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Sporting and Automobile News, Pages 46 to 52 VOLUME CIX.—NO. 32. NEW HERO FUND HOLIDAY TRUCE ENABLES PARTY HEADS TO REST Wtish and German Writer Revive Jingo Recriminations Over Persian Affairs Parliament to Meet January 31 and Resume Fight on the Lords' Veto T. P. O'CONNOR [Special Cable to The Call] Copyright.' 1910. br the Tribune Co.. Chicago. LONDON, Dec. 31.—The Christmas truce, so far as internal politics Is con cerned, still exists. Most of the cab inet ministers have left London and are slowly recovering from the fatigues of the general election. Premier Asquith, who has a certain SCorn for the world of politicians, hides himself as usual in the wilds of Scotland, and Lloyd-George, more gen ial and gregarious and always fond of a scamper on the continent. Is nursing a severe cold at Monte Carlo. :> Winston Churchill has enough to oc cupy him. in the heavy tide of disas ters, especially in the Lancashire coal mine and in the widespread panic caused by the murders in Houndsditch. , REVIVAL of JINGOISM Thus, lor the moment robbed of sub jects of acute Interest at hotne, the London Journals seek topics elsewhere, and Patan ffnds for their idle hands and those of the German • press ■ some evil -vvqrk to -do in the revival of the jingo recriminations. For Instance, Kn^lficrt's strong intervention In Per sia, to, prevent the illicit gun running and highway robbery .elicits snorts from. the klnglophobe Berlin journals that England is .trying the same game in Persia as France did in Morocco. The Innocent observation . of Lloyd- George that'he had sufficient revenue from the new taxes to spend plenty of money fn ■ maintaining the English naval. supremacy produces a wild out bunt from the. professional German navy scarers. ; . , .- , ....:',■■./ i, ..-...'.. „ England herself pays little attention to these professional ravings, but quietly eats plum pudding, goes to the pantomime and now and then wakes ■up to scream against the undesirable aliens. BOMB THROWERS' ARSENAL The Houndsdltch murders continue to be the main topic, largely owing to the discovery of a complete arsenal of the . usual materials of the bomb throwers. At first it was suggested that this pointed to a transfer of the headquar- i ters of political nihilism from St. j : Petersburg to London, but the more j probable explanation is that it was a part of a scheme of mere burglary by criminal and daring experts. As to the coming parliament, the swearing In starts on the last day of January. The fixing of so early a date is one of the many signs that the ministry means business and still hopes to finish the struggle over the veto before the ' coronation. Chancellor Lloyd-George, In an Inter view with the French Journalist*, scouted the idea of a second confer ence or of another election and spoke of the veto struggle as practically closed by' the . last, decisive election. VETO STRUGGLE NEAR END sir Charles Dilke, who, as an inde pendent member, takes a more detached | vlevc and who is shrewd and an ex- j perienced politician, also agrees that the veto" struggle is over and that the lords will accept the ministerial bill. DUke also predicts that Irish home rule will be £he first business after the passage of the veto. }n the meantime the Ulster Orange men are playing their own game of threatening*civil war. They make bel licose speeches, recommend military drills and ti'ie 'purchase of arms, while bogus 3 advertisements in the German papers ask for a supply of cheap guns. All inquiries by the police fail to ma terialize either the drills or the arms, and the whole thing is shown as a ridiculous attempt to frighten public opinion in England. Numerous deaths of aviators come as a climax to a singularly gloomy Christmas tide, and some persons sug gest that this: should.be known as the 'black Christmas." REPETITION OF HISTORY ; Will 500 new pears be created? That is the question which Is puzzling a goo.] many persons. It is not the first time in history that a British liberal cabinet has had to face this conting ency, though not In so aggravated a. shape. When the . ministry •of • Lord Grey in 18S2 brought In the reform bill —the first measure to destroy the rot ten borough system—the lords, threw it out and threatened to repeat the op eration. Grey then got King William very, unwillingly to give him a conditional promise that he would create- enough of peers to carry the, measure, and' it was the threat of this ' catastrophe that brought the peers to their senses and they passed the bill. There is an idea that the present ministry would shrink from . this • ex treme step If the peers rejected the veto bill, but they will not. The men of this ministry, •differing on many points, do not differ in their contempt ■nd Indeed hatred for the > lords. Asquith is a cautious politician and when a question like that of the Boer war arose his strong and Intense spirit of race separated