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YouV ou LXX N° 23,220
BAKER ABOLISHES ALL
PLAfNCLOTHES MEN
Sends Every Man So Detailed in
Police Department to Patrol
Duty at Once.
BLOW STUNS THE FORCE
Captains Say They Cannot Main
tain Order in Their Precincts
if Deprived of Aid of
Men in Mufti.
New York City. June 21. 1910.
Special Order No. 166: The following
transfers are hereby ordered, to take
effect on June 22, 1910. at I p. m. All
patrolmen remanded from duty in plain
clothes and transferred from inspection
districts to precirctp Indicated. *
WILLIAM F. BAKER, Commissioner.
This -Simply worded order, copies of
which were «"nt to every precinct and
jj-.pection commander in the greater
city yesterday, spread consternation and
confusion last night in the ranks of the
mtn affected by it. Patrolmen, ser
geants, lieutenants, captains and inspec
tors all had something to hazard In the
■m of a guess as to the true import of
the order and what its affects would be.
On one point there was a unanimity
of opinion: everyone in the department
us? Hill that the order would cause
a state of chaos in the ranks of the po
lice. The number of men affected by the'
order is 203, and the great majority of
them have never been in the confine
ment of a uniform. Men who entered
the 'department as plainclothes mci»,
and have never been anything else, were
as- far "up in the air" last night as any
ariator ever got.
Th( mere idea of patrolling the street?
ir, ihv regulation blue uniform of their
v>re less fortunate brothers was
ty blow to their sense of right
and justice. All they could do was to
talk in dazed whispers, one to the other.
fW nrder, which virtually -wipes out
of existence the plainclothes man. i*>
beiieved to be the direct result of the
conference held with Commissioner
Baker abont three weeks ago by Mayor
GEyr.i ' On that occasion the Mayor
told the Commissioner that he thought
there were too many men in plain
clothes around the station houses. He
suggested that they might better be em
ployed in doing patrol duty, and that
he wanted detectives who could "de
tect.*" The responsibility for sleuthing,
h* said, should be put up to the Detec
tive I'-ureau.
Af:*r this conference between Mayor
Gaynor and Commissioner Baker, the
department experienced the throes of a
■M upheaval, and, having gone through
•: 5 BJttfe safety, thought that the mat
ter had ended there. Just how far these
red in th«ir d«flniuon fii t:.e true
import of the Mayor's conference with
the Police Commissioner, was proved
by yesterday's order.
In every precinct throughout the
greater city it was the same story-
Captair.s. when asked what they were
going to do about it. shrugged their
shoulders, spread their feet and looked
out of the windows. One or two among
them were more communicative, and un
loosened sufficiently to say that tbey
could not properly police their precincts
without plainclothes men. What could
BC in the numerous cases of
"squeals' which come to every captain
er.c - <-.mp!aints of flat robberies and
oth»r work requiring the assistance of
a man in citizen's clothes, was a riddle
the precinct commanders could
■at fathom.
In the memory of the oldest member of
the department the plainclothes man
has been an Institution. His loss will
be a hard blow to inspectors and cap
tains. These men have always had the
absolute right to place any of their uni
formed force in plain clothes, and have
generally carried them along w r ith them
•Risen they changed to new commands.
As for the men themselves, who will
con uniforms for the first time to-night,
in many cases, they are already sending
IB applications for "sick leave," with the
tope that the trouble may blow over
before they report back for duty. Sev
eral of them confided to friends last
night, that they had forgotten how to
do patrol duty. Others hustled to get
fitted for new uniforms, since they had
far outgrown those that were formerly
only a loose fit— before they landed their
jobs as plainclothes men. 5 •■""
One of the old guard of police inspec
tors. who has witnessed many changes
b» the department, dissented from the
general run of opinion last night when
be said: "I think the new order is a
good thing. It will be the first time in
twenty- five years that the responsibility
for suppressing gambling and disorderly
bouses has been lifted from the shoul
o*ts of precinct and inspection district
commanders. Now we can devote our
whole. time to doing regular police duty,
and If: the Detective Bureau take care
of the rest of the criminals."
