St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 2, 1902

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Internet Archive

Page 1

manufacturers. See Sweet Girls Make . Candy In refrigerators for great St. Louis pemorrow’ s Sunday Post-Dispatch THE ONLY ST, LOUIS NEWSPAPER WITH 4 ie - oO de> : ‘ ‘ , a ys ~. . 4 ' ; “ ‘ Oe es gt. te . ote gPRSP i * a7 he Ls eee ty 3 * y tele r “ " we. - at. . ae ; hy : / ; 5 ny z d bo ie ey he P , se ve afte : ‘ ; 3 , dee : ae? Pg aay Z “ $ ‘ ge. ‘ y .. t% : ‘ ae ee right : ? : sa ‘“ . 4 ] . " wih? : > - Oe ose aS : ‘ ; > a ae . ote 7 ” ’ . Ma oe 5 weet? Fa * 1239 x 5 “he ; mn " ¥ 7 ss, SAE Pe ae ; mej 2 oy Sp ae pete T= a. . pled a , i ee i Rok OF ete f > : 4 Spee : xy f ‘ s oe ] , a9 bn ie a y 4 ¥. ¢ on Hy ee : 3 >, 5 _ 5 .- - 3 ee a i he ee 2 -% > “se . y “ ¢ BN é : ¢ es 3s 4 : ails ray ay Me ae : oth ks os * ae : > S74 a Bae ae le "4 TS a ae Ce a me Hb We cf Es : + ; . ; ES be “ es " : as 4 : 3 . : . ‘ hes: 4 “A* 7 y E> ; a ¥ oe * 4 : hs d ¢ : tel. Ne, A * : : ‘ > . , ~ ~~ ey ee + gly x. Ce bt * : es sf : ? a; ; ‘ ey thy za OE tae © . 4 : : . ‘ ea Py tA tae ‘ “rs : ‘ = - he ote Boe . 4 PM ‘! : 5 oe a ao . 4 J +20 % . Me ; % ORY : ee * “ Sa pe Gu > . . . Pte be ; ve ig 2 7 THE ASSOCiA’ rED PRESS DAY DISPATCHES. VOL. 54, NO. 346. ‘(@eeeseeees ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1902. PRICE} im St. Louis, One Cent. Outside St. Louis, Two Cents Hox 3 . ~ ae - ’ > - uw Gi i Z / > ¥ 5 2 8, . b t gat Bib r : ¥ f ay ep ee OS tak * Pe E F tt : a aah g Ve “ = vy w . : ae E oath S - e.) vue Fe 4 at — x ¥ ek y os Pe " EDITION. COMPLETE MARKET 4 REPORTS. —_ THUNDERBOLTS CUNQUERED ELK Old Jerry Barred Painters From His Pen, AT THE FOREST PARK 2Z00 RAIN AND LIGHTNING. FINALLY DROVE HIM INDOORS. He Pawed and Snorted His Rage and Memory That His Sire Once Killed a Man Held Park Keepers Back. Old Jerry, patriarch of the herd, was both clown and ringmaster in the Elk Circus, given under his own management at the Forest Park Zoo Thursday afternoon. Henry Pleuger end George L. Breder, painters; Martin Winkler and Martin Angermeyer, animal keepers, played roles, and “Little Nick,”’ Jerry's son, and Jenny Lize and Butter, a few of his wives, sup- ported the star. For 3% minutes Old Jerry held the center of the ring, defying all attempts of the men to rout him. -Jerry is the biggest and oldest elk in the park. He is & years old, has great horns, and an ugly temper. He is a morman, and he rules the Mrs. Jerry's of the pens ab- solutely. Since his sire Grover was sold. after he had killed Keeper Henry Nelson, eight years ago, he has been the only male fn the heard, till last spring, when ‘‘Little Nick” was born. ‘Tittle Nick’ is 3 months old and small as a day old calf. But Jerry disliked his son and would kill him if they were placed to- gether. When Jerry was the age of “Little Nick’”’ Grover jumped in his pen and set out to kill him. Jerry would fight Grover to the death now. Then he could only run wildly and bleat for aid. Keeper Nelson ran to the rescue and Grover turned on him. As Jerry dashed in the barn and found safety he saw his savior held limp against the fence by Grover’s horns. Jerry Has Never Liked Man Herd. Though a man gave his life to save him, Jerry has never liked the man herd. He has some little respect for two men with pitchforks, but none for a man unarmed. Jerry's bad reputation speard abrcad. Jerry was astonished Thursday when two ‘men entered his pen without forks. They had yellow buckets in their hands, queer smelling things, and the pungent ordor ir- ritated Jerry’s rose. When the men, Pleuger and _ Breder, started to discolor Jerry's fence, he got his dander up. He pawed the dust and aroused his ugly temper to a fine fury and then jumped straight for the invaders. They were watch- ing and slipped through the gate. Jerry swung his mighty horns, missing his prey. Pleuger slipped a paint brush through a creck in the fence and