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r EVERYBODY j 16 PAGES 1 EVERYBODY 16 PAGES NEEDS IT. I reads nr. j f !. !1 LAST EDITION. DEAD 71. . .' ininml so. Thirty of Them Probably Fatally. Two Trains In Collision on the Denver & Rio Grande. ALL DEAD BUT ONE. Out of 69 Passengers Occupy ing the Day Coach. All of the Sleepers Remained on the Track. THEIK HEADS CUT OFF Several Persons Decapitated as by a Guillotine. Engineer Misread the Time by His Watch. Denver, Colo., Jan. 16. Seventy-one dead, 50 injured and at least 30 of whom will probably die is the record of the wreck of Denver & Rio Grande passenger train No. 5, near Dotsero 2 5 miles from Glen wood Springs, ac cording to a long distance telephone message from Glenwood Springs this morning. Dead : GUS OLSEN, engineer on the pas eeneer train. Salida. Seventy passengers, names unknown. Known Injured: , John Rosso, laborer, Cleveland, O. Thomas Elliott, Pendleton, la. W. Adair, Ravenna. O. T. B. Miller, Denver. Mrs. G. Blanke, Wapolin. Charles P. Mance. Mrs. Charles P. Mance. V. M. Barber, Anthony, Kan. J. B. Hayden and child, Buffalo, Okla. Fred Jensen, Iowa Falls, la. Mrs. Nellie J. Morton, Standish, Cal. Mrs. A. M. McCauley and child. W. G. Moxey, Los Angeles. J. B. Thompson, Bookens, S. D. F. Chandler, Denver. Clyde E. McCown, Pullman con ductor. Clarence Vassau, Middleburg, Vt. I. E. Cannon, Twin Falls, Idaho. Among those who were on the train and escaped are: Dr. Charlotte Hall. St. Paul. Emma Strafford, Cleveland, O. Mary E. Spear. Cleveland, O. Mortie Spear, Cleveland, O. E. L. Ron", Winside, Neb. Hugg Gregg and family, Harris burg. 111. All of the sleeping cars remained on the track and no one in them was Injured. The passenger train crashed into the head engine of the freight train going across a switch at Dotsero, which is a blind siding. The chair car was telescoped and the first passenger coach was wrecked. It was from the chair car that the dead were taken. Twenty bodies have been recovered. It Is said that not a single person in the day coach escaped. Meagre details have been received there. The relief train will probably reach here with the dead sometime this morning. It was impossible to carry the wounded around the wreck. This de layed the relief to the passengers for more than an hour. Cioing Too Fast to Stop. The passenger train is said to have been going at a good rate of speed when it reached the siding at Dotsero. It is supposed that the engineer of the passenger thought that the freight had passed to the siding and was go ing too rapidly to stop his train when he saw the danger. The great locomotive attached to the passenger train was demolished and the chair car and passenger coach were turned on their sides and shat tered. With the arrival of the relief train from Glenwood it was possible to start the work of taking out the bodies. The injured were pinned under the wreckage and the heroic work of the passengers of the rear cars saved jnany lives'. Some of the injured are terribly mangled and the death list it is reared will be greatly increased. Train No. 5, which was wrecked left Denver yesterday morning and was due here at 10:20. The train was well filled with passengers many of whom were to get off at this point. Dotsero is a blind siding with no station and no telegraph office When the relief train reached the scene it was found that the long string of freight cars on the freight train were in the way and the only way they could be disposed of was to back them to Shoshone, eight miles from the wreck. The physicians and nurses however, left the relief train as soon as they reached there and ministered as best they could to the dead and dying. A special train with Amos C. Ridge way, general manager of the Denver & Rio Grande and other Denver offi cials of the road on board left Denver at midnight last night for the scene of the wreck. The special will be given right of way over the Colorado Mid land and the Denver & Rio Grande and will make a record run to Dot sero. Relief Train Tied Up. To add to the horror of the wreck, the second relief train, on its way to Glenwood- loaded with injured, has been tied up by the derailment of some freight cars. The first relief train bearing a number of the more slightly injured reached Glenwood this morn ing, bringing reports of the wreck, which appears to have been one of the worst in the history of railroading No further identifications of the dead have been made, according to reports reaching Glenwood. The dead are in many instances so horribly mutilated that identification will be very diffi cult.. Cause of the Wreck. According to information received the wreck was caused by the failure of