The game inspector said he understood
Mayor Gaynor Intended to establish dif
ferent equads at Headquarters, the duty
of which would be to take charge of cer
tain crimes. Bach squad will be special
ly trained in the work to which it is
cetailed. This plan will not take effect
immediately, the inspector said, but as
soon as possible the necessary additions
*'oul<l be made to the force.
DID NOT SEE MR. ROOSEVELT
Akron Woman Unable to Gain
Entrance After Long Trip.
Oyster Bay, June 21.— A woman who
«"<! she had come all the way from
Akron. Ohio, to see Theodore Roosevelt,
Itft Oyster Bay to-night without having
accomplished her purpose. She arrived
"' town last night and went to a hotel.
Nothing could be learned of her xcept
that she said she was Mrs. Alterman, .of
Akron, and that she had come here on
* mission to Mr. Roosevelt, the nature
of which she would not dlvuJge.
She engaged a liveryman to drive her
&> Sagamore Hill this evening- An hour
&ter she was back In town, saying that
«** haA not seen Mr Roosevelt,- but had
**<» told that he was out- She ascribed
*** failure to hi him to the fact that the
h wse and carriage she had engaged were
tQ t Of good enough appearance to give
*■*• an entree. She left town this even
'■'''- faying that she was going l.»a.ck. to
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To-daj- and fo-morrow, elondy
variablr nind*.
LOEB FAVORS COBB BILL
False Tales of Bosses at Albany
Call Forth Declaration.
[By Tfleurraph to The Tribune.]
Albany. June 21.— A rumor was started
through the Capitol to-day by anti-
Hughes men which for a time caused
some disquiet among advocates of direct
nominations. The story was passed
about among members of the Legislature
that Assemblyman Merritt. the majority
leader and one of the most powerful of
the Woodruff-Barnes-Wadsworth co
terie, had just had a talk with Collector
Loeb, and that the Collector assured
him that ex-President Roosevelt had no
interest in the direct primary fight, but
on the contrary felt that the passage of
the Cobb bill would redound more to the
glory of Governor Hughes than to the
welfare of the Republican party In the
state.
This tale was industriously fed to
doubtful Assemblymen, and in spite of
Mr. Roosevelt's declaration upon his ar
rival in New -York that he would not
immediately take a hand In politics, the
story was made to do duty as evidence
that Mr. Roosevelt, or at least Mr. Loeb,
one of his closest friends, who was sure
to reflect his views, -was in harmony
with the anti-Hughes bosses in their de
termination to end the special session
without giving the people any substan
tial measure of direct primaries in ac
cordance with the Governor's recom
mendation.
Collector Loeb, when his attention was
called to the rumors circulated in Al
bany yesterday, made absolute and em
phatic denial of their truth. "I have not
laid eyes on Mr. Merritt or talked with
him for a year," he said, 'and I have
made no statements to anybody that Mr.
Roosevelt did not favor direct primaries.
Being busy with my duties as a federal
official. I have sought to avoid taking
any part in this controversy over a stato
matter, but personally I favor the Cobb
bill and hope it will be passed."
ANTI-TYPHOID VACCINE
Professor Vincent Announces a
Discovery at Paris.
Paris. June 21. — Professor Vincent an
nounced to-night before the Academy of
Medicine the discovery of an effective
anti-typhoid vaccine, which he prepared
by steeping typhoid bacilli in a weak
solution of water and sodium chloride
(common salt), with an admixture of
etner.
Professor Vincent made a number of
experiments with animals, which, after
being vaccinated, withstood subsequent
inoculation with typhoid germs. He
also vaccinated thirteen persons, an ex
amination of whose blood after the oper
ation shor.ed that it possessed to a high
degree properties destructive to the ty
phoid bacillus. Further experiments
demonstrated the fact that the typhoid
bacilli, when placed in contact with the
serum of the blood taken from the per
son vaccinated, lost all vitality.
GOMEZ FEARS' A REVOLT
Steamer Purchased — Dissatis
faction in Venezuela.
Fort-de-France, Martinique, June 21.
—The Venzulean government has pur
chased the steamer Ville de Tanger from
the French Transatlantic Steamship
Company. The steamer sailed for
Trinidad to-day in company with the
Venezulean cruiser General Salom,
which brought here the officials who ar
ranged the purchase.
