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.An-/ ,^ »». V°"- LXVH....N 0 - 22,275. jfO DISEASE ON MONEY. DR. DOTY'S OPINION. foolish to Consider It Medium of Transmission, He Says. nr A. H. Doty. Health Officer of this port. pfca tat ytmn l»a<? made a study of infectious s -ases. an-1 especially the medium of their mgamawtirn dow= not agree with the theorists ,r|Mi contend thai mor.oy is a transmitter of dis ttf* Dr. Doty said yesterday that, while bacterlo logtral examinations were presented to show that (•<S«*-eEt f.->rms of bacteria were found on money. practical and rareful observation had proved that infect!:-!! was caused and epidemics u »re epread In nearly all instances by personal contact with Infected persona, and more especially with am batant cases, rather than through the handling rt money ar.i clothing. He bays, moreovef. that «no much needless and harmful agitation Is be lr.ar devotf d to the theory that money bi an agent of disease. He contends that there are many other considerations in the protection of public health that constitute a rr-al menace that should take op the consideration of the public rather thar. conditions which are bai-ed on theory Con cerning the current agitation on money as an agent of disease. Dr. Doty sal." "The theory that money acts as a medium of Hftrflim is a r'.ausiblo ono. particularly as It dfa)F wjrli an agent which is bring constantly transmitted from one person to another and among nil classes of people. Clothing, ragr. sserchandtaa, carajoea of ve?s»i.^. etc.. are also regarded as means by which disease is com renn'y transmitted. • WHERE BACTERIA ARE POUND TMs be!i°f i^- popular because It offers an explanation fat outbreaks of Infectious disease the origin of which is unknown. Modern sani tation, however. doe.s r.ot regard as valuable theories which are unsupported by fact or prac tical experience. The theory that money acts B<= e medium of Infection carries with it tio sattgfisrtocT or even reasonable proc.f. It is true That from tlr.i« to time the results of bacterto l"irlcal examinations ar» precentod to show that different forms of bacteria are found on money. Ko one who is familiar with tn»- subject doubts this, bat the >am« oreranisms may at almost any tirne h» found on our hands, on stair railings ard all exposed p'aces Thene bacteria arc h« a rule harml"fs. and some of them ar" a benefit la mankind. Even from a bacteriological point f*l view there are reasons why mon^y would not b» likely to transmit disease. However, this cu^stloti must be decided principally by reliable eta'istics and the results of j i i« tical experience. UXDLTJfa MONEY IN BI'LK "Whoever may be inclined to investigate thin nUbJeci in a reasonable way and will visit th« Treasury D*partm«-nt at Washington, where an enormous amount of old and filthy paper money 1? being constantly handled and rehandled, or ■will seek Information from bank officials, »Hll dnd that, those who are connecirri with this work <3o not contract Infectious disease any oftener than any nr,« else "There Is no reason why persons thus em playwjd may not rontract Infectious disease, be rautf". th*T* are pubjeoted to th«> same outside exposure that others are, but this furnishes no proof that money is the medium of transmis sion. It is rather to be regarded as a colncl «lenc# There Is probably no doubt that ir. raro instances money. Jlk*» oth^r things, may act as a Ttrans of transmitting disease, but It is so un common that we must not give It undue con ■Mrraftttn. for there ar* so many other con siderations with which we must deal in pro- T-cting the public health that constitute a real menace that we should rather devote our ener gies to theee than to conditions which are based r.n theory- The fear that money transmits dis *as« is. I am quite sur<*. largely due to the tact that it Is frequently old and filthy. While this If unpleasant in many ways, it does not indicate the presence, of pathogenic organisms that is, tha r-rrr.p which transmit Infectious disease. WORKERS AMONG RAGS. • Both domesti" and foreign rags nr<- also re pardexl as a medium of infection, and commerce has frequently been crippled by the- detention cr.fi (3i£iufftct!<-irs of lI CISKIis arriving from foreign ports having rass as a part of their cargoes. ftttn. •• have no reasonable evidence that this material transmits disease. My own obeerva tion in resard to this part of the subject In ::<les nort only the oottoction of rejlab> statls tics fr*»m paper manufacturers 1n this country, bat also a personal investigation of th* rag «>potw «t Alexandria, Egypt. Here ra gs. con- Blsttac principally of wornout clothing or gowns, «r» brought from all parts of Lower E<gypt In rop» crates, and are aorted and resorted by waaaaa and children, but at th^ time of my visit no evidence had ever been piuaented to show thet these rapplckera were DMC« subject to in f*rtloti« diseas.? than those not connected with t.r* work. 