St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 1902

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“LAST SUNDAY. THE ONLY ST. LOUIS NEWSPAPER WITH ‘HE ASSOCIATED PRESS pay DISPATCHES. TWELVE PAGES. > . a VOL. 54, NO. 238, ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1902. PRICE at 2767 tesa T 65,000 BIGGER THAN ANY OTHER. WEDDING IN AUTO NUT A SUCCESS Prof. Christopher Greenup Filed Suit for Divorce. WAS MARRIED ON BRIDGE MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTOR SAYS YOUNG BRIDE DESERTED HIM. Ghe Will Contest the Suit on Grounds That He Was eJalous of Her and Made False Accusa- tions. Brief was the domestic bliss of Prof. Christopher B.. Greenup of 2717 Washington avenue and his wife, to whom he was mar- ried Feb. 23 last, in an automobile, while trossing the Eads bridge. Prof. Greenup has just filed suit for di- Worce, alleging among other things that within 10 days of the wedding ceremony his wife deserted him. Further the petition recites that on one occasion when he (the professor) spoke to her ‘“‘gently’’ she packed her trunk and said she would leave him then. To every strategy the plaintiff avers did he resort tn an effort to conciliate his young bride; but all to no purpose. The petition was filed personally by Mr. Greenup. Mrs. Greenup, who prior to her marriage was Miss Fannie C. Carson, has retained Attorney Max F.. Ruler to contest the suit. “I think,” said Mr. Ruler, “that it is my, client if either who has a right to seek a legal separation. Greenup was jealous of her, she declares, and made several un- pleasant accusations. ‘Mrs. Greenup has serious doubts as to whether the person who married her was a ~ minister, and the ceremony legal. I asked Mr. Greenup about this and he said that I would find the clergyman’s name on the records at Belleville. I shall go over there as soon as possible to find out if the cereti- . ficate is on file. | “As far as I can see there is nothing what. ever in this petition on which divorce pro ceedings can be bdased.”’ Girl Wanted to Wed in Illinois. Mrs. Greenup is a native of Sweden, but came to America when very young, and up to a short time ago made Ohicego her Upon.coming to St. Louis she went to live at 9665 Olive street. @ngaged in educational work she. mind acquainted with Prof. Green- who. conducta a schoo) of mathematics at st tee Olive street. The courtship quickly ripened into love. In February the pair decided to marry. The perplexing problem was as to the time and place. The professor wanted to be married in St. Louis, while his bride desired to have the ceremony solemnized on Illinois soil. Finally. they compromised by planning to become one near the center of the Eads bridge, just touch the Illinois side of the river. They acquainted the Rev. James Daugh- erty of 2889 Olive street with their plans calm and he agreed to perform the ceremony. The trio, together with Prof. O. D. Nor- ton of the Mound City Business College, journeyeé to Third street and Washington avenue, where they boarded an automo- bile The driver was instructed to sound the gong when they reached the middle bridge span. This was the\signal for the cere- mony to begin, and as the machine sped along the minister pronounced the vows which united the couple as man and wife. MORGAN AFTER BRITISH LOAN Syndicate Headed by Him Has Already Underwritten $55,000,000 of the New $160,000,000 Issue. Bpecial Cable to the Post-Dispatch. (Oopyrighted, 1902, by Presse Publishing Co.) LONDON, April 16.—J. Pierpont Morgan at the head of a ayndicate, the Post-Dis- patch correspondent learns, has underwrit- — soe ged of the new $160,000,000 war loan cent, cor eed og te under the chan- 7 Setied of t fee ammhonuer's b a 2 Ree ten $86, aa Skah oe one ‘saan 000 un- leaving on , 000 for public subscri ription. — oy issue sau, being it t is rumored in the city, % per cent less than last ~ynn magnates, led by roan. Mr. peeteee. took Men 00, arn of the first war loan ane confirmation of the above was this aption list wi be ~ per cent. be closed on or before > GIRL OF Tl SUED BOY OF 13 : “Master Peter Caparatutis Was Fined $5 : on Charge of Slapping Miss Mamie Kavanaugh. _ Miss Mamie Kavanaugh of 1200 North “on ng aged 11 years, prosecuted Mas- 7 ath dagen soa akg aged 13, and living at 516 Spruce street, by Siar. by the blood of his and elsowhere that | yo averred that his @ candy > — : : hed at Mar thon “HE WON'T SIT UP THERE AND ‘CHEW’ IN A POLITE WAY, 44 BAYS MR. CRONIN well-to-do. At the final tribute to the House’s present chief: stiletto out and put an edge on it. One Woman’s Impressions of the Irish Patriot, of His Logic and of His Australian-Irish Wife. BY BOSE MARION. The gracious, courtly gentleman I met at the Southern Hotel was far from my ’s picture of the aggressive, redoubt- able William Redmond, Irish patriot, an éjected member of the Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland. I looked him over critically in that first half minute. He was not an American. Yet there was nothing showing strongly enough to mark him an Irishman. Then he spoke. That calm, mellow voice, without the slightest suspicion of brogue might belong to an educated gen- tleman of America. The clearest, most interested pair of gray eyes that I have seen read the name upon my card. I was then presented to the oth- er occupants of the room—Mrs. Redmond and a gentleman. As Mr. Redmond seated himeelf, he asked ] wae ls aocking objectionable to you?” MR. REDMOND’S CIGARS GOOD. I replied that it was not. It could not have been in this instance, because I want- ed to smell the smoke of a Redmond cigar. I have come to judge men by the cigars they smoke, and I can tell a good one from a bad one. I hoped Mr. Redmond’s would be good, It was, so I was satisfied on that point. He brushed his left hand, upon which were three gold rings of curious design, once through his dark-reddish, curly hair that grows back in waves from his pro- nouncedly white forehead, then over his short reddish mustache and announced he would be hapry to tell me anything. “Mirst I want to know about Parliament. I should like so well to see it insession.’ ‘*Parilament is not exactly like your Con- gress. Your Congress is better housed and its business is conducted with less formal- ty. “T have sat in ithe galleries when Congress was in session,’’ Iventured. ‘That's where you American ladies have the advantage of your English sisters. You can watch the proc: oe of Congress from well-apointed gallérie “In our House there nao. . oF 40 seats fof the ladies; these are in a place like a cave, before which are huge bare such as you find in prisons. It is far from an accept- able place. I have been a member of Par- Hiament for 20 years." HIS A NOPTIMISTIC NATURE. I looker hard at his face. Not so many lines, not so heavily indented and only one white hair amongst its auburn fellows. That's because he has the Irish tempera- ment I concluded—optimistic, ever-hopeful, never quite discouraged. “How does one get to be a member. of the House of Commons” "“O, we're elected much the same as your congressmen, but it seldom happens that an Englishman unless he is a man of wealth attains the office. In Ireland it is different. Our 103 members are chosen from the pro- feesions, the trades and even from the la- borers. We are very democratic in my por- tion of Ireland—County Clare—and try to = as near to the masses as possible. It expensive to we he —e and then members rec nh “No salary, ejaculated: Actual surprise is sometimes a pleasur “No salary w cover, formant. “You represent the United Irish League. What are the hopes of your orgs anization “We hope to see Ireland th an inde- pendent paniament."’ “How will you go about accomplishing your desire?’ eal t do you acon lish an ae polit- cal in your country y combination, “The ron men of your country, Mr, Red- meek, how do they feel cowards: your “move- woman IN IRELAND VOTE. “The women of Ireland were ever pa- triotic.. They go ” our méetings and as- rein a B sii worken ee country repeated my in- JOHN R. FONTANA, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. { ~~ Nn Me John R. Fontana, the new speaker of the House of Delegates, his first term in any public office. He represents lives at 2600 Olive street. He is the proprietor of three saloons, one in the downtown district, one on Jefferson avenue and a third on Vandevenier avenue. after a contest over the orficial returns from his ward, had been altered in his favor by a forgery in the election commissioner's office, maker and has not before been a conspicuous member of the House. Louls and attended the public schools, and, for a time meeting of the House Friday Former Speaker Cronin paid the following “If we put Fontana in the chair and Sweeney gets gay Fontana is Iiable to disregard all parliamentary rules and come off bis rostrum and take a fall out of him. He won't sit up there and chew in a polite way like Kelly does. He'll get his little I’m for any body who will keep Sweeney quiet.’’ ata tt itinerant tinea is 356 years old and is serving the Twenty-second ward, is married anu He was seated in the House a year ago in which it was charged that the returns He is not a speech- He was brought up in St. the Christian Brothers’ College. He is ROSE MARION FINDS:REDMOND A MAN OF REMARKABLE TRAITS WILLIAM FYDMOND M P ton man who sees tn the United Irish mets i by the independence of the Em- era loshes and the sa clear olive skin with the rose showing eath. But most of all I want the'grace of carriage that seems to be the dower of this new country to which ever we Americans are old. want to be able to wal karound with ‘Vitality in\ every movement and then to be able to sit at ease just as a most splendid animal might if it had the soul of a woman. Mrs. Redmond likes her Australla: she is fond of our America; she hates their (7?) old London, but she loves her husband's beautiful green Irelan There is something about an old country that appeals to us from the new places. I suppose it is the culture and all that. she ex plained. MRS. REDMOND LIKES AMERICA. ‘Treland has a past,” I tried to help out. “I suppose that’s it, and yet some folks think it’s better not-to have a past,” she responded, smilingly. Then, Mr. Redmond gave me a compll- ment for St. Louis newspaper men. , He didn't mean it as a compliment, though. The Redmond party has been fn the States two months. No picture of Mrs. Redmond Sg gabe in any paper until they came to St. Louis. “In our country we are much averse to our women’s pictures being printed in the pepers. We are not Turks who keep our wives veiled, but our women always occup a retired position,” explained Mr. Red- mond. Remember that women vote for council- men in that country, too. “Your Sunday papers are such large things things,” laughed Mrs. Redmond, “they are like your menus. “They aré such immense things that when we come to a hotel and I ask Mr. Devlin what he'll have, he always answers, ‘You pick, l'll rely on your choice.’ Then I listened to stories of flowering hedgerows, green bordered ditches, great rdens and fields of shamrocks until I elt av if I were walking out of a pretty dream, when I aroused myself to bod fare- well to my first M. P. and his Austrailan- Irish wife. WALVAR HAS SURRENDERED Chaffee Cables That This Terminates Organized Resistance in Depart- ment of North Philippines. WASHINGTON, April 146—The war de | partment has received a cablegram from tary | Gen. Chaffee, dated Manila, today, in which an. .eove el; “SAVAGES MAKE MEN SAVAGES" —GOVERNOR-GENERAL TAFT. Philippine Executive Talks of Punishment of Natives. NOT JUSTIFIED BUT EXCUSED CAN UNDERSTAND TO WHAT ENDS OFFICERS ARE DRIVEN. Executive and His Party Arrived in St. Louis Wednesday From Cincin- nati and Was Entertained at St. Louis Club. Governor-General W. H, Taft of the Phil- ippine Islands, U. 8. A., says he can un- derstand how, in individual instances, men surrounded by savages plotting their assas- sination, and attempting it, reach so des- perate a state that they feel justified in resorting almost to the methods of the Savages themselves to obtain the inturma- tion necessary for the preservation of their own lives. This expression was made by the Gover- nor-General after breakfasting Tucs.ay morning at the St. Louis Club as the guest of President Francis of the Worids kuir Association... Judge Taft came ae from Cincinnati with his good friend, 8. M. Felton, presi- dent of the Chicago & Alton Railroad and a director of the Fair. In the party wee Judge Howard Hollister, J. G, Schnudlapp, Raiph Peters and Dr. ‘arper. All but mr. Felton are from Cincinnati. Mr. Felton is from Chicago. Walter B. Stevens, secre tary of the Fair Association, sat at table. ““{ don’t justify any departure from the rules of civilized warfare, you understand,’’ said Judge Taft, when ed what he had to say about the reports of water cure treatment administered Filipin by Amer- ican officers, ‘‘but I can understand condi- tions that make men almost savages them- selves for the moment. There is no civil- ized warfare on the part of the Filipinos; no fighting. I can understand without be- ing familiar with facts in the cases re- ported, how men may be driven by barbaric surroundings into acts which, while they may not be justified, may be