Engineer Gus Olsen of the passenger train to correctly read the time indi cated by his watch. When nearing Dotsero, Olsen looked at his watch and read the time to be 9:45 p. m. it was SATURDAY EVENING. then 9-50. Thinking he had plenty of time to make the next siding below Dotsero, he pulled the throttle of his engine wide open and was roaiung 45 miles an hour on a down .grade when he collided with the freight which was laboriously climbing up the hill under a full head of steam of two big en- BIIWhen the passenger did not stop at Dotsero, Conductor Edward McCurdy jumped to the bell cord and signalled to Engineer Olsen to stop the train, but it was then too late to avert the disaster and the two trains crashed together- with an awful roar and ter rible impact. . The three big engines telescoped and when they came to a standstill re sembled one huge piece of twisted steel and iron rods and mechanism. -Heads Cut Off. The combination baggage and ex press car, the smoker and the day coach, which followed the engine, telescoped, while the, three heavy Pullman sleepers and diner crushed the entire' mass against the engines. The light coaches were smashed as though they had " been egg shells rvorv nerson except one in the chair car was killed. Eight of the passen gers were decapitatea as inougii uj Guillotine, their heads rolling far from their bodies. The bodies of the dead for the most part are so mutilated that identification may take many hours. . The only person wno escap utra.m in the chair car was Alice Williams, red 4 years, from some point in Iowa, She was found under her dead mother's body, slightly bruised but covered from head to foot with blood. The child was taken to Glenwood Springs on the second relief train. The only member of the three en gine crews who was injured is John Anderson of Glenwood Springs. In jumping from the cab he sustained a EngineX Gus Olsen of the 'passenger is a brother of Engineer Sig Olsen, who was in charge of the head engine on the freight train. Harry Jeffries was the engineer on the second en gine. Both Sig Olsen and Jeffries live at Glenwood Springs. The wreckage caught Are im mediately after the collision and a holocaust was averted by those pas sengers who were not lulled or ser iously injured and the members of the train crews, who secured shovels i and boards ana put out. uw o. .nr which Is piled in huge banks alongside the tracks. It was at nrsi supputseu m&i. two mail clerks, Hammond and Fraze, on train No. 5. were killed, but it later developed it is the custom to cut the mail car at Pueblo and send it on by . .,,,. anA Tmlf later, so as not to delay the through train by stopping to ioaa mt ". they generally pick up at Pueblo. SHE WANTS TOVOTL Sirs. Clarence Mackay Appeals for Right of Suffrage. vo -vnrTr- Tan 16. Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, whose fame heretofore fctori n Tirvri Vifr achievements as o caiii lonior- has eathered fresh laurels for herself in the role of po- .... . . . . .. . ; mihlln maolrpr ULlCai expuilCill auu ' " " - - - t . c ii ' r . t"i f mnrio. 11 n of SOP.letV J L li i e an awun-in-v ....... women and woman suffroge advocates, mr -. . i 1. Vine ill.- Vl 1 . 1. 1 ajant. ivirs. xvxiicitay, M ii" nan juoi - ed president of the Equal Franchise league, strongly advocated granting of the right to vote to women, on the theory tnat it. is impuiuie iui half to express the whole." "I am convinced that the country needs the woman's vote," said Mrs. v r . tin. I. . .. .nnn.. V. . . nrhinh man iiacK.a.y. iue i'i . -v-o. uj , have gradually allowed morality, de cency and altruism to share in the government has been slow and re luctant. We women demand that the real step be taken, that morality itself, the moral, the ethical half of the hu man race, may be admitted to govern ment on equal terms." CORPORATIONS UNEASY. Fear Government Interference faiul Business "Slows Cp." . New York. Jan. 16. The spotty and Ir regular stock market of the week has of fered a fair reflection of the unsettled state of speculative sentiment. Doubts have arisen over the rate at which indus trial revival may be expected owing to slowing up of the moving of freight traffic over the railroads, the moderate demand for finished steel products, espe cially from the railroads and the ac cumulating stocks of copper. The heavy reflux of funds from circulation con firms the impression of a halt in business activity against corporations. The issue of the Russian loan in Paris is waited to resolve the question of the policy of the Bank of France in the further accumula tion of gold. VIOLATE 28 HOUR LAW. The Katy and Santa Fc Keep Cattle In Cars Too Lon;. Kansas City. Kan., Jan. 16. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad company was convicted of violating the 28-hour cattle law in the United States district court yesterday on four out of five counts against it. The Santa Fe Railway, company was con victed on nine counts Thursday. The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient must stand trial on two counts. The pun ishment is a fine of from $100 to $500 on each count. The St. Louis & San Francisco railway pleaded guilty to two counts. The companies are charged with keeping cattle in the cars longer than twenty-eight hours without unloading for feed and water. A case brought by the Interstate Commerce commission against the Santa Fe railway charging it with not providing proper safety appliances went to trial in the United States dis trict court yesterday. It is alleged in this case that a car, which was equipped with a defective coupling, was placed in a train. The case will go to the jury, composed of eleven men today. There were only eleven Jurors in court when the case was called and by agreement they are to try it. TEETH AS SOUVENIRS. Italian Condemned to Die Sends Re membrances to Friends. Trenton. N. J., Jan. 16.- Sabano Mallilo. who is condemned to die in "he electric chair next week, has made rrangements to have two gold teeth extracted from his jaw after death and "orwarded to friends in Ita'.v. The r-ondemned man feared to undergo the rdeal in the dentist's- chair before death. DINES ONPOSSUM Taft Makes Great Hit With Georgians at Banquet. Disregards All Warning Re garding Southern Dish. TEDDY BEAK IS OUT. To Be Replaced by "Bill Possum' Hereafter. He Surrenders to the South in a Speech. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 16. The brain of the new south was gathered in the At lanta auditorium last night, when President-elect Taft, the guest of hon or at the Chamber of Commerce ban quet electrified his hearers and en thused them with his message to the south, which contained declarations far more welcome to this section than some of those present had anticipated. From the tumultuous cheering that greeted his words, it is safe to say that no act of any president, no de claration of any president or of any president-elect, has ever met with such hearty approval of the people of the south, as Mr. Taft's announcement touching the policy which he proposes to pursue in making appointments of federal officers in that section. Frankly admitting that in many in stances federal administrations have acted toward the south as to an alien country or dependent territory, Mr. Taft declared, with emphasis, that the keynote of his policy would be to treat the south as an Integral part of the country and to extend to it equal and exact justice in all matters. When the president-elect declared that he proposed to select for federal officers in the south, as well as in other sections of the country, "those whose character and reputation and standing in the community commend them to their fellow citizens as persons quali fied and able to discharge their duties well, and whose presence in important positions will remove. If any such thing exists, the sense of alienism in the gov ernment which they represent," the banqueters, composed of leading citi zens from every state south of Mason and Dixon's line. Jumped to their feet and for several minutes it was impossi ble for Mr. Taft to proceed. "Possum and Taters." Mr. Taft was not only introduced to 'possum and 'taters, a dish far famed in the south since the days "Befo" de wah," but the banquet marked the birth of a new American toy which bids fair to displace the far famed Teddy Bear" "Billy 'Possum," first suggested by Cartoonist Gregg of the Atlanta Constitution. The first of the 1 successor to the little bear which the children of America have been wont to play with since the advent of Presi dent Roosevelt, was presented to the president-elect and when the Taft smile met the 'possum grin, the apex of the most brilliant and at the same time most unique banquet perhaps ever given a national figure was ' reached. When the time for the serving of the course of 'possum and 'taters and 'Sim mon beer was reached the orchestra. screened by ferns and potted plants, in the gallery, struck up the stirring strains of Sousa's "Georgia Camp Meet ing, while down the center aisle and headed directly for Judge Taft, there came a waiter who fairly staggered un der the weight of the choicest 'possum of the very choice one hundred, dressed whole and properly garnished with rich 1 WILLIAM H. TAFT, CHIEF GUEST AT THE BIGGEST POSSUM SUPPER EVES HELD IN GEORGIA. When a delegation of prominent business men of Atlanta called on William