'These statistics were carefully compiled by British aanttary officers who aro charged with th* protection of the public health In the coun try just referred to. Th« same results wera ob tained lr. the investigation of this subject in connection with paper manufacturers in the ITalted States, where the bulk of foreign and do irnwrtlc rags ar« un*d. "Careful Investigation has. during tlve la^t few years, thrown much light en th« subject of the transmission of disease and as a consequence many popular theories hav« be:'*i shattered. Tt wu not very long t^o that clothing was r.- gar<ied as one of th<» common means by which r«llow fevf-r was transmitted. VTe know now that this ilifeeaee in traaasnittad only by the mos •JßHai e.r.4 that flftrfrrTnc li^f* nothJns; whatever to do with 1L MAL.AP.IA rilOM MOSQUITO. "TJntn recently ;t was baiiavwJ 'hat malaria *»fas caused by bad aJr. emansttons fro/r. Bwamps, •ic Conclusive, evi'leaee, however, bea -:\ pnaaated to fhow thßt th!« theory is Incorrect. and th»«^ malaria is .i!e<-> transtr.lti. by the SBMOJrit*. *Tho«e v.'no ar>t.ualiy »iea! with Infectious dl» (ui> an<! careful'y study the means by which K Ib tranEtnltted l<-arn that clothing, mon."-. csrjoes of vwtels, ate-, net aa a medium of In *«ct:c:i only lr. r:jr»» loateiMMa, and arhat we fcav« mort to fear in our efforts t-> prevent tho •f'Pearimce or extension of infectious disease is l&el &e presence of miM and unrecognised cases -'i".ich «>ften occur and v.-hich constitute r.r., of Hal r>»ci,t. dangerous factors with which public k*»i»h onVlaiß ar<* obliged to deal, and it is this **Wch is eoanoealy the cau.*<- of outbreaks, and W "lch contributes support to the theory that I*l^ney.1 * 1^ney. fete, ig a. medium of Infection. For, as n *»« cases are not recognized, some theory must *** advanced for the outbreak of Infectious dis , •*•*. the origin of which is BOf f .un.l. Tho ■ in charge of the poblie health are beginning t<» issJJxs this fully and to know that fine of the "* o< * important means of controlling an out ■*••* of lnfecU.,l) d;?ei-ve la t*i cause a th.jr- CoxiUaurJ <ju »■ iue'J puge. Tn-TSSXi.'l&rZtti*. NEW-YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1907.— TWELVE PAGES.—^2"SSSi^ L&4k DENIES GRANT STORY. Custodian Ignorant of Alleged Re quest to Jefferson Davis. [By Tol^rapb to Th»TTlt»un««.J New Orleans. Nov. 10.-"I never told Captain I* Rossrt that In the Memorial Hall here there were letters in correspondence of Jefferson Davia from Grant. Farragut and Thotnas offering their services to the Confederacy.- said colonel J. A Chalaron. custodian of Memorial Hall, to-day. "Two years ago Captain De Rosset was here, and I talked with him re g r dlng the at that time fresh rumor of the existence of these let ters. I told him that T did not know whether or not such correspondence was on file. "The letters of Jefferson Davis have never been examined. They were placed in' the Me morial Hall by Mrs. Davis herself, and are In a sealed packet. They remain Intact, nn d up to this time have never been opened, to my knowl edge. No one knows what Ls In them. Mrs. Davis requested that the correspondence he not opened until two years after her death, nnd I am going to respect that request. T1 remains with Mrs. Hayes, the daughter of President Davis, as to whether her father's letters shall be opened before the stipulated time. "I recently wrote Captain De Rosset, at Wil mington, N. C, nnd asked him to correct the statement he had made regarding our conversa tion, if T do n<>t receive a reply shortly I shall prepare an article for the two Confederate. Journals published at Wilmington and Nash ville, stating the facts as I know them. "I am doubtful." concluded Colonel Chalaron, •whether Grant, Thomas or Farragut ever m^do any such proposition as indicated in this idle talk." GEN. PORTER EMPHATIC. He Calls Confederate Story About Grant an/1 Others Absurd. A ptory published In "The ■ 'onfederate Veteran." the official organ of th« Confederate societies, that Central Grant, Admiral Farra«rut and General Georg« ti. Thomas applied for commissions In tho < i>n<"eilerate Mr Vice, was most emphatically <iif> eredlted last night, by General Horary Porter, who p«>rv«»d en tli« staff of General Grant. The article in questtcu was written by A 1.. P<» Rosset, of Wilmington, N <"*.. a • "onfe<iera«« cap tain, who <I'H"la.»s that he was teM by a folonel • 'halaron. of NTew Orleans, tlint the lott<»rf: written by th« three officers to J«ffprson Davifl were still In t>x;eUnc<>. but that under the. terms of Mr. DaviS*S Will the correspondence was not to he published until two years after Mrs Pavis's death. She died in New York on October 16. 19^6. Captain P - Rosset's Btorv <-nntlnue« by saying that after General <»rant ithen a captaui; hud ap plied to the Governor of Illinois for n lllllSSlmi to ralf=r> a re^mert for fh<» T'nion army in IMI, h* received no reply for a time., unrl next applied to Jefferson Davis for a commission in the Confed erate forces. Colonel Chalaron t* custodian of th« j-oi'is-.