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HAMILTON TO GO ABROAD , q--- --- England to Seek : :e ff O r Edinburgh Flight. .. viSHVULE NEXT WEEK i%& He Mar Fir Here Again before Grossing- the Atlantic On an Ordinary Liner. , jL Hamilton, the aviator, left 25!!; «Fterdar to spend a night at i* f^rfa. Conn., where he was bom >"**' years ago. Under the circum n.-is'-l'*-^^* gjgjjj was believed to be ♦^'T, iftn pcsslbilities that aright delay ija***^ sjnti: to-morrow, but Hamilton * 2taßtO return to-day. -*•* . - tse aviator announced his -• "' .* ' -. a 0 tima showing the P'^^e of Kiss: Arthurs court the i^Z^m manner in which a ConnecU ****' could fly for a goodly prize. «*.^ 1 the prise of **.«» offered by '""toad"!! Daily UallV for a flight in ■^* Jl^je .Tom London to Edinbugh * W^aen Hamilton said yesterday that J> xo win il - if PO- sible -. and was p •**■ ]t , a%f , tn j< country the middle iS^' T j,'* dstance is approximately K. tLir-ei B&e s - and - ACCOTdizllz to Th , tii o*e- the axiator may make twaflnp ~s f haz m some other dar-.serous rival "?S : iaV intention of makin- the **** lewr.er. Hamilton said h-..- v.oulj ;5tST' harf . e 'his present plans to enable i??e:0^ a<= ready to start on the race as 13 * M-j-or and a little sooner to ** "jf^ed y-strrday. by the pxchansre of H? '"' '\eUS7*?* rv.etf-2.zcs with the War evC^. at Washincion. to obtain per ??2^m a postponement of his aero gSJS which are to .. r at Nash- ; ffij next Monday. Hi^ object, be | '■ i to *x thirds in such a way that i §S«J do« the Bay to meet Colonel ***^L tomorrow - This be STS« be-r, **a*S to do for the fun ; S?S Mtf and the ion? distance carrying ! '7,h* t.ulvicitv that =uch an episode ; r ;ijv .ovid Poese^. the consent of | ** ,-J-iO"tie?, -J-iO"tie? to the proposed delay, and j S^a '-^ on Monday at Nashville a . lie ' *'^ f iaSSUiy men during their ma- . - .-** -here next T\eek. Jacob il. Dick- ; « f ar » « ..Ul h€ present, i *^ r V t ,t!, € r Cabinet officers, members ; JrtWfSS * tc - Tbe * n&nreuvTCS w!n last ; -'■ Riday- HMdlton's macliine will be j ,3-edtß Nash. ill? by express to-day. Mji rtidy to start in the New York- , M«« ard ibe N>*' York-St. Louis aero- j ..- cxiest?" aii Mr. Hamilton yester- j C —ecd I hope the terms indinaT | C* jxtzey njay be published very soon, j Tjj jj^ij- to r^st SW in each case to j EE3S« my ccod faith. I intend to co ! gbftaavati month, and would like to! a9i st tost or." of the American 'cress- j [t^wt contests off my m?n<l befor*> then." | &K*d irJO > ou do ""'th an your prize j . = .^.»- ;-» wa? asked. "Gf a left-^T one ~ood propeller to I>esln j kSkasd a Cf« sxnppVs of cip-arette papers." j if ail TH let my wife buy pamsols | rib tbe rest" i nsStn -Bill net 3y in N>w York until j tx: his rfturn from Nashville, if at a!'. } £» BeB«Bcd to Major Graynor yesterday j rr^E? *"? letter I r. a ha?i carried from j ftjtr Eeytarn of Philadelphia, that was j 3-oii.Kv delayed. i ' — — I HERO IN HIS HOME TOWN Hmilton. at New. Britain, Teils j Admiring 3,000 of His Flight. JEv Tdecnpfa to Thr TriViune. ) Srv EritaiE. Conn.. June 15.— Charles K. ; Sii-tss retnrced to his home city thl3 : i^mcoTi asd a lar^e portion of the popu- i xx. timed out to do him honor in recosr- ! nsi tl his record 3i»ht between New \ :rft E3d Ph:ladelph ; a last Monday. From ■ saosvrt teat Hamilton landed here he ' '■■ UK c?n:ral fig Tire of an admiring \ A lar^c- delegation of Meri-en res:- j C 5 bearded th* train there and invited ! Is !*> rtsit their city, promising him its • afce. Hartford. Middletown, Berlin and j tecomaumities have extended a similar! £r I sic2!sn met about three thousand of his I far towsHnen to-night at a reception In ' •Cny Hall. Following the presentation ] '•wtetions offered by Mayor Halleran j Sis? bJa the fr^eiom of the city, which ; * ifceady been approved by the City j HamUton mad* a brief address, | aribr? U» features ar.d leading Incl- \ CJ cf his ■-■-■■ : *♦— He ther: stated <hat he had ac- • y*£ th* irritation of the New Britain \ ■■■bs X- ■■ Association to appear here ; *Jj}y 2 for an exhibition flight, either j itnr <• fuccccdlng' a 'cross-country ; Sa^r *4ucii the aviator will make over ! *"9ar»it>'- . territory. Later he was; * * a * of honor m a ■••=••. by ! *B»l2»ss lien's Association. ■tan will make the exhibition for the | *p» of z.i&.r.z the foundation fund of] - ■"** asyium and for tin benefit of ! * r «■*■! » institutions. July . irfli be j ■ BariSloa Day. and those who wit- j *&c flisirta win be "tagged" for j 5R! ='J cptior.a: with them, the procefKis ] ■ ."