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VOIE SEIW WHOLESALE
Hundreds Indicted in One County
in Ohio for Bribe Taking.
CORRUPT FOR 20 YEARS
Judge Conducting the Investiga
tion Expects That 3,000 In
dictments Will Be Returned.
Portsmouth. Ohio. De.- 35 -"With a total
r' «*? iadictments and. 114 pleas of smlty
to chartes-of vote selling during the re
cent election. Ada-mp County. Ohio, appears
tf> be in a' bad way politically.
A viperous campaign of investigation
carried on £y a saand .iurj-, upon the insti
•fatloa of Judge A..2. Blair, cf Portsmouth.
has reseulted in the indictment of nearly
-30 .- cent of the voting. strength of the
■-;-.-• and to-day predictions were made
that the I nura>er *of Indictments would
rearh • -.-, thousand. Judge Blair say?
vote eeata« In mmxr township will be in
v»?tlgated. .'1?...-
In th© ."more than one hundred pleas of
gnllty>nt«?rea the offenders have been dis
franchised for Ore years and fined nominal
■M Workhouse, term? have been given
la practically all, but most of the prison
"•• ttoea have, been suspended. " An edi
tcr ■■ bo denounced ' the Investigation has
been punished for contempt;
■ Th? Ifegijf cf the county fays that com
paratively few officials ~; have been elected
Ideally in twenty years. ';-;'"..;
Corruption in Adams County ?oes back
in MR than twenty years, and is per
hap? largely due to a general pan-"" ■*
the growing custom, as well as the absence
of* railways, telegraphs and telephones.
There is" m the county only one railroad
line— a branch of the Norfolk <£-. "Western—
and lew telegraph and telephone lines.
"SVest Union, th county seat, hi not reached
by either telegraph or railway, in this re
spect- it sfßn<*p alone amra; county seats
in Ohio. •
During a £ r o\-^rn<: i : h!p campaign in the
?o's BepublJcans by an alleged liberal mm
•>cf,money —- ---; the county, which pre
■ •»-i^i]^!v had Iv=en Demofvatic. Since, then
. control has shifted liack and ford As a
T*=su"t ef the grsnd iury's investigatioais It
•is apparent that both parties have, par
■ ticlpat*^! in the vote buying. Starting- at SI
and ?2. prices have, ripen in recent years
to s£o a vote. Much of. the "boodling" has
been almost public. Instances of the auc
tioning of vote* have been • reported.
Judge Blair, born and brought up in the
county, recently determined' 10 end the
oorruptioH. Ami'iic those Indicted are
Tnsnv of his lifelong friends and some of
' >i<= early playmates. Men in all walks of
■ Vtii and of unblemished reputation other
"m-lpe have been caught in the net. So far
.the judge has indicated hi? purpose to go
aft<=r only the vote seller?.
So strong have been their demands for
:^:rapney for their ballots that afficer»o3ders
i ham been able to earn only sma3l net
' **Jsrir-s.
SHOOTING MYSTERY GROWS
f Husband of Dead Woman Indif- j
■f::K * ferent — Boarder Gone. j
Eeckeo«ack. N. J, Dec 25 <Specialo- — !
ridbros«r "W. E. Tracey and Prosecutor W. j
\g, "Wriglit are puzzled over the Fhootinf: of j
tyidcria. X>ubash. the young wife. of John
Ifcibasb, of Mahvah, -which occurred late j
y«ter<!LaT afternoon in their home. Dv- j
•'liaeS told the Coroner that the Phootln g of j
fes wife w&* an accident, but the dlpap
j Js**r*»ce of a young boarder. Joseph r«ein- ;
*-.UOk aad U».todlfference of l>ubaah ""hinreelf.
tjov«r bta wUe't death have aroused si ispi- j
t «aoa. *£:<! county, detectives are making a
i.iowfol search for Deinko.
,' Prom what tliey can learn -there i vis a
:S<tvr and c .c: * " between Dubash and ' the
-:n.aj bo»rd*r.-andthe -«rife is said to have
; -T>*«n tbe cslos« of. the trouble. *A Bhc*srun
-vras broßKtit into play. - Dubash says tiie .
: 3-ouag boarder, of whom he was apparently
; &m1ou&, got the gun from a back room -and,
■after threatening to kill "Dutiash. the lat
-■■ grappled "with him.
The excited voices of the struggling: men
' attracted the attention of Mrs. Dubash. and
'. nhe ram* hurrying toward them to prevent
t any serious result. When within ten feet
.'.«f the mt-n the gun was discharged, and j
iirs. Duba&h fell to the floor dead. An
'. *»t!iire charge of shot tore away half her
h«»8d and face. ■ , j
' [Mbaflh made no effort to prevent the cs
enr-e at the boarder, and.it was an hour
before the Mauwah authorities knew of the
eSTair and informed I he. .prosecutor here.
VIOLINIST LOSES FINGEK-S
Russian Held Exploding Cracker and
• Will Never Be AWe to Play Again.
[By TrlefrapJi "• Th c Tribune.]
; i.. a . Dec. -Skibin?Ki. a Russian
■ violinist and head of the music department
of Shorter College. wiH never play again
: „. '.he result of hie fir?-! experience with
firework?. His left hand is minus two fin
gers and thumb and is otherwise badly
jnang!c-d. -.
. Ekil inski c*-*ne here frcm Russia last
September. *n<J-Knew nothing of firework?.
•Last nix ho arked..in broken English, for
: Roman candles and was given emmaon
• crackers. He held one 01 the crackers in
\ his Jfft hand, and. bting ignorant of the
..'vanger. allowea it tG -■ IqAc
. . Mre. Skibins-ki. also a teacher in the. col
. • ic-r% vas tending by and was res.
■ tez*6 •pernianently deaf to one i if by*the
', exptociof! . . . . .
JJTJW ENGLAND DROUTH BROKEN
Special Thanksgiving in Churches for
ChriEtmas Gift of Rain.
Bcctan Dee 25. —An inch and a half of
lain which fell yesterday and early to-day j
U believed to ha"* effectually routed the ,
i -- . h which has menaced the water supply '
c.f half a dozen cities In New England. For |
nany hours the rain fell heavily, and to
o.-iy found reservoirs of villages rising rap
:■;!: from" the torrential flow of their supply |
&<ieaxne,~ to th*. great delight of people who
fcavfc teen <3«nied tub baths by watchful
Trat^r cffiojalf .