-.n* Historical Society and has the, letters in ila keeping. according to <"*aptaln T 'e Rosset. "The story Is amnzinrly absurd." pn:<i General Porter, at his home, No. 277 Madison svenue. "Why, if any of those letter* hHd been written It FtaTi<is to reason that some whisper, at least, of their rx ictenee would bM\« become known in the year* after the war. For lnstar.r^ when General Grant ran for th« Presidency th«y would. In the logic <.f events. hav« b*en dug up and used as campaign material by his opponents. I do not s<*« how any body at this late day could for a moment consider eeriously such a tale regarding three »f the. most loyal men in the Northern forces. "I oannot recall ever before having heard of Colon- 1 Chalaron or Captain De Rosset, and It Ifl extremely probable that they have been misled '.n some unaccountable manner. From my friendship and association with th« officers they mentioned I cannot for a moment believe on« word ol this." BLAME FOR WATTERSON. Governor Beckham Says Kentucky Defeat Was Due To Him. (By Tfl«grrarh to Th« Tribal**.] Lexington, Ky.. Nov. 10. -Governor J. C. W. Beckham has prepared a long and stinging re ply to the criticismj of Henry Watterson. H<> lays the blame for the recent Democratic defeat In the state a( the door of the Louisville editor. He declares that Mr. Watterson 1- h;is been blowing hot and cold in the, same breath and all the while attempting to create strife In the party." He adda that Mr. Watterson made a speech at Lexington, declaring that it was v. ront; to dash the mint julep away from the lips of th- Kentucklana, and later seeing that he had s-*irr<d UP the temperance, people, h--> wrote b long editoilal In which he went back r,n everything he 'iad paid. The Goverr »r attacks the political career of Mr. Watteraoc and declares h« aspirea to that place in the United States Senate to which Mr. Beckham was chosea at the Democratic pri maries last year. Governor BeckJiam, since th« election of the Republican ticket, has been closeted almost, every hour with political advisers from varioua parts of the state. It la now known that the Republicans will be in a position to name the Speaker of the House, who will most likely he, a Democrat, and that the, chances for their election of a I'nited States Senator. Instead of Governor Beckham winning, are decidedly brighter. RACE WAR ON FERRYBOAT A Thousand Germans and Irishmen Quelled by Reserves. From a trivial argumeni between two men. near ly a thousand men on the terryboal Garden City, of the Kast Mth street line, got into a rough-and tumble Hghl late last night Tl aptaln's whistle for help brought out the reserves of the K;ist 36th street station. On.- man was taken to BeUevue in a serious condition, i!i<i two others were ar rested on the charge of felonious assault. While the men were tight In and out Of the cabins women fainted, and many were knock. <l down. A!»out Bve hundred Irishmen from a football same in Celtic Park and a similar number of Germans who bad spent the day In Bcbutaen Park. Astoria, were returning together. The two n» tiona!ities started to poke fun at each other, and finally a. German and an Irishman began to fight. Then the friends of the two R <.t into arguments. Kights started all over the boat, and men were pushing and knocking one another about, into the women's cabin the struggle went, and the occu pants:, will, their children, tried to g«t out of the men'n way. manj of them In vain. fohn Harnett s member of the Cork association footbsll team, had been thrown to the floor, and, it is alleged kicked aboul by the flgbting Germans. He sras rendered Bnconsdous. but whs revived by the police, who let the pa.^enKers off one by one. His friends pointed out two men *•■< bis assailants. . <>Kl they were arrested. At Bellevue it %v*s fo,,nd he was suffering fiom an ugly scalp wound, r cut over Hie eye and many bruises about th« body. The men were taken to the station house, R/bers th« ssld they *' <>rr Solomon Undenderfer, of No. IS7 West H7th street, and Alcxan.i.r Exert, of Long UUnd City. ay T , o . AND WATER, NATURE'S CURE. ••Jic-Ts-.rlns l*'at«r in the World. Park ft Tll tcr.? Vckcr Mefn.ll & Condit Co., i'olan.: Sprtnfi ARMY NOT FOR POOR. A PESSIMISTIC VIEW. Officers' Pay Too Small to Support Families, Says Gen. Greely. 6eattle. Wash.. Nov. 10 (Special"!.— a man wants to he in debt right along and support his family largely through the charity of his relatives he should keep out of the army, according to Major General adotphus W Greely, commander of the Department of the Columbia. Oonernl Greely, who will he retired nfxt Mnrcrt, sprp the army becoming s place for rich aristo crats, or else merely an aggregation of paupers. He has made jmi economic study "f the subject, nn.i his figures are somewhat startling. "It is gettinc now,"' raid General Qreely in an In terview, "so that a man in ordinary circumstances cannot affnrti to penri his son Into the army. Ap pointments ure made from three sources — West Point, fn>Tn the rnnl(« and from civil life ThPro are ninety-eight vacancies in the army at the present time, and us they cannot be filled from the two first named sources the third must be do pended upon. "Young men in civil life are nllowfd to become offlc. r« by tirst undergoing