neatly plastered Jerry's nose a bright yellow. Jerry snorted with rage, the paint stuff tickled, and he went cavorting around the paddock, the maddest elk that the zoo had ever held. The painters called Winkler and Anger- meyer and devised means toget the lad elk into another pen. He was so mad that it would be hazardous to tackle him with pitckforks. The gate between Jerry’s and another pen was left open but the old bull woulin’t be coaxed away. Finally the painters went on the outside of the empty pen hoping to draw Jerry over there. Jerry defied their efforts. He refused to leave his own domain for the Tresh green grass he saw placed in the other pen. Clouds gathered. Lightning flashed from the darkened west, thunder shook the park, and. still bellicose Jerry held his own, roaring the shril! “ee now ouk,’’ elk war ery, for every thunderbolt. The réin began, the first few drops stopped Jerry's challenge, his courage waned and was drowned in the deluge. In the heavy rain a dripping old elk went scampering, with downcast head and humped shoulders, into the shelter of the ‘barn. Martin Winkler shot the bolts behind him and now the painters can work in Jerry's empty pen. Jerry's misconduct was officially reported to the park department in the city hall. Once before Jerry was foiled, this time by aman. A sunny Sunday last winter when Jerry’s antlers’ were very hard and his pride inordinate he stood among his wives blowing his bugle challenge. At once from the far side of the pen came an answer, a thrilling ‘‘ee now ouk,’’ loud as his own,’ such a ory as the old elk Grov- er was wort to answer battle calls on the upper reaches of the Yellowstone. Jerry snorted an answer, and hurled him- self straight against the fence where his ears had iIpcated the strange elk. The STORM SUBDUED THIS ELK WHEN MEN COULD NOT Photographed by the Post-Dispatch. OLD JERRY, PATRIARCH OF THEELK HERD IN FOREST PARK. nee blow knocked Jerry silly,and a—peint-of his antlers was broken off and’ fell over the fence. Stranger than all, when Jerry next looked his foe was not to be seen, and only a tall man and a pretty woman stood watching. The man was Earnest Seton’, his companion Grace Gallatin Seton, and the elk, which taunted Jerry, was a product of the animal man’s marvelous vocal skill. “I'll take this home for an umbrella han- die,”’ said Mr. Seton, picking up Jerry’s broken tip. He left, and since that day only the echoes answer the fighting call of pugna- clous Jerry. “PROBABLY FAIR,” SAYS HYATT The ‘“‘Unsettled”’ Prediction, However, Is Again in Order—Temper- ature Stationary. ) “TInsettled, but probably fair. Slight change in temperature, probably station- ary.’’—Weather prediction of Dr. Hyatt for Saturday and Sunday. Everything comes to him that waits. The ‘“‘urgsettled’’ ‘}must be a great walit- er, or else he has a ‘pull’ at the weath- er bnreau, he gets so many “turns.”’ Barometers are ‘way up in the lake region, the south- western states, the north Pacific states and the Rocky mountains. In the upper Missis- tippi country and in the Southwest they have taken a fall, and are still ‘‘lying low."’ The rain hasn't stopped. It kept up a half-day perform- ance in the Ohio and upper Mississip)1 val- leys, Atlantic and southern states Friday. and came down heavily. There is little danger of rain here, says Dr. Hyait. uniess it sneaks in like it did Thureday without giving a ticket to the In- dicator. In New York it went to work in earnest | HARPER IN 10 AT ATHLETICS Philadelphia Worked Hus- tings in Final Struggle. BATTLE FOR THE PENNANT SPORTSMAN’S PARK, Aug. 2.