excused. The Real War Is Over, He Says. “The real war in the islands is over when thirty provinces ‘are pacified and only three remain to be brought under civil control. And I do not expect to see these three provinces in rebellion weer long. Civil gov- ernment is a success and the whole archi- pelago will soon offer a field for American enterprise. Its possibilities have not been adequately represented. It will be ria. 3 nized in time as one of our most valuab possessions. ‘There are some delicate questions that must be adjusted. The church and the crown of Spain were ciosely associated in the pereanne of Bre fn tr a! coeton a when chu ous functions were re ned number of interesting..ques- the were presented which: can probably better be settled by a conference than by any other way. For we must rt hg about that indispensable condition in the islands, the complete severance of church and state. Here we have a country where, by our wishes and our custom, the church and the government are in no way allied. This condition will be brought about in the Philippines, I have no doubt, in a manner most amicable. But whether by sending a representative of the Philippine govern- ment to 6, as has been suggested, or by conference ‘with some representative of the church, sent to Manila, is yet to be de- termined by my superiors in Washington. Visited World’s Fair Site. “TI go back to Cincinnati tonight, and from there I go to Washington to receive my final instructions. .I came over for recrea- tion and to shed light on the Philippines, and I have put.in most. of my time so far shedding light. My health is good, in spite of the three operations. The wound from the latter one requires that I keep a sur- geon with me for a daily dressing. IL shall go back by way of the Suez canal or by the Syrian route, and so, if it is desired that I stop at Rome on my war over, 1 can do so.. I shall leave my family in Eu- rope until after the cholera season.’’ udge Taft told President Francis that he was eager to know every detail of the ar- rangements for the Fair and all its possi- bilities as he hoped to interest the govern- ment of the Phill pines to make the Philip- ine exhibit at the Fair the very best ex- ibit shown. He said he had been asked sO many questions about the islan’s, and seen so great a show of interest, at he felt, were the resources of the Philippines known, there would be a strong sentiment in favor of their development along Am*® - ican lines and a turning of capital and en- terprise toward them. mee» 0 Taft “ye the Filipinos ‘are great musicians, and he wishes to see one or more of their best orchestras at the Fair. He believes, with their home life and their manufactures and arts shown, Americans will realize that they have @ a very praG sew addition to their territory and eop Psudge e Taft visited the héadquarters of the Fair Tuesday morning and, after luncheon, went out to the Fair site. GOOD OPENING DAY FOR FANS Dr. Hyatt Says Thursday Will Be Warm, With Clouds to Keep Sun Out of Left Fielder’s Eyes. Richard J. Hyatt, weather forecaster and baseball fam of the thirty-third degree each, has pushed the rain clouds back and so rubbed up the sun that he announces, with great assurance, that when “play ball” is heard tomorrow afternoon, ideal con- ditions will exist over- head, Generally fair and charged a ata BEEF TRUST RAISES COST OF LIVING : a $200,000 PER MONTH IN’ ST. ‘io HK cunrwrmnw~Oebei--— - BEEF TRUST'S EFFECT ON ST.’ Louls.} Families in St. Lottis .. 2. i's vee’ cass de nqupes casees oneenaen Weekly consumption of beef per faMily.+eevsieeeeeees -10 pounds § - = — Ten Pounds to a Family Is Average Weekly Consump- tion of Beef: Three Cents! Per Pound the Increase in Price, : Trust manipulations itn beef have in- creased the monthly living expenses of St. Louis families by nearly $200,000. No longer is a nickle or even a dime suf- ficient to buy the meat for a family dinner. Chuck steak is 12% cents a pound, midrib is 17% and tenderloin and porterhouse are 2. Only Hver and neck have remained below the ten-cent mark. Idver can now be bought for 7% cents and neck from 6 to 8. Butchers say that St. Louis families have not given up beef as the result of the advance in prices. They are buying and paying the increased prices, which are from 2% and 30 to 50 per cent higher than. those the tr sprite deka bY | $40,000 INCREASE PER MONTH. St. Louis has about 1209 meat shops, ih- cluding