a rigid physical and mental examination nt Leavenworth, K-«n . but it s^ems thiit young men do not want to take a.l vantage of that opportunity any more. I am pri vately Informed that out of the last list of young men from colleges and other places designated by the President to tnke the examination less than one-half did bo This is an alarming Indication of the indifference of young men to-.lay to nrmv life. It 1? most deplorable, and requires a remedy 'The salary ailowar.ee is too small and promo tion is too slow. A second lieutenant gets a salary of 5L.490 a year, equivalent to SIM a month, or $4 a day. out of this he hae to pay for his uniform and equipment, besides household expenses The scale of wages iii the nrmv haa nol been raised In thirty pevn years. It is on the 1870 basis In 1!»>7 "To find out the financial st:ir,is of offlcera in this department T wrote to thlrty-rour officer* sts tionen at widely rtistrtbuted po^pts and learned that the average officer pays out a per renl in excess of i:i« salary allowance each year. Borne of them keep expenses down by sending their families off to visit relatives nt frequent Intervals. Buch conditions are a poor stimulus to marriage. "The average family of an officer comprises four person^, nnd the expense* In detail ar« as follows: Household exi ons< Including food, furniture, s«r vnnts. fuel and light, H.07X1; uniforms and cloth- Ing. ftfMS; charity and religion. $«86: education, S10651; Insuranne. $177 fT; recreation, |9»»: furni t ir< , losf In changing stations. *i7!>i*>: cost of chang ing stations for the family. HM4B; wparata homes necessitated hy foreign service. 133934 "Some of the offWrs succeed In keeping out of debt, but only by exercising much self-deniaL The average officer does tv>t -p^n'l more than eight rents a «iny apiece for himself and members of his family It takes sn officer eight years to advance from a second to a flr?t lieutenancy, which means an Increase of cents a day in pay. It takes twenty more years to advance to a captaincy, and that means tl or $7 ■ -about the wag* of a plasterer these days. It takes thirty-six years for an officer to reach his majority. "The army at present In not aristocratic It li moM thoroughb democratic! «r>d representative of Amerlcanlsn One-fourth of Ita officers have risen from its ranks." ANTI-CLERICAL VICTORY. Great Gains at Election in Rome Vatican's Explanation. Rome. Nov. 10. Oeneral municipal elections were h. id in this city t.>-, lay. and It Is reported throughout Rom.- to-night that tha anti-Cleri cala gained their greatest victory since the fall of th« Papal temporal power, only municipal were filled, but the election! ■ r political character. Their Importance extended all over Italy. The: contest was ;i conclusion to the antl Cleri cal campaign which had Us beginning practi cally with tli- present Pontificate, forth* Cleri cals then had permission for the tirst time to participate In the political life of the country. waa urtlonary i >vement among the. anti-Clerical element; some of, them swung over from the Conservatives to the Socialists, and the, municipal elections in Rome wera chosen as a battlefield. Defeat being Inevitable, tho Clerteala, for tha first time since 1870, withdrew from tho field, ;inf - a a r< iult the anti-Clerical victory waa con plete. The Vatican organs maintain that the absten tion of til- Clerical voters was nothing more than it matter of tactics. BIG FRAUDS IX MARYLAND Republicans Charge Governorship Was Stolen From Them. [ By T<-l«-crnrri to Th» Tribune 1 Baltimore, Nov. 10.— Inquiries into the meth ods under which the state election was con ducted last Tuesday show that <;.<>rce Ft. Qaltber, Republican candidate for Governor, had a substantial plurality, but by manipulat ing the election machinery the Democrats ob tained a majority for their ticket. A canvass of the returns by the supervisors of election for the lirst three, legislative dis tricts of Baltimore Cttv^show* that out of 73.051 ballo*a cast 5,237 were thrown out. an average, of tWWity-tWO votes to a precinct being re jected. The total number thus thrown out in the city Is estimatJd at 7,<>00 Had every election official performed his duty Mr. Galther, Instead of losing the, city hy 4.!»i0. would have carried it by 4.000 or r>,<X>o. Ho lost it by fraud, party leaders assert. The trick ballots in the eastern and southern counties also cost the Republicans thousands of votes. The actual vote In the state, was about 230.000. Aboul 200.000 were returned an counted, leaving 30.000 to be accounted for. Of these 20,000 at least were those of Republicans, tho Republican managera say. SNOW IN WESTERN CITIES. Light Fall in St. Louis, but Almost a Bliz zard in Indian Territory. [By 7«t«gr*pJ> '" Thl " Trlbune.l 6t LOUIS. Nov. .- There was a light fall of snow In Pt. Urals this evening, starting at 6 o'clock and lasting live minutes. I in TYI.-gr.ipri t'. Th* Tribune. 1 Chlckasha, tad. T.. Nov. Th.