The purchase of a steamer by the govern
ment of Venezuela is the first outward
sign of serious apprehension that an effort
is soon to be made to depose President
Juan Vicente Gomez, the successor of Gen
eral Clpriano Castro.
General Gomez took charge under the
most favorable conditions, the enemies of
Castro overlooking the previous close com
mercial and official relations of the two
men and using all their efforts and Influence
in support of Gomez. Several of the po
litical leaders subordinated their own am
bitions, not so much because they believed
that Gomez was the man best equipped to
take the helm as because he was the most
expedient candidate. This brought about a
political amalgamation the strength of
which had never been equalled in Venez
uela. . •
There is, however, a growing conviction
that Gomez has not lived up to the stand
ard set for him. The dissatisfaction with
his administration has been rapidly spread
ing. General Nicolas Rolando, Second
Vice-President, is practically a prisoner in
Caracas. He is not in jail, but is re
strained from leaving the capital. General
Rolando, a man of great military prestige,
was an implacable enemy of Castro and
was ready to lead a revolution against him
when Gomez took up the reins of govern
ment. His brother. General Armando Ro
lando, is president of one of the states In
Venezuela, It Is now reported that Gomez
fears General Nicolas Rolando. Another
man who la said no longer to hold the
Gomez government in high esteem is Gen
eral Jose Manuel Hernandez (El.Moclio).
He is now In Europe. General Hernandez
is the leader of the Conservative party.
When President Gomez recently recon
structed his Cabinet he appointed only
Liberal*, -leaving the Conservatives out in
the cold. This action was regarded as a
violation of the propaganda of patriotic
amalgamation, and other signs of dissen
cion are thought to indicate the possibility
of another revolutionary movement in
Venezuela, within the next six months.
HOTEL PLAZA_AWNINGSBURN
House Fire Brigade Makes Short
Work of Flames.
Two awnings on the 59th street side
of the Hotel Plaza caught fire about
10-30 o'clock last night, but the names
were quickly subdued. The first awning
to burn was one on the fourth floor.
The hotel management knew nothing
about it until a passerby ran in and told
the clerk that the hotel was on fire.
The house fire brigade armed itself
with hand grenades and extinguishers,
and using the special "lire" elevator,
hastened up to the suite nearest to the
burning awning. The blazing canvas
was ripped from the framework, but in
doing bo the men dropped a piece that
was afire on the awning immediately be
low, and that one had to bo torn away.
too
Guests on the 59th street side .wit-;
nossed the spectacle of the fire brigade
at work as also the cabmen and chauf-
who have stands in front of the
three hotels which fd.ee Central Park
plaza. The damage was trifling.
to ,WW« '"^"t eyeglasses *.«•;"«•' ™*
dtetant vision. tJj-cncer ff> Ji ALildeu LMt.
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NEW- YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22,
ANTI-HUGHES MEN
' ACT WITH TAMMANY
Will Not Pass Legislation Rec
ommended by Governor
Unless Forced Into It.
ASSEMBLY IN DEFIANT MOOD
To Pass Hughes Measures Aid
Will Be Necessary from Two
Sources, Oyster Bay and «
"Washington.
[By TVlegrnph to The Tribune.]
Albany, June 21. — The bi-partisan alli
ance of anti-Hughes Republicans and
Tammany Hall Democrats still main
tains ite hold on the Legislature.
AVith William Barnes, jr., fn the Sen
ate clerk's room to-day, and Senator
Grady, of Tammany, running the Senate,
while Speaker Wadsworth, commanding
the Assembly allied force?, delivered re
markable rulingrs, the present supremacy
of the bi-partisan "Old Guard" was evi
dent. Equally evident is their intent to
prevent the enactment of a direct nom
inations law and any changing of the
graft investigation resolution or to die
in the defence of the existing order of
things.
Also it is evident that this Legislature
will do nothing to be construed as patri
otic in its broad sense, or progressive,
unless kicked into it. The necessary im
petus can come from two sources —
Oyster Bay and Washington- To be ef
fective it will have to be direct and
forcible. The Senate is fairly responsive
to public sentiment. There the Cobb bill
probably will be repassed and a thor
oughgoing inquiry into corruption may
be ordered.
