St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 12, 1902

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0 OS a a NO he I Lost Found 2653 Lost and Found Ads in P.-D. Wants | first six months of this year, last vear. More than in ali the other papers combi: ed THE ONLY ST. LOUIS ~ a TWELVE PAGES. NEWSPAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAY DISPATCHES. 407 over ms ~~ —- ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING , AUGUST 12, 1902. PRICE} vatatde Bt Lowte, =e ng -——_—__—_— VOL. 54, NO. 356. _— som. - COMPLETE. MARKET REPORTS. —_- RED BALL LURED BABY 10 DANG -_ —_ Fender and Motorman Saved | Him From Death. MOTHER SAW THE ACCIDENT. CHILD TOSSED OFF TRACK, BUT FELL UNDER WHEELS, He Was Toddling After Plaything His | Brother Bounced When Car Struck Him—Motorman Acted Just in Time. A bounding ball lured Lester Briggs, an 18-months-old New Yorker, in the path of a Transit car Monday noon. The fender stuck him and warded him from the front wheels and 8. J. Thompson, the motorman, quickly stopped the car and | leaving it picked the child up. The baby’s mother, Mrs. C. H. Briggs of | 2309 Olive street, saw the accident. It was | witnessed by a score of persons. The accident occurred in front eof the Briggs home. Lester, who came from New York three weeks ago, was playing with his &-year-old brother, Harold, and the bright red ball his apa had bought. The baby could only hrow the sphere 20 feet, but Harold could make it bounce far and away. When Les- ter’s admiring eyes saw the ball rebound from the pavement and go hopping across ‘Olive street he ran after it as fast as his chubby limbs could leg. “Jack,’’ a neighborhood bull pup, in the chase and Lester ran faster, = ack would steal his toy. anger in the guise of transit car No. 854 was atealing on, faster than boy or dog. The baby reached the westbound track @nd the car struck him. The fender was down and the child rebounded from fi, but the blow was a twister of sorhe sort and the little bedy, saved for the moment, Was swung around and under the car. The curly head lay on the north rail, and the great rear wheels were only 10 feet away. The car seemed to be moving on and on, despite the motorman’'s efforts. Mrs. Briggs, just home from the grocery, saw it all. Her child's first escape, his reater danger. She sank on the steps of er home and when she next opened «er eyes Edward Walker of 2732 Pine str-et held the child uninjured on his shoulder, the center of a cheering crow Thompson had stopped the car. saved. Baby Lester was bright as a dollar Tues- day. Dr. Irvin of 609 North Compton ave- nue, who was called to see him Monday, right after the accident, couldn't find a gcratch on his fat little body. Baby Lester now has one sorrow—his blue eyes fill because he is not permitted to bounce his ball on the sidewalk and play in the street, the wide, pleasant street, where the yellow cars run swiftly by, their wheels making the merriest music, clank, clinkity clank. joined think- ' Baby was WOMAN SUES FOR DOG BITE ‘Miss Delia L. Dillon, Who Was At- tacked by Bulldog, Asks $5000 Damages. Miss Delia L. Dillon, who was bitten by a Gog at 3410 Pine street on Aug. 1, filed suit for $5000 damages against Adeline and Ste- phen Moriarty, who reside at the above ad- adress, Tuesday morning. She alleges that they owned the dog and knew it to be vicious and fierce, but not- oearanning that, on Aug. I she was ‘‘neg- ligently invited, requested and directed to go into the yard and she went.” *The dog attacked her savagely, she claims, and she was severely bitten on the legs and body, besides recefving a terrib fright. It is alleged by the plaintiff tha as . result of the injuries inflicted by the dog she has been forced to spend a large ——————- THIS CHILD HAD A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH BENEATH A TRANSIT CAR at 7 Wig a LESTER BRIGGS, Tig” ae. - # at 18 MONTHS OLD. Photographed by the Post- parva “MIKE, ” VETERAN ENEMY OF CATS, STAYED AWAY FROM POLICE COURT Fred Swaine, grocer and former municipal |predecessor. Mrs. Hopkins, armed with a | 7 EVERY MAN fils OWN LAURDRY MAN | Washing Trust May Soon Have a Rival, CUSTOMERS HOLD THE STOCK. Sl —— THEY WILL GET CHEAP RATES AND DIVIDENDS. Promoters Are Taking Subscriptions at $5 Each, and Propose to Start Plant Costing $11,000 Four Months Hence. = Let the Laundry Trust in St. Louis be- ware. Tne price of iaundry work, which has been soaring so high, must take a tumble and assume a position nearer the grasp of those who. in order to maintain a gentle- manliv dignity, must wear white shirts and collars, which, as all St.