—With the leading position of the pennant race but one ful] game beyond them. McAleer’s men girded their loins for a great effort today against the Philadelphia team. A defeat by Chicago and a victory by the Browns meant a tie for first position by the hom» club. A big crowd was out to see the third con- test with the Athletics, and the work of the home team in practice elicited the applause of the fans. Baltimoré comes tomorrow to start a se- ries, and the followers of the Browns hoped to be victories over eet” * with which to start-in on a supreme effort to force Chicago from first place. Manager McAleer put in Harper to pitch for St. Louis, and Philadelphia worked Hustings. The latter tied up the Browns tn a knot on one occasion. McAleer stated that he did not think Hustings could do as well against the club now, as the team is laying faster and hitting the ball with the best. Batting order: STEAMSHIP ON THE ROCKS The Blaamenden Strikes White Point Ledge, on the Nova Scotia Coast. HALIFAX, N. 8S., Aug. 2.—A dispatch to the customs officials here announces that the Norwegian steamer Blaamenden, Capt. Amundsen, from Hamburg for Philadel- phia, struck on White Point ledge, off Can- so, in a dense fog today. No details were made known by the advices to the cus- toms officials aside from the statement that the steamer has a big cargo and a number of passengers. CARDINALS PLAY TWO AT BUSTOR ItIs Feared the Worcester Special to the Post-Dispatch. NATIONAL GROUNDS, Boston, People Will Be After Smoot. MasSs., Aug. 2.—Hot weather w's on for the dou- ble-header todaya pearance here, >Worcester people Patsy Donovan b if will says make matters warm for them. St. Leuls. Nichols 1b. Smoot cf. Barclay If. Donovan rf. Farrell 2b. Kruger sé. Hartman Sb, O'Neil ce. Yerkes p. Umpire—Brown. Attendan: FIRST INNING-—-For out to Carney. Smoot made e t after hey do Boston. Cooley If. e f. Qurrey rt. (rr nney Ib. mont 2b. emit ger 3l Kit tredge c. Ww illis LD. e, 3d St. Smoot singled and was an easy out to steal. For Boston, Cooley an Smoot. Demont dropped Carney out to Smoot. led to left, and made out, Demont to Tenney. No runs. Borclay wasout to Cooley. d a Louis, to Long, Tenny safe fly No runs. SECOND INNING—For S8t. van out, Demont to Tenney. be ae Farre nd on L.ouls. K his first ap- and it is expected that the him, and he will The line-up: Nichols center trying to No runs, lifted to in left. Dono- ll sing- ruger's Hiartman fanned. For Boston, Greminger out on Barclay’s fine capture. Lush Donovan. Kittredge rung. Out, Demont to Tenney. Nichols out to Lush. walk lifted THIRD INNING—For &t. Lous, “. L, ng to Yerke No runs. Smoot to No O'Neil fanned. out For Boston, Willis walked, advanc=1 on Cooley's sacrifice, Tenney out to Nichols. ger to Nichols. FOURTH INNIN out, Tenney to Willis. ond. Farrell fanned. For Boston, Carney N rell. Lush out, arrell out. Hartman to Nichols. Hartman to 2. walked. forced by Gremin er on a grounde: to runs. Nic hols. No runs. Louis, and stole Nichols. Demont out, No runs. +—For St. to Willis, and Barclav, novan was hit Kru- Emoot Long sec - and was ‘to Far- Long ‘%, Roosevelt's Instructions to Sue Beef Combination Stirred Big Interests Into a ‘Merger. MEAT, FRUIT, POULTRY, EGGS The Capitalization of the| Proposed Combine Will Be $201,000,000, ALL MARKETS UNDER CONTROL Plan Devised for Escaping Attacks in Courts and to Establish and Maine tain Prices, By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—A $200,000,000 merger is the aim of the men now bringing about a consolidation of the great packing inter- ests. While bankers, brokers and specula- tors are confident that a combination has been effected, the persons concerned will give no information. Three reports, all based on “tmeé@e in- formation,’’ are in circulation. One is that the deal will be completed in Europe, where J. Ogden Atmour is now sojourning. The second is that when the combination is completed the new corpor- ation will take the form of a security com- pany, and all constituent companies will retain their identity, while a third story is that G. F. Swift will be the head of the new corporation. Although the packers have been in a combination for 15 years to control markets--fix prices for producer and consumer, each concern has been inde- pendent of the others in a financial