This easily could be done through a
Senate caucus. Whether one will be
called is somewhat doubtful. Progrcs
.-ive Republicans have put before Sen
ator Cobb in the most forcible fashion
the urgent need for one, and at present
he is inclined to call one on his direct
nominations bill. Progressive Republi
cans hope that the corruption inquiry
may be included in the matters for con
sideration.
Assembly Is Defiant.
But the Assembly under itß present
leadership cannot be expected to pass a
direct nominations bill or accept a real
investigation resolution. Appeals to the
party spirit of the three or four Repub
licans who control events in that House
are hopeless. It may be they are abso
lutely blind Ho things patent to other
Republicans; it may be they refuse to
believe, though seeing. It may be, as
progressive Republicans assert, that they
are so intensely self-centred and selfish
as to set themselves above all considera
tions of party welfare, either in the state
or the tiational phase of the situation.
The facts are plain and easily under
stood. Though direct nomination Re
publicans expect the Cobb bill to be re
passed by the Senate, they feel certain
that it will be defeated by the old
Meade-Grady combination of Republi
cans and Democrats unless a new cau
cus holds the Republicans together
for it.
If direct nominations men obtain the
necessary signatures for a caucus call in
the Assembly, the Wadsworth-Merritt-
Phillips Republicans say they will not
go into that caucus. The mere fact that
the direct nominations men could force
the calling of a caucus there would mean
they could control it. Declarations by
the anti-Hughes men that they would
atay out of the Republican caucus are
tantamount to declarations that they
would unite with the Tammany Demo
crats, as has been done often on other
matters, to defeat direct nominations
again.
Republicans in and out of the Legis
lature are urging the Republican ma
jority to act now in such fashion as to
ghow the people that the party is worthy
of continuing in charge of political af
fairs in the state. And while that is
being done those Republican legislators
roughly characterized as anti-Hughes
men are on the verge, in both houses, of
re-enacting the Meade-Grady specticle
in even more crude detail.
Many Vague Rumors.
It is known that this state of affairs
Is causing the gravest concern to Presi
dent Taft. It is known that Mr. Roose
velt's attention has been directed to
vhat is feoing on. Also, developments
here seem to show that even the anti-
Hughes Republicans are a little afraid
tbey are going so far as to bring rebuke
from one or both these eminent Repub
licans.
Remarkable rumors are afloat here.
The air is full of them, mysterious, in
tangible, impossible of verification or of
being traced to their source. One is
that President Taft is against the di
rect nominations system.
Why? Because. FYed. Grelner went
to Washington and returning said that
ti> pass a direct nominations bill would
give personal glory to Hughes, and no
help to the party. Who says so? Well,
somebody talked to somebody else who
heard that Greiner had said it was be
lieved he got the notion from the Presi
dent.
Also Mr. Roosevelt is against direct
nominations. He is against Hughes.
He doesn't think to pass a direct nom
inations bill would do any good. Who
says so? Well, somebody told some
body else, who saw somebody who
talked to Roosevelt down the bay, and
Roosevelt said his reception was splen
did. Roosevelt told Edward Merritt, at
Oyster Hay, he was against direct nom
inations. No, Merritt didn't see Roose
velt at Oyster Bay.
Loeb told Merritt in New York that
Roosevelt was against direct nomina
tion^- Anyhow, somebody heard or
dreamed that Roosevelt was against
direct nominations. And so the rumor
foundry has been at work to-day, all its
product spread abroad in an effort, per
bap* to befog the situation.
"Old Guards'" Programme.
The "old guard" has a programme for
the extra session. It is to prevent cau
cuses of the Republicans, or beat them
Continued on secoad paste .
FOUR DIE ON HOTTEST
DAY JUNE HAS HAD YET
Many Prostrations Recorded,
While Two Men Go Insane as
Thermometer Soars.
NO PROSPECT OF RELIEF
New Yorkers Grapple with Prob
lem of Reducing Their Dis
comfort in Many Ways,
with Little Success.
The thaw continued yesterday. Every
one ran a little, even the Iciest. The
flesh melting point was exceeded aM
day, so that it became a desperate prob
lem to retain one's substance in solid
form and at the same time to get rid of
It when it melted. Some tried evapora
tion under a fan, others desiccation in
the breezes of the bay; some tried to
congeal themselves artificially from the
inside, and others let nature take her
course, offering only a passive resist
ance, providing merely a convenient
blotter here and there, such as a hand
kerchief tucked In the collar.