-re was a heavy fall of snow In this section of Indian Territory to day. Tho storm waa almost of blizzard propor tions, the snow being driven by a Htrong north wind. Heavy damage to the cotton crop and serious losses among cattle «ro feared. ICarquette, Mich.. Nov 10.-Six Inchat of snow fell today, and it is Ptill snowing to-night. A heavy gale is blowing on Lake Superior. OSCAR G. MURRAY ILL. I Hv T>l»Kraph tn The Trlbun. ') tlirard. Ohio. Nov 10.— As the .special train hear- In- Oscar a Murray, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, nenred Olrard to-day. Mr. Murray was suddenly stricken with illness. So serious waa I la condition that it was deemed prudent to side track his private car. He tested until the evening in th» care ot a physician. To-nlglit. ulthough hi3 condition had improved, he wan taken to his brothers boaa«, in Nswcastia. >J?eun« P.G. TfIEBAUD,.TR.,SH()T. BUTLER FIRES BULLET. Commission Merchant's Employe Then .Kills Himself. Paul Glbert Thebaui. Jr., the seventeen-year old son of Paul O. Thebaud, was shot and se riously wounded yesterday morning at his father's home. Hlllair. at White Plains, by John BJorlin. the old family butler, who then sent a bullet through own brain, dying almost In stantly by the bedside of his employer's son. Youns Thebaud will probably live, the doctors say. Mr. Thehaud. of the firm of Thebaud Brothers, commission merchants, of >:o. 87 Broad street, is at a loss to explain the action Of the butler. There seems to be only one explanation of the Shooting;. It is be]jeve<l that jealousy prompted PJorlin to attempt to take the young man's life. The butler uns jealous of young Thebauds at tentions toward other servants. Recently he had been drinking heavily. BJorlin was a Dane, a linguist of aVillty. and last j-ojir accompanied the Thebauds to Europe, .intl u ;ts exceedingly valuable, an he was fa rr.iiiar with six languages. He entered the eas ploy of the Thebauds five years aw;o. Almost lmmedKitelv he became deeply attached to Paul and they vrero Inseparable companions. Out wardly thrro was apparently no break ir th« friendship between the two until yesterday. .Just after midnight on Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Thebaud returned from a dinner at the Ktioll uik».] Country Club. Tho house waa quirt. About •; o'clock yesterday momln« tl.« butler went to Thebaud's room. The younp man was clad in his bathrobe. So far as can be l^arn^d BJorlin didn't speak to Paul, hut nlmply pointed at Thebaud's forehead and flr.'d. Tie hesitated a moment and th^n stuck the muzzle of tho ffun behind his own ear and pulled the triptrer. He cileil before any one. arrived. The shots ware heard throi hout th« bi£ house, and soon the servants rushed to the room from nil directions. When tho house keeper reached the room «-h<» vns th» first per son to -••■ tho result of th" tragedy. BJorlin was lying face downward, n revolver by his side. Young Thebaud was stretched out un coni«cio\is ;n h'-'l. Blood Howe I freely from his wound. A hurry <-.v,l v.a« <«ent for r>r ii Krnest Schmid, of *l\*hite riainp. 1U- made S fast ri;n to Hillalr In h!a automobile. Dr. Henry T, Kelly and r>r. P;ige were also sent for. nnd after h consultation Dr. Schtnid decided to pen'l for T>r. Blake, of Manhattan, who performed the operation. Previous to the removal of th.-> bullet young Thebaud'a pulse was very weak, but afrer a clot of blood had been removed from the brain th« action of the heart Increased. Pr. Schmld said the bullet had entered the fore head and penetrated the forward part of the brain. "1 feel sure that Paul will recover." said i>r Schmld. "He had a narrow « ape, never thelesa." \ f.^-A- hours after the tragedy th» news of the ! pread all over Whits Plains. The \\ -a Torkera living in Weatchester wiio of the Thebauda sent word offering their aaststance. Buajane S. Reynal and N. C. Reynal, brother? of Mrs. Thebaud. both of whom live 1n White Plain*, l-urried to H'.'luir in their automobiles Mrs. Tin-baud was almost pros trated, i"r she feared hrr m>.\ would die. but \\itn the reassuring statement of Dr. Schmidt aha controlled her grief and immediately t.*>k her place aa PauTa nur«e. Mr. Thaband wel hls friends and bore up bravery under the Coroner A. L. Squire- took charge of BJorlin s body and started an investigation at once. He probed various theories for the shooting. He wa* of the opinion that hard drinking hud much to do with tha butler's act An inuu.st wi'.l be h. id at White Ptataia to-morrow. BJorlin left no papers to throw any light on his motive for the .-rime. Hi' object In trying to kill hia young friend and master will be known unless young Thebaud can advance tome reason when be I* able to tell his story. That will not b«- for several da] ; . and perhaps It may be weeks. One of the Thebaud Bervants Bald thai he had beard the butler threaten t.. kill Paul eai week The same man said Biorlin also tri.-.l one day bwt week to take the life ol lh« butler, o! whom he was also insanely Jealous. John Hlckey, the nighl watchman at Hiliair. jays he awoke the butler at 5:90 o'clocli yester day inornint? and heard him Knt up. Ten min utes later the shots were tired. In that time the butler hail left his room on th. third !l.»