way. Promoters and capitalists* here pointed out for many years the millions to be made by merging, but P. D. Armour and Gustavus F. Swift, strong aggressive char- acters, proud of the great business they created, refused to listen to such schemes. The death of Mr. Armour revived attempts at consolidation, It was not until President Roosevelt or- dered suits .filed against the Beef Trust that the weakness of the present arrange- ment was discovered. FINDING WEAK SPOTS. It was found that the packers could be easily attacked in courts and be made a target for public denunciation and con- demnation. The only way to evade this and still retain power to fix prices and control markets was to form a giant merger. Armour and Swift instantly began expan- sion by heavy purchases of other packing interests. Armour gained control of the G. H. Hammond Co., the originator of dressed beef shipments and the first com- pany ‘to handle refrigerator cars. The pur- chase price was said to be $5,000,000. Next Armour purchased the Omaha Packing Co., and it was said paid $2,000,000 for that concern. Swift & Co. bought the Fowler & Son Packing Co. of Kansas City and the Anglo- American Provision Co. of Chicago. The purchase p rice was put at a: total of $5,000, 000. The Cudahy Packing Co. of. Chicago, Omaha and Milwaukee was approached by Armour, but refused to sell. That the Cudahy company and the Nelson Morris will enter the merger is an accepted belief. The new corporation will control the meat products of the United States. [he trade in beef, pork, mutton. cured meats, bacon and all by-products is in its hands. It will reach out and gather into its grasp the fruit, fowl and egg supplies of the country. The bulk of the cold storage ca- pacity is now in the control of the packers. Armour controls cold storage room and cold storage supplies in the West. By the pur- three years ago of the Earl Fruit Co. of California, the Armour conmpany took over a great fruit business and 10 refrigerator cars. In St. Joseph, Kansas Citv and Omaha, Armour has cold storage houses where the western output of eggs and spring chickens are kept. ‘These supplies are purchased when prices are down, stored until they advance, and then are dumped on the market. CONTROL WORLD’S MARKETS. Not the United States alone will feel the grip of the corporation. control the beef markets of the world. England is already protesting and denounc- ing the high prices of meats. The British public blames the American packers, to : chase , PACKERS’ TRUST WILL CONTROL FOOD OF THE WHOLE WORLD ? SS $201,000,000 IN THIS GREAT BEEF COMBINE Swift & Co. (capital) ....... Annual business............ ; Stock value in merger Armour & Co. (capital) . Annual business Stock value in merger Nelson Morris & Co. (capifal).... Annual! business Stock value in merger , Cudahy & Co. (capital) Annual business Stock value in merger Stock and securities representing purciiase of Hammond & Co. and Omaha Packing Co. by Armour & Co. Value in merger 15,000,000 15,000,000 7,000,000 21,000,000 Stocks and securities representing the purshees of Fowler & Son - Packing Co. and the Anglo-American Provision Co, by Swift - & Co. Value in merger ' Probable total capitalization in the meat merger ....... 5,000,000 15,000,000 . .8201,000,000 BASEBALL SCORE NATIONAL LEZEAGUE. ’: 2: 8:4. 28 st. Louis... FODDER DORERE sown... SENDER wi St. Louis, Yerkes, O'Neill; Boston, Willis, 7 6.3 wa. Kittridge. Umpire, Brown. mnt fae THEA Se Cod Philadelphia. atalttsistabectect | AMERICAN LEAGUE. It will practically ¥ CONTINUED ON PAGF 2. it 4} ua’ fie * “ & : ; és | Baltimore... UO ia a a a dk cvicego..... IEE 1) 8 a ae 8 ee" WOMAN FOUGHT ON STREET WITH A FQUTPAD Gave Up When He Pressed - Revolver to Her Head. THEN SHE CHASED HIM POLICEMAN JOINED AND THE MAN WAS ARRESTED. He Had Snatched Mrs. Rodenroth’s Purse—Police Recognized Him as William Harris, Just Out ofthe Peniten- tiary. William Harris, who was