In many r-»lr * to-day special thank«
rl-lngs MM MMMi for th« breaking ot
the drouth, and the rain a* referred to
«$ ■ Christmas gift to Me* England.
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WATER AS CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Heavy Sain at Greenwich, Conn., Ends
Record Breaking Drouth. .
[Er Tei-Trar*- •■ Tfc« Tribune I
Greenwich. Conn.. Dec. Ol^aßwlrtl.
had 3 Christmas present yesterday of a
h»avy rain, and now the water famine is
#nded Pumi continues at Converse
J^«k« at the rate of three million gallons a
<lay. Wells long in disue« are being opened
for drinking purposes.
Th*- Rockefeller fcrothfrs, V/illiam and
Fercy, whose ■ homes »re on high ground,
ftr«>. asr&ln getting water, thpy having been
without it for a longer period than their
roor^r neighbors at a lower grad^.
M*F CAPITAL OF ?in.oon.onn
2* crtfcern Finance Corporation of This
City. to Deal in Real Estate
Albany. \j*- 26 .— The Northern Financ*
Corporation Of Saw York was incorporated
r*Fterday. with a capital; of SR«,m to
>*^ iv r^«! «»fcta«* and to <1o .■:'■•-■-'
, n -*« ■•• • hmin^B. Th« directors are
Frank B, Rollins. John k. Ma okay and
i £.££ Brannan. of New York.. I" he com
i }*lT53' T'SiJ i "corporation tax of.. < Ml
ENGINEER KILLED IN CAB
, - - ■_'
Shot by Unknown Man While
Driving His Locomotive.
Tampa. F3a. Dec. 25.— While driving
train No. 24. of the Atlantic Coast Line,
near "Winter Garden, early Christmas
Eve. Engineer W. H. Burke, one of the
oldest men in the service, -was shot and
instantly killed by an unknown man who
fired at the train.
Th€- conductor, Christey, took the train
to Trilby. Deputy sheriffs are making
a thorough search of the surrounding
country.
STEAMER SUNK: SIX LOST
Liner Finland in Collision with
Small Vessel Named Baltique,
Antwerp. Dec 25.— The steamers Fin
land and BaJtique were in collision to
day at the mouth of the Fiver Scheldt.
The Red Star liner Finland was bound
from New York, and the Baltique. a Bel
gian steamer of 1.365 tons, was outward
bound -with a cargo of sand. The exact
cause of the collision is not kno-xn, but
it is stated that the Finland, in/veering
struck the Belgian- amidships. The Bal
tJque sank immediately. Part of the
crew was rescued by the Finland and
others by ■ pilot boat. Six men are un
accounted for. The Finland is now an
chored at Flushing. It is not known
v.'hether she has sustained any damage,
sad end FOR sea TERRORS
Commerce Destroyers Columbia
and Minneapolis To Be Tenders.
Washington, Dec 25.— 1t would be hard
to find a more striking: illustration of
the great change that has taken place in
naval design within the last few years
than will be afforded by the conversion
of the triple-screw cruisers Columbia
and Minneapolis into "mother ships" for
submarine boats.
The two vessels were constructed to
sweep the commerce of an enemy from
the seas. They were filled with boilers,
engines and machinery designed to make
them speedy enough to overtake even the
fastest ocean liners. But the mercantile
marine progressed in speed more rap
idly than the navy, and within a few
years after they were launched the 20
knot "pirates," a.<= th« two cruisers were
called, were really outclassed, compared
with the swift boats on the transatlan
tic service.
Chief Constructor Watt, therefore, has
recommended to the Navy Department
and so to Congress that the Columbia
and the Minneapolis be turned into
"mother ships." He points out the vul
nerability of the vessels, which are too
weak to stand before any warship and
too big for police work, which is better
done by small gunboats. He would re
move about two-thirds of the boiler pow
er mid two of the three engines in each
ship, so as to make them economical
In operation. Equipped with dynamos
for recharging- the storage' batteries of
submarines and ■'■with ample room for
their supplies, each of the. vessels should
be able to "mother seven submarines.
The estimated cost of the changes would
be about 3150,000 for each, ship.
TO PROBE WITNESS'S DEATH
Pittsburg Officials Suspect Foul
Play in Graft Case.
Pittsburg. T)€c. 25.— Their hopes of ob
taining convictions in at U-ast sixty
councilmanic graft cases shattered by
the sudden death yesterday of Charles
Fitzs-immons. officials Ot the District At
torney's staff have arranged for an au
topsy on the body of Pitzsimmons to
determine if he really di«d from pneu
monia or if hjs death was not hastened
by persons interested in the ra.se
The officials say that the sudden deaths
of Fitzslmmoiis and "Ollie"' Hamilton,
the only two witnesses who could have
corroborated the testimony of ex-Coun
cilman John Klein to the effect that
bribes were paid, is a coincidence that
should be investigated.
Since the graft cases both Hamilton
and Fitzsimmons had become popular
among a certain class of women, : and
officials of the District' Attorney's office
think some of their women friends might
have been responsible, at least in part,
for the death of the state's star wit
nesses.
WAE ON HAYTIS BORDER
Reported Battle, in Which Several Are
Said to Have Been Killed.
Santo Domingo. Dec 2a.— News has
reached here of an engagement along the
Domini-an and Hay-Jen borders. Several
are reported killed.
A gunboat will be sent with troops to the
scenr- of the trouble.
BRITISH BARK BURNING
The Shanks Is Aflame and Will Ec a
Total Loss
Rcsaiio. Dec. 25— The British bark Shanks.
from Philadelphia, August 12. via Buenos
Ayre.?. i-= burning and will probably he a
total loss. No cargo wat aboard the Shanks
when the fire broke out.
Th© Shanks was formerly the Italian
bark Affezione. She was of 1/334 tons and
I was built a' Chiavari in ISS4.
B. & O. STRIKE TO END
General Superintendent of Motive
Power of All Lines Resigns.
Washington, Ind . Dec. 25.— Following j
j the official announcement of the resignation
iof J. D. Harris a? general superintendent
Icf motive power Of all Baltimore & Ohio j
Railroad lines information was received
j to-day that the trouble between the com- j
j pany and its machinists had been settled
and that the men would return to work by I
J?nuarv 1."