>r and K"!:'! down nti» flight of stairs to young Thebaud'a room. In speaking of the shooting. Mr Thehaud said "I really cannot Imagine why John shot my son. He was deeply attached t-. him; in fact, to all the members of my family. I believe "hat he suddenly became insane. That is the only reason that T can pive for bla act." Mr. and Mr* Thebaad have one other son, Reynal, who Is twelve years old. The Thebauda have lived Rt White Plains for nineteen years. Mrs. Thebnud is the only daughter of the lat.- Mrs. Jules K.-yual. who built St. John's Church at White Plains. It cost f2SO.OQOI and was built hs a memorial to one of her sons. Mr. Thebaud is a member of the Union League, Ihe Racquet and Tennla the Automobile Club of America, the Larchmont Yacht, the Rldinp and Drlvin K and many other duba Paul is exceedingly fond of outdoor -sports, be inß a fair athlete and lawn tennis player and an enthusiastic motor cyclist. He alno spent much time last summer on his father's yacht. In 1902 the Thebaud home was robbed of Jew elry valued at $:>o,ooo. NECK BROKEN IN FOOTBALL GAME. IBy TcUf-'raph to The Trlbun. ■ 1 Columbus, lnd.. Nov. lit— Karl Roddell. eighteen yeara old. a member ol the senior cbUM of the ColumbUS High School, died to-day of injuries re celved yesterday in a football game between tho Columbus High School etovea and the North Ver hob eleven. Be was playing right end for Commons One ,>t the visiting players attempted to make an end run and he tackled him. The two eaaa together with SO much force that RuddelTs neck was hrok' n. Me was carried from the i\o\<i uneoasdouS, in which .-omlitiou h« remained until h.- died to-.) >> Mayor Coehraae Will issue an i/r>l^r to-morrow that no more football will he permitted in Colum bus. The school authorities will a!*o forhld the game. USED HANDKERCHIEF TO END LIFE. Sitting on a bench in Central Park in a drizzling rain, an unidentified man committed suicide yestsr day afternoon bv tying a handkerchief around bis neck so tightly as to choke himself to death. The body was found bv Patrolman Frank O'Donnell. of the Arsenal station, near the West. Drive n<-;ir 104th street. Tt was removed to the West li>Oth street police station. He was well dressed, ami nppenred to be about seventy years old. AJthOUgM he wore a pair of eveglHsses with a gold chain and h diamond stud, there waa only two cents in cash found on his person. "'•Jsere was an embroidered "M" on his laundry- AFTER ALL. USHER'S THE SCOTCH that ina.iio tb* highball I^iaous.— AdvU GREAT FIRE AT IQUIQUEA Losses Over $I.ooo,ooo— Txvo Thou- \ sand Persons Homeless. Iquifiue. Chili. Nov. 10.— This port has been visited by a fire, the biggest since MBB. which has entailed loaaea of over $I.ooo.f«>>. It broke out yesterday, and seven and a half Maeka were burned over before it was under control. The property destroyed waa mostly dwelling! of the poor, and two thousand persons are home less. The fire was about one mile from the commercial quarter of the city. The nitrate stores aro safe. EARTH SHOCKS KILL UJMO. First Estimate of Lives I*ost in Turkestan Apparently Correct. St. Petersburg, Nov. 10. — The first direct re ports from the scene of the great earthquake at ; Karatagh, Russian Turkestan, about three weeks aro, reached this city to-day from a correspond ent who accompanied the relief expedition sent from Samarcand. Telegraphing 1 under date of November 9. this correspondent says: "The town of Karatagh was completely de- : stroyed. The victims number about four thou sand In Karatagh and about ten thousand In the adjoining district of D*nauak. All the villages In the vicinity were wrecked. It is probable that i there are hundreds more dead In these villages, [ but investigation is now determining only the approximate number." QUAKE AND LANDSLIDE IN SPAIN. Barcelona, Wot. 10 -An earthquake to-dav caused a serious landslide close to the village of Vhl ("ombre, the population of which fled. FOG DELAYS KAISER The Hohcnzollern Forced tn Anchor --Sir Percy Scott Rebuked. T.ondon. Nov. i(\ The German imperial yacht I Hohenzollern, bringing Kmper<>r William, the Empress and their suites to visit KnKiand. w-as expected to enter Sandown Bay, Tsle of Wight. to-night, but hns been delayed by a heavy fo^ j and has been obliged to anchor, with the cnils- i era escort Ins; her. off s«'sea Bill for th» night. It Is related that at the conclusion of the r« cent manrsavres the I'hannel fleet and the first cruiser squadron were ordered by the Admiralty to repaint and repair hi honor of th» (Jerman l'mperor. On receipt of this order Sir Percv Scott, commander of the cruiser squadron, sent th" following signal to two of his vessels: "Paintwork appears to he more in demand than gunnery, so you had better com" In In time to look pretty by th<* «th hist " Admiral Lord Charlei Peresford. In a generaJ order to the fleet repeating Mi*» Instructions to repaint, refers to the signal sent out by Sir Percy Seott as "contemptuoua In tone and In- Fubordttiate in charai ter,*" and orders Sir Percy to have it stricken from th« signal logs. ■ Sir Percy Bcoti and the members of his staff were summoned on board Admiral Reresford's naaahip last PViday and the admirals reprimand was rend t<> them. This affair ha"» ranrtfl a .