arrested after a had is thought hard race Saturday morning after he robbed Mrs. Lizzie Rodenroth, to be the man who has committed several other similar robberies of women in South St. Louis recently. Harris is an old offender, and has served a 15-year sentence on his being convicted in the courts here. Mrs. Rodenroth lives at 4B Nebraska avenue. She had started to the cemetery to decorate the grave of her husband. She carried her purse in her hand. She no- ticed a, fairly well dressed man approach her, but she paid no heed to him. The man overtook her at Pennsylvania avenue and Juniata street. Without a word of warning he snatched the purse from the woman's hand. She held on and started to struggle. The man drew a rovolve~ from his pocket and, thrusting the muzzle close to Mrs. Rodenroth's head told her to turn loose of ft or he would preas, the trigger. WOMAN WAS AWED. Frightened, the woman complied. The man ran with the purse In his hand. Mrs. Rodenroth screamed as she saw the “’e'low run, and her courage returned. She took after the fugitive, and her cries attracted the attention of Peter Wendell who con- day. ducts a grocery at 716 secarecdien a ave- ing the fugitive, joined In the chase. Wendell gained on the man, wh», seeing that he was in danger of being overhauled, again drew his revolver. This time he did not do it for effect alone, for he turned the weapon on Wendell and fired three shots, the bullets whigzing close to the grocer’s ead Policeman Bell heard the shots and he hastened to the scene of the trouble. He saw Mrs. Rodenroth and Wendell and also the fleeing robber. Bell drew his own re volver and took up the chase. The thief fired at the policeman without effect, and, when his weapon was empty, he threw the useless weapon away. OVERPOWERED BY OFFICER. Bell commanded him to halt and fired in the air. The robber turned into the yar4 at 38130 South Compton avenue, and the policeman was right after him. With the revolver pointed at him, Bell commandad the man to surrender. He was overpowered and was taken to the Wyoming street police station. Here he refused to give any name for a while. Capt. Schroeder recognized the fellow as William Harris, who the captain arrested on Nov. 18, 1894. Capt. Schroeder was a sergeant then, and he arrested Har- ris and another man. They were charged jointly with 22 cases of burglary and high- way robbery. They were convicted and were given 15 years in the penitentiar. Harris at first denied his identity, but later admitted it. He said that he had been out of prison just one month. His partner committed suicide in the peniten- tiary while serving the 15 years. Capt. Schroeder thinks that Harris ts the man who robbed Miss Mary Passman of 2631 South 12th street. Miss Pasaman was sent for, and if she can identify him he will be charged with the robbery. THERMOMETER READINGS IN ST. LOUIS TODAY. Post-Dispatch, Weather Bureau. (Street Level.) (110 feet above street.) 73 7a. m 77 C. W. Sunshine Married.—c. W. Sun- shine, proprietor of the “Sunshine” Paper Cleaning Co. and manager of the National Manufacturing Co., was married to Miss Maskti! of Southern Illinois at St. Cronan’'s church, Boyle and Swan avenues. Mr. and Mrs. Sunshine will depart for the East Sun- _— —— — — me bs 7 ——— Cause for a Midsummer Day’s Delight. Chollie and Gawge Have a ludicrous time of it through Chollie performing a brave deed. ‘. The Angel Child Of Kate Carew spoils Papa’s reputation as a croquet player. It’s funny. Easy Papa _ Finally gets the rest of the little darlings. ) : ~0 mic ic Sup Le lement. eee 7 ee Aa You know he’s been after them. 4 ‘ ER Oe i 2 ee a See Tomorrow’s Sunday Sige Clarence the Cop Stops a dog fight and starts a riot. Mischievous Lands Grandpa in jail for the 3333d time. This page is full of police. Prof. Otto And his atito interfere with art, but he'll pull — to regret it. The Comic Sup) This is no 2x4 riot, either. Willie Bement. Te fe" 0 ae tS IE aes - 2M = ~