According to th? report received to-day,
a committe* in oonfere&oe^with President
Waters' of the railroad in Baltimore ac
cepted th«* terms of return, and the vote
on concurrence will be taken in twenty
khopfl to-morrow. Until the vote is count
ed the terms of th? settlement will not ba
?<.s^ known.
Corp BFnii IN THE BAST
Elsewhere the Country Will Have Mod
erate Temperature This Week.
Y.'athington, Dec. 25.— With the exception
of a cold spell on Monday in the Eastern
States, moderate temperature -will prevail
everywhere durin? Christmas week, accord
ing- .to the Weather Bureau's bulletin to
nlcht.
A disturbance of moderate intensity, now
in the Southwest, will reach the Atlantic
seaboard by Tuesday, and will be attended
by uneettled weather, with rain or snow in
Northern and central states "apt of the
Rocky Mountains
RUF.F REHEARING DENIED.'^?.
San rraiic!?' o, Dec. 25.— The petition of
Abraham Rupf. the former political leader
. .. •■=. i sentence of fourteen years for
bribery, for a rehearing before the Dis
trict Court of Appeal?, wit denied by that
tribunal yesterday. He will paw appeal'
to the Surrerae Court for a new trial.
SfKW-YOKK DAILY TRIBUNE. MONDAY. DECEMBER 26, 1910.
SHEPARD DEFINES VIEWS
Candidate for U. S. Senate First
Opposes "New Nationalism/
ADVOCATES RIGID ECONOMY
Then Renews Expression of
Opinions on' Railroads,
Labor, Etc.
In connection with the questions put to
him by ? "The New York "World," Edward
M. Shepard made public a statement of his
political views last night. '
Mr. Shepard declared it as his belief that
he should not now be called upon to an
swer questions of a. political nature, but
that his fitness for the position of United
States Senator should rather be determined
solely on his past record on public affairs.
First In his own idea in importance, in
that record, Mr. Shepard placed '■ his stand,
taken early last September, in direct oppo
sition to the policies advocated >by Mr.
Roosevelt in hi? Ossawatomie speech. He
devoted a passing .word to hi? activities in
•hy formation of the Democratic state plat
form in the last election, and declared him
self in favor of an immediate reduction of
"excessive and monopolistic duties" in the
tariff.
"I am hostile to the swollen expenditures
for remote and improbable war,". Mr. Shep
ard said, "and I believe thoroughly in the
governmental regulation of common car
riers and of unavoidable monopolies."
He declared himself in favor of die popu
lar election of United States Senators, the
adoption of 8- constitutional amendment
permitting Congress to impose an income
tax, extension of the parcels ; post, and
workmen's indemnity out of the fruits of
their own industry.
Mr. Shepard" s statement follows: -.
I am reluctant to answer your questions
on politics, and for the very reason which
you give for asking them— many
Democrats in this state are thinking- of
me as a candidate for the United States
Senatorshlp. I have asked neither the
vote nor the support of any one. But the
confidence shown me during the last few
weeks by so many of my party associates
has given me a real and very pleasant
sense of honor, which will always .-remain
whether or not the office shall come to me.
Is it, however, useful for me at this time
again to recite my political creed? Must
not the choice for this Democratic Senator
ship—a place calling for so heavy a. ser
vice of statesmanship to New York ana to
the country and for so signal and con
tinuous a service to our great party ana
to its lasting and enlarged prestige and
success— must not this be determined upon
consideration of the long known a nd »ell
known relations of the candidate to public
affairs rather than by what he chooses to
say to help his own election?
Will not his ingrained and abiding opin
ions and those habits of thought upon
which in the long run every man is P«?">
sure to act, give better assurance of the
use he would make of this great office,
either to help or to hinder public * ella P;;
either to make Democracy more poweifui
or less powerful with public opinion ami.
therefore? with voters at elections to oe
held during the- six years of the Senator-
Sl But you tell me that the *P.eechea i of
mine made during many political cam
paigns-when I had no personal fortune at
stake and during those niontr^ between
political campaigns, when political disci s
sion is of quite as much value and its
sincerity better assured-you tell me that
all this long continued and amply recorded
disclosure of my opinions lacks the^fre*
ness needed for current publication, anrt
for the moment I yield my judgment to
y °For' several weeks before the Democratic
convention at Rochester last .September I
was the chairman of a committee direutea
by the Democratic State Committee to
prepare platform material for the Roches
ter convention, and the platform then
adopted— although in larger part the -no.
of others rnvself-rn" 1 opinions" upon ,™ ,
torilv fo myself-my opinions upon issues
between the Democratic party ana its
j '^sr^foremost in t£ struggle, of
1 present day politics is-the. group of ques
tions which £.0 to the very foundation o.
I our democratic republic. i2T-i£ the
At the dinner given at New York by tne
Democratic State Committee early last bep
tember. referring to Mr. Roosevelt s speech
at Osawatomle, just delivered. I .said that
in the outcry for a "new nationalism there
was the largest immediate danger; ; that
< the most peremptory duty of tne Jjemc
! cratio party was an outspoken resistance
I to what Mr. Roosevelt rightly considered a
new form of an old thing-for the thinp
was as old and as famous as George 111 or
Bonaparte. .. . ... __ ~~
His cry appealed to those who would do
things" without much thinking and who
! are more dangerous to the country even it
! sometimes they inspire greater respect than
those who think, without much "doing.
The short cut of a strong and unfettered
executive reverses the American ideal of
government for which our Revolutionary
War was fought, for which our Constitution
was established and for which the Demo
cratic party itself was organised and to
which it owes Its chiefest glory. For it
would mean the destruction of the patience
and restraints of orderly self-government
: and of freedom "thoroughly and systemati-
I cally worked out: it would mean also the
dominance of mere organized physical force.
■When I spoke in September I did not
i think— and certainly now, after the elec-
I tions, I do not think— that the "man .on
I horseback** is near at hand. But -it is
I necessary for patriotic Americans— and the
' Democratic party— in a hundred ways and
i in most fields of federal legislation to
withstand the tendency to remedy wrongs
whose genesis and cure are not yet under
stood by oppressive disregard of human
rights which, although undoubted, seem
! inconvenient. One who studies the elec
! tion returns in our state will see that the
; "new nationalism" is not yet indubitably
set at rest. Questions within its scope
arise to-day about taxation, about creation
' and control of corporations, about inter
state commerce and. indeed, in nearly
every department of the federal power.
