Was not in the crowd, but was said— ‘Was not in the crowd, but it was sala he would arrive Monday afternoon. Sullivan, who is a mighty power in Bast Side politics in New’ York—he is the man who held the stakes for the Jeffries-Johnson prize fight—is expected to take up the cause of State Senator Thomas F. Grady, the most noted orator of Tammany Hall, who will succeed automatically to the office of Grand Worthy President of the Eagles, unless the proposeq fight on him is successful. sutin was such that he was not informed. Before he died, he said to the sur- geons at the hospital: “You’d better put the X-ray on me. I’ve swallowed a.lot of funny things.” ions were made in his stomach and the contents, as enumerated above, removed. Von Hoffman says that Wilson worked for his firm three years, and was its star salesman, making $75 to $100 a week, “Two years ago he took a cure for drink,” said Von Hoffman; “and he has never been the same m@n since.” — es Oe advertising Bulletin 177 August 21 Total Columns all kinds Post-Dispatch, 204 Globe-Democrat . . 170 Republic. .... 78 Post-Dispatch Excess Over Globe-Democrat, 34 Over Republic . . . . 126 Total Columns Want Ads Post-Dispatch, 84 Globe-Democrat . . 43 Republic 19 Post-Dispatch Excess Over Globe-Democrat, 41 Over Republic . . . . 65 a a — 4 _— * J For 177 consecutive Sun- days, or 21-weeks more than three full years, the Sunday Post-Dispatch. has led all of its competi- tors in volume of advertis- ing. BECAUSE: Its circulation is greater than the combined circulations of the Globe- Democrat and Republic; its advertising rates per line per thousand circulation are lower than those of any other ne € Ms - paper in America; advertising columns are free from all ble fake financial and classes of Three incis- |SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER CAUGHT IN CHINESE RAID Young Woman and 18-Year- Old Sister Found in Chop Suey Place. CHASED OVER ROOF Met Mongolian First at Church and Then Took Room Over Restaurant. BROTHER AIDS POLICE Mother Wanted to Prevent Young Daughter From Be- coming Chinaman’s Bride. Mrs. Sadie Waldon, who was arrested with her is-year-old sister, Marguerite Helm, in a raid on a chop suey res- taurant, after policemen had entered the place over tne roofs of adjoining buildings, told a Post-Dispatch reporter Monday that she first met Leon Ling, proprietor of the restaurant, as a mem- ber of her Chinese class in the Sunday school of Union M. E. Church, Garrison and Lucas avenues, three years ago. She had then been a divorcee for a year. Her 10-year-old son, Roy Waldon, has for seven months past lived with her in rooms over the restaurant, at 2301 Wash- ington avenue, and has listened almost nightly to the songs and shouts of the revelers -from the neighboring disor- derly district, who frequent the place. The problem of his future custody will probably be presented by the Police De- partment to the Juvenile Court, / Will Send Girl Away. Marguerite Helm was at the home of her sister, Mrs. Kate Lydon, 1428% North Thirteenth street, Monday. Her moth- er, Mrs. Catherine Helm, said that if the police case against the girl was dropped she would have the alternative of going to Smithton, I=., where an- other married sister lives, or being sent to the House of the Good Shepherd. Mrs. Waldon and Marguerite Helm. with Leon Ling and Sam Ling, pro- prietor and.employe of the restau- rant, were placed under common law bonds to answer any charge that might be preferred. Assistant Prosecuting At- torney Falkenhainer refused Monday, after hearing the police side of the mat- ter, to take any action. Their arrest Sunday morning was the result of the complaint of Willljam Helm of 13828 South Fourteenth street, the young women’s brother. “We knew that Sadie lived at the Chinese place,’”’ said Mrs. Helm, the mother, Monday, “but she is 29 years old and we had no control over her. But when we found that she was enter- taining Marguerite there and was try- ing to get her to marry a Chinese, we thought it was time to interfere.”’ Wanted Sister to Marry Chinese. Mrs. Helm said that Sadie Waldon at- tempted six years ago to get one of her sisters, now married, to go to Mem- phis with her and marry a Chinese. She said she knew nothing of her having been a Sunday-school teacher, but said she had been an associate of Chinese long before the time when she says she taught Leon Ling at the Union Sunday school. 4 Up to two years. ago, the mother said, Mrs. Waldon was much in the company of a Chinese her® doctor. “Tl got acquainted with Leon in the Union Sunday School,’ said Mrs.’ Wal- don to a Post-Dispatch reporter. “] had a class there. I attended that church when I was first married, and sent my little boy to Sunday school there, and when I vofunteered to teach in the Cnhi- nese Sunday school they let me. I aia this because I was interested in the Chinese.” She said her experience as a teacher Was not a wae one, and when asked why she gave up her class, she shrugged her shoulders and said she “got tireq’’ of teaching. Was Beauty Doctor. “After that,” she said, “I was a beauty doctor, and had rooms at 4299F Finney avenue. Leon came to see me there, and did me many kind- nesses, and when I was sick and without money he helped me. I went to Colorado, and when I returned I wen to his restanrant to live. I had rooms 6n the third floor and the Chi- nese lived on the second floor. “My sister came to live with me a few days ago because she did not want to live with her other sister, here, Mrs. Lydon, and work in a fac- tory. She could have married a Chinese silk merchant, but had not made up her mind. “Mrs. Lydon was to blame for thia arrest. She was angry because Mar- Zuerite would not live até her house.” At the Union M. E.. Church Monday inquiries concerning the Chinese Sunday school were referred to its superirtend- ent, Joseph Avery. He was out of the city. NO MORE BULLETINS ON GAYNOR NEW YORK, Aug. 2%—Mayor Gaynor that now that he had stolen a march doctors and walked a few steps, pated amearest aa, f ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, , 1910. Arrow indicates room where two women lived. BRITISH CRUISER HTS THE ROCKS: FIGHTEEN LOST Ship Runs Ashore off Korea and Men in Hold are Drowned. By Associated Press. LONDON, Aug. 22.—Eighteen were lost when the British cruiser Bed- ford ran ashore on the rocks of Quelpart Island, Korea, yesterday, accordiry to the report received here by the Ad- tives miralty. The men were members of the engine room staff. ¢ The accident occurred during full- speed trials of the vessel and the cruiser was evidently badly smashed, since the deaths are stated officially to have been due to “‘the inrush of water.”’ There are many sunken rocks in this vicinity and navigation in the passage between Bar- low Island and Giffard Island, its neigh- bor, is not recommended for this reason. The Bedford is an armored cruiser of the so-called “country” class of 9800 tons, completed in 1903 at a coat of $3,- 530,000. She is armed with 14 six-inch guns; has a rated speed of nearly 2 knots and carries a normal complement of 687 men. ~~ Cruiser Practically Lost. The vessel lies in such a desperate position that -there is practically no pos- sibility of saving her. The hull is full of water up to the engine room bulk- head, the water pouring in through gap- ing holes punched by the sunken rocks and the officers and crew have ee: tak- en off. The sister warships, Minotaur and Monmouth of the British squadron which anchored yesterday near the wreck to render any assistance possible, were obliged to put to sea last night, owing to the heavy weather. Cruiser in a Bad Way. TOKIO, Aug. 22.—Further details of the grounding of the British cruiser Fedford, which ran ashore on the west- ern portion of the Quelpart Island, show that the vesse! Is se-ously damaged and lies in a bad positicn. Only meager reports by wireless have boen received, but according tc these it appears that the Bedford struck the recks two miles west of Quelpart Is- land, lying about fifty miles south of Korea off the entrance to the Straits of Korea, during a thick fog at 4 o’clock Sunday morning. The cruiser was then sailing with a Firitish squadron from Wei Hail, China, for Nagaski. The bottom of the. ship and the machinery, according to wire- less reports, sufferod serious daiwage from