^ncrt among the institutions named, j a=st!a «ffl return to New York to-m<">r- j C 5C 5 *:;. r- to Nashville on Saturday. ENGINE STOPS MARS FLIGHT. ~*** Oty. Mo.. June 16. — J. C. Mars. sr itujr, »ho attempted an aeroplane fan Topeka to this city yesterday '•tt farced to abandon the trip for j •» tfJw alighting at Midland. Kan.. ?! ""^ ''- Topeka. decided this |S**sJ "' rewane the flight to-day be ! ■tf a iamasred engine. M •°* MEET IN LOUISVILLE. Jcae VL— Tbe Hudson Flyer. irti«> aeroplane, in which he • ea^» Albany to New York, reached i^ 1 * 'o-^sy and Is being assembled i^^ 1 " ' f« r th* aviation meet, which *er» on Saturday and extend •w,,' g y- J- C. Lan w:ll probably ar- N ted a Cook? ''<* will find a good one by £&* the "Want Ads." .Vtality" Help Is character *^cf the "quality** want - — . . "THE TRIBUNE, * 14* Nassau St. -PtDwr. 1364 Broadway. rave ,„ here on Friday. Frederick Huyck world s champion motor cyclist, and other riders trill take p^ lr a pn>Bramxne - of motorcycle contests BALLOON UP 17.050 FEET Banker and Doctors Ascend in the Philadelphia H. Philadelphia, June is.-a new altitude record for this state was made to-day by the balloon Philadelphia 11, with Dr. Thomas E. Kldrldge. Dr. George H. Sim merman and Welsh Strawbridge. a well known banker, in the basket. A height of J..050 feet was attained. The former record «s 15.600 feet, made by the Ben Franklin two years ago. The ascension was made from this city shortly after 9 clock this morninp. The landing occurred at Peteravllle. Northamp ton County, sixty miles distant, at 11:25 o'clock. The airship dropped E7JM feet In eighteen minutes. The worlds record for altitude is 10.500 metres (34.448 feet., held by Berson and Luerin. The American record is 2-»,2O0 feet. mad- by Clifford B. Harmon and Augustus Post last October. EROOKINS EISES 3,700 FEET ! Ascension Is Made in Twenty-four ; Minutes at Indianapolis Speedway. ; Indianapolis. June Trying for a new j aeroplane altitude record. Walter Brook | Ins. in a Wright biplane, to-day rose to a j height of 2.700 feet i a twenty-four minutes ■ at the Indianapolis Speedway. The record. <..iS4 ; _ fleet, was set by Brook ; Ins on Monday, and at the highest point j of his flight to-day a computation, based •on observations, was officially announced 1 as showing the aviator had risen 5.000 feet. An error, corrected by the aneroid ba | rometer attached to Brookins's machine. i •bowed Ma hipliest altitude to have been i .-.;«•■> feet. Brookins was in the air fifty ; four minutes. - - ! Archie Hoxsey. driving a Wright biplane. . made a spectacular descent from a height [Of SOO feet when his engine clogged and i stopped. doxaey*! machine began a dead : drop, but he quickly regained control of : the planes and made a brilliant sweep or ■ \ a quarter of a mile over the outer retaining- I wall of the speedway automobile track and j Into a neighboring field, where be alighted j easily. ITO DROP A FARM FROM SKY j Card To Be Eel eased by Aviator Will Entitle Finder to Prize. I j St. Louis. June 15.— A five-acre farm will j be dropped from the sky when the aero- ! plant fli-rht from St. Louis to Kansas City j is held in July. The Missouri State Beard. { of Immigration announced To-day that be- j fore the ablators leave St. Louis they will i be provided v.ith cards to be dropped along; j the route One of these cards will entitle j the finder •■■ five acres of land in Wa?h- ; injrton County, forty miles from St. Louis. CIRCUS train wrecked Liberated Animals Terrorized J Farmers — Hyena' Still Free. Ebensburp. Perm.. ■ June 16.— A special j train composed of fifteen cars, carrying j the Frank A Bobbins circus, was wrecked j ore mile from here early to-day on the ! Cambria and Cresson branch of the Perm- ' ;.■;-. an.a Railroad Two" lions, an elephant, ! dim leopard, one hyena, on' jaguar and i an ibex escaped, but with the exception • of the hyena all were captured later in the ! day. Ten circus employes were injured. Two were removed to hospitals in Altoona. | at the scene of the wreck a low bridge : spans a deep cully. As the circus train j passed aver the bridge three of the wagons j which contained the animals struck low j hanging girders and were overturned. The i cars carrying the wagon cases were thrown j over the embankment leading to the bridge. In the darkness- of the early morning- the confusion following- the wreck of the men- j agerie cars was terrifying. The howls of I the wild animals, which fled in every direc- I tion. were mingled with the cries of the j injured men, pinned under the wreckage, j At the time of the accident the train was ! making over twenty miles an hour on a ! ■own grade. The engineer threw on his j emergency brakes when be felt the first : shock of the cars against the bridge gird- j ers. His act probably saved