So it is that I declare myself hostile to
impairment of the dignity and powers of
the states or of judicial power - within
* constitutional limits. And, therefore, I
! support firmly the power of the courts in
the controversies duly brought before them
to" deal fearlessly, although always, cau
tiously, with the constitutional validity of
I the acts, legislative or executive, of pub
j lie officers, whether high or low.
To tariff questions I have given much of
my thought and public activity ever since
I "came to manhood. For me the moral
side of these questions is no less important
than the economic. It is not, as was once
observed by Andrew D White, "a question
of a few more or less factories. 1 ' With
their wealth and their -wonderfully produc
tive labor, the American people- no doubt
can endure, as for many years they have
1 entered, the unfair, wasteful and Impover
: ishing restrictions of many of the present
duties. . . -. '.'■■ •■■ ' ' " ■■■'-.
This in very large part .is because in our
own country we have the greatest area of
i unrestricted free trade ever known to. the
I world— and because, under our constitution,
i our domestic trade, enormously in excess
of our foreign trade, is free of all such
obstructions. Although practically our
public revenues, in large part, must come
j from duties on foreign imports, and the
i treatment of tariff burdens, to be wise and
i lasting, must, no doubt, be- patient and
■ prudent, still some of the burdens— and
j especially the recently increased burdens—
I are intolerable; and. quite apart from theo
1 retic considerations, the American democ
racy cannot endure with safety the cor
roding and widespread corruption due to
excessive and monopolistic duties beyond
the necessities of its revenue.
Shall we nor, indeed, better knov how to
flea! with the spoliations of organized
wealth or monopolies v hen we shall have
undone the-- worst of the tariff favoritisms
by which many of the spoliations and mo
nopolies have accomplished their purpose?
For me the Demoeratio party is ■ bound, ■ by
every consideration of honorable and
pledged good faith and of enlightened self
interest—and with a welcome to every as
sistance coming to it out of the Republican
party— to deal promptly and . courageously
with 'he tariff.
1 am hostile to the swollen expenditures
for remote and improbable war. No doc
trine has had. or will have, from me more
steadfast hostility than that which would
impose u»on our industrial democracy the
burdens of premature and war-provoking
preparations for war. The United States
ought to be at th* very forefront In moral
appeal to world powers to strike from their
shoulders .he burdens and dangers of ex
cessive military and naval expenditure.
1 believe thoroughly in the governmental
regulation of common carriers and of un
avoidable monopolies and. in the regulation
by the federal government of interstate and
foreign carriers in their interstate and for
eign business. . I should hope, i however,
that robust common Moil might be exer
cised to distinguish between regulations of
matters which affect shippers, travellers
and the res) of the public— like railroad
rates, safety . contrivances, fairness and
punctuality of service and the like- and, on
the other hand, matter* which* -concern
only remotely or not a' all the perform
ance 'it public duties. ■ .. • .-,■*■ - ;
-in my opinion, it is against the best inter
ests of government and 01 private business
allk* that government should assume re
sccnsibility for the solution of 'business ■
questions not clearly, involving 8 c t to
th« public. It ouf ht never to ,be forgotten
that legitimate v corporations -^ are me re y
larger partnerships without .which. It wou-d
not have been practicable to conduct •"£**;
fourtb»-perhaps ;■ nine-tenths-of. **£•£!
buslne*. of the country, outside of «««"«*
and retail merchandising and domestic ana
mechanical service. - — — ;;r ;T« nh~
: .While curbing abuses, the faculties of lib
erty,: must ■be preservetT if. we are to aug
ment or even preserve prosperity Itselt. Un
ionbtedly the riehts of manhood «>»*• be
fore the rights of property. But wise Amer
ican* will not forget-. that proper ty-tbat to
to say; the right to deal with the fruits of
one's own labor and saving— is : one of - the
integral. rights of manhood, one. of. the very
faculties of liberty itself and a supreme
safeguard of . the poorer and. less powerful
of men. I may add, however, that, . in. the
long. run. it is no true protection to prop
erty to prevent or obstruct the liberty-^, en
extreme liberty_of speech and the freedom
of discussion, without which the safety 01
property will be- m unstable, rather than
stable, equilibrium. > ,
! I favor proper: provisions for th© popular
election of United States Senators, for the
adoption of the amendment to the federal
Constitution permitting Congress, w when
necessary, to impose an income tax; for tne
extension of the "parcels post". and for the.
rigorous preservation to the entire people
of the benefit of. the public domain, its
mines and water rights. And so I believe—
and the Rochester platform so ■ declared—
in legislation establishing the right* of la
boring men, in case of injury, to indemnity
out of fruits resulting -largely from their
own industry. ■ For the vast interests or
labor, organize! and -. unorganized. -are- a
ch!efe?t and dearest cause of enlightened
Democracy. Where they are -within fed
eral jurisdiction, the United States ought
to be foremost among the nations of tne
world in protecting and promoting them,
especially "where tneir own power is in
sufficient, whether in making larger ana
more just their share of product or in en
forcement of the conditions an?. assur
ances of safety and indemnity which prac
tically they ■ cannot themselves enforce. -^
Let us take care, however, that the pow
erful organizations of wealth and of labor,
even -when inevitable, and however benefi
cent, shall not, like upper ana nether mill
stones, destroy the creative, buoyant, spon
taneous independence of American citizen
ship which -has built up and by which must
be supported both our prosperity and our
democracy. - - --■•-■--■■■ ■-■■-. ■•■
YEGGS GET $200; MISS $750
Unable to Enter Middletown,
N. V., Bank, They Rob Store.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune
Middletown, N. V., Dec. 25.— A sang of
burglars, supposed to number at least
three of the best professional class, ap
parently intended to crack the First Na
tional Bank of this city early this morn
ing, but being 1 unable to effect an en
trance gave. up the plan and instead en
tered the Mohican store L adjoining the
bank in the. rear." In the. store the bur
glars tore off the back of the safe, drilled
out eight inches of cement and cut a
large hole through the Inner shell. They
secured about $200, but missed a box
containing $750. '
SHOT IN CHRISJMAS ROW
Hotel Man Wounds Partner,
Porter and Himself.