H. Taft recently and invited him to visit their city they asked him if he had any suggestions to offer relative to the preparations for a banquet they in tended to give In bis honor. "Just one," smilingly replied Mr. Taft. "I have had a lifetime longing to taste 'possum and taters." My visit to the south will be Incomplete unless this with be realized." And his wish was gratified, for the Atlantans prepared a feast of 100 of the fattest possums to be found In all the Georgia persimmon belt to spread "ore the president eleO TOPEKA, KANSAS, JANUARY golden Georgia yams, and followed by another waiter with a flagon of persim mon beer. Up the speaker's table marched the grinning darkeys, .amid an uproar of laughter, in which' the president-elect Joined until his face was flooded with color. . Presented With Toy Possum. - It was at this juncture that President Candler, of the chamber of commerce presented the toy 'possum, with appro priate verse appended. Mr. Taft, in referring to a letter he had received only yesterday from Chicago warning him "not only for your own sake ana tne country s sake, but for God's sake." not to eat any 'possum and referring him to a chapter in the Bible, Mr. Taft said: "I guess I will have to say with Lowell In the Bigelow papers when Governor Seay, who was a candidate for that office in Massachusetts, was importuned not to do a certain thing, and was referred to a certain chapter in the Bible read It and replied: 'Well, they don't know everything in Jude,' (Ju'dea). I enjoyed that course, especially." Preceding Mr. Taft's speech prominent ministers and jurists lent their talent to the entertainment of the guest of honor. There were songs and "sermons" that were relics of ante-bellum days, all of which appealed to the president-elect and caused hia sides to shake with laughter. When the band struck up "America," the audience arose as one man, and with Judge Taft's bass voice leading, there went swelling through the banquet room the rising notes of the national air. Judge Taft's programme for today in cludes an automobile ride about the city, an address to the studer.ts of the Georgia school of technology, an address to the negroes at Big Bethel church, departure at noon for Athens on board a special train, where he will address the students of the University of Georgia, returning to Atlanta tonight as the guest of the Cap ital City club. ATE 'POSSUM WITH TAFT. Father Gnnn Given a Special Dispen sation by the Bishop. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 16. Father Gunn of the Sacred Heart church was one of the distinguished guests last night at the Taft banquet. Being Friday, like all good Catholics, meat was tabooed for him. But he wired Bishop B. J. Keiley at Savannah and from him obtained a dispensation to eat 'possum, the piece de resistance at the banquet, and with the more than 500 others enjoyed the dish immensely. LOSS OF 46,576. Current of Foreign Population Flows Backward. ' Washington, Jan. 16. For the year end ed October 31, last, the number of aliens arriving in this country was 655,263, while the departing aliens in the same period numbered 701,839, a net loss to the country of 46.576. according to a statement made by Secretary Strauss upon leaving the cab inet meeting today. Another interesting fact to Secretary Strauss, who spoke to the president re garding it, was that in the month of Oc tober, 19rtS, the emigration to this country was larger from Great Britain than from any other country of the world, amounting-to 8,334. From British North America there came the second largest number. 6,501. , A SALOONKEEPER ROBBED. Negro Porter . "Taps the .Till" in Open Daylight for $l,60O. Chicago, Jan. 16. C. P. Bertsche, a sa loonkeeper, was robbed yesterday of $1, 6S0 by a negro porter. The money was in a drawer behind the cigar case, and it is said that a half dozen detectives were in the saloon when the negro took the cash. Telling the manager that he was going out to get a "pork chop sandwich," the porter disappeared. A few minutes later the. theft was discovered by Bertsche. "Where's the porter?" he asked. "He stepped out to get a pork chop sandwich," was the manager's reply. "I hope it chokes him." was Bertsche's observation. "He's tapped the damper for all there was in it." 16,1909. BONDS ARE SOLD. City Light Securities Bring Big Premium. Issue Forty Thousand Dollars at Four and Half Per Cent. CHICAGO FIRM WINS. Will Pay Over Two Thousand Dollars Premium. Fifteen Bidders and All Offered Premiums. To use a rather crude but expressive nernacular "The city officials are tick led to death this morning." Last night at the special meeting of the city coun cil the bids for the $40,000 electric light bonds were opened and the highest bid was accepted. But the city counc'l never dreamed of such a surprise as was met last night on the official open ing of the sealed bids. The highest bidder was A. B. Leach & Company of Chicago who promised a premium of $2,260 with accrued interest. They have been wired of the acceptance and the deal will be closed at once. The $40,000 electric light bonds of the city of Topeka, bear interest at the rate of 4V4 per cent per annum, pay able semiannually, both principal and interest to be payable in the city of Topeka bonds to be of the denomina tion of' $500 each, dated January 1. 