him from the rest of his colleagues. WHIG LEADER AGAINST LORDS Similarly Sir Edward Grey, who is always regarded as a whig, and who also separate.! from lita party on the Boer war, is a vehement opponent pt the peers. One of the little ironies of tha prolonged and difficult negotiations between the liberal and the Irish par ties, which nearly wrecked everything, was that Gcey was holding out in the cabinet for an immediate tackling of the question of the reform of the lio'ise of lords. Grey wanted its entire abolition In its present shape and the substitution therefor of an entirely elective cliam THE San Francisco CALL Foundation Established By Ironmaster in Berlin Miss L. C Barney, Writer on Life of a Woman Warrior bpr. It will come to that In the end, but meantime it would have been folly to enter on such a program; the lords would not have accepted It and tha liberal party would have broken up on the details. But still this incident shows that Grey (one of the members of the cab inet) would not object to any measure against the lords. As for two such extremists as Lloyd-George and Win ston Churchill, everybody knows that tney are ready for anything and that they would create a thousand peers If njcessary to swamp the present body. BALFOI'R IX TROI'BLE Poor Balfour. driven distracted by the divisions in his own camp by the insuperable indications that his party was in a desperate case and knew that for the third time in succession he was leading his forces to defeat, looked around for every means of escape. The wire puller, the electioneer, above all the tory who was a free trader and yet wanted an excuse to vote against the liberals and home rule, all these people besieged the unfortunate roan night and day until in the end he took refuge in the referendum. It was, j as It turned out to be, an unsafe^ and j untenable retreat. For protection | could only find its place in a budget, I and a budget has to be prepared in secrecy to avoid speculation in the markets, and for the same reason any lmposts it creates are collected the very next day. This Austien Chamberlain, who was once chancellor of the exchequer, and may be again, has already pointed out, thus giving himself an excuse for get- Ing out of the difficulty into which Balfour got the tory protectionist party by his rash promise of referring protection to referendum. ASQUITH'S POWER ASSURED Wahtever hopes younger men in his cabinet may have had of displacing Asquith are for the moment destroyed. If his healthy lasts—and he has a won ! derful physique—for though he has I severely tried it, like his oratory, it goes on with mechanical perfection— If his health lasts, Asquith can remain head of the liberal party as long as his ministry is able to hold office. How long will that be? I can not tell. The house of commons is change able and as uncertain as an April sky or as a beautiful and vain young woman's temper to her different court iers. But it looks as if the liberal party had not four good years before it. If it lasts that length, of time it may be displaced, but it won't so much matter. It will have so transformed the situation of England that the tory lsm of tomorrow will be almost the radicalism of today. The power of the lords will have been broken, the work ing people will be able to get their votes easily, and t,he plural voter, the voter who can, as now, vote in a dozen or a score of constituencies, will have been abolished and Ireland will no longer be the battledore and shuttle cock of English parties. If the deluge comes after the second Asquith minis try It can't do very much harm. ENGLISH LAND SYSTEM DOOMED, SAYS PEERESS Lady Henry Somerset Describes Impending Change T.ONDOX. Dec. 31.—Lady Henry Som erset is among the prominent English publicists who have recently under taken to deal with the altering social problems of the United Kingdom. On all sides there have been con tentions that British country life Is about to undergo a radical change, the chief basis for this argument being grounded on the numbers of large estates that are to be broken up and disposed of at public auction, osten sibly because of the budget, with its new land taxes. • In the latest issue of the Wlndsop magazine Lady Henry Somerset dis cussed the possible future relations be tween the great country houses and the English villages, wliich usually have been created through their influences. She sairi: "They tell us that the time for great estates is past. <uiil I believe it is. The congestion of our cities must he relieved by the people's ownership In the land. The fortune from the rent of the farms will no longer maintain great houses. »Th« present system la bound to <lle. Here and there great families have taken a new lease of financial life by uniting their fortunes to those who posses* money made in new countries or In other channels, but the great bulk of the Knglish land owners are unable now to maintain their estates." SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUABY 1, 1911. PERSIAN SECT LED BY AMERICAN GIRL Former Washingtonian Aban- dons Sculpture to Teach Creed of Baha Uliah Preaches Sex Equality, Univer* sal Brotherhood, Woman's Emancipation and Peace [Special Cable to The Call] PARIS, Dec. 31.