A Christmas celebration at the Columbus
Hotel at No. 301 East 3d street. Mount Ver
! non, resulted yesterday in the shooting by
Andrew Hansen of Joseph Dinavie. his
partner in the hotel business, and Morn?
Babuluad, the porter, after which he tried
to end his own life. The three men are in
the Mount Vernon Hospital, in a serious
condition.
When the police arrived the porter and
Dinavie were lying in the hallway, while
Hansen, with a revolver in his hand, was
trying to get out of the front door. He
made for the stairway and reached his
room before the policemen could stop him.
! Then several shots were heard nnd Han-
I sen was found with a bullet in his throat.
It was said that he had been unbalanced
i by drinking absinthe.
| CALL TO ARMS IN MEXICO
I Chihuahua Governor Asks Citi
zens to Rally Against Rebels.
El Paso, Tex., Dec. 25.— Governor Alberto
I Terrazas late Saturday night issued a
I proclamation calling all citizens of nilhua
hua to rally to the support of tho govern.
ment and to organize themselves Into a
i company of rural pohce for the protection
{ of the city of Ohiaualiua.
I The proclamation asserts that the insur
i rectionists are common malefactors and
robbers and should be dealt with aceord
ir.glv Public tranquillity. it_is stated, can
i be restored only by the united efforts ot
I the people.
FROST CAUSED DESCENT
At Altitude of 7,125 Feet Car
buretor of Garros Goes Cold.
New Orleans. Dec. 25. — Soaring above the
clouds over Lake Pontchartrain, his goggles
co frosted >.hat he could hardly see. and
with ice gathered on his machine. Roland
G. Garros was this afternoon finally forced
to glide to lower levels on account of a
frozen carburetor. He broke the altitude
record for the international aviation meet
here by ascending 7,125 feet.
The Frenchman vras seven miles out over
the lake. His engine began to slow down
when he reached his greatest altitude and
the propellers hardly turned. A stop meant
a plunge. Into th<? lake. After reaching
lewer levels, which was done with a eick-
Pfttwg rush, according to Garros, the car
buretor thawed and the engine started.
GRAHAME-WHITE'S MISHAP
Starting for De Forest Prize, His Bi
plane Was Destroyed by Fire. .
■ Dover, England. Dec. 25.— Claude Gra
hame-White, who had a narrow escape
from serious injury a week ago in an at
tempt to fly across the English Channel
for the Baron De Forest prize of $30,000.
met -with a further mishap to-day. Ho was
ready to make a second attempt for the
prize when his newjsjplauie caught fire and
was destroyed.
MINISTER KILLS INTRUDER
Alleged Moonshiner Had Fulled Re
volver in Church,
[By Telegraph to The Tribune ]
Blue Ridge. Ga., Dec. 25.— Breaking- into
Mount Plsgah Church, seven miles from
here, en Saturday, and declaring that he
Intended to kill the ministers there. Carter
Lingerf elt was shot to death by the Rev.
"W. J. Kimmon. a Baptist minister. ! .
A conference of the congregation and a
Christmas tree celebration were being held
when Lingerfelt, -who is said to have been
a moonshiner, entered. When he drew his
pistol Kimmon and his two brothers, both
ministers, opened fire Lingerfelt was shot
to death, while one of the brothers was
severely injured.
A f th^ same time the duel in the church
yard was taking place Deputy Collector
Hopkins, of this place, was destroying a
large illicit cllstUlerv within 3 half a mile
of the church. Lingerfelt being the alleged
opera tor of the ' plant."
PASTOR CONCEALED INJURIES
Wouldn't Spoil ChriEtmas of Cabby
Who Ran Him Down.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.]
Greenwich, Conn , Dec. 25.— Rev.
Joseph .H. Selden, pastor" of the Second
Congregational Church; at Greenwich, was
the victim of a serious accident on Christ
mas Eve. which he endeavored to-day to
keep from his parishioners, not wishing to
apoil any of th* pleasures of Christmas.
Ha occupied the pulpit as /usual,- though
he Buffered considerably.-, .-_; ,,y., \
Dr. B*ld>n..was making a Christmas Eve
call In crossing Brookslde Drive He \va«i
struck by a cab and knocked down. It was
understood that several stitches had to ...
taken in his ecalp, but this the doctor would
not verify.- He even refused to name the
driver of the cab, an he didn't want to .„;,,
his family merrymaking. .. l 0 * poJI
COOK RAKES RASMUSSEN
Intimates That Danish Explor
er's Statements Were Unfair.
FINDS THEM 'INCONStSTENr
Brooklyn's Arctic Bxp«rt Lets
Go PiMilladc at Critic Once
. - His Supporter.
i Though Santa Claus. when, he made his
annual round of visit* night ■: before last.
hardly more than left his card on his in
timate friend and one time visitor, Dr.
Frederick A Cook, of Brooklyn, neverthe
less the doctor felt that his second Christ
mas since the hegrtra was -is merry as could
be wished in Its promise of better things.
The people were treating him almost air
ly, he said; they really weren't as cruel as
he. supposed. He was even enjoying the
season. he declared..
: The doctor's '".day was quietness itself. In
the morning /seme friends, appeared and
carried him off to a retired nook for lunch,
but early in the afternoon he was back in
his rooms, at the Waldorf-Astoria, bring
ing his voluminous correspondence up to
date. The evening was spent in th« same
locality lest a hearty. Christmas dinner be
disturbed. Even the newspaper men were
banished from his presence. .
But while the gifts of monarchs did not
mark the return of Dr. Cook from his
most recent explorations., the doctor pro
vided something of a surprise by making a
gift himself. It was a very large and very
forceful gift. It went mainly -to the Danish
explorer, Knud Rasmussen.
About two months ago there appeared In
the papers a statement purporting to have
Rasmussen as its source and contributing
appreciably jto the detriment of Dr. Cook.
Ii contained ■ what were said to be state
ments from Cook's two Eskimo com
panions, which Rasmussen declared had
come to his ears through two missionaries
working in the country whence Cook
started for the pole-.
"I regard -their report as absolutely
authentic," Rasmussen said.
Last night Dr. Cook issued a statement
saying how he regarded Rasmussen. •
Can't Understand "Inconsistencies.'"
