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THE END OF AVIATION WEEK
CURTISS WINS ANOTHER PRIZE.
iLERIOT MEETS WITH ACCIDENT.
Machine Turns Over Thrice, Bnt Avi
ator tn Only SliahUy Injured.
A twilight vision of Paulbans graceful
monoplane like a great white bird soar
ing above the plain so high that it seemed
to rise above the yellow harvest moon
hist rising above the distant bills, and the
fleeting “Golden flier,” as the Curtiss ma
rhine has been dubbed, smashing another
world’s record in the Prix de la Vitesse
were the elosing glories Sunday of avia
tion week at Rheims, France. The vic
tory of Glenn H. Curtiss, the sole Ameri
can representative in the contests, coming
un the heels of his great victory in the in
ternational cup Saturday, gives the United
States the lion's share of the honors of
the meeting. The Prix de la Vitesse. <sf
20.000 francs (S4OOOI, divided into four
prizes, was distributed to the four ma
chines making three rounds of the course,
oil kilometers, at the greatest speed, the
first prize being won by Curtiss quite
handily, notwithstanding his penalization.
Curtiss missed winning the lap speed
contest from Bleriot by only a small mar
gin. He captured second place in that
event, which was over the full circuit of
10 kilometers, or 6.21 miles, raising his
total money winnings for the meeting tn
88.000 francs, besides the International
cup. which goes to the Aero club of
America, inscribed with his name.
As in Saturday's cup contest, an acci
dent—the/only serious one of the meet
ing-removed Bleriot, the American's most
dangerous competitor, from Sunday's
three-lap speed contest. Bleriot's escape
from death was a narrow one. He had
passed the first turn in the Prix de la
Vitesse, when the rudder suddenly failed
to respond. The machine turned com
pletely over three times, landing with such
force that the petrol tank burst and.
catching fire from the hot motor, envel
oped the machine and pilot in flames. Be
fore Bleriot could extricate himself he
was burned about the face and hands, but
fortunately not seriously.
With Bleriot out of the contest. Latham
remained Curtiss's only serious rival. The
tace was intensely exciting. Latham with
“No 13" started only four mjnutes ahead
of the American, who gave chase. Curtiss
overhauled him in every kilometer, finish
ing less than 400 meters behind the
Frenchman. The time by laps was: La
tham, 8.47 3-5, 17.38 4-5,’ 26.32 2-5: Cur
tiss. 7.59 4-5, 16.00 2-5, 24.15 1-5. The com
mittee first posted Latham's time with
l-20th penalization as 27.51 2-5. giving
' Curtiss the victory, as the others who had
taken part in the event had not ap
proached the American's speed. Latham,
however, refused to accept defeat and
brought out No 29. With this he flew con
siderably faster, his time being recorded
as 8.33, 17.0, 25.18 1-5. The time, but
not the amount of penalization, was posted,
and there was excitement among the
Americans, since the penalization, which
was only l-20th. would bring the time to
26.33 1-5, seven seconds less than that
made by Curtiss. No official information
could be obtained beyond the fact that
the judges were awaiting reports from the
field commissioner at 5.30, after which no
start would be possible.
Curtiss, however, who said he had been
obliged thrice to muffle his accelerator on
the previous flight, on account of pitching,
declared his confidence that he would do
better in another attempt, and decided to
try again. Within two miuutes his ma
chine was out and speeding across the
line. He flew higher than he had ever
gone before, keeping the throtti* wide open
and making each round at greater speed
than in any of his previous efforts. The
first round he covered in 7.49 2-5; the
watches showed 15.37 4-5 at the end of
the second round, and thev were snapped
at 23.29 at the finish. With his penaliza
tion Curtiss's time stood at 25.49 2-5. and
this gave him the race by almost a minnte
margin. But when he learned that the
second _ round had been traversed in
<.48 2-5. less than one second from
Bleriot s lap record, he insisted upon mak
ing another effort, but failed to equal the
Frenchman’s time by four seconds. The
official summaries are:—
Prix de la Vitesse—Won bv Curtiss, penal
ization 1-lOth: time, 23m 49 2-ss; Latham,
"Ao g 9 ' ’Penalization l-20tb. 2d: time, 26m
33 l-ss: Tlssandler. without penalization, 3d:
time, 28.59 1-5; Lefebvre, without penaliza
tion, 4th: time. 29.00; De Lambert, sth; time,
29.02; Latham “No 13.” l-20th. 6th: time,
29.11 2-5: Paulhan. 7th; time, 32.49 4-5: Bu
nau-Varilla, l-20th. Bth: time, 42.25 4-5- Som
mer, 9th: time. 1 hour 19 minutes 33 seconds.