-tir ir the fleet, and there Is a probability that it will lead to the res ignation of Sir Percy. Rear Admiral Sir Per y Boett has been .\dl«-d tlie t>. st versed offi, . r In gunnery In the R-lMsh navy. He Is well known aa the nai who "aais<l Lady sniitli" in 1899. because be devised a special car riage for S-lnch and 4.7-Inch guns from the endsex Terrible, which he commanded at Durban, whereby these pieces were cairled by rail into Ladysmlth Just fon Its Investment by the Boera Blf Percy was noted in and about Durban, of wl.ich port he was made commandant. f.>r his blunt statements. sir Percy commanded the gunnery school of the royal navj In IM3-*S5 a and be baa been director of naval target practice. He was naval aid to King Edward In 1903- 'O5 He Is the Invent..^ of the night signal apparatus now in use in the British navy. DOOMED TO DIE IN MINE. Coal Digger, Imprisoned by dent, Will Starve to Death. [H\ TV\ ,-r-: h to Th« Tr ■ Mahanoj City. Penn.. Nov. Mi— Alhre and un hurt, hut in darkness that will never he lifted, Michael McCabe, a m'nor, is awaiting certain deatli by starvation. 8«>0 feet below the aw f r the earth in 11m Draper colliery, near here *\l"le McCabe was at work jaslairtaj h» f!r«vt a blast tliar blew away one of the mine pillars. I\e> f1.,1 i>i the wrong; direction and sot into a blind ihaft. A fellow workman managed tr» get • •lit of that wing of the colliery before the roof < aved in. The mine breach eatenda * n the surface, where, it yawns sixty fret wi.le, right in front of He- Cabe'a home, where his wife and six children vainly hop.- for his ffjacua. Iftne olllciala say it may he m year before it will be possible to resell the place where the man Is shut up. PHONES BEFORE SUICIDE. Woman Music Teacher Sends Death Message, but It Is Ignored. Mrs. Julie Wyman, tifty yeara old. a music teacher, of Philadelphia, who has been visit her daughter, Iftaa <"aro Wyman, of No. 736 Lexington avenue, committed suicide, Saturday night at her hur's boMM by Inhaling The body waa not dlacajt arad — >•• sterday morning, as KHsa Wyman waa tttewaajNj the funeral of an uncle in Tankers. P. S. Dean, of No ."."I u • I |oOth aliaat. ■ fri< Ti'l of the Wyti'.ir- recetv h I phone mes* sage from Mrs. Wyaaaa esj f I wway ntght aaylng that she was going to commit suUMd»\ but no attention waa paid to the waiter, as she bad frequently aald thai ihe waadi take her Ufa y. .-tenlay morning, however, Mr. Deaa want to the Wyman home. Mrs Wyiu.m was found fully dressed in bed, with a gaa tub\ one end Of which was attached to an open burner, ill her mouth. Her daughter waa telephoned for, and on hor arrival said that her mother had not lived with her father lor twelve years, and that he was now In the coal business in Chicago. There are two other daughters, who are studying music in Cicrmany. Mr?. Wymaa was well known in musical circles in Philadelphia, where she lived at No. 127 South l«sth street. ALABAMA BUSINESS MEN CRY HALT Call Mass Meeting to Urge Lawmakers to \7ait for Financial Quiet. Monteomery. Ala.. Nov. 10.— hundred busi ness m^n of Montgomery met at the Commercial Club last night and adopted resolutions raiting* a mass meeting of business men of the entire state at ntgomery on November 12 to appeal to the Legislature to postpone all legislation until Uu sreseni flnan> . r. aayroadion has r*^ r d. PRICE TTIHI.i: CENTS. AO CRIMINAL ACTIONS. DENIED BY BANK HEADS. Reports Are Without Foundation, Say Officials. *' Since the forced elimination of the Mor=**» ll'lsias 'faaaaaa Interests from the l«"cal bank tng field there have been per-Ms»r»nt rumors that the federal authorities Intended to bring crim inal prosecutions against the officers and direc tor? of certain banks in which Charles TV. Morse. F. Augustus Heinze and Edward R. and Orlando F. Thomas were l^rsely interested <»n the charge of violations of the national bank ing laws governing overcertlfication and loan* to director?. To date, however. Henry L. Stlm sort. I'nited States Attorney for this district, and Charles A. Hanna. national bank examiner, have flatly denied that any such prosecutions had bfen decided upon. To stop the circulation of rumors which might, in the present unsettled financial situa tion, prove detrimental to th<» business of tho banks concerned, and to assure depositors, a representative of The Tribune yesterday called upon the presidents of the national banks in which the Morse-Helnse-Thomas interests were formerly prominent and obtained from each orT-cial an absolute- and emphatic denial of these, rumors. R. W. Poor, president of the Garfleld National Bank, of which Charlen "W. and Harry F. Morse were formerly directors, said: "I have seen the stories which have b#en printed and have, heard the rumors They ara simply guesswork. There has been no special examination of th« OaVfteld National Bank by the national bank examiners. Ther» have been no cases her*» of