"It is difficult to understand tho incon
sistencies of Knud Rasmussen on the- polar
question," it began. "That he doubts both
Mr. Peary and myself is a privilege granted
any one, but that he should jump to both
sides of the fence and shout for either
camp, without authority or instruction, or
even rational consistency, is, to say the
least, unmanly. In his last attack he. takes
cover under the verbiage of two halfbreed
missionaries, but the style and literary ar
rangement is that of Rasmussen."
Having delivered himself of this opening
gun to oust Rasmussen from the shelter of
the verbiage, the. doctor followed with a.
fusillade that might be warranted to riddle
the reputation of on* far more strongly
entrenched than he. In the first place, he
declared that the Dane's reputation as an
Arctic sledge traveller rested upon a Jour
ney from Tassuasak to Cape York, made
v.ith Myles Erick9e.i. This Journey, though
truly a wonderful one, was only a step in
the doctor's return voyage, occupying the
slender space of three and a half days, ac
cording to the statement. "Yet," added
the doctor, "with but this step in the big
ladder of Arctic experience, Rasmussen
considers himself competent to pass expert
criticism on all matters of polar travel.
One cannot help bur ask the question. "Why
did Rasmussen first launch out into this
polar controversy end defend me, later to
discredit me and champion Peary, and
again later to pull down Peary? What is
the point aimed at?" >.-*
The doctor then examined Rasmussen's
latest charge, which starts out by Baying:
"Already in 1909 there existed grave
doubts as to whether Dr. Cook really
reached th«. pole."
Thinks Rasmussen Convicts Himself.
"If this is a true, statement." said the doc
tor, "then Rasmussen convicts himself or
a false position at the very start. For with
out a word of instruction from me he came
out In vigorous and voluminous reports in
my defence. Why did he jump Into tne
band wagon and shout if he had doubts'.""
The doctor then picked out with consid
erable ease from the alleged story of his
Eskimos five statements which he branded
utterly false and which he said would have
been found false, by putting a few ques
tions to the older men of the supporting
party. Was it right to attack a man's
honor -without even taking the trouble to
find out if they understood correctly? asked
the much aggrieved explorer. Even Mr.
Peary's statements contradicted these, he
held.
In justifying- a map of his. which the
Eskimos, according to Rasmussen, had
stamped a. lie "because it was a long way
out to sea where they had never been."
the doctor explained that he had encour
aged his companions in their belief that
they were near land in ord°r to keep them
with him.
Esquimaus Devoid of Intelligence.
It was rather strange, he thought, that
both Mr. Peary and Rasmussen should use
this as a card against him, when both
roust know the necessity of encouraging
fuch belief. Esquimaus didn't know any
thing about maps of the midpolar basin,
any way. he said.
After proving to his aftra satisfaction
that the captain of the Danish ship which
brought Rasmussen'f halfbreert mission
aries among the Esquimaus conlti make
himself better undetstood to the barbarir
natives than they, the doctor delivered his
final phot by foretelling what Rasmussen
now aims to spring on Peary.
"I." he declarpd, "have preferred to be
lieve that Mr. Peary's eyes were better
than those of the Esquimaus. and I believe
so still. Among explorers such brotherly
dictates are important. To attack a man's
honor on the imperfectly understood say
so of s wild man is to leave thfl Rttag A f
dishonor on one's self "
The only rational explanation which Dr
Cook could find for Rasmussen'* ferrattoaal
course was to credit him with an ambition
to get in'o the limelight. "But need an
explorer stoop to the, depths of a literary
muckrak^r to get public attention"" he
a sked.
DELAWARE BRIBERY CASES
Senator Dv Pont To Be Sum
moned as a Witness.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.]
Wilmington. Del., Dec. 25.— The' election
bribery investigation now being conducted
by Attorney General Gray was marked to
day by a development of importance. In
Delaware th* Attorney General as the
state prosecutor " has inquisitorial powers,
and can summon witnesses it will prior to
any intended action. He is preparing sum
mons, it is staged, for Henry A. ,Dv Pont.
United States Senator, and his cousin, T.
Coleman Dv Pont, president of the Dv
Pont Powder Company and former Repub
lican state chairman, and all members of
the Republican State Committee within the
last two years.
MAY ISSUE $1,250,000 MORTGAGE
Niagara and Erie Power Company Gets
Consent from P. S. Board
Albany. Dec £s.— Consent has been given
by i He Public Service 'Commission' to the
Niagara and Erie Power Company to the
issuance of a mortgage on its property,
rights and franchises, to • the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York, to secure
the payment of ?1. 150,000 in I per cent
thirty-year bands, The company la author
ised t/> Issue present!: $510,000 of It* bond 3
for cash at not ; less than S3 mii.l $1<V),000 of
•.'.- capital stock at par. -The proceeds are
to be used for proposed improvements.
MRS. STETSON I HY
ContfMßed from first r««e.
terial organization should.be largely dis
continued.'/
This came In ; the. , form of a quotation
from Mrs. -Eddy'*, book.' • Miscellaneous
Writings,"- in which, she .wrote: "Ma
terial organization is requisite in the be
glnnln». but W*m it' has done its work
the purely Chrfstly method of teaching
and preaching muat be adopted." and in
other books of her writing the same sen
timent was found ; repeated many times.
-, Mrs. Stetson's; claim that the Boston
board. of directors was not qualified to
spiritually interpret Mrs. Eddy's work
was first advanced 'at . th« Urn's of her
trial- before that board last year. Speak
ing then of their understanding? of th©
laws of Christian Science, she -wrote:
"Only the works Will, prove whether
it is I or th*? , directors 'of the Mother
Church -wUo understand this law suffi
ciently to demonstrate it- There Is no
evidence as yet that the directors are
the demonstrator* of the teachings of
•Science and Health* or that their judg
ment is infallible. They>ave up to this
time been good business men, who have
conducted the temporal affairs of the
mate»:al organization in a thoroughly
satisfactory manner. Now they are
called upon to show their understanding
of divine metaphysics. . . •"
Not Hostile to Trustees.
The woman who built up the First
Church in New York, and who was prac
tically Mrs. Eddy's Qrat ;emissary to
this city, still believes, as she wrote last
year, that the directors are not qualified
to be. the supreme ecclesiastical power
of Mrs. Eddy's Church, but she also
holds just as firmly to the determina
tion to let them work out their own
problem without hostility from her.