—Miss Laura Clifford ! Barney of Washington, who, a« recently ! cabled to The Call, ha? just published a i play founded on the life of Kurramy i Ayn, Persia's Joan of Arc, is a leader j here in the sect known as Bahaists. There are many adherents of Baha ism in Paris and meetings are often held in Miss Barney's home in Rue de Vienna. Few women in Paris have made such a deep study of Bahaism, | but Miss Barney spent the better part jof nine years in Persia learning the I language that she might better under ! stand Baha I'liah's teachings. Bahaism. as explained by Miss Bar j ney to The Call's correspondent, is, ! above all others, a religion for women, I for it preaches equality of the sexes ! and full emancipation of woman, not only in spiritual affairs, but in things j temporal. Its broad principles are uni | versal brotherhood and peace. Miss Barney virtually has abandoned sculpture and will devote herself now to writing novels and plays to incul cate this modern Persian creed. SLOT MACHINE FOR VOTING IS INVENTED Accurate and Simple, but Good Only for Referendums ROME, Dec. 30.—An Italian. Eug-enio Boggiano. has invented an apparatus for voting which he will try to Intro duce into England in case a referendum be called for there. It has already been hsed for municipal referendums in Rome and Milan with the result of ab solute accuracy and the cost of $15 a day per 10,000 voters. The apparatus resembles in appear ance a "penny in the slot" machine. There are for the referendum as prac ticed In Italy three slots, representing "ayes," "nays" and "abstentions." The voter passes first before the polling agent, who verities his right to vote and then hands him a metal disc about the size of a copper cent but three or four times as thick and heavy, stamped with the municipal arms. The voter then passes to the back of the machine and drops his disc into the slot which corresponds to his decision. On the front of the machine—the side next the polling agent—a number at once springs into view, which changes with each vote like the register of a taxicab, and shows the total number of votes recorded. This number, of course, corresponds with the number of voters, which the polling agent keeps ticking off in his control book. Above the epace where the total number of votes is shown there are spaces where the "ayes," "nays" and "abstentions" are registered. These spaces, however, are concealed from view during the voting. It is only when the poll is closed that the screens which cover these spaces are unlocked by the polling agent* when the result of the vote is at once revealed. Absolute secrecy of the ballot is thus preserved. There is no possibility of error be cause the votes registered must corre spond when added together to the final total, which is also shown on the face of the machine. AVALANCHES IN ITALY KILL SEVERAL PERSONS Severe Winter With Heavy Snows Cause Disasters TURIN. Ita'y, Deo; 31.-T-A very M vere winter with heavy snow is causing many disasters, especially in the prov ince of Cuneo, where railway communi cation has been interrupted. Many avalanches are reported. One buried a house near Tenda, in the maritime Alps, killing four persona and Injuring two others, probably fatally. It is feared that there have been other victims. Throughout Cuneo the law courts have suspended their sessions, as travel is impossible. WHITELAW REID SAILS WITH WIFE FOR HOME Part of Vacation to Be Spent in California LONDON, Dec. 81.—Whltelaw Reid, the American ambassador to Great Britain, and Mrs. Reid sailed for New York on the steamer Caronla today for a two months' holiday at home. Am bassador and Mrs. Reid probably will spend much of their vacation in Cali fornia- They are accompanied by their son, Ogden Reid, and will be joined later by their daughter. Mrs. John H. Ward, who will sail for New York January 7. GREECE WANTS TO BUY AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS Negotiations Reported by the Papers in Athens ATHENS, Greece, Dec. HI.—A curious story to the effect that the government was negotiating with the United States for the purchase of the American battleships Kentucky and Kear^arge was printed in today's newspapers. The ministry of marine denied having heard of the reported negotiations. RAILWAYMEN DELAY BIG STRIKE IN ROME Annual Increase of $4,000,000 in Wages Demanded UOME, Dec. 31.—The majority of the railwaymen who are opposed to violence have decided to defer the threatened strike until the end of January in order to give the government and parliament time to amend the bill granting them an annual increase aggregating $4, --000,000, FOREIGN NEWS CABLE TOLSTOY HARASSED TO DEATH,SAYS SON Fanatics Accused of Seeking Glory as Apostles of Rus= sian Philosopher Former Officer of Guard Named as Causing Torment in Last Hours [Special Cable to The Call] PARIS, Dec. 31.