Some, Indeed, if it hadn't been for
their "blotters" might have left a little
trail of tiny drops along the pavement,
for the mercury registered fK") degrees at
3:45 o'clock in the afternoon, after hav
ing climbed from TO degrees at o:3<>
o'clock in the morning. Last year on
the corresponding day the maximum was
89 degree?. That was a record then,
and last June was considered a bit tepid,
as a large percentage of the population
will remember.
But this year's record has a tragic
side; it marks the death of four per
sons, caused by the intense heat. One
was overcome as late as 7 o'clock last
evening and breathed his last before
the ambulance surgeon could reach him.
He was Benjamin James, fifty-fight
years old, of No. 399 Tillary street,
Brooklyn, who was employed in the
building at No. 60 Park avenue, Brook
lyn, as night watchmon. James was in
side the building when he was stricken
and died before Dr. Buddington could
reach him from the Brooklyn Hospital.
The physician said his death was due
to heart disease, superinduced by the
heat.
In the afternoon John Link, forty-six
years old, a dock builder of 53d street
and Tenth avenue, was overcome on a
pier at 95th street and the North River.
An ambulance rushed htm to the J.
Hood Wright Hospital, but in spite of
the efforts of the surgeons to revive
him, he died a few minutes after his
arrival.
Two other Brooklyn ites died from the
effects of the heat in the morning. Miss
l . Sophie ilensins, seventy-four years old,
I became ill at her hnme,*No. 2!>7 Van
Brunt street, and died after being at
tended by a surgeon from the Long Isl
and College Hospital. William Bradley,
lan artisan, thirty-five years old, was
also overcome at his home, but died be
fore the arrival of a physician. He lived
! at No. 235 Wythe avenue.
Two men were driven insane by the
heat. One, a homeless wanderer, be
! came demented in the street, and was
taken to the West 47th street station.
Thence he went to Bellevue. Joseph
Passone, fifty-four years old, whose ad
\ dress could not be learned, alighted from
an elevated train at Fifth avenue and
K3th street, Brooklyn, and began to
shout. Captain Murphy, of the Fifth
avenue police station, attempted to lead
him away and was knocked down. After
a furious struggle, Passone was finally
subdued and taken to the police station,
when he was removed in a straitjacket
to the Kings County Hospital.
The hospitals had records of sixteen
prostrations in Manhattan and eleven -in
Brooklyn.
Everywhere east of the Rocky Moun
tains, says the Weather Bureau at
Washington, the country is in the grip
of a heat wave which is smashing June
records and promises to continue, with
no relief in sight. The Weather Bu
reau's official thermometer, shaded by
trees on the street level of Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, registered 100 de
grees at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
From the states of the Northwest the
bureau got reports of temperatures as
high as 105. Damage to crops is threat
ened by the continued drouth in that
section.
T - this sizzling city of sweltering souls
there was one alleviating circumstance
— the humidity lessened as tTie day wore
on until late in the afternoon it was
around 40. The severe electrical storm
in the early morning, which caused con
siderable damage in The Bronx and Har
lem, instead of clearing the atmosphere,
as every well regulated electrical storm
is supposed to do, had merely raised the
humidity to SO. And that after a night
of the horrors.
It was the usual touch of prickly heat
which old Father Knickerbocker experi
ences on occasion each summer, even at
his advanced age. The rash broke out
temporarily on Saturda> just after the
Roosevelt parade These attacks always
follow a sudden dip into the tropics.
TEN DIE IN PHILADELPHIA
Terrific Heat Closes Mills in
Pittsburgh . District.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.] '
Philadelphia, June 21.— Ten deaths directly
attributable to .the heat, with scores of
prostrations, was the record for Philadel
phia to-day. The thermometer stood 92,
officially, at 3 o'clock, and was at 82 at 10*
o'clock to-night, although a severe tbunder
shower passed over the city at 7. Of the
ten deaths in various parts of the city five
were those of children under five years of
age and all were of persons of the poorer
class. Many of the industrial establish
ments were" bady crippled.
[By TYl<gra.r>h to The Tribune.]