Prix de I’Altltude. 10.000 francs, to be
awarded to the aeroplanist attaining the
highest altitude—Won bv Latham; hlght 135
meters (about 490 feet,; Farman, 2d: bight,
110 meters: Paulhan. 3d: hlght, 90 meters;
Itougier, 4th; bight. 55 meters.
The passenger-carrying contest was won
by Farman. With two passengers he
made the circuit of the course in 10 min
utes and 39 seconds, and with one pas
senger in nine minutes. 52 4-5 seconds.
Lefebvre with one passenger completed
the lap in 11 minutes, 20 4-5 seconds.
The lap speed contest went to Bleriot,
who covered the 10 kilometers in seven
minutes, 47 4-5 seconds. Curtiss was sec
ond. with seven minutes, 48 2-5 seconds,
Bunau-Varilla, with 100 kilometers, won
the Prix de Mechaniciens. Rougie’r was
second, with 90 kilometers.
The dirigible balloon Col Renard cap
tured the Prix de Aeronats, a purse of
10,000 francs for the best time in five
circuits of the course, 50 kilometers. The
time was one hour, 14 minutes and 49 sec
onds. The Zodiac covered the 50 kilo
meters in one hour, 25 minutes and uiie
second.
The altitude and weight-carrying con
tests were the other most interesting
events of the day. Farman, mounting in
great circles, rose until be was three times
as high as the flag above the tribunes.
He moved back ami forth above the heads
of the spectators amid the greatest en
thusiasm. Latham’s feat was more spec
tacular and set the people wild. Rising
first to a bight of 21)0 feet, be made an
most complete tour of the plain. Then
mounting until ho reached u hight of al
most 500 feet he flew high over tile captive
balloon, executing graceful circles. Far
man, in the prix des passengers, carried
. two newspaper reporters, one sitting on
the others shoulders. His single passen
ger was the marquis de Polignuc, presi
dent of the committee on aviation Le
febvre carried Herbert Ward, the sculptor,
who was with Stanley’s rear guard in
Africa. Bunau-Varilla’s achievement of
100 kilometers attracted much comment.
He is only 19 years of age and received
the aeroplane as a birthday present from
liis father.
Cortlandt F. Bishop, president of ths
aero club of America, says that be in
tends to ask American cities to compete
for the honor of bolding the meeting when
the international cup. won bv Curtiss will
be defended. Ho has cabled the aero
dub offering a cash subscription for a
gold medal to he presented to Curtiss bv
I resident Taft. Any challenge for the
cup must he made before March 13 each
year. If no challenge is made within five
»years, or if the cup is won throe times by
America it becomes the propertv of the
aero club Speaking of the American
victory, Mr Bishop said: “The success of
1 urtiss was due to his genius and cliarnc
t<r. H« has proved himself a great Amer-
Icau. Aerer for ar instant, while flying
or watching the competitors, did he lose
I courage or self-control. He was always
calm and self-possessed in the face of the
overwhelming odds of a competition with
aviators of far greater experience. Hr
persevered in the path laid out. and in
the hour of victory remains as mode t and
unpretending as he has always been.”
VICTORY FOR GLENN CURTISS.
Biplane Captures the International
Aviation Trophy—Bieriot a Good
Second.
Glenn H. Curtiss, the only American
aviator on the Betheny aviation field nt
Rheims, France, Saturday won the inter
national cup of aviation, the most import
ant event of aviation week, covering the
two laps of the course. 20 kilometers, or
12.42 miles, in 15 minutes 50 3-5 seconds.
This is at the rate of 47.65 miles an hour.
Bieriot. bis most formidable competitor,
made the distance in 1-5 miuutes 561-5
seconds. Latham did not start. Curtiss
took advantage of favorable weather con
ditions iu the morning, and after a trial
lap, which he covered in seven minutes
551-5 seconds, imide his official record.