—Leo Tolstoy, son and namesake of the late philosopher, has retired to Paris, where he makes his home. He is a sculptor, but has recently written a play, which will soon '<<>■ produced here, it is said to be a philosophic work, but not entirely in keeping with his father's teachings, for the son and father differed on several points of philosophy. Leo Tolstoy gave an interview to The Call's correspondent and told of the last hours of his father. He said: "My father died not as he. had wished, peacefully, but tormented, harassed and pursued by a band of fanatics, at the head of which was a former officer of the guard. Tchertkoff. who would not permit even my mother to come near her dying husband. "My father for several weeks had. been ill, a nervous prey to paroxisms and convulsions. He could no longer sleep, prodded unceasingly by Tchert koff, and he raved of going far away to die. "His desire always had been to live tranquilly without trying to change hia manner of existence. One morning, while yet dark, he rose, crying: "I leave. I carry away nothing, not even books or pen. I have no longer need of any thing. 1 "Saying goodby only to my sister, Alexandra, he saddled hia own horse and lert. followed by the doctor, but was soon Joined by fanatics, who from their vanity and bigotry wished to make a procession. They talked of spreading the ideas of Leo Tolstoy through Russia without even understanding them. "They were only craving the glory of being his apostles before humanity. I accuse them, and this Tchertkoff es pecially, of being the cause of my father's death." NEW MACHINE INVENTED TO UTILIZE WAVE POWER Italian Naval Authorities Re port Favorably on Plan ROME, Dec. Sl.— Agostino Ravelll, an Italian engineer, claims to have solved 'definitely the problem of util izing the energy of the ocean's waves, the greatest force in. the world, and one entirely wasted. Sig-nor Ravelli has patented his Invention in 22 coun tries, and the Italian naval authorities have reported favorably on it. The inventor says "<he reason why the energy of the waves has never been harnessed is that every one has ig nored their double force, one proceed ing from the height of the wave's crest above the water's level, and a separate force contributed by the body of the wave as it rolls up on the shore. Slgnor Ravellis machine for storing wave energy is an inclined plane on a two wheel support, which is run into the sea. A mechanical contrivance, the inventor's secret, transfers the waves' energy to a rotary wheel, to which can be affixed hydraulic pumps or dy namos, as desired. A special apparatus stores part of the energy against calm weather. The entire machine is about 19 feet long. It can develop 500 horsepower much cheaper, Kignor Ravelll says, than any power developing apparatus that lias ever been invented. BLIND CRAFTSMEN ARE SKILLED IN MANY LINES Training Would Make Sightless Self-supporting PARIS, Bee. 31—As is always the case at the great exhibition held at the Grand Palais, the galleries that run about the building are given up to slde sliows of all the latest novelties. Among the most original of these at the present automobile salon is the stand of the Society for Blind "Workers, where is to be seen an engineer who has been blind from birth engaged In making and fitting together bicycles mid giving demonstrations of the pe culiar mechanism of a motorcycle. He is a notable example of the extraordi nary aptitude that the blind possess for delicate manual labor. Together with this man are others engaged in plaiting, and in brush mak ing- especially, of all sorts, and all that they turn out in this line ie equal to the best that can be made by ordinary hands. Another department of the work taken up by the society is piano tuning, and it also has on Its books first class certificated massage experts. There are altogether In France at least 25,000 po6r blind, who are con demned by their infirmity to" mendacity or starvation, falling outside help, many of whom might earn a living if prop erly trained. NO REVOLVERS FOR LONDON POLICEMEN Officials Oppose Arming of the "Bobbies" LONDON, Dec: 31.— John Bull has one characteristic which::ls apparently; un changeable. Nobody's .experience? ex cept- his ;• own ' carries the _" slightest weight' with ; him. ] The ■ whole country has been /debating:this .week- the ques tion whether the police should be armed with " revolvers. T, Since . five men were shot down by alien burglars a week or so ago;and a similar incident occurred in ,; London .