many lives. ; The entire country for miles around was i In a. state of terror for hours. Many of j Che Banners and their families refused to ! leave their homes and take up the search j for the liberated animals. Circus employes j beat the woods, 'willing: temporary cages I with them, and were finally successful ex- ' cept for the hyena, which is still at large. j The farmers have recovered their courage, however. The circus showed at Galiitzin ! to-night- i An elephant mm found by the circus men I near the scene of the wreck, drawing water ! into his trunk from ■ creek and spraying ! it over his back. Two iiona half a mile j away were brownsing in catnip that grew j alongsido the railroad track. Noosed ropes | were slipped over their heads, and they I were tamely led down the road to farm wagons, into which they were loaded and ' carried back to capes. One or the hyenas j that escaped . was shot as it was slinking { through the bushes. A Jaguar was captured by a circus man ruse. As it crouched to spring at the prospective captor, a coat was thrown at it. While the animal pounced on the coat ! and was tearing it to shreds a noose was j thrown over its head and it was choked | into submission. The ibex was returned to j the caravan by a farmer's boy, who came leading: it alone the road by a rope fastened about its long horns. The boy had found it trying; to set into his father's barn. ■BW YORK GIRL WINS CUP Miss E list is Pronounced Best Oarsman at Wellesley College. Hy Tclcprapli M The Tribune.) U'ellesley. Mass.. June 16.— Miss Con stance Eustisi of New York City, has won the prize, a silver cup. as the best indi vidual rower at Weilesley College. This announcement was made known on Tues day by Mis.s Marjory Hoyt, who has charge of the WulliallJ oarsmen. Miss Eustis has taken a prominent part in college circles, both social and athletic. A few weeks *.**> she was chosen president of the Student Government Association for next year This is the highest honor that a Vtltesley undergraduate can obtain. DOVTS WITH THE CIGARETTE' New Society Hopes to Save Small Boys from Pernicious Habit. Down with the cigarette: This slogan ■was Fiven again and again by Miss Lucy Pa«e Gabion, founder of the crusade against the vile weed, In the Martha Washington Hotel last night. Boys, of course. are the chief concern of th« Anti-Cigarette League. Two hundred and titty thousand have already allied themselves Wat* the movement, taking a ried-Vrot to tmoke until twenty-one. A warning note to the young women of ♦hip country was likewise sounded. Th- me/tin* »as Bimnly to arouse en .hu«rasm in the work. The object of the l?a-u"™ to form clubs in every city in the ■Pl t .j States to save the young men from 'd ;^«MO«rd Maxim. Jud S e B^n f ranV b.fckm X the movement U ought to L.m«aenUy successful. WILEY CANNOT GET BAIL. Lcb a*****. J"" 16^-R*ymond M. «-u e y .aid to be the son of * wealthy r^.. «^n of Rutherford. N J *"ho [_ . -"was icrmerly a collie athlete. *" "f d to the Superior Court yesterday on a SSS of bursary- Bail wa* fixed at t*~m. wbich he wxs unable to provide NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. FRIDAY. JUNE 17, 1910. CENTRAL TO SHOW CAUSE Westchester Commuters Want to Know Reasons for New Rate^? FILE CHARGES WITH P. S. C. County Chamber of Commerce Plans Organization To Be Always on the Watch. The railroad investigation committee of i the Weitchester County Chamber of Com . merer- held a meeting in the rooms of the Transportation Club, at the Hotel Manhat tan, yesterday afternoon, which was attend ) ed by Gerrit Fort, general pass^n^er agent of the New York Central. Mr. Fort had been especially invited to be present by the committee, which represents the commuters or TVestchester in the present conflict over j the projected rise in commutation rates. • -Mr. Fort's object in attending the confer ence however, was not so much to enlighten '■ the members of the committee with regard to the reason* for raising the rates as to • find out .lust what their attitude toward th« railroad might be. They assured him that r- case the road could show a grood excuse ! for the advance they would do all in their j power to co-operate with it in stilling the ; protests of the commuters: but they don't | want the advance made blindly and arbi trarily. To prevent this a complaint similar to the one which halted the advance in commutation rates on the New Haven road was Bed yesierday with the Public Ben lee Commission, I'd District, against the Hai lem and Hudson divisions of the New Yon: Central. Chairman Stevens will hold a pub lic hearing on the complaint on June 23 i.i Th» rooms of the N>w York Bar Association, ir West 45ih