He did the first lap in seven minutes 57 2-5
seconds and the second in seven minutes
531-5 seconds. Each lap measures 6,21
miles, and Curtiss broke all previous rec
ords. Bleriot waited until afternoon be
fore flying. He made his first round in
seven minutes 53 3-5 seconds, which was
two-fifths of a second behind the best
time made by Curtiss. Lefebvre, flying in
a Wright biplane, also tried for this event,
but his time was comparatively slow, be
ing given at 20 minutes 33 2-5 seconds.
Curtiss decided suddenly to make a trial
around. At 10.11. surrounded by a group
of enthusiastic Americans, including Cort
landt F. Bishop, president of the American
aero club, Comdr F. L. Chapin, the Amer
ican naval attache at Paris, and Maj T.
Bentley Mott, tbe military atracbe, the
machine was run out on to the field. Cur
tiss changed his coat for a leather jacket,
climbed into the seat and gave the order
to start the propellers. Running along the
ground a short distance for a flying start,
the machine rose lightly, and then mount
ing gradually until he had reached a hight
of 45 feet Curtiss crossed the line at a
terrific pace. The Curtiss aeroplane, small
and compact, and with trim lines, looked
more like a racer than any of the otherz.
aud as it sped away straight as an arrow
exclamations of admiration arose from
every lip.
Clipping the corners closely, Curtiss
continued at a uniform hight until he had
passed the last hylon. He then descend
ed Sharply to get the benefit of gravity,
and crossed the finish line less than a
dozen feet above the ground. A few sec
onds afterward the white ball was hoist
ed. indicating that a record had been
broken, the aeroplane was towed back
behind the line, and Curtiss was show
ered with congratulations. Tbe time for
this trial heat was seven minutes 55 1-5
seconds. Curtiss complained that he had
encountered peculiar air currents, espe
cially over the “aeroplane giraveyard,”
where he said the air seemed to “boil.”
The Meeting: a Great Success.
The meeting at Rheims has been an
enormous success financially. There were
over 200,000 paid entries to the aerodrome
Sunday, and probably 100,000 more people
witnessed the flights from the hills outside
the course. The aeroplane companies took
orders for 52 aeroplanes during the week,
most of them from persons not before
known to be interested in aviation. Manu
facturers believe that sportsmen of every
country will now begin to buy aeroplanes,
particularly as the number of actual flights
there during the week, estimated at over
1300, were without a single fatal accident.
The cost of the different machines ranges
from S2OOO to SSOOO. A total of 536.554
words were telegraphed from the press
stand at Betheny during the week. Most
of the Paris newspaper men used tha
telephone.
Papers Served in Wright-Curtiss Suit.
Papers were served at Hammondsport,
N. Y., Friday upon Mrs Glenn H. Curtiss
and L. B. Masson, secretary-treasurer of
the Herring-Curtiss aeroplane company, by
Deputy Marsha] Fassett of Elmira, in be
half of the Wright brother of Dayton. 0.,
who are bringing suit for alleged infringe
ment on their aeroplane patents. The pa
pers are returnable in the United States
district court in New York on October 20.
ZEPPELIN FLIES TO BERLIN.
Two Monarchs of the Air Meet German
Emperor in Festal Celebration.
The airship Zeppelin 111, with Count
Zeppelin at the helm, arrived safely at
Berlin soon after noon Shnday. The
voyage from Friedrichshafen, where the
start was made at 4.30 o’clock Friday
morning, was marked by an accident to
the airship, which caused a considerable
delay at Bitterfeld. At that point Count
Zeppelin met the craft and was greeted by
the crown prince, representing the em
peror. Tbe emperor himself witnessed the
arrival of the airship Sunday. Two
monarchs of the air. Count Zeppelin and
Orville Wright, the foremost exponents of
distinct systems of aerial navigation, met
at Berlin Sunday afternoon for the first
time. They were introduced to one an
other by the monarch of the German em
pire. Mr Wright during a conversation
with the emperor was utterly surprised
at his majesty’s technical knowledge of
flying machines and the results achieved.