As a. student of Mrs. Eddy for more
than twenty-five years, and as one who
was for a long time almost a personal
and daily • attendant at her shrine. Mr?.
Stetson believes, she herself is better
qa.lified to interpret the writings of Mr?.
Eddy from the spiritual standpoint than
any other Christian Scientist, but she
is known, to have repeated, even since;
Mrs. Eddy's death left the spiritual head
ship of the Church in a measure va
cant, her former statement that she
would not turn her hand in the way of
furthering any personal ambition look
ing toward that leadership.
More than that, she expressed to her
closest friends her belief that the direc
—bound ms they were by many of
the by-laws and by the deed of trust
conveying the -property of the Mother
Church in Boston to await the "writ
ten consent of Mary Baker Eddy, the
Pastor Emeritus,' and by a clincher by
law which forbade selections to fill va
cancies in their board or any attempt
to amend the by-laws without the "writ
ten consent of Mary Baker Eddy—"
would not be able to conduct the ma
terial and temporal affairs of the Church
with the success which attended their
efforts when' supported by Mrs. Eddy
herself.
She consistently refused, however, to
take any part in any movement looking
toward dispute of their authority, and in
the' present instance, it was understood
that the people behind the prospective
fight on Mrs. Eddy's will requested her
to ally herself with thorn but she again
refused.
Eugene R. Cox. chairman of the Pub
lication Committee for New York, said
yesterday that he did not believe any
legal battle on Mrs. Eddy's will would
ever be brought to court.
No News as to the Will.
Mr. Cox said that officially he had re
ceived no word from Boston, indicating
that such action was contemplated.
"I believe that the. best le-gal talent was
employed in the drafting of the will."
said Mr. Cox last night, 'and it was
afterward submitted to very eminent
counsel, and so far as the Church is
concerned, if the entire will should fail,
if none of the money should go to the
Church, it would not affect it in the
slightest.
•'The whole genius of Christian Science
is for individual improvement, each one
solving his own problems. Mrs. Eddy
has always taught this, and as Scientists
follow that teaching they lay loss stress
on church organization thau other de
nominations.
"The organization as devised is simple
yet effective, and though there were re
strictions ot" authority retained by Mrs.
Eddy, yet there are no actual limita
tions on the operations of Church activi
ties, and the directors are in no sense
hampered in their work under the man
ual as it now stands. The fundamental
law of the Church is opposed to personal
interpretation or direction by any teacher
Of a student- by any practitioner of a
patient. Science and Health is the foun
dation, is complete in itself, and ttM not
need any interpretation.
"From a personal acquaintance with
the directors. I know them to -be not only
I good business men. with broad experi
j ence in larger affairs of life,: but each and
©very one of them is a metaphysician of
a high order, having had the benefit of
close association for years with Mrs.
Eddy, imbibing her ideas and methods.
"Neither do I see any difficulty in the
operation of the bylaws with reference to
the appointment to fill vacancies in the
board. The manual provides that the
board shall Jill vacancies occurring, with
the approval of the pastor emeritus.
"There now being no pastor emeritus,
well known interpretation of the law
would hold the clause calling for ap
proval to be inoperative, and therefore
unnecessary, and in my opinion other
provisions of the manual would be con
strued in the same way."
SAVES $40,000 AT FIRE
Jersey Family Then Rescued by
Means of Ladder.
Bloomneld, N. J . Dec 25.— Francis B.
Hobson, his wife, a son and Mrs. Hobsons
mother. Mrs. J. W. Ma shall, Of St. Joseph,
Mo., were caught on the second floor of the
Hobson home in Franklin street by flames
this afternoon and had to be rescued from
a window by. means of ladder?. Their res
cue was effected by a son of the Hobsons,
aided by another young man.
Before descending Mr. Hobson hurled a
bag containing $*>,(>OO worth of securities
out of a window. The bag was kicked
about the street and yard for half an hour
before he thought of It again, and when he
sought it he found it crushed and ruined,
but the contents undamaged. ,
The loss was about $7,500. Mr. Hobson is
a mining. engineer of Mexico City. He came
here some weeks ago to establish his fam
ily here . that the children might be edu
cated. Ho was to leave here for MM •
next week. > ", ,
HAD FED NEARLY A MILLION.
PHtshiirs, Dec. 25.— Mrs.: M. A. Danner. a
widow, se.venty-two years old, who kept a
boarding hous* In Allegheny for the last
sixteen ye^rs, died to-day. It 'was haf
boaat that she* had fed nearly a million per
sons and that she had given away hundreds
of meals to th© unemployed.
"COUNT" (HiffS fHJfI
When Trying to Sell or Borrow
Here Vouched for Paintings.
STATEMENTS IN CATALOGUE
Vainly Tried to Get $4 0,000 1
from Vanderbilts on Hii
: ''Old Masters.
"Count" d'Aulbv da •-*-.*- . cc S»t3r4^
I at his trial at Tours. France. for~cons3^ r
in? to defraud the Duchess* -> Cioj^V
Praslin out of 5200,000 in tft- -.:*-• !
rloua paintings declared he ba<j "8...^" 8 ...^ ■>■'-
! guaranteed tie authenticity of the ptetaZ.
he offered for sal-/ but relied lar?e; 7 ~
the opinion of American art ,■■. , :
This statement was not borne out by
erdsjleft behind -■• th.? "ccun.V* -^--»- «
departed from New York after an .-t " |
e«aaM •(■an to sen h!s coll»ctlca or i^.
row money on. It . ; %
The "count" also toW m SatorCa ■
paying 512,000 in customs duties to 'brsr
[his pictures into this country. This
■ already told in The Tribune i] • .^.. .'
an account of the "count's** doings wM.
In this city and was •'.-•. although h« Jag.
tried to get back the money.
Certain records at hand show that "Jet-
Edouard Com:* d'AuHsy.** as th* accused
man called himself when .-.- • i-> -•-•
1£33. was personally responsible for the a.-.
counts of hi 3 pictures, for -.« furnished •-.
history of eaoh canvas in a typ^ritse:
catalogue.
The "count" was a voluble person, wttA
succeeded in making many >.r--»r.-a-3 \sk
liev© his representations..