° Loulsans know, must be changed daily to “be classed as white. This is the joyful announcement of the Co-Operative Laundry Association. This band of white shirt wearers are in earnest when they state that the present price of laundry must be reduced. By their plan the laundry business will be conducted so as to make each man his own laumiryman, and with the responsibility of ownership in such a glorious enterprise, there will be less kicking at the laundrymen, thereby causing to prevail a more optimistic feel- ing in the breascs of shirt-burdened human- ity ‘What we intend to do,” said the promo- ter of the enterprise, ‘is to launch a laun- dry business in which 6000 persons will be interested as stockholders and directors in the company. “The business will be ineorporated, and capitalized at $30,000, represented by 6» shares, which will be sold at $5 per share, one share to each person. No person will be allowed more than one share. “Several thousand persons have sub- scribed for stock in the company, and our solicitors have receipted for the money, which is being held by one of the trust companies The plans for the plant are being perfected. Each Customer Finanees Company. “We do not need any financing from banks or trust companies, as each stock- holder assists in financing the enterprise when he pays for his stock. “The pRgposition is a plain one, and is ad- vanced alte strictly business lines. Sava week. Fift™two weeks at 40 cents a Week makes a total of $20.80 per vear. Members of the association are allowed 25 per cent. discount on all bills. On a veatly bill of $20.80, 25 per cent amount to $5.20, thus sav. ing the member that amount. his bill to $15.60 per year. “At the end of the year the member still holds his stock and is receiving liberal div- idends on the same. Instead of puyvyine 15 cents for a pleated white shirt, the associa- tlon members will pay. 1 and the general public will receive the same bene- ficlal reduction in prices, Work on Plant Will Soon Begin. “The plant will be located in the central] portion of the city, and a force of wagons cents, man’s laugdry bill amounts to 40 centsaa | and reducing | | TWO CONTINENTS LINKED BY LOVE IN THIS ROMANCE OF A SENOR AND A PRETTY UNIVERSITY STUDENT | Don Erique Jaun Schlie of Argentine Eloped With Miss Lucille Albon at Columbia Mo. WON HER UNDER DIFFICULTIES He Struggled Manfully to Master the English Lan- guage So That He Could Court Her. In a most romantic manner Master Dan Cupid, who laughs at geography, as well as at locksmiths, has performed the quast- diplomatic feat of uniting the United States to the Republic of Argentine, South Amert- ca. It is a merry way he has, and his pranks of this description have connected all, or nearly all, the countries of Europe. The manner in which his latest feat was performed has all the touches of a romance out of a novel. It is the story ofya dark-eyed senor and a pretty Missouri firl, and it had for its backgr und the picturesqueness of a college town. It began with love at first sight and ended in a wild ridé across the country in ‘search of a minister, a midnight marriage in a parsonage, flight on a train, letters begging forgiveness, and the stern ambition of Senor Don kept ablaze by the love of @ lovely young wife. But, to the story. In 1900, or thereabout, Senor Don Enrique Juan Schie took ship from his native city of Esperanza de Santa Fe, Argentine, South America, and in due course, arrived in Co- SKINUMBA DU. MivaaeeUae J LAIN sues LL. lumbia, Mo., as a special educational envoy from his government, his purpose being to study for five years Missrour! methods of farming, stock raising and general agri- cultural experimental work. He was a slight, dark, reserved young fel- low of 20 years, graceful, accomplished and intellectual, He leased a cottage for five years and established himself to pursue hie studies with vigor, for before him in his own country lay an honorable and usefus governmontal career. COMING OF THE GIRL. Now, by the machinaticns of this same Daniel Cupid, whose business it is to ar- range the meetings of men and maids, there came to Columbia to enter as a stu- dent in Stephers Female College a girl. She was Miss Lucille Albon, a better name ,than muny a novelist has invented, and | she came from De Bote, Il. | Cunning Dan Cupid so willed