street, which will he attended by one delegate from each of the towns cf- ; fected. In addition, the committee has Tnpow- i ered Hugh M. Hewson, the lawyer who ap- I peared again3t the New Haven road for the commuters, to prefer charges against the I Putnam division of the New York Central ; and further charges against the New Haven, j The former charge against the New- Haven road was that it had failed to post notice of it? intended increase of commuta- j tion rates in each station within the terri- ' tory affected thirty days before the pro-; posed increase should go into effect. The i new charge, to be tiled with the Public Service Commission to-day, Is that the road I has failed to show plainly where the new rates ha\e been posted, just what the in creases are; that is. it has failed to post • the present rates with the new rates to j give opportunity for comparison. By in- ! ststehce upon this fresh technicality the • commuters hope to put off for still another j month payment of the increased fares, ana thereby save another SLD.OOQ. The charges filed yesterday against the Harlem and Hudson River divisions of the i New York Central, as well as the daarges j to be filed later against the Putnam di- i ••:.• ,on. embrace both the technicalities out- j lined above. ■ Mr. Hewson's plan for an organization of commuters, which shall present a solid front to the railroads, was favorably re ceived by the committee of the Westchester County Chamber of Commerce yesterday. This plan provides for the appointment of one delegate by each town in the county, the delegates to meet regularly, keep an aiert watch upon the railroad*, and take prompt action whenever advisable. • Terry Parker, of East Orange, N. J.. who is a member of both the law and legislative committees of the Commuters" League in that city, was present at the meeting in the Transportation Club, and applauded this idea, saying that the New Jersey com muters were forming a similar organiza tion. - . COMMUTER FILES COMPLAINT. A'.ban>. June 16.— Herbert E. Angell of Bcarsdale, to-day filed a complaint with the Public Sen-ice Commission aeainst the pro posed increase in commutation ra:e-- by -';-* Sew York Central tcaairoad Company. The commission is ashed to prevent the Increased rates going into effect until the company has complied with all require ments of the tow. which, the complaint alleges, it has fai'.ed 1 o do. TRANSIT MEASURES SIGNED Governor Approves Frawley. Smith and Lee Bills. tß> TH<~graph to The Tribune.! Albany, June 16.— Two important rapid transit bills were signed by Governor Hughes to-nigi.t. One was Senator Fraw ley's, permTfing the acquirement by con demna::or. d necessary rights and ease ments for third tracking elevated Failroad lire- In New York. The second was Aa -emfci-man A. K. Smith's, permitting the renting of trackage right." in future sub ways built by municipal funds to individ uals or corporations other than the con tractor for the right to operate those sub ways. This was intended by the Public Service Commission to fit the Brooklyn loop situation. The Governor also signed As aemblyman I-ee .- measure permitting the laying out of a subway route to include Nostrand avenue. Brooklyn. To complete the scheme of exe'se legis lation the Governor signed another of the Conklin bills, requiring the filing of con sents by residents when a saloon is to be .situated within three hundred feet, instead of two hundred feet, of a building occupied exclusively as a place of residence. An other important provision of this bill stipu lates that when n license Is revoked be cause the place has become disorderly or gambling was permitted on th<= premises no new license should be issued for traffic in liquors at the premises for one year from th» dar^ of cancellation of the license. "A LADY AND A LAWYER - Miss Thomas Objected to Being Called the Former Alone. "You're a lady and a lawyer." said Judge Crnin In General Sessions yesterday, when Miss Frieda Thomas, counsel for George Davis, on trial for burglary, objected to Assistant District Attorney Wllmot refer ring" to her as "the lady defending the prisoner." 'I appear here as a lawyer" said the petite counsel. The jury was out an hour, and finally said it was unable to reach a verdict. It was dismissed.' GRACE LA RUE WINS SUIT Defeats George V. Hobart. Playwright, in Court. Miss Grace La Rue, an actress, known in private life as Mrs. Byron Chandler, and George V. Hobart. a playwright, ap peared as plaintiff and defendant yesterday in the Second District Municipal Court, in Brooklyn. HIM La Rue, suing Mr. Ho bart for £50. won her case. The actress said that while she was liv ing at No. ON Beverly Road, Flat bush. in 1507. ene ha.l asked Mr. llobtrt to writ.? for her a vaudeville sketch, to be called •'The Other Prima Donna." It was writ ten she eaid. but not delivered. The price i-as 1600, a'" l Miss ' a Rue tesUfl "' <l that aha paid' Mr. Honart TBTaa on account. GOV. BENSON TURNS OVER DUTIES Portland, Ore.. June 16.