The emperor expressed regret that he
would be unable to see Mr Wright fly at
Berlin, owing to other engagements, in a
talk with Count Zeppelin. Mr Wright ex
pressed admiration for the wonderful air
ship the count had constructed. He said
he would like to see experiments with
smaller craft on the same system, how
ever. as vessels such as those used by the
count were too expensive.
From one end of Berlin to the other the
shout “Zeppelin is here!” rang out. The
people's desire to see the giant dirigible
with the renowned constructor at the
helm, cruising over the roofs of the cap
ital, at last was gratified.
Accident on Zeppelin's Retnrn Trip.
The Zeppelin airship, which started at
11.24 Sunday night from the Templehof
parade ground on its return voyage to
Friedrichshafen, met with an accident early
Monday morning and landed at Buelzig,
Ger., at 7 o'clock. The two forward pro
pellefs were broken and one of them pierced
the envelope. This caused the gas to es
cape. But the airship was kept up by
throwing over ballast, until such time as
the landing was made. »
Test Flight by Wright.
Orville Wright tested his aeroplane in a
15-minute flight soon after daylight at
Berlin Monday, above the Templehof
parade grounds, in order to see how the
machine worked before giving his public
exhibition oil Thursday. The aeronaut is
generally satisfied with the way iu which
the eraft behaved,
Walter Wellman Reaches Trommoe.
M alter Wellman, who recently made an
unsuccessful attempt to reach the north
pole in a dirigible balloon, arrived at
Tromsoe, Norway. Monday from Spitz
bergen. He bis left three men to guard
the airship at the Spitsbergen camp
through tbe winter.
GUNNISON TUNNEL COMPLETED.
Taft Will Open Gale^of Great Irriga
tion Project.
The great Gunnison tunnel in Colorado,
the first project undertaken by the United
States government reclamation service,
work on which lias been progressing stead
ily for 4% years, is now completed. On
September 23. President Taft will visit
the Lmompahgre valley and open the
gates, turning the florf of the Gunnison
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLYJtLEPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1909.
] river into the bore, main and distributing
canals, which will irrigate 150.1 XX) acres
] of land now semiarid.
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THE CAR COMPANY'S STRIKE.
! Large Number Leave Work—Strikers
n( Schoenville Welcome Them With
i Open Arma.
i Sixty state troopers mounted guard at
; the plant of the Pressed steel ear com
i pany in Sehoenville. Pa., at sundown
i Friday night, where 3500 employes of that
, concern are striking, fearing a repetition
।o c the riots of last Sunday night.
Friday imported workmen deserted tbe
Pressed steel ear plant in groups of
from 2 to 200. The men declared that
they had been misused, subjected to in
| dignities and forced to work whether they
I chose or not. As quickly as the men
| reached the outside of the car plant stoek-
I ade they were welcomed in open arms by
the striking employes, and in half an hour
the “strike breakers” had entered into a
strike spirit as virulent ns if they had
walked from their jobs 6*g weeks ago
when the car plant employes first laid
down their tools.
Strikers and their sympathizers gathered
in knots about street corners Friday night
and discussed Friday's developments in
strong language. The strikers declare that
before morning the Pressed steel ear com
pany will be forced to suspend operations.
But 300 workmen were left in the plaut
Friday night at sundown, so the deserting
workmen say. Tbe grounds surrounding
the river gate of,the Pressed steel car com .
pany presented a picturesque sight Friday
night. Encamped there were over 30H
workmen, who left the car works during
the day, and who say they wjll stay near
the car plant offices until they get at least
a portion of the wages due them.
Stories told by the workmen who have
quit their jobs in the car plant are almost
unbelievable. Conditions, according to
these workmen, were practically unbear
able inside the car plant stockade. Soup
prepared from rotting vegetables was
served them, they declare, by negro wait
ers picked up from the slums of Pitts
burg. Beds filled with vermin wore given
them to sleep on. they declared, while
they were charged exorbitant prices for
clothing, even two-cent stamps selling at
four for 10 cents in the car company's
commissary. These stories wen made the
subject of affidavits last Friday in the
government probe into alleged peonage
conditions at the plant.
President of Car Company Says
Charges of Peonage Are Baseless.