the rocks and the cruiser is pound- ing badly in the high seas. A number of Japanese warships accompanied by lighters and salvage vessels were dis- patched from the nearest Japanese sta- tion immediately on receipt of the news of the disaster, but whether the ship ean be salvaged is doubtful. . The Japanese Government has been re- quested to furnish any assistance possi- ble. The wreck resembles in many respects that of the battleship Montagu which cost the British Navy one of its first- class vessels. The Montagu struck on the docks at Lundy Island in the Bris- tol Channel during a heavy fog, May American -MANTLA, Aus. 22.—G, Curtiss HIM was arrested here today on the re- ISUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER, SISTER, 2R, CHINESE ADMIRER AND PLACE POLICE RAIDED SATA RGUERITE AVEL Ma.’ ASKS COURT TO NAME PLANTERS BANK RECEIVER While depositors, pursuant to a notice from the management, were withdraw- -ing their deposits Monday from the Planters Bank, William C. Young. of Indianapolis, a stockholder. filed # suit asking a receivership for the bank and charging unlawful discrimination in fa- vor of the officers and directors, to the stockholders’ disadvantage. The bank last Friday sent out notices to its depositors to .call and get their money. It was stated at the bank, at Fourth and Olive streets, Monday, that the depositors’ money was intact, and that all the deposits, amounting .to less than $60,000, would be paid in full. The bank’s withdrawal from business, it was stated, was due to the action of the Clearing House Association in excluding the Planters from membership and re- fusing to allow it to clear through any other bank. An injunction to restrain. the Ameri- can Bankers’ Assurance. Co.. from’ ab- sorbing the.bank was also applied for by Young and Judge Sale granted the temporary writ, returnable Wednesday morning. High salaries and injudicious loans, Young alleges in his petition, have im- paired the bank’s assets to the ameunt of $50,000. The capital stock is $300,000, and the surplus $60,000. Stockholders Liquidate Stock. On account of the unsuccessful man- agement of the bank, the petition charges, officers and directors have turned in their —— to the amount of more than $30,000 and have received full payment for them. ‘This, Young charges, constitutes unfair and unlawful treatment of the other stock- holders. Young, who says he owns 26 shares of stock, states in his petition that the bank has abandoned busi- ness and has turned over to the In- ternational Bank the deposit ac- counts of banks outside the city. It has offered, the petition says, to turn Over individual deposits amounting to $50,000 to the International. but that bank has refused to accept Not in them. The ——— twa ich has has been in business for nearly ‘a year, has never “|GREECY AND HIS. SUN CAUGHT IN SWOLLEN STREAM Former Chief of Police Edmond P. Creecy and his son. Perkins, narrowly escaped drowning when a. tugsy in which they were fording the Gasconade River near Creecy’s farm at Waynes- ville, Mo., overturned into @ whirlpool, according to a news telegram Monday to the Post-Dispatth. The former Chief and his son were in a buggy drawn by a span of fine horses he recently bought. One of the horses, a spirited bay, was drowned and the buggy was wrecked. The team became frightened at a fish- erman’s skiff while fording the river at Bartlett’s Mill, gthree miles from Waynesville. The stream was swollen and the whirlpool into which the vehicle was drawn is regarded as one of the most dangerous spots in it. Failed to Save Horses. Chief Creecy calleq. his son, who swims well, to try to make the shore and not worry about the horses and buggy. . The Chief, floating with the overturned vehicle, enfleavored to keep the heads.of the frightened ani- mals ,above stream, but, despite his efforts, one of them was drowned and the other kicked the buggy almost to pleces. The buggy turned over and over in the deep eddying water, according to the dispatches, and only Creecy’s coolness saved‘him from being dragged under the water. L. H. Trower and his son, Mert, were not far away and rushed to the former Chief’s assistance, cutting