1909, without option of prior payment. As an evidence of their good faith the Leach firm sent a check of $4,230 to the city to be returned if the bid was not accepted. The complete list of the bidders is as follows: Amt. Premium. A. B Leach & Company, Chicago, Harris" Trust" & "Savings Ban ' Chicago Farson. Son & Co.. Chicago 26.0U Hnltz Sr. Comoanv. Chicago l,J2b.w E. H. Rollins & Sons, Chicago 700.0U Thos. J. Bolger Co., Chicago 800.00 Tho A mtir-iii n Trust Savings Bank, Chicago ?SS? John Nuveen & Company, Chicago, 136.00 A. C. Edwards & Sons, bi. iouis, at. l,21o.00 Kountze Bros., New York 2,172.00 Lamprecht Bros. & company, iew Ynrlr 1,24. 30 Lee Monroe. Topeka, Kansas Prudential Trust Co., Topeka Kan- 400.00 Spitzer & Co., Toledo 850.00 R. W. Morrison & Co., Kansas City 706.00 There were fifteen bidders In all and all ot them were outside of the city with the exception of tne pruaentiai company and Lee Monroe of this city. The bids vary all the way from $126 to the Leach bid of $2,260. The high hiri riven.bv the A. B. Leach & Co. of Chicago is undoubtedly the highest bid ever given the city of Topeka on bonds bearing a low rate of Interest. Most of the bids on former bonds have averaged one and two per cent and when a bid of three per cent was reached it was thought to DO marvel ous. But the Leach bid is the best nronosition ever given the city of To- neka. The city met with almost as good a proposition as ii iney nau is sued them at par ana per cent as far as the money is concerned. If the bonds had been issued at par ana four per cent there would have been a gain of $87.00 over the present sys tem but then mere wouia nave oeen the risk of losing them and the trou ble to sell, the latter trouble being a task of unknown measure. At first it is hard to see how the Leach company can make money on such bonds at such a premium. But SATURDAY EVENING. they are making a good investment with the Topeka electric light bonds in spite of the fact that one firm only bid $126.00. They receive from the city $1,6 8 7.00 a year or a little better than 4 per cent interest. This is as good an investment as can be made with such a risk. The city officials are puzzled over the bids of some of the people who tightly asked that they be given the bonds at $126.00, $400.00, $600.00 and the like. This is less than one per cent m some cases and a firm that will not risk any more than that on the finances of the city of Topeka has very little confidence. Another un usual fact in the figures was the num ber of bond companies who scram bled for the bonds. Thirteen out of town companies would have been glad to handle bonds for the city of To peka. A. B. Leach & Co. have never dealt with the city before. CHENEYS ARE FOUND. American Sailors Quickly Recovered the Bodies. Washington. Jan. 16. The bodies of the American consul, Arthur S. Cheney and Mrs. Cheney were found in the ruins of the American consul ate at Messina yesterday afternoon by tne sailors of the American battleship Illinois, which arrived at Messina yesterday from Suez. Captain Bowyer of the Illinois, had been instructed by Admiral Sperry, while enroute from Suez to Malta, to proceed to Messina, and endeavor to recover the bodies. When Captain Bowyer reached Messina yesterday he sent a number of sailors ashore for the purpose of excavating the ruins. They were successful in finding the bodies during the afternoon. The bodies were prepared for shipment and taken aboard the American sup ply ship Culgoa, which will carry them to Naples. Arrangements are being made for the shipment of the bodies to the United States. Having accom plished her mission at Messina, the Il linois has returned to Malta. Ieal Estimated at OO.OOO. Messina, Jan. 16. An estimate of the dead in Messina as a result of the catastrophe of December 28, made by Stuart K. Lupton, the American vice consul, on behalf of the American em bassy at Rome, places the number at 90,000. Mr. Lupton estimates also that there are today still 10,000 peo ple in the city. The work of getting information concerning