President Frank X. Hoffstot of the
Pressed steel car company denied at New
York Monday night tbe charges of peonage
concerning his company's attempt to oper
ate its plant at McKees Rocks. Pa. He
declared that the 1000 strike-breakers who
were taken there two weeks ago were
fully warned of the strike before leaving
New York city. He said that they were
consistently well taken care of and were
free to quit whenever they chose. "As a
matter of fact.” he added, "these peonage
charges have been trumped-up for the pur
pose of confusing the public as to the real
question. Hoping to create u favorable
public opinion, the dissatisfied employes
have endeavored to give the impression
that the trouble at the works was over
graft, the renting of houses and the so
called ‘piece pool system.’
"The truth of the matter is that, accord
ing to the wording of the petition present
ed by the so-called executive committee of
the employes on August 5, the demands
were 'for wage scale prior to April. 1907;
also time and a half for overtime ami dou
ble time for Sundays; no employe to be
discharged without the case has beeu in
vestigated and made putflic to the em
ploye.’ Promptly on the receipt of this
petition. General Manager Ryder of the
company issued a statement that ’all em
ployes are entitled to fair treatment, aud
will get it.’ An information bureau was
opened to act on all complaints. Notices
in nine languages were placed about the
works. Several hundred complaints have
been investigated since that time. ’The
lyilk of these complaints proved to be
based on misunderstandings on the part
of the men themselves.
"The men now in tbe works seem to be
entirely contented. Their number is increas
ing every day, and they are turning out in
creasingly good work. So as to make sure
that the food the men eat is good, differ
ent clerks take the same bill of fare as
the men every day, and thus keep check
on its quality.”
FIRST FATALITY AT LOWELL.
Racing; Car Kills Vian on the Auto
mobile Course.
An accident that resulted fatally Tues
day marked the first day of practice
runs in preparation for the week of auto
mobile racing, which opens at Lowell Mon
day. The victim of the accident was
Henry Otis, 20, who was struck by a
powerful racing ear. driven by Joe Matson.
The accident happened in a dense fog.
just as Matson was entering the track,
aud before he had started his machine at
high speed. Because of the fog. neither
Matson nor Otis could see each other.
Otis stood in the middle of the road, not
knowing which way to turn, and an in
stant later, he was struck by the car and
dragged for several feet. Otis died at the
hospital after a few hours and Matson
was subsequently arrested. He was taken
to the police court and charged with man
slaughter. pleaded not guilty, and was held
in S2OOO bonds for a hearing the JOth.
HOLDS OFFICERS RESPONSIBLE.
Coroner at Indianapolis Gives De
cision In Speedway Deaths.
The Indianapolis motor speedway com
pany s officers are field responsible by Cor
oner Blackwell in a verdict announced at
Indianapolis, Ind., last week for the
deaths of Wilfred Bourque and Harry
Holcomb, driver and mechanician of a
Knox car that was wrecked during the
automobile races on the 19th. Coroner
Blackwell recommended an investigation
by a grand jury.
Bourque and Holcomb were the first of
several persons killed on the course dur
ing three days of racing. Tbe coroner
says that the course was not properly
built for racing, and that for 290 feet at
Ihe place m the track where Bourque and
Holcomb lost thejr lives, the broken ro. k
surface, imperfectly welded with as
phaltum. had been torn by the wheels of
the. cars. There wns not sufficient foun
datibn for the roadway, the coroner de
clares. The coroner eomludos: "It is
clear to my mind that the Indiana polis
motor speedway <ompanv know there was
going to be a loss of life aud limb. The
surroundings indicated everything of that
kind. They were prepared with a hos
pital. ambulame forces, and everv con
venience to take cure of the dead and d' -
ing.
NO CHANCE FOR HAZERS.
Simply Cannot Get Back Into West
Point.
"It is perfectly- useless for any of the
young cadets who were dismissed by
President Taft last week from the West
Point, military academy for hazing Cadet
Orlando Button to make* any efforts to
ward reinstatement.” said a well-known
army officer at Washington Friday.
'"Neither the president nor the secretary
of war has any power to reinstate any of
them," he added. “The law against haz
ing provides for dismissal of cadets found
guilty of participating, encouraging or
countenancing such practice, and they are
not eligible to again enter West Point or
for admission to the army through civilian
examination until two wars after tbe class
of which they were members has gradfi
ated.' These statements were given in
; answer to inquiries at the war depart
ement regarding efforts being made by
some of the cadets for reinstatement. The
■ young men have been uniformly told such
। efforts will bo absolutely fruitless.
i PRESIDENT TAFT’S ANCESTRY,
j Ind How X ermonter* Estimate Him
In the Light of IC.