- less than «two 1; years ago, one .would; Imagine • that . the ■ question carried its own answer. ' ' -■ ; But the authorities throughout the country, utterly ignoring the practice of the < res,t of - the ? civilied world, ; almost unanimously, oppose such a startling In novation. ;". ",. ',* . "; 1 1:: '" \: ' T It is no', exaggerated compliment to say that the* personnel iof -the• English police is the finest in the world. No men i anywhere show such *"; restraint against provocation, yet ' their, own -; su periors profess -.unwillingness to trust them} with i the ■ means . of ; ordinary aelf dpfensa- ' ' " * ~v Disaffection Is Denied By Lisbon Government REVOLUTION BROKE UP BRIDGE PARTY Marquis Lavarado, Who Was Secretary of Monarch, De scribes Flight Only One Regiment Remained Loyal to Royal Family in Lisbon PARIS, Dec. 31.—Rumors of political intrigues in Portugal, the insecurity of the provisional government and a plot to restore the dethroned king, Manuel, have revived stories of the revolution, and today Marquis Lavaredo, who was the secretary to the Portuguese mon arch, gave an interview that is de scribed as the first authentic account of what happened at the Necessidades palace on the night of October 4. The marquis said that the king and the ministers had been warned of the conspiracy against the house of Bra ganza, but they wholly misjudged the gravity of the situation. They counted implicitly on the loyalty of the army and navy. King- Manuel was playing bridge with his companions At the pal ace when the revolutionary Blgnal gun was fired at 2 o'clock in the morning. Hurried investigation showed that every telephone wire to the palace had been cut. Consternation prevailed in the royal home. The servants to a man deserted, leaving a single loyal regiment to guard the person of the monarch. Soon a message came from Premier Teixelra de Sousa advising the king to depart at once. Manuel refused the advice, and donning the uniform of the commander in chief of the military, announced his intention of placing himself at the head of the royal troops. When, however, a second massage arrived notifying him of the impend ing bombardment of the palace, the king changed his 'attire for civilian clothes and left the palace unescorted save by a few companions and walked through the excited crowds in the streets unmolested. Government Denies Trouble WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Viscount de Alte, the Portuguese minister, today gave out the following as the text of a cablegram received from his govern ment in reply to one which he sent yesterday asking about the reports of a critical situation in Portugal: You can» state that no violence, has attended the strikes which have taken place and that at the request of men and employers they have in general been settled through arbitration by the gov ernment. The situation in this re spect is improving rapidly and there have been no new strikes lately. National finances are every day becoming more satisfactory on ac count of the strict overhauling of the expenses of the administration. There is no evidence of disaf fection in the army or the navy. No conspiracies are being hatched even by the monarchists and the only ones who try to create trouble are those who fear the consequences of their financial mis demeanor and who with that end in view invent alarming rumors. Everything is being prepared for the elections to take place in April next. EXPLORER SAID TO HAVE DISCOVERED MT. SINA Dr. Musil Believes He Has Iden tified Mountain LONDON, Dec. 31.—One of the most active explorers in Arabia this year is Dr. Alois Musil, who, with a commis sion from the Turkish government, left Vienna in April last for northern^ Arabia. With Doctor Musil were a geologist. Dr. Leopold Kober, and a . cartographer, Herr Rudolf Thomas berger. Doctor Musil and his two companions succeeded in carrying out many import ant explorations and other scientific work. Besides collecting a great deal of linguistic, ethnological and geologi cal material, the explorers gathered many plants and Insects. It was found impossible to use a theodolite, but the mapping was effected by plane table and compass. A thorough examination of the little known area extending frrm the Red sea eastward to Teima and the Wad! Slsham was also effected. Doctor Musil believes that the main result of his Journey is the Identifica tion of the famous biblical Mount Binal, a mountain about whose precise where abouts a great controversy has been raging for some time. Some eminent writers and geographers—the most Im portant among them being the famous Sir R. Burton—hold that it is futile to try to discover the exact spot where the mountain is situated, as all at tempts at identification are necessarily vain. Nevertheless, those who do not doubt that it is possible to discover its identification declare that Mount Sinai is In the Sinai peninsula In the vicinity of Elath, and it Is this very region which was explored by Doctor Musil and his party. GERMANY TO LAUNCH SIX DREADNOUGHTS IN 1911 Kaiser's Realm to Establish Naval Record BERLIN, Dec. 31.