individuals who were in Messina at the time of the earthquake Is extremely difficult, as there are undoubtedly still tens of thousands under the ruins and other tens of thousands have scattered themselves throughout Sicily and the peninsula. The people still in Messina are camping out in the outskirts and it has been Impossible to take any cen sus of them. Major Landis, military attache to the American embassy at Rome, who is quartered on board the United States battleship Illinois, re organized the work of searching the ruins of the American consulate for the bodies of Consul and Mrs. Cheney. A number of objects that belonged to the Cheneys were found before the recovery of the bodies in the ruins of the consulate today. Mr. Lupton left today for Catania to establish an American consulate there THEIR HOPES DASHED. Territories Must Wait Until After Oen. sus for Statehood. Washington, Jan. 16. Numerous delegations from New Mexico and Ari zona, which come here to press the claims of those territories for state hood, have learned that the senate leaders do not intend to permit the statehood bill to pass at the present session. This decision has been reached at an informal conference of the senate leaders. It was said that there is not time enough remaining of this congress to enact the necessary legislation. State hood measures invariably provoke prolonged discussion. An additional reason aavancea. by senate leaders against the proposition is the fact that members who have discussed the qualifications of these territories differ widely as to the character of the population and its ability to carry the responsibilities of statehood. It is said that there are a number of questions to be settled which will be answered by the coming decennial census, and many members of congress therefore urge that state hood be delayed until after it had been taken. Manv members including- Senator Foraker, who has been an advocate of eparate statehood for tnem for a number of years, have pointed out with some force that the platforms of both of the great political parties de clare for statehood for both terri tories. However there are only 40 legislative days remaining, and prac tically all of the big supply bills are yet to be passed. FROM EGYPTIAN- DARKNESS. Jewish Rabbi Would Have His People Become More Modern. Chicago. Jan. 16. Rabbi Jacob Klein, formerly of Sumter. S. C, has succeeded Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber in his charge here. The latter in a parting address pointed out the diffi culties in the way of the modern Jew ish minister. "Judaism," he declared, " is passing through a transition period, and the leader of the congregation must be careful lest he lean his people too pre cipitously out of the olden thought Into the newer conception or things and thus blind them altogether. Still it is my bounden duty to take his people gradually out of the Egyptian dark ness of the past and put tnem in toucn with the brighter light of this twen tieth century civilization." Weather Cloudy and Pleasant. Fair weather is promised for tomor row, the first real fair wea l.er in two weeks. There will be but little change in temperature. The snow will melt rapidly and it will be soft and muddy under foot. There is a light wind of three miles an hour from the south east today. The sky is cloudy. The following are the temperatures: 7 o clock 25111 o'clock 28 8 o'clock 25jl2 o'clock 29 9 o'clock 25) 1 o'clock SO 10 o'clock 261 2 o'clock 29 Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. 16. Forecast for Kansas: - Fair tonight and Sunday. FIVE CENTS. GREEN HAS A WAY Mayor Would Put New Water Main on Kansas Avenue. Connect It Directly With Har rison Street Station. USE FOK FIRES ONLY, This Is the Plan Now Followed in New York. Would Solve the Question of Fire Insurance. Mayor William Green of thls city has millions of excellent ideas stored away in the archives of his well formed cranium but he waits for them to force themselves out before he will allow anyone to follow up the clues that gradually slip after a conversa tion or cross questioning of from three to four hours. This morning the State Journal reporter "what does city hall" discussed the Copeland hotel fire with his honor for two hours bs fore he could make him express an opinion as to the improvement of the fire pressure and service in the busi ness districts of this city. But whe the mayor did finally allow one of those million ideas to leap forth with out a warning and before he could stop it the efforts of the poor scrib bler were repaid. Mayor Green has an idea that will or should be taken up by the city council and given due consideration before it loses Its