[ Correspondence of The Republican.
I IztxnoNDi.RßT. Vt.. Thursday. August 2'5.
People here are interested in the fact
| that President Taft’s father was born in
I Illis county of Windham, in the town of
■ Townshend, a little further clown the vnl-
I ley of West river, which the Gazetteer
i ranks next to the Connecticut in the rivers
of the state. Coupled with this historic
I birthplace is that of th" president's moth
) er. She was born in Winhall, in the vil
i luge of Bondsvillc. they say, the first town
i over tbe line in Bennington county. So
I they take great pride in President Taft
I ns a genuine Vermonter. and here can be
i heard predictions of his future course.
I based on the current estimates of family
: and personal traits. Put down, therefore.
I those points for verification in the coming
| administration:—
. That he has a tremendously strong back
। bone and will have his own way:
That he is a very pleasant man to deal
i with, but that he knows how to say no;
I That he has something important to say to
I the people in the tour he is about to make
: around the country, nnd that ho Is taking
। It for the sake of'savlng it:
That he Is going to take the people into his
; continence and will take up their cause
i against the corporations ami trusts which
I have made their fortunes by abuse of the
| people under tariff rates which have been
। kept up much too high, much too long;
That he will not let up in hfs tight for a
downward revision of the tariff and will not
permit the agitation to stop with the passage
of the present law, but he will soon renew
the effort to get a revision of the tariff which
I win renlly accomplish something for the re
lief of the people from present burdens.
What makes these observations signifi
cant is that >very man in the group who
macle them was a believer in the tariff
system, as well as a warm personal ad
mirer of tbe president. But they agreed
unanimously that the protective idea had
been carried too far. "We haven't any
infants now which it is necessary to pro
tect." was the statement. "All we need
is the difference between home and for
eign wages."
LONE BANDIT ROBS EXPRESS.
Several Thoaaand Dollars Believed to
Have Been Taken—Mistake Over
Lincoln Pennies.
Oue of the most audacious and startling
hold-ups ot a railroad train in the East
for years occurred on the eastern slope of
the Allegheny mountains near Lewistown,
Pa., early Tuesday when a lone highway
man stopped a Pennsylvania express traiu
with a dynamite cartridge, and at the
point of a revolver compelled the crew to
carry thounnds of dollars in coin afid bul
lion from an express car to a spot in the
■viblerucss. When the conductor of the
trnm attempted to interfere with the rob
ber's plans, he was shot in the hand and
the bold bandit succeeded in making good
his escape. In the darkness, however, he
mistook a bag containing 10,000 new’ Lin
coln pennies for gold coin and staggered
away with it, leaving the real gold bul
lion to be recovered by the railroaders.
THE BONDER BOAT RACES.
German Boats Easily Beaten at Mar
blehead by the American Craft.
America won a decisive victory over
Germany Monday in the first of the se
ries of sender boat races off Marblehead
for tbe President Taft and Gov Draper
cups. All three places at the top of the
list were captured by the defenders of the
trophies, while the threg challenging boats
brought up well to the rear. The Joyette,
owned by Commodore William H. Childs
of the Bensonhurst yacht club. Brooklyn,
N. Y., won first honors, with the Ellcu,
owned by Charles P. Curtis of Boston,
second, and the Wolf, owned by Caleb
Loring of Boston, third. Next came the
Margarethe, one of the German chal
lengers, and following her, more than six
minutes astern, was the Hevtlla, while
the Seehund II finished last.
The honors iu the second day's race of
ihc international contests between the
German and American sonder boats fell
to the American yaeht Ellen, owned
by Charles P, Curtis of Boston and sailed
by his son, Charles P. Curtis. Jr., at
Marblehead yesterday. The German chal
lengers were hopelessly beaten, one of
them, the Seehund 11. dropping out of
the race when it was one-quarter over
because she fouled the flag mark at the
windward end of the course. The Wolf
finished a elose second to the Ellen while
the Joyette, winner of Monday's contest,
was. third. 45 seconds behind the Wolf.