—Germany will es tablish a record In 1911 by launching ■ix Dreadnoughts. The announcement is made in* 1 the Deutsche Tageszeitung, which points out that the new year will not only witness an unprecedented expenditure on the German fleet ($122, --500,000). but the floating of the great est number of new vessels which has ever taken the water during a single twelvemonth. Exclusive of torpedo boats, subma rines and other minor craft, no fewer than 10 ships of modern types will be floated. During 1910 only two Dread noughts have been launched, the battle ship Oldenburg and the cruiser battle ship Yon Moltke. In 19H five battle ship*, the Hildebrand, the Heimdall, the Hagen, the Aegir and the Odin, be sides the cruiser battleship H, will take the water. All the new Dread noughts will be fitted with turbines. Four' new armored cruisers are also to be launched. All the great dockyards of the country, both imperial and pri vate, are represented among the build ers of the vessels to be launched in 1911, REPUBLIC QUIET Dom Manuel of Braganza, Who Was King of Portugal MAUD ALLAN HAS NERVOUS TROUBLE Memory of Train Wreck Nearly Causes Collapse and Neces* sitates Rest Cure [Special Cable lo The Call] LONDON, Dec. 31.—Maud Allan has returned to London, and complains that her nerves are still suffering badly from the effects of the terrible train wreck she was in while traveling from New York to Boston during her Ameri can tour. To The Call's correspondent she said: "I ought to have taken a rest after it and chanced monetary loss. But I worked hard for six months with the memory of the scene continually foTc ing Itself upon me, and it was only the wonderful tonic of the people's gener ous applause at 85 dance concerts that I gave that kept me from breaking down utterly. "I should have made my reappearance on the English stage in November, but broke down at the very notion of the thing. I was obliged to go for a rest cure to France and Switzerland, which I fear did not do me much good, as both cures forbade me to drink milk, which previously had constituted my principal diet. I am back on milk now, and really improving, though there still remain dreadful hours when I must shriek and drive my nails into my palms to relieve the vague agonies of mind." Miss Allan has signed for another American tour, beginning at the close of 1911. WAR ON HOTEL "BEATS" ORGANIZED IN EUROPE Swiss Bonifaces Lead in Cru- sade Against Thieves LONDON. Dec 31.—With the new year an International and organized crusade against hotel thieves and swindlers will be started in Europe, headed by the Swiss hotel keepers, who will be assisted by their colleagues in every country. Already 71 of the principal towns in England, Germany, Austria, France Italy, Holland, Belgium and Denmark have Joined the movement to stamp out the modern Dick Turpin of the road. Th© Swiss hoteliers, in oTder to protect themselves and their numerous visitors from paying an annual and illegal toll, which amounts to several thousand pounds each season, hit upon the scheme or publishing descriptions in their papers of well known interna tional thieves—who are known as "hotel rats" on the continent—with very promising results. In Switzerland the police have prom ised the hoteliers every assistance, and the erusada is well organized in every small resort and large town, and it is believed that other countries will adopt the same measures In the near future. FRANCIS JOSEPH HAS REIGNED 52 YEARS Nearly All His Family Had Tragic Deaths VIENNA, Dec. 31.—Emperor Francis Joseph has passed the fifty-second an niversary of his reign, and if he lives another year he will pass the record made by Queen, Victoria. Only four European sovereigns besides Victoria and Francis Joseph have ruled 50 year*. Edward 111, 60 years; Henry 111, 56; Louis XV, 68, and George 111, 59. Emperor Francis Joseph has lived long enough to see nearly all his fam ily die tragic deaths. His brother. Maxmilian of Mexico, was shot, and Charlotte, Maxmilian's wife, became in sane. Francis Joseph's wife, Empress Elizabeth, was assassinated. His only son, the Archduke Rudolph, either killed himself or was killed in the house of Baroness Vetsera, who died with htm. Ludwig Victor, a brother to Emperor Joseph and to Maxmilian, became insane through dissipation. Archduke Johann sailed away in a yacht with a woman companion and was never heard of again. Pages 45 to 52 j PAGES 45 TO 52. CARNEGIE EXTENDS GIFTS TO GERMANY Emperor William Accepts $1,» 250,000 to Establish Found ation for Life Savers ' ■ Annual Proceeds to Benefit Per sons Injured or Bereaved by Heroic Acts BERLIN, Dec. 31.