grocery stores which oarry meat as a side line. They sell on an average over 1000 pounds of beef a week each. The in- crease, averaging $8 cents a pound,’ has brought their receipts up by nearly $40,000 a month, In boarding houses vegetables, which were almost abandoned after last sum- mer’s Grought, are again in favor, and meat rations have been reduced, while complaining boarders have been told that the only alternative was a raise in prices of board, and that they would find the same conditions everywhere. Under such circumstances, they have been informed, moving would be a waste of drayage. In restaurants prices have not been changed in most cases, but porterhouse and sirloin steaks are much less lavish affairs than they were two months ago, CANNED GOODS GO UP. Canned goods, which have not been sel]- ing favorites heretofore, are being put to the front by grocers and meat dealers and, while the demand has not thus far become large enough to threaten the sup- ply, increased sales are shown. Prices in some cases have been reduced on these goods. Hash and croquettes are coming back into use in many families where they have been unknown for years, and the man of the house, who pays the meat bills, has to restrain his impulse to complain at the various ways in which left-over meat is treated in the kitchen. Heart, neck and leg meat are now the cheapest parts of beef. Heart can be had at 56 cents a pound. It was 3 cents before the raise. Neck has advanced from 6 to 8 cents, and the meat on front and hind legs from 2 to 4 cents. NO FIGHT IN ST. LOUIS. As was told in Tuesday's Post-Dispatch, the government's fight on the Beef Trust has not reached St. Louls, and United States District Attorney Dyer has had no instructions to make an investigation such as has been instituted in Kansas City by Maj. William Warner at the government's direction. Most of the big packing houses from which the city is supplied with meat are in East St. Louis, and outside the jurisdiction of the federal officials in this city. In Kansas City a special grandjury is to be impaneled by the federal court officers to investigate the mthods or the Beef Trust. Kansas City live stock commission men have started a boycott on the trust by urg- ing their consumers to one, to other mar- kets. This move has had little effect thus far, and injunction proceest ed to dissoive the boycott are being , Average advance in price per lb. digas Ubcckseat hee S Monthly increase, 4 1-3 weeks... esses eecsseesesesnenpnor "ONE YEAR'S BUSINESS IN ONE. BRANCH OF THE MEAT. : one of the firms originally constituting the “Big Four” of the meat trust, meat in theMollowing quantities: Cattle handled during year ending March 1, 1B... «iccetadaccibeinteiaoamihe Sheep handled during year ending Ma’ », Hogs handled during year ending Mareh 1, 1902 2... .cccccccevecsceesevenceeweses! Cold storage capacity of Swift & Co.'s plants fn St. Louls, City, Omaha, St. shies and St. Paul: : Cattle carcasses. ec eereewneee Tne teee eben eh eee epeee Ones ten Ota see hee ew nel Sheep carcasses .... ccerercenepaneneverseengene +e seen eesom Hog carcasses b spapocssqhqudaph tapauteese Number of employes on. yroll of Syift & Co. at these atx plants.......... Fioor space of plants oe eesereerersere MONOD SS HOITTUR Annual sales from plants.......... By-products of plants: epee eeteeereeeeeeeweeee eereeeeeeee ec eeaetee PP Ceres OOP RRR RT RS EEE TEE SS TSS 7,090,000 PU RUUE CORO OES E eee eee Te aS 1902. Po Gs SSSCES TOS COTE C CRE TT ; serene wretrerter titi ft) PENT TOTTI CLETLETtetes ttt scceccecccccceden Mae Other oil Seeseeeeeveee cree ereeweeeree ee eee eeeee ee eer e eeeeeeeeeeeee SOeceeeeeee eee eee renee ee eee eeee se eee Tallow and BTCBASE. .cccwecscereservereerseees Werte teerer ee ee Hides eC eee eeeeeee 10000 cassionepeeiininnnnann Fertilizers Seer eereeeeeee eeerrreeewaetane e+@eereeee SESE EH ETOH ESET S ET EDS > So ~ Weekly i increase in meat ball, Zid cote es eevee e vere $39,000" is. A CUP OF TEA ENDED THIS BABY'S Lee. 2 ripe ha Who scalded herself while frolicking with her father, Baby Celeste Marie Rawling Pulled s happiness. The } een ie hires. i te P ae ee A, ig ananassae se Be I “AN AES IINIE i 0 8* ee ait, Pree, £ me CPO i ee . te gt ~ > ee ve .: = We % "ey ih a It ts estimated that between March 1, 1901, an@ March 1, 1902, - Swift & Co. 6,000,000 occcccescsoccceceshoneeeeeneaaae rounde 971,009,100 er a : § » ~ aes 59 ‘