The Hevelln. with Otto Protzen. her part
ly disabled skipper, at the holm, crossed
the finish lino in fourth place, ncurlv two
minilies astern of the Joyette. mid the
Margarethe brought up in the rear.
BASEBALL TO YESTERDAY.
Connecticut Lcamac Standing;.
ctxas. w. l. r.c.l clubs. w. l. r.c.
Hartford. fill 41 .filTiSprhixfield, 32 38 .473
Holyoke. Cl 43 .353 V Haven, ’33 60 *469
N. Britain. 3« 32 .327iNorthnnfn, 50 60 .45.5
Waterbury. 58 33 .523 Bridgeport. -10 71 .369
American Leanne Standing;.
CLUBS. W. 1.. r.C.I CLUBS. w. L. r.c.
Detroit. 77 13 .042 CLicago. 60 60 .500
I'hila.. 74 47 .612 Xew York, 54 qs .454
Boston. 73 50 ..VM Sr Ixiuls, 50 68 .424
Cleveland. 6161 .500 Washlng n, 33 88 . 273
National League Standing;.
CI.VBS. W. L. r.c.' CLUBS. w. 1., r.c.
Pittsburg, 8632 .ilKLPhlla.. 5661 .179
Chicago. 79 38 .675 St Louis. 45 72 .385
New York. 69 46 .600 Brooklyn, 4176 .330
Cincinnati, 59 56 . 513 Boston. 32 86 .271
Keene's Horse “Sweep” Wins Fntnrlty
So hard held that his head lay almost
in his rider's lap, and yet, withal, main
taining his graceful, fleet stride, James
R. Keene’s Sweep, a son of Beu Brush-
Pink Domino, won the 22d Futurit v at
Sheepshcad Bay. New York, Monday.
Five lengths buck, ridden out with whip
and heel to beat Sweep's stable-mate,
Grasmere, a short length for the place,
staggered the tired Montpelier stable's
candidate, (,'andleberry, also a son of the
sire of Sweep. Angeronu. an added start
er. was a fairly g\pd fourth, but the other
nine contestants were beaten off and well
strung out over a furlong. The time for
the six furlongs was 111 4-5. Sweep's
share of tbe purse of $31,000 was $27.-
000.
ADA.MS SECURES BAIL.
After spending 11 days in jail, A. D. F.
Adams, the Boston broker, indicted with
Donald L. Persvh in eonmzctivn with the
manipulation of $15,000 worth of Eclipse
oii company stock used ns collateral, Tues
day at New York obtained the $12.1X10
lie, essary to pay his bull, and was re
leased. The money was brought from
Boston by Robert J. Jefferson, a Boston
broker. Mr Adams’s attorney promised
to produce him when be was wanted for
trial.
CANADA STARTS CONSERVING.
The Canadian government at Ottawa
has followed ex-President Roosevelt's bur
gestio’i by appointing a commission fdr thu
conservation of natural resources. It is
made up of representatives of the federal
and provincial governments, the univer
sities and mett particularly skilled in min
erals. timber and other natural resources.
Clifford Sitton is chairman.
William MacabOe. 105, the sole sur
vivor of the crew of the famous old Unit
ed States frigate Constitution. Is in a
serious condition iu the hospital of the
United States naval heme in PUUudelpliia.
! MILITARY CRAZE IN ENGLAND.
THE ROYS CATCH THE INSANITY.
Gen Eaden-Powell Has 200,000 Boy
Scoots Learning the Trade of Mur
der.
[Copyright In the United States and Great
Britain by Curtis Browu.]
Correspondence of The Republican.
Ixjxdox, August. 19. 1909.
Ever since the Boer war Lonl Roberts
has been crying in the wilderness in season
aud out of season—until he has come tp be
looked upon ns something of a crank-ifor
the awakening of England to the danger
of invasion. Others joined in the cry after
a while, but nothing much came of it. the
average British business man's view being
that be was quite safe behind tbe navy,
aud that it was rather annoying to be
bothered and taxed just to gratify the
whims of folk who didn't happqn to have
.anything else to do except excite them
selves, over their own tads.
Perhaps the most interesting develop
ment has been the sudden craze let loose
by Gen Badcu-Powell when lie invented
the boy scouts. To day there are 209.900
of them in England, and the