I'ittsburg, June 21.— Thirty prostrations
from the heat had. been reported to-night
and the harvest was much longer In the
mill towns, surrounding HPtsburg. Two
deaths from the heat were reported in the
mills' at McKeesport and Homestead.
Hardly a steel mill In the Mononpahela
Valley was runnlp more than half turn
this evening, the hot mill departments m
nearly all of them having been compelled
to shut down. orWkmen dropped at their
rolls. The official temperature registered
SO degrees at 4 p. m., and in. the mills ther
mometers registered as high an 140 de
cree.. . '"...'.
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CORONATION NEXT MAY
Plans in London — Connaught
Then to Go to Canada.
London, June 21.— 1t has practically
been arranged that the coronation of
King George will take place about the
middle of May, 1911. Immediately after
this ceremony the Duke of Connaught
will go to Canada to assume the office
of Governor General.
INDORSE TAFT POLICIES
Minnesota Republicans Table
Roosevelt Resolution.
St. Paul. June 21.— Indorsing the
"•wise, conciliatory" administration of
President Taft, but laying on the table
by an overwhelming vote a resolution
"reaffirming our unalterable support of
the policies promulgated by Theodore
Roosevelt," the Minnesota Republican
convention met to-day and nominated
a fuJl state ticket. The delegates also
indorsed the work of all Minnesota
members in Congress, "for their efforts
in endeavoring to secure legislation in
the Intereets of the people."
Governor A. O. Eberhart was nom
inated for re-election by acclamation.
For Lieutenant Governor. S. Y. Gordon,
of Brown's Valley, was nominated. Sen
ator Mopes E. Clapp was unanimously
nominated for re-election.
The "insurgent" element, led by Hugh
T. Halbert, obtained the passage of a
resolution in favor of the conservation
of national resources "along the lines
tugge^ted by Theodore Roosevelt," but
his efforts to get favorable action en a
resolution indorsing the "other Roose
velt policies" end a resolution denounc
ing the Payne-Aldrlch tariff bill as a
"repudiation of the pledges of the Re
publican party to the American people,"
were overwhelmingly defeated.
HURT IN RUNAWAY AUTO
Three Men in Thrilling Ride
Down Orange Mountain.
West Orange, N. J., June 21 (Special).
— Three men were in a halrraising ride
down the side of the Orange Mountain
hero this afternoon in an automobile
which they were powerless to check.
After whizzing down the winding Eagle
Rock avenue for nearly a mile, with the
driver, Frederick Blaney, of East Orange,
keeping the middle of the road in spite
of the speed, the car struck a small ob
stacle and was ditched.
Blaney received two broken ribs. The
two other men, Alfred Pashby and Will
lam E. Eveland, were not hurt. The
car belongs to Harry B. Fonda, of the
Trust Company of America, who lives
at No. 30 Fuller Terrace. Orange. The
men were testing it after it had been
undergoing repairs at a garage. They
had just started down the mountain
■when the brake suddenly refused to
work.
DEUTSCHLAND_TO FLY
First Passenger Airship Ready
for Trip to Duesseldorf.
Frieclrichshafen, Germany, June 21. —
The new Zeppelin dirigible airship
Deutschland is ready to-night to start
on its maiden voyage to Diisseldorf.
Count Zeppelin will be at the helm, and
the airship will carry twenty passengers.
The course will be from Friedrichshafen
to Stuttgart. Mannheim, Cologne and
Diisseldorf.
The promoters of the enterprise are
the Hamburg-American Steamship Com
pany and the German Airship Stock
Company, for which the Deutschland
was built. The dirigible is capable of
making thirty-five miles an hour, and
the passengers will travel in a great
cabin, which resembles a luxurious sleep
ing car.
WED SURGEON'S FIANCE
Girl Changed Her Mind After
Coming Here.
[By TeUgraph to The Trlbun*.]
Cincinnati, June 21. — Miss Dolores
Camerson, twenty years old, daughter
of the late Walter Cameron, a Cincin
nati attorney, is now Mrs. Mareium
Owens, wife of a >Jew York college man,
whose father is reputed to be a million
aire. They were married in New York
tm June 14. The nws did not reach here,
however, until to-day, which was the
day on which she was to have been
married to Assistant Surgeon Alfred Lee
Clifton, United States navy, attached to
the battleship Michigan.