the harness to liberate the horses. In spite of their efforts, the bay, which Creecy wg more highly of the two, was Vehicle Landed on Island, The vehicle was finally landed, much damaged, on a smal! island. Only part of the new harness was saved. Chief Creecy told those who went to his rescue that he had lived on the coast in his young manhood and been @ good swimmer then. That had not forgotten how to take care * himself in the water wag shown by his demeanor during the incident. The Chief and his son had been in- PRICE ONE PRICE ONE CENT © veo TOWN "SCORES A ee » fy ae pf st EY ee a — tip oe . a a id Ee ae ¥ ee ee ae ee oS eae oe * J — ie he oe tes é 5 7 * J ge Py B a Regions in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. | ‘ , . a : ‘ ie ve $ 3 38 ‘ a ® Lp ot a * a - J ‘ 5 : * * You 1 —— sek ¥ : n —* = ~ ee Ae : HOY 4 nth i Epes x Many Take Refuge in Mine Shafts Where They __ Are Suffocated—Special Trains Used to Rescue Sufferers—One Fire - Is 59 Miles Long. F IGHTERS GIV E UP AND™ FLEE FOR THEIR L) . “ By Associated Press. in danger. from.the contest in many places. is at Wallace, where’ the remnant of the town that is left seems to be safe from fire, and at Mullan, where the town, threatened all day yesterday, is believed to be safe. It is reported. that Saltese in Western Montana is also out of danger, but this may. prove a bit of overconfidence, The situation is especially serious in the densely timbered country along the lines of the Milwaukee’s western exten- sion; here the railway has suffered tre- mendous loss from fire In the very re- gion where snowslides wrought havoc all last winter. . Bridges have been burned and little stations wise off the map. Wherever possible the railway com- pany has brought the men to safety in special trains. This morning there are two rescue trains on the Milwaukee, speeding toward Missoula; with about 500 people aboard. There is another on the Northern Pacific Coeur d'Alene branch with ‘20 women-.and children, taken from thé burned town of 8t. Regis. There will be a second Northern Pacific train before noon. Uniess there are more men in isolatéd positions in the woods than is believed to be the case the loss of The men in the f service gangs are in charge of experienced wood- men and théy know how to take care. of themseives.. It is only where they are utterly exhausted by their bat- tle with the flames or have suffered disabling accidents that they are liable to be overcome by the fires. ‘In Wallace, however, the ~ death list may grow. The fires swept that town with such terrible swiftness: that it is feared there will be more pories found in the ruins as the search progresses. — The fiercest forest fires in this dis- trict this morning are those in San- ers County between Thompson and the Idaho line. These fires extend alpng an unbroken line for more than fifty miles and ate timber. There are several towns in this district, built in the very midst of the timber. There is no telegraphic communica- tion with the west and nothing has been heard here from Thompson since midnight. J. M. Boyd, former Northern Paci- The only improvement in the situation , life in this section.will not be great. > — MISSOULA, Mont. Aug. 22.—From every -gornee of Western: 2 Montana and Idaho this morning there are prayers that the Weath- er Bureau has forecast accurately in predicting‘showers for today. ~~ Nothing but rain can save the situation. The hundreds of weaty. men who for days have battled with the flames in the forests staggering to safety with bloodshot eyes and aching limbs, im mersing themselves in streams or burying their faces in mud for protection from the maddening. heat of their conquering foe. . The towns of Taft, Deborgia, Henderson and the old part of — St. Regis are in ashes. The old placer town of Murray, in Idaho, is The flames have the upper hand of the situation in | a score of places. Rain is the only salvation of hundreds of semen of timber and of many camps and small towns. - —— the flames to the limit of human endurance and: ar ae aw! — 7 i ; ; —* — ae I ad o >. "is cs F ee Tee) 4 Bz * 457 8 ba * _ A , 7 2 * id : J sept! i itt ud We : qi ht * E A . J *