Th* catalogue of "Count d'Aulby" i».
came- an interesting document because'- tx"
it several of the paintinsa which have fig.-?
ured in the case against him in Francv
were described. One .i these was "DJac*
at the Bath," "by Titian." Of this canraa
the count" said:
•'This has been acknowledged '?■• many art ■
lovers and competent connoisseurs i- the
second chef-d'eeuvre of thi3 great Ideate;
that is to say. after his — - ■. .-,-»,
the finest of his works, although to ft*
uninitiated very many of the same ma«srs
works would in all probability appeal -re-, .
strongly. This subject, termed The St% '"''
in Curves,* has scarcely, if ever, ban ;
rivalled as a reproduction of flea tinta aod
in its extraordinary methods of dra^ic?
the human figure. As a great niasterp!*:*
of genre painting it has been acknowledfsd
faultless."
"Pictures of Historic Vali«»."
This entry in the catalogue of "Const"
d'Aulhy -was one of those marked -with an
"X." which, according to an explanatory
note m his own handwriting, meant:
"The pictures marked wita an 'X* ar%cf
historic value and can be traced as they --^
catalogued."
Another in the latter category was **I/Aa
tiope." "b7 Sir Joshua Reynolds" a'-e-
Correggio). The "count' described it as fol
lows:
•"This large canvas is a. ma^ur. en: :-;-
llca of Correggio'a chef-d'esuvre, eo-w is. "*
Louvre, Paris, where it was placed fey Na
poleon. King George having visited tb»
Louvre, was so fascinated with. tkiJ snparb
creation that he commenced his v.
painter. Sir Joshua Reynolds, to -raak* suA
a copy that nono could tell whir?! -was
which in point of authorship.' Tha paint
ing teems with beauties, and •.:-.- fact tta;
It is the copy of Corre^gio's greatest work
by perhaps the greatest of English isastars
gives it a unique place In the picture world."*
There were also in tfce list "Noll me Tan
gere," "by Guido": "Christ Before Pilaw, v
"by Honthorst,** "the last one- added to rl-;.r 1 -;.
d'Aulby collection.": "Rembrandt's Hotter." ~ .
"by Rembrandt.' and -The Smoker."*,*;!)*
Hals." . . ,- .--..--
One of the believers in the genuineness «f >/
the "count" and of his paintings -eras »
friend of the Vanderbilt family, -whom
• rAulby met here." and -who interested-En- _
self in a vain effort to obtain for "t6a
"count" a loan of J40.C00 on his collection.
This champion, of "count" d'Aulty,-. in
writing about the desired loan. said, refer
ring to five of th© paintings:
"The above five are great works, the gem
of the collection. They were worth ove
half a million, and Mr. is conflda
that they can be sold here for $2S-'.-)6ft. Mr.
Is of the same opinion. They vonSI
fetch double thai in London."
Despite th© latter staXecient about .ti*
market for th 3 pictures in London, the fact
was that they had been brought here frees
Europe not long before.
Referring to a Muriilo. thw aain» man
said that a replica of this canvas was o~
exhibition in the Dul-srich Gallery and *«
valued at £7.000.
A curious difference of cpizion arow "*
t-^een "Ccunt" d'Aulby and an expert wha
was called in to value the collection: j Th*
"count" said the painting. "Head ■:' 42 OH
Man," was by Rembrandt.
The "Count" Absolutely Sure.
The expert Insisted It was i Velasqties.
This difference of opinion -was. in fac
amusing-, because the "count" rapresentt^
that his great-grandfather was Dtai*-
Daulby, "art author and collector •*
cataloguer ci Rembrandt.'*
It seem? that. even •' '" A 'i"""? •"- t - v *
«MI of "Count" d'Aulby to Htm Ycfle (M*
was some question about his Identity *=<*
of the genuineness of his art collection- -
In another letter written by the -count';*
friends apropos of th* loan he tools erc«p*
tion to the report at the expert sent ••
view the pictures by tea man who was to
advance the ttO.OCO. Ths trusties fklml "
the "count" said that tils" expert was "en
tirely ignorant of how pictures ars authen
ticated." The "count's"* friend. u=<lottbt-.
?dly on the word of d'Aulby fci-asslf,' ad**"
his bit of information:'
"Now as to its being a. tnxtO. thsr* -•
1 firm of lawyers, ona of th* first '■? '-*
•ity. -who have the complet* evidence <"*
:he identity of 'Count* d'Aulby. ari *'-
?uarante9 that identity. Ths -■-'- ** «
Prince Borghese. his father. and one ci -'-*
sons to rescue their property <->-<- '"•*
father, without compulsion, had •-..-'.****
t to pay his" creditors, having to S«- a
:aw passed to enable him to give rr.e"' '^-*-
security, a -.-I from pure -:..■;■■ 1 -*>**-
UK>wn matters of history, which m*f "•
ceriSeti from newspaper files."
ARMY UNIFORM FOR TROPICS
Board of Surgeons Says Olive Pr»b 13
Not Good in Times of Peace.-
Washington. Dec. IS— Years of «- x^.",
rnents having evolved in the "oUx& <irm*^
uniform what appeared the ■'" rai^*'
for troops •:■ al! climates, but «s?«ci»U
in the tropics, the army ajua:trr:ri»^
are now confronted by a report mad* M t-^
surgeon general by the army beard -*r
study of tropical diseases showing that : «•
fabric is not a good one for use UJ «■•
of peace- i w>
It Is true that the "olive drab" is t»*"
nearly invisible than any other color, t-i
it withstands better the MeaclOag «-• - - •
of the tropical, sun and that it 13 ■■ .
agreeable than the khaki, which itrepiae^
But the army ■..;■■• say. after esfcaestr^
experiments in the- Philippines; that *,_
k'hakl is much cooler, although '""*„.
jo cool as -.:•■■ drilling, "which Un
suitable for garrison us*. , "\m
Any further changes to be m*de to- 1 "
uniform, the . surgeons say. should >**-?*
the direction of a lighter .. shad* raj«*\
than a darker one-.
QUIET DAY FOR DIX AND .WHIT&
Albany. Dec. S.— Governor-elect Johs -*;
Dix spent a quiet Christmas -it '« A!i3 * n '
home to-day. To-morrow ha «S*2aT
work on his fort hconiln* annual m«»»*
to the Legislature. . . T ■ -,_,.,»,■ •«
Governor White spent th* day 4»JI«JT "•
the executive manjloa. r . ■~--'J^-^