When Miss Cameron reached New
York she changed her mind, and Owens,
who was to have been a guest at the
Clifton ceremony, took Clifton's place
as bridegroom.
When Miss Cameron was sixteen years
old Owens proposed to her, but because
she was so young she did not accept
him, according to her mother, who is
Mrs. Ward Baldwin, wife of a prominent
civil engineer of this city. They difl not
meet again until Miss Cameron went to
New York to marry Clifton, who was
formerly examining surgeon at the
naval recruiting station in Cincinnati.
Several months ago he was assigned to
active duty in the Atlantic fleet. He was
about to start on a two years' cruise,
and he wrote to his fiancee suggesting
that they marry before he started on his
long voyage. Accompanied by her
mother, Miss Cameron went to New
York. The marriage was to have taken
place at the Hotel Astor.
What caused Miss Cameron to change
her mind so suddenly is not known.
"She found out things that she did not
know before," her mother says. The
wedding took place on the approximate
day and at the approximate hour which
were to have seen the marriage of Clif
ton and Miss < 'ameron.
Owens's parents are in Europe, and
do not yet know of their son's marriage.
Owens and his bride are on a WWMtB|
trip. Clifton is on the high seas.
Miss Cameron's fatru-r was killed in
the Thonia Hotel flre, in this city, srv
eral wf ek> ago.
THE KAISER'S TRIP TO KIEL.
Berlin, June j 21.— Emperor "William will
leave for Hamburg to-morrow. He will
board the Hohenzollern at Altona and pa
to Kiel. His maesty, had practically aban
doned his purpose of seeing:. .this year"a
races, but the Inflammation of Mi right
knee yielded, so readily to treatment that
the court ' physicians were \ willing that ho
should make the trip.
PRICE ONE CENT
TAFT ADMINISTRATION'S
UNPARALLELED RECORD
PRESIDENT WM. 11. TAFT
(Photograph copyright by Pach Brothers.)
[From Ttie Tribune Bureau!
Washington. June 21.-Thp filst Ton sress will close it? first regular session
with a record for more beneficial legislation than has been achieved in any other
single session since the Civil War. an. l the Taft administration, which now
practically completes its first year, has established an unparalleled record of
legislative achievement. The breaking of the Senate insurgent filibuster against
the postal savings bank bill insures the- enactment of that measure within the
next thirty-six hours and th^ completion d tfv Taft legislative programm-
Among the important measures enacted at this session are the following:
Clinching Federal Control of Railroad Raies.
Railroad rate bill, cinching the Roosevelt policy of federal control of railway
rates, and in addition thereto comreHingrailroads to secure the approval of the'
Interstate Commerce Commission before advancing .rates, authorizing the Inter
state Commerce Commission to institute proceedings without waiting for th«
complaint of a shipper, creating a special Commerce Court, granting the com
mission complete authority over classifications and regulations, and bringing
telegraph and telephone companies under the scope of the interstate com
merce act.
The creation of a special committee to investigate the extent to which rail
road stocks are watered and report on the feasibility of federal supervision of
all railroad securities.
The creation of a system of postal savings banks, thus gaining for small de
positors the security of the United Stat es Treasury and guaranteeing 1 per cent
interest on their desposits.
The granting of separate statehood to Arizona and N^w Mexico in accord
ance with the oft repeated pledge of Republican national platforms.
Great Strides in Conssrvation of Natural Resourcas.
Conservation legislation, makir.s le gal land withdrawn^ *'-»;>■■! ,-*, -* and
authorizing for the future aH those the President may deem wise.
Conservation of coal lands promoted by authorisation of agricultural entries
on the surface, while title to coal deposits is r- - - ed to the government.
Preservation of national forests by permitting states and territories to atmtet
other lands in lieu of those contained in the reserves.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars appropriated to enable the T<»r *
Board to ascertain the difference in the cost of production, at home and abroad,
of articles included in the tariff schedules, such information to afford the basis
for an accurate adjustment <>f the rates of duty.
Twenty million dollar bond issue authorized to permit of prompt completion
of irrigation projects already undertaken.
Completion of the Meyer scheme of naval reorganization, made possible hfl|
abolition of the Bureau of Equipment, and rehabilitation on modern lines of the
navy general fund.