— Governor Frank en«on of Ore*™ has telegraphed from can "Francisco to Jay Bowe-rman. president a* the state <=en^re instructing him to as -- Baa iwaaW duties r» Chief Executive of the state- Governor B—m ha* been in ill health for a-los* time. TELLS OF WIRELESS DEAL Continued from first p«»e. for the equipment of a ship or line of ships the stock was raised $.» a share, and save: We challenge the production of proof to establish this outrageously false statement. If the statement accredited to Mr. Mayer is true, then in view of the fact that witn in the last eighteen months one hundred ships have been equipped concededly on Mr. Mayer's own premises the present market value of the stock would be IBM ■ share. It was presumably Mr Mayer ignorance of the facts which led him to make the reckless if not absurd and mis leading statement. ■ .. _.„♦__ We agree with Mr. Mayer in the state ment accredited to him. "that the real as ! sets of the company consist of land sta tions, patents, manufacturing plants and real estate.": but observe that either through ignorance of the facts or with intention to mislead he omitted a very important asset, namely, the number of ships equipped. «,V© deny, and it is absurd in the extreme that any one officer or all the officers put to gether have cleaned up $5,000,000, and pos sibly $10,000 000. and deem the statement not only utterly false, but libellous. The company is, and has been for the last three years, engaged in conducting a com mercial wireless telegraph business, ana for all practical purposes may be regarded as the only wireless telegraph companj .on this continent. It has equipped 310 ships with its svptem of wireless telegraphy, ply ing the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and Great Lakes. These ships are In actual dally operation and communicate with the company's one hundred land sta- , tions, which are also in actual daily opera- . 1 The United Company has more land and boat stations than all The other v-™}**? telegraph companies of the world combined, and the equipment of the I nited ***£** Telegraph Company does by far the larg est percentage of the world's wireless tele graph business. About Abraham White. Abraham White, uno figured in the grand jury proceedings yesterday, is the same man who achieved fame in Wall Street fifteen yara by getting a £1^500,000 slice of the Cleveland bond issue. He was a telegraph operator at [the time, and took advantage of a mes sage he heard going ©> *r the wire, and by the investment of 44 cents in postage stamps got an allotment of the bonds that netted him a pront of $200,000. In September. 1907. he bid for the en tire 140,000,000 of city bonds, depositing what purported to be a certified check for |BUO,OBO on the Greater New York Security Company, which is on'- of the concerns that figured in the United Wireless pioteedings yesterday. When Controller Metz found it impossible to collect the $800,000, and threatened to institute criminal proceedings against White, the Corporation Counsel discov ered that the check was not "certified." but that it had been -accepted" by the security company. which, however, failed to come up with the money. Notwithstanding the setback. White got $3,<X"*MH>> of the 1908 New York City bond issue through the Massachusetts Loan and Guaranty Company, which certified the ,<I6B.(HH> check of Charles A. Baldwin. W. A. Baldwin. S. L. Tingley and A. E. Reid, in whose name the allot ment was made. At tbe same time White was elected president of the Ma.ssat hu.-etts company and was jubi lant over his success In fooling Metz. He admitted that he could not ;jet the bonds under his own name and that he had had a very narrow escape. When White was accused in 1!>»T of having wrecked the American De Forest Wirekss Telegraph Company !:• said that not only was he guiltless of the charge but that he would cancel an in debtedness of $300,000 which he said the company owed him. Just one month be fore that Deputy Sheriff Forges sold all the right, title and interest which White had in I."m3<~M*H) shares of Dc Forest Wireless preferred stock under an exe cution of ?r>.47'J in favor of th- National Shoe and Leather Bank. The sa!