—Announcement was made today that Andrew Carnegie had given $1,250,00t) for a Carnegie foundation for life savers in Germany. The conditions and purposes of the endowment are simiar to those of the "hero funds" previously established by the American financier and. philan thropist in the United States, PJngland and France. The annual proceeds will be used for the benefit of those who have been injured in the performance of heroic acts, and, in the event of a hero's death, for the support of sur viving dependents. A special provision is made for the education of the chil dren of those who have sacrificed their lives. GERMAN EMPEROR APPROVES Some time ago American Ambassa dor Hill at the request of Carnegie approached the German emperor on the subject of whether such a grift would be acceptable. His majesty approved of the project and in an autograph letter to the donor expressed deep in terest in the benefaction. The neecssary details were soon con cluded and the Tund placed in the hands of the emperor, who as its patron appointed a commission of 13 to administer the same. . ADMIMSTRATORS NAMED The president of the commission is Rudolph yon Valenti, chief of his majesty's civil cabinet, and his associ ates include the American ambassador and representatives of the mining:, rail way, maritime and industrial interests of Germany and the medical profession. The benefits of the fund will begin with the new year. Germany now has provisions for the relief of civil servants who have suf fered through heroism, and Carnegie's gift will make it possible to round out a general system of benefaction. Fourth Hero Fund NEW YORK, Dec. Sl.—Andrew Can negie's gift to Germany is the fourth "hero fund" he has established. The original endowment was made in April, 1904, when $5,000,000 was placed in the hands of a commission composed of 21 residents of Pittsburg, Pa., who" were' instructed to use the annual psoceeds of the fun.l for the benefit" of de-j pendents of those losing their lives in' heroic efforts to save their fellow men. or for the heroes themselves if injured only. The beneficiaries were confined to those associated with the acts per formed within the United States. Canada and Newfoundland and the waters thereof. In 1908 Carnegie gave $1,250,000 for the creation of a hero fund in Great Britain. In the following year he es tablished a similar fund in France by the gift of $1,000,000. The total set apart for this purpose is $8,500,000. Laird Builds Retreat [ Special Cable to The Call] EDINBURGH, Dec. 31.—Rapid prog ress is being made in building a resi dence in the grounds at Skibo castle, Sutherlandshire, for Andrew Carnegie. He has given it the name of Altnagar. , The plans show a house which will meet his desire for things "homelike." Carnegie finds life in the great castle ( at Skibo, where he entertains many • eminent men, somewhat exacting at times and he is to use Altnagar as a' retreat where he can lead the quiet ex istence of a homely Scottish laird. GROWING OF TOBACCO INCREASES IN IRELAND Industry Was Stamped Out by British Rulers LONDON, Dec. 31.—1t may not b« long'■before the "Iri«h perfecto" will be as familiar aa the "clear Havana." Tobacco growing is being developed with some rapidity in Ireland. It is about 20 years since Colonel Nugent Talbot Everard commenced experiment ing in growing tobacco on his rstat* at Randlestown. county Meath- Other* have imitated him, and the result !a that now, in addition to his 25 acres, there are Lord Barrymore with 10 acres. Lord Dunraven with 25 acres. Captain Otway Cuffe with seven acres and many others with small plots. The total area under cultivation in Ireland is 120 acres, comprising 79 acres of pipe tobacco. 28 acres of cig arette* and 13 acres of cigar tobaccos, j In Dublin a oompany employs 20 work- j men and turns out pipe tobaccos and! j cigars and cigarettes, all made from the home grown product. . ' Tobacco was ; grown : extensively at 1 one: time in the Emerald isle for com mercial purposes, but the iron heels of successive ; English :, rulers;, effectually { stamped out the industry! It was with < a view of increasing opportunities for 'j the i; peasantry • that - Colonel Everanl ", took ;up t his | experiments. "^ After com- f bating , many s" obstacles, ■ expert advice - was ! obtained from America,', and i six years ago the government ■ came to his •■ assistance. ' the industry ; now being su pervised by ;a f jjovp'-i'"«"» >. * «■ •>l. who combines'expert knowledge 'obtained America with practic; nun as to local conditions and influences. LIFE SIZE ANIMAL TOYS FOR BOYS OF ENGLAND LONDON, ; Dec. 31."--Life size toy ani mals i are j : being demanded * by ." young 1 - Britons as toys this year, and In the ; shops are displayed baby.; elephants "six •■' feet ;i* tall, giraffes /IB*'feet high, two I humped ; camels, lions, dogs, cats i and 1 monkeys,' all full size. ■< The elephant j sells; for $100 and I the- camel i for $7K. i They are each fitted with a device •; to } make them emit their natural calls. - * •' If A' demand for realism In, toy* has led to ; the i making tof these ) large I animals." For obvious I reasons I the ** shops ido ■ not carry i a large , number of these * toys 'in their; »how windows, . but; sell ;from sample Vand "'■ make deliveries ' from *< warahousev ' v ~~"'~y ' : -~. ::.;' . " . -' ■ ■'■■■, , ".■.''<