Progressive naval programme, authorizing the construction of:
Two 27.<HM>-ton battleships.
Six torpedo boat destroyers.
Four submarine torpedo boats.
Two colliers.
Reorganization of the Lighthouse Board along lines of modern administra.
tive policy.
Safety for Miners and Workers on Railroads.
Creation of a Bureau of Mines, designed to minimize dangers la mine em
ployes. "** '
Common carriers required to furnish detailed reports af accidents to the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
Law requiring use «»f safety appliances on railroads made broader and more
complete.
Adulteration and misbranding of insecticides and fungicides prohibited, at
the behest 0* farmers and orchaidists.
"White slave" traffic penalized by a system of heavy nn<?3 for interstate com
merce therein.
Drastic regulations designed to preve nt collisions at sea.
The parole of federal prisoners, whose conduct after conviction warrant*
clemency, authorized.
Publicity for campaign contributions made compulsory.
System of licensing customs brokers provided.
Provision made for collection of tonnage duties on vessels entering tha
I'nited States otherwise than by sea.
Immigration of aliens further protec ted by increased restrictions and regu
lations.
Seal fisheries of Alaska protected by up-to-date legislation.
Gold coin fixed as the medium for paying the public debt of the United States.
The act creating the government of Hawaii amended in important particu: ..s.
A commission of fine arts created b> enactment.
Provision Made for Raising the Maine.
Provision made for raising the battleship Maine, now lying in Havana Harbor.
Extensive river and harbor bill drafted in accordance with the policy of co
ordinating these improvements.
Provision made for numerous necessary public buildings and the completion
of those already begun.
Thirty thousand dollars appropriated to enable the Department of Agriculture
to conduct tests looking to the discovery of a substitute for spruce in tht? manu
facture of pulp paper.
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars provided to enable the Geological
Survey to carry on the work of gauging streams and for the promotion of
conservation of water power site?.
Two hundred thousand dollars granted the Department .»f Justice for the)
prosecution of violators of th,- Sherman anti-trust law.
Seventy-five thousand dollars provided for the use of the joint commission
charged with the duty of settling questions relating to boundary waters be
tween the United States and Canada.
Glacier Nations! Vnrk. in Montana, created.
Big tree forests « 1 California protected by additional .-.a'esuard:*.
Numerous IIMIHIIHi I resigned to pruect %!»■! promote the interests of th»
Indiana.
Modiim legislation <".»r the District ot Columbia, including authorization ot
a system Of paroles for juvenile offenders.
Commission cr^ud to secure the adoption of economical methods tn the
eral departments.
House rules so r»-vis» <1 Mi t«- transf-r responsibility for legislative action from
the Speaker to a majority the If.nw -.
Provision made for tno compens iti-u of Justice Moody should he be compelled
to retire by ill heaith.
Section MB Of the Revised Statutes, an immunity statute whi -h was a shield
to criminals, repealed, in accordance with the earnest recommendation of the
Attorney General.
Work of the Special Session of the 61st Congress.
Payne tariff bill enacted, revising rates of duty and providing dual. tarlJT
system, whereby the United States ins secured minimum tariff.-, from every civi
lized nation. '.-,
Excise tax imposed on ill corpora tuns, consisting: of 1 per cent, measured'
by the amount of their. net receipts. .. *** v ■ ■ '.'T^ti
Philippine tariff law, adjusting duties in the archipelago to those of the United
St.it' enacted. '/ :^'~'-.
Tariff Board, to assist in administration of dual tariff system and to investi
gate costs of production at home and abroad, created.:
Census law. providing for the taking: of the thirteenth census, enacted.
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In City of New York, 4*r*rjr Citjr and Hob******
F.I>CUHKKK TWO CENTS. ■ £
Republican Platform Pledges
Redeemed at First Regular
Session of the Sixty
first Congress.
NEW RAILROAD RATE LAW
Policy of Federal Control Ex
tended, New Court Created
and Powers of Interstate
Commerce Commission
Very Greatly In
creased.
POSTAL BANKS-NEW STATES
Conservation of Natural Resources
Advanced— Money Voted for Tariff
Board— Naval Reorganization and
Construction — House Rules
Made More Liberal than
Ever Before.