ginger. The plan is to give Topeka, a new and additional fire service on Kansas avenue and along the business streets of the city from First street to Tenth avenue. It will be remembered that To peka has a pumping station at the foot of Harrison street which is there for emergency sake only and when a very bad fire occurs or something hap pens out at the headquarters of the water department this little station down near the river on Harrison Is started up and used as a "supply." The plant Is in good order, the pumps are good, the boilers are as solid as any In the city and the engines are peerless. The plan of the mayor Is to utilize this plant for other purposes use it as a direct pressure and a high pressure plant on the plan of the new system In New York city where fire steamers are useless when the high pressure plant Is connected. With very little comparative cost Topeka could construct from the Harrison street station to First street thence up Kansas avenue to Tenth avenue a new city main. It would be of the very best water main pipe wlnA ..-.'11 .... n OAl . J 1 1"-' uiah win BLanu a, u ii puunu JjrCS" sure as easily as a politician stands pat. This single main could be built up Kansas avenue at a cost equal to the loss of one big fire. Now since the new water main is supposedly con structed take notice of the old water station. The plan of Mayor Green Is to sink the "draw" of this station Into the river, and then connect the big high pressure water main directly with the little plant and with nothing else. This main is to be used for fire purposes only and the station would act as a fire steamer have the proper appliances to get up steam In very short time and work the pumps. If this would not be advisable it would be an easy task to keep a fire "banked" in the furnaces all the time and keep a reasonable amount of steam until an alarm was turned in and then start the pumps. This sta tion could get up a pressure of 200 pounds in very short time and It would throw a stream capable of reaching to the roof and floating over any building in Topeka. It would have the pressure of a regular fire en gine and would be quicker, handier, cheaper, more effective, and more re liable. Mayor Green has not consulted any of the city officials. He has not hinted it to a city councilman in fact he did not say a word about It until "tapped" by the reporter who Is well aware of the fact that the mayor has a vast amount of available ammunition bid den away for future emergences. When the State Journal reporter spread the news of the mayor's new plan all of the city officials who could be Interviewed were radically and en thusiastically In favor of it. Mayor Green Is not a man who will boost his own plan but he ned not fear as there are any number of city offi cials and councilmen who will fight over the chance to take up the matter. The next meeting of the city council for mis cellaneous business occurs on Monday right and several of the councilmen are considering the presentation of the mat ter before the august body. Whatever happens Topeka is going to Improve her fire protection in the business districts. tub people over me city win not have a chance to kick on the new plan as suggested by the mayor be cause the business men on Kansas avenue and the territory in the bene fit district are the ones who will stand the price of the construction. City Milk Inspector Dr. D. M. Camp bell has an Interesting tuberculosis ex- ' hibit in his office at the city hall. He had five samples of lungs from a hog given to him by the Wolff Packing company. These five samples show the different stages of the tuberculosis ef fect upon an animal first the lungs are spotted witn tne tubercuil. tnen harden gradually after which the pus forms and the lungs are worthless and pressed up against the bones. There is a continual stream of visitors to the office all day long looking at the samples and the exact process of the disease ct?n be traced with much more accuracy than . by books and pam phlets. Street Commissioner Frank Snyder is one of the those men who does not consider the head of a department as an office roller top desk and swinging chair Job. From the looks of the gentleman this morning his theories are well exhibited. Emring the Cope land hotel fire he was the first man to crawl down among the ruins and in spect the sewer connections to see if the immense amount of water In the cellar would be drained quickly and spoil the chances of a softening of the foundations, thus weaking the walls and making them dangerous. After he had been the target for the firemen for a few hours he went up and down Kansas avenue overseeing the work (Continued on Page Six