it that Den gEnrique should lease a cottage only a few doors from the residence of C. W. Davis, the deputy clerk of Boone County; who - hed | the felicity of being uncle ta the charming | Miss Albon. It was at her uncle's house, |therefore, that the girl student | when she came to Columbia. To go to and from classes- Miss Al bon was compelled to pass the cottage of ‘the South American Don as many times a day as Dan Cupid willed. From behind the curtains of his window where he pored over the mysteries of ensi- lage and other strange features of scientific agriculture, the industrious Don Enrique cast his eyes up from his books, and out the window. | There passed his house at that psycholog- jical moment a girl with a jaunty mortar- |board cap on her shining hair and arrayed Her cheeks ‘in a Stephens’ College gown. visited . were as roses, her qyes shone as dew on a nal EE yar Sum of money for physicians’ and drug bills, and she therefore prays for relief to the extent of $5000. officeholder, disappointed an audience Of | mop handle, dog fanciers in the Dayton Street Pollcé | of her cat Court Tuesday morning by failing to pro- duce there his battle-scarred bull terrier went Waliantly to the reacue | will be employed to collect laundry from and managed to beat off the’ the association's members in anv part of | strenuous bull-terrier before the nine feline; the city. The cost of the plant will be lives were extinct. In so doing she WAS; apout $11,000, and the scheme has pro- | She will not A student at Columbia University, whe cloned with the man of her heart aftera 2 -coureney full of rare romance. She was Miss Lucille Albon of De Soto, Ill a eT eae ‘petal, her figure was straight and lissom with youth, and her step was grace itseif. “BONITA SENORITA!”’ “Bonita Senortta!”’ exclaimed the Don be- | | | ' i ' it will be 3 _ the amount - Within a few years. ; The WIFE HAD ANOTHER ESCORT Street Car Conductor Says She Declined His Invitation to Theater. Louis F. Martens, a streeet car conduc- tor, in a petition for divorce filed Tuesday | morning, declares that when he asked his wife to go to the theater on the eveni g of Nov. 2&8 last, she told him she had an! engagement with a ‘gentleman friend ot rs When he remonstrated with her and sug- Geeted that under the circumstances th re might be trifling impropriety in her ch. ice of escort, he alleges that she ‘“‘became en- raged,” le ft his premises and has never re- turned, Martens marricd his wife, Caroline, in Jonesbure. Mo., according to his petition. He tody of their 7-vear-old daughter, a SICK WOMAN STOPPED DANCE Piasa Girls Postponed Their Test of Right to Disputed Enjoy- ment. The fact that there was a sick lady at the Piasa Bluffs Chautauqua Assembly Hotel Monday night averted a probable clash b>- tween the girls who want to dance and the man who doesnt want them to dance. The more they thought over of J. B. Ulrich, one of the directors, to per- mit them to dance in the hotel parlor, the more convinced the girls became that they were being oppressed to an unbearable ex- tent. It was arranged that at 8 o'clock they should go into the parlor and begin to dance to the music of the piano which they had rented. The piano was kept still. —— ee we ee = er ee T00 MANY LEMONS. ee ee ee #90;000 Boxes Sold in New York to Pay the Duty. NEW YORK, Aug. —The appraiser at this port has sold iy the government in the last three weeks 100,000 boxes of lemons whose name is March 19, 1833 asks the cus- Mabel. - because the importers declined to pay duty On them. Most of the lemons imported here come from Mediterranean ports, and has been greatly increased y used to come tn sailing vessels, but Mow they come in steamers, wh.ch bring) moh larger cargoes. The chief reason for the present glut, - Tr. is believed to be because - been no prolorged hot spell. Fewer enons ve been consumed; and the visi- ea supply has increased until the price i PSone fiown to a point where it would money thrown away to pay duty. im- have preferred to lose for the lemons and i vast quantities of the ees : refore, } “I thought I’d come over first and see if this courtroom was a nice exhibit him,’ Swaine smilingly explained to the aforesaid dog fanciers. As a matter of fact, in his soap box cradle at the grocery, 2661 Olive street, because he had concluded to ask a continuance in the disturbance of the peace case in which the cat-fighting quad- ruped figured. The case was inaugurated about a month ago by Albert Nathan, manager of the Young Men's Hebrew Association Club- house, 2737 Locust street. Swaine’s dog killed Nathan's cat. The had been previously continued more than once, and Swaine managed to get an additional delay Tuesday morning by asking for a jury. The trial was set for Aug. 2. Battles With Cats ' Are Continuous. Additional interest was lent to the case, which was expected to come to trial Tues- day morning, by the fact that Monday the same dog, ‘“‘Mike,”’ figured in a encounter with the cat owned by Mrs. lie Hopkins of 2659 Olive street. This episode was not as tragic as ease Mol- | eae oo oe the refusal | | | there | | ‘*Mike.”’ (asogcnge on the enough place to, Swain left the dog | thrilling | hand. 7 case into court. passing the Y. M. C. A. chased the Nathan \ters. ‘‘Mike,”’ in clubhouse one evening, cat up a tree. | again chased the cat, but before ‘ ‘reach the tree it was killed. ‘“‘Mike’s Temper Is Sweet and Gentle. “Mike is a nice, mild-mannered, tempered dog,”’ said Swaine in court day morning, ‘‘that is, when cats around. lie hates cats. | was young, two big tomcats ‘pounced on ihim once and marred the lof his fine voung face, revenged when he grew | feline tribe. He is now 6 and | has inaugurated a vendetta against them. ''The Nathan cat was to blame for his own | death. He got warning to | Mike’s way when the dog chased | the tree, but he didn't take heed. He walked right into the jaws of Mike death the next night.” aus Nathans and Attorney ‘in court Tuesday morning to sweet- Tues- up on the years old Gelbart were its | ‘Mi ke’ ’ and his owner. To the other case there were two chap- | there are no’ When he} angelic expression | and he vowed to be} whole | take the} gressed so far‘that | | ' | } The following evening he) it could | | | | | stay out of, him up! i hecause and | ; prosecute | . | however, possivle to erect the plant and have «verything in run- ning order by the first of January, 1909. ‘The managers of the large retail estab- lishments in the city have granted to our solicitors pe®mission to distribute sub- scription blanks among the emploves, and the movement is daily gaining momentum. The plan is being successfully operated in many eastern cities, and success in St. Louis is only a matter of a few months.” “UNSETTLED” WITH US AGAIN: Dr. Hyatt Says There May Be Thun- | derstorms and the Mercury Is Slated for a Rise. “T'nsettled’’ landed again Tuesday morn- ing. after a vacation of more than a week. Dr. Hyatt there Saves, didn’t mind giving him a show. was no baseball in however. that tled’’ wilt pack his and go as the Cardinals get back. The dector thinks he is an impartial fan. Last cheered the ‘‘pen na winners” al}l he could: trying to get the weather straighten- ed up for Capt. Donovan's boys, tie thinks it would be well for all St. Louis to towr. The doctor ‘“LUnset- have to clothes copy his example. Apronos of wenther. he condition will prevail and Wednesday, and that there will be thunderstorms The temperature will likely rise slightlv, because of the coming together of the “high'’ that ts over the lake regicr and the central val- ley and the “low” that is over the Northwest The “low” is after the “high,’’-and when it catches its prey our temperature will climb. . This morning, the temperature was the same as Monday at 7 «o'clock. There were heevy rains in the Northeast Monday. In Boston the precfpitation was one inch. In the Northwest it is also rain- ing. . There is a “lew"’ in the north States that the Tuesday probably unsettled } ‘issued Tuesday APON SHAPPED IN POLICEMAN FAU ,™ » JOHN ELDRIDGE TRIED TO SHOOT PATROLMAN FANNING. a ‘DRIVE WAS _ INTERRUPTED. Now Occupant of Buggy Is Under Ar- rest, and Officer Thanks Providence. Eldridge is charged with assault to kill in warrants morning. it is alleged, John and larceny and Eldridge, entered the stable | ‘of John Boening, at 4815 McKissock avenue, ‘harnessed up a soon as | |'walking away land gave | John Boening, Jr.. week he | | ' now he is | | Atlan country. it hes no designs upon us, But is going north. f. Weleda. herse and _ deliberately walked out with him. Thomas J. Floyd, employed by Boening, says he saw Eldridge | with the horse and harness He was accompanied by and Fred Klassing. The pursuers were close upon Eldridge when the latter turned and fired at both chake. burglary | Bocning and Klassing. but without effect. Policeman Fanning joined in the chase, and Eldridge also snapped his revolver at the! policeman, but the