overcertlficatlon or of illegal loans to directors. Th« least said about a bank at the present tim* the better, but I think It la high time to deny these pernicious rumors." Frank W, Kinsman, Jr.. preeld#nt cf th© New Amsterdam National Rank, of which Mr. MorM was formerly a director, called the mention of. his bank in connection with such stories "wickerl from every point of view." "He added: "Such stories are made absolutely out of whola cloth, and have r>o foundation whatever. There has been no special examination of th« Net* Amsterdam National Bank by the national hank" examiners. Xot one of tlie. parties whose name* have been mentioned in connection with th**<s stories ever borrowed a cent from this bank. There hav« been no cases of overcertiflcation of illegal loans to directors. These reports ar* wicked and malicious from every point of view** Seth M. Milliken. who succeeded to the presi dency of the Mercantile National Bank wh»n F. Augustus Heinze resigned, airi has already placed ih»» bank high In the estimation of de positors, when th« reports w«re ca'l»4 to h'.s ' attention said: "No investigation «f anv kind has been mad* of the Mercantile National Bank by the federal authorities. Tndeed. no national bank examln»« i has been In th» bank alnce I became pr<»slden\ T know absolutely nothing of any su'.-h examina tion William F. Hpvemeyer. president of the Na tlon.il Bank of North America, of which Mr. Morse was formerly vire-prestdsnt. and which was looked upon as the principal Mors-e b;ii, said: "Ir is all new» to m*. Th« ttiJt I heard of it waa in the newspapers. I know nothing whatso ever about it." The only national bank *Atth which the Thomas interests were connected was the Con solidated National Bank, of which Orlando F. Thomas was formerly president. H<» was re cently succeeded by William O. Allison. The name of this bank has aJso been connected with the ruinora One of th» directors, who did not eanra to be quoted, last night denied emphati cally that there had been any recent examination of the bank by the national bank examiners, of that the bank had been guilty of either over ' certification or illegal loans to directors. GERMANY LOSING GOLD. Financiers, However, Expect Quick A merican Recovery. Berlin, Nov. I<>. — The advance in the Re-ich« hank'!* rate of discount haa not yet checked th» American demand for gold, while cable transfera to New Tork ar» selling at lower prices than before. Zxchangro on London rose yesterday to 20lMt the highest prlc« In a s^neration. Th'a is due to American transactions in flnanc'al anl commercial bills, the proceeds of which ar*» be in? transferred to London for (rold purchaser. Tt is understood that gold continues to be taken from the Relchsbank in considerable amount <• for American account. Dr. Koch, president of the Reichsb-mk. informed th«» central commit tee of th* bank on Friday that the withdrawals for the first seven days of November amounted to niorft than 31.000.000 marks. Although German Investors have not ye» b*« Run to buy American shares in larg* quantities It is believed that they will do so as soon as It is seen that the American situation is fully re stored to normal conditions. Financiers are beginning to take a mors> cheerful view of tho American ouMook. Tlu»y believe that the money stringency will be> ovep soon and that frightened depositors will then hasten to return their money to the bank'*. The "FT-.iukfurter Zeitung" suggests that Mai government could speedily remove the stringency by insuring low priced, high interest bonds, thu* attracting the money now locked up. whicn could be lent to the banks. This paper ex presses the belief that the elasticity of American economic life will make possible a sudden re covery at a moment when the situation seems ■ larkost. EXTENDS TIME FOR PAYING DUTIES. Secretary Cortelyou Aids Importers Who Find Currency Scarce. In view -of the disturbed financial condition* It la difficult for importers to get currency In thai -<> meet their obliKations to the government. Secre t.iry Cortelyou has doubled the time permitted for the payment of customs duties, making It ninety-six hour?". The law requires payment in gold .-ofn. silver dollars, gold and silver certificates or treas ury notes. The change in customs conditions waa made at the request of W. Wlckham Smith, attorney for George Borsrfeldt & Co. and other Importers. Th« customs regulations provided .hat at the expiration of firty-elght hours from the commencement of the discharge of the cargo of imported nwrfcandtse goods remaining in the custody of the customs offi cers for which no permit of delivery had been re ceived by the inspector, should be sent to ths "general order" store. Thia subjected the ha* porters to heavy expenses for cartage and storajc*. besides sneat Inconvenience. NEW YORK CURRENCY FOR .THE WEST. Muskegee. Ind. T. Nov. 10.— The Patterson Mer. cantile Company received $1,000,000 in currency front New York by express last r.i^ht. The money win be paid for cotton, to relieve 1 the financial situation. e>rtit;cro al the company iay that much more trujaas