* re alized $10. COMPLAINT AN OLD ONE Postmaster General Assigned Men in Wireless Inquiry. Washington. June Postmaster Gen eral Hitchcock declared to-night that in the case against the United Wireless Tele giapli Company, several weeks am ne ordered the new chief inspector of the Postoffice Department. Robert S. Sharp, ta take charge of the Inquiry into a com plaint against the company filed in his office several years ago. The Postn ist<r General saul Lhat evl- ' dence against the company had been re- j ported to the inspector at New Terk, Wal ter S. Mayer, on September 16, 1907. and that no results hud com? fron: it. When Sharp was made chief inspector of the fir partment rh>- casf airninst ihe I'niied i W irele.ss umpiny wa? >aken up. and i Sharp was Benl to New York to make a : preliminary investigation. Upon his return to Washington Chief In- ! spector. Sharp conferred with the Postmu.-:- J ter General, and it was decided that lie ' should take personal charge of the case and ' assign to it four picked men in the inspec tion service. Chief Inspector Sharp there- I upon assigned Inspectors Keen, of the : Washington division: Birdseye, of the Cin cinnati division: Simmons, of the St. Paul division, and Greenaway, of the Chatta- j nooga division. These men, under the direction of the chief inspector, worked up the evidence now in possession of the department upon ■ which the arrests were made. The credit for running down the evidence in this case, the Postmaster General said, was due to the chief Inspector and these | men. This, he said, was one of sev eral important rases In various parts of the country that the department was tak- , ing up and pressing to a finish. MAYER DOESN'T CONFIRM REPORT. Walter S. Mayer, postoffice Inspector in | charge In this city, refused to confirm a report yesterday that he was to be trans ferred to the St. Louis district and be ; succeeded by Warren Dickson. now in j charge out there. Mr. Dickson was an in spector in this city before he was sent to j St. Louis. SAIL ON U. S. TRANSPORT Delegates Depart for International Conference of American States. The United States transport Sutnncr, which has been lying at the government pier in the East River for several days, left port yesterday for Argentina with the delegates from this country to the Inter national Conference of American States at Buenos Ay res. Henry White, chairman of the delegation, said yesterday: "I regret exceedingly thai the people of this country take such slight inierest in commercial relations with coun tries of such vast resources as those of Latin-America. Our exports to Japan are much below those to South America, yet we do not hesitate to appropriate more money for an exposition at Tokio than for an exposition In South America." Among the other delegates are John Ba« sett Moore, professor of international law at Columbia University; Lewis Nixon, Colonel Enoch Crowder, Bernard aloaes, professor of political science at the Uni versity of California. Lamar C. Quintero. Professor Paul S. neinsch and David Kln ley. STRAWBERRY CROP 20,000,000 QTS. [3y Te!e«r«.p-1 to Th« Triboct.] : .-:r.gtcn, De!.. June IS-— Figrures g^.ven cut here to-day place- the strawberry crop la Delaware ill* year at 20.C00.0C0 cuixia. COUNTY COMMITTEE WAITS To Be Ready for Developments at Special Session. Instead of adjcurnir.x until Sept»mn»r. as has been customary at the June meeting, the Republican County 'Vimmittee last nixht adopted a resolution of the executive committee that adjournment should be taken subject to the call of the chiir. This was taken to mean that the leaders felt that something might develop at the special session of the Legislature which ■Bight make it advisable for the county committee to take some action. So far Lloyd C. Gri=com. president of the county committee, has not come out openly either for or agaln«t the passage of a direct pri mary measure at the special session, al though some of the leaders have ur*ed him to do so No mention of the question wa.« made at !ast nights meeting. There ?»«med to be a feelin? on the part of some of the executive members that no action should be taken until the views of C»lonel Roosevelt had been obtained.. Under the rules the issuing of a call for the primaries is one of the functions of the county committee, but a resolution was passed delegating this authorltv ro the executive committee. A memorial for f^harle? H. Treat, former Tnited State? Treasurer, who died on May SO. was read and ordered spread on the minutes and sent to hi* family, and the committee adjourned out of respect to his memory. BENNET BOOM GOES ON Hire 3 a New Office and Organ izes Itself in Twelve Districts. The boom of Congressman William 9. Rennet for the Republican nomination for I Governor reached another form of devel opment yesterday, when the William S. , Rennet Club. Incorporated, had its name printed in gilt letters on the door of an office on the twenty-second Boar of the Hud?on Terminal Buildinp At the same time canvassers set out wirh petitions, to which the promoters say '•hey hope to get 250.000 names before the date of the Re publican convention In order that men raorp prominent in the city mitrht become identified in th*» man ! axement cf the movement. Henry Green, ! the temporary president, announced that he would retire. This morning a commit tee wi'l wait on Otto T. Bannard and ask him to accept the leadership of the move ment. It i- understood, however, that Mr. Bannard' s bu.«ine;=« enfjaajcaaents are *uch j that Y.f r.iii not i>el able to act. Roy M. Robinson, head of the advisory committee, said last night that a Bennet , club and headquarters would be estab lished in every Assembly district in greater New York. a« well as throughout the state. "We expect to get plenty of financial sup- j | port." he f-aid, "and ar»» going to m.ike a rlph; right up to the state convention." Other members of the advisory committee i are <"oron»r Herman W. Holtzhauser. Cor i neliup A. Baldwin and William T. Hamp- ' ton. So far organizations have been per- j I fected in twelve districts. "It is a great blessing to the Republican party that this movement has been start ed," said Nathaniel J. Fe'.dm.m. the secre tary. "We Intend to make It as clear to The Republican leaders as it is to us that Congressman Bennet is, the man to nomi nate this year. I know of some Tammany election district captains who -tre only waiting to resign from their organization in order tf> work for Mr. Bennet." DEAF AND DUMB PUPILS IN PLAY. One hundred girls and seven ty-ftve boy?, all pupils or St. Joseph's Institute for the P<=af and Dumb, at Washington avenue iuio I'iTth street. The Bronx. s;i.\ c their an nual entertainment in St. Joseph's Hall last n.i^ht. They presented ' The Lost Heir" in the hand language and panto mime. Tho fife and drum corps of the Boys' Brigade furnished the music. BTH REGIMENT ARMORY SITE. By formal resolution yesterday the Ar mory Board requested the Department of Water Supply. Gas and Electricity to ap- » :><>rTl'i(i part of the Jerome Park reservoir site for the proposed new Bth Regiment Armory. Tht- site desired has a frontage of 30t_' feet on the south side of .lerome avenue and 090 feet on the east side of Kingshridg" Road. Coupons for the hand-colored photo gravures distributed by THE TRIBUNE will be continued for a limited time to ■ enable readers to secure all the subjects.' George W. Perkins Says Regarding Long Distance Telephone Service " When a man can sit at his desk in Boston and talk to a man who is at his desk in Chicago, and close a business transaction, without either man leaving his chair, each recognizing the other's voice, what matters it that there are three or four states separating their bodies? Gives Mind Wings " Their minds have met more quickly than could have been the case had they been in adjoining build ings twenty-five years ago. Electricity has emanci pated the mind from the body and given it wings. "It is the mind, not the body, that does business. Think of it! By placing a wire to one's ear the mind and the voice can fly to a distant city, do busi ness there and return, and immediately go off to an other city, do business there and return, and do this as many times in a day as occasion requires.' The Bell SriUm is the only unrrer»«i telephone »y»tem. The New York Telephone Company is a part of the Bell System and rr«ry one of its telephone* is a Long Distance Station. By the zvay. have you a Bell Telephone T WILL COMBAT SOCIALISM Individual and Social Justice League of America Formed. MANY CLERGYMEN ENROLL Movement Begun by the Rev. Dr. Hill Acquiring National Scope and Interest. • The anti-socialistic sentiment aroused during the last few months by the Rev 1 Dr. John W. Hill In his vehement attacks against that party crystallized yesterday afternoon in the organization of the In dividual and Social Justice League of America. The members met at the parish house, at No. 104 East 30th street During the last five months many' informal meetings have been called by the Rev. Mr. Hill to arouse national interest In ' the movement. Rep resentative men from universities, trade unions, religious organizations — Protestant. Catholic and Jewish — responded to the in vitations with enthusiasm. : Some rime ago the Rev. Mr. Hill mad« ■ this comment on socialism. "It is an irrec oncilable enemy of the existing civic an* social order. Its programme Is conflaca- j tion — Is. the munieipalization or natu- ' ralization of all capital. ... It seeks in revolution Its chief and, in