shell failed to explode. lie was overpowered and was locked up at) the Angelica street police station. —_—_——_—_— ——_— KRUGER'S WRATH IS AROUSED President of Late ‘Poor Republic Op- poses Visit of His Generals ~ to England. THE HAGUB, Aug. 1. —It is said Presi- dent Kruger will use all his influence to induce Gens. Botha, DeWet and Delarey not to land in England next Saturday as is now planned. The President of the late Transvaal re- public is violently opposed to the sociai mingling of Boers and itons, and his friends say that he would¥regard the pro- posed visit as a desertion by his favorite generals. Temperatures in Other Cities. New York, 44; Reston, GB: Nladelpiia, GA: Washington, 68; Chicago, @; Miwnespolis, M4: Cincinnat!, SR. For St. Louis and ietnity 0 neettied, with thunderttorms Tuesday night “ CHILDS SAVINGS TO ICE FUND “A LITTLE GIRL” SENDS $1 FOR RELIEF OF POOR. NEED FOR ICE CONTINUES. If You Think Otherwise, Try Drinking Uncooled Hydrant Water Awhile. SSSSOOOOOHO SOOO OOS The Post-Dispatch does not >m- + ploy solicitors nor subscription + lists in collecting contributions + to the Free Ice Fund. Please @ send contributions direct to this ¢ office. ’ & COPPER OOOO OOOO e “A Little Girl” sent the Post-Dispatch Ice Fund $1 Tuesday. The money probably came‘from her savings bank, and she made a sucrifice to be able to help many other little girls attain the pleasure of securing |" Ne a pai of ice cold water. re are any, ‘many little giris and Sak, gt *- could not obtain ice water if it were not for the thoughtfulness of ‘a littie irl’ and others who send money to the ost-Dispatch Ice Fund. The cooler weath- er lms not lessened the need for ice Kiver water is warm and brackish in the } humes of those to whom the ice ia sent. Their food would spoil {f they were without ice, and the eick, some parched with fever would suffer. Late contributions: J. tiranis J. [ Home Department Sunday School hg 5 Lg Miami, F H A little girl.. M. Kimmel THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. Mte«ourt--Partly Powdy T Tuesday night and Wednesday, with possibly showers In north por- tien: warmer; southerly winds. Hibnets—Partiy clondy Tuesday jto say hind the curtains, and as do. pmpper young men in all of Dan Cupid's Mail comedies, he fell straightway head over heels in lov-. And so he saw her pass and repass as tho dys went on, but always discreetly behina the curtains that veiled his study windows. Not that he did not long to meet her, to speak with her, to tell her all that lay in his surging heart. But there was an im- pediment, an impossible wall as thick and a8 high as that which surrounded the Bas- tile between him and the girl in the mortar- board. What is impossible to so ardert a lover? you say. Language was the wall, for while this accomplished young South American spoke fluently German, Spanish, French and Italian, he knew no word of English. But there are eyes that speak to eyes, you say again. Quite true, but this young man was sensitive, also was he wise. He knew the disadvantage of not being able words that mean something, for even the nost meaningful of looks may become ridiculous in time. What was there for it? of course. Senor Don Enrique went at once to Preat- dent Jesss of the university and esked by what means he might learn Dnglish in the quickest manner. He was impetuvus, you see. The president advised him to employ Mr. Frederick Dearing as his coach. Mr. Dearing is now an Interpreter of four lan- guages in Washington. Under his tutelage the Senor Don made marvelous progress for the spur of love goaded him on. When the dragon English was partially subdued the Senor Don with the most lelicate tact submitted to his tutor his de- sire to meet the “bonita Benorita Albon.”’ Nothing easier thought Bis guide and friend Dearing. who scented the aweete of love in the alr. MET GIRL OF HIS HEART. On a never-to-be-forgotten day the Senor wes Invited to visit the home of Mr. Davis in company with Mr. Dearing. As they waited In the parlor, Miss Albon entered, without her mortar-board and gown. The jJenor Don was speechiess with admiration. All his carefully memorized phrases in Fng- ish fled him. If the senorita had been ‘bonita’ in her school gown, she was over+ vhelmingly so within het natural home sur- oundings. Alas! poor Don Enrique, he was quite one lone. He was miserably, terribly, happity inhappy. They met at intérvals quite tn « casual way and the don’s maiady increas 4d wit Learn English,