fact, its only practicable weapon. ... It goes to the poor and unfortunate, the unadapted and discontented and strives to make them still more discontented than they are. . ••" . It want? to place a sort of paternal- 1 ism over the heads of all men. making j them subservient to it." The object of the society, in line with j the position taken by the Rev. Dr. Hill j and others of the organization "Is to set j clearly before the American people tee prin ciples at issue between American thought and life, as compared with the economic and political revolution proposed by social- Ism: to promote a loyal adherence to the; institutions by which America has come to j be a land of freedom, progress and rev- ■ erence for law; to exemplify and reinforce the faith of the people in personal initiative ' as the mainspring- of all social, Industrial \ and political progress; to safeguard the ! rights of life, liberty and property; to In culcate just conditions of industrial and commercial competition, while resisting: the aggressions of private privilege at the ex pense of public welfare; to defend the [ workman in his demand for an equitable < return for his labor: to uphold the Ameri- \ can idea! of home, the integrity of the | family, the love of country and to main- j tain the 'everlasting reality of religion' as . the foundation cf our civilization. 1 The officers of the association are the j Rev. John Wesley Hill, president; Arch bishop John Ireland. Peter W. Collins. Samuel R. Van Sant, the Rev. Dr. Rudolph Grossman, the Rev. Dr. Wynne, "the Rev. j George Edward Reed and Timothy Healey. j vice-presidents: Conde B. Pa'.len. secretary; j Herman A. Metz. treasurer: the Rev. ! T. R. Slicer, bureau literary activities, and : Edward A. Moffatt. field organizer. Among the members of the eeneral coun- I lewis&%ngek House Furnishing Warerooms TfiMa»l!«lie« I*Bs. Cooking Utensils of every kind. Tin. Copper, Aluminum, Nickel and Guaranteed Enameled SteeL Cutlery, Earthenware, China and Glass. Woodenware. Laundry Furniture, etc. House Cleaning Material;, Vacuum Cleaners. Refrigerators ! Water Filters aid Coders . „ Our Standard for ! Ice Crein Freezers The may a Quirtcr c . nmry Ijtl|e . iS||i | |li|efc Beds Th* -Premier- Glass lined. fer .■.. ■ . . . in- * *^"m" m for outdoor sleepin? Th? Perfection of Cleanliness, v b Efficiency and Economy iLawi Cnbreflas aid Tables. 4c 130 and 132 West 42d Street, New York NEW YORK TELEPHONE CO. Every Bell Telephone is the Centre of the System. A DVERTISING d\. wnich only sells foods isa't good enough. It should make the public feel acquainted with you — have ' confi dence m you. - . That's the kind of good will you may need some day. H. E.Lm~ jA^maiistng 327 Fifth -♦».«.- Sew Ymrk Tiltfk.ne 3923 Mwmg Htll cil are Archbishop John Ireland. Arch bishop "W. H. O ConneU. Bishop James H. j Darlington. Monsignor M. J. La.v«::« th« Rev. Dr. John F. Carson, the Rev. Dr. Ru dolph Grossman, the Rev. Thomas R- Slicer, th« Rev. Dr. William Carter, tfas Rev. Dr. Samuel Schulman, the Rev. Dr. Charles L. Goodell. th« Rev. Dr. William Arnold Shank! in. th© Rev. Dr. G*orse Ed ward Reed, the Rev. Dr. Albert BJtfwtn Smith, the Rev. Dr. Charles B. Tb/wls*. Charles D. Hilles. Assistant Secretary it the Treasury; William S. Bennet. Mrs. Julian Heath. Samuel R. Van Sant. com mander in chief G. A. R. : George EL Dewey. W. G. Lee. president of th« Brett** erhood of Railroad Trainmmi: Peter W. Collins, secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: Alias. Robinson, president of the Allied Real Estate Interests of Wtm York, and Her man A. Metz. CALLS KILLING ACCIDENTAL ' Phelps Says He Fired Shot to Frifhtca Deputy Sheriff. | Greenfield. Mass.. Juno :<i.-gila» Phelps, ! cowed and dejected, after his capture yes i terday, pleaded not guilty to-day to the charge of murdering Deputy Dim Iff Em mett F. Haskins. of Charlenaont. at Mon-» j roe- Bridge, on Sunday. .Judge Henry J. j Field, of the Franklin District Court. heUf I the prisoner for a hearing on June 24. A. . few minutes earlier, on his plea of not • jui...-. Phelp* had b~en held In bonds of i $5,000 for a hearing the same day on a I charge of assault with Intent to kill Wl2l ; iarn M. Penman, superintendent of the | Ramaj?e Paper Company's mill at Monro* Bridge last Saturday On his return to the county jail Phelps, 1 when asked why he did not shoot either himself or his pursuers while he was being hunted in the wood?, said that there was no need for such a course. He then ex plained that the killing of Hawkins wad purely accidental. He said that he intended, only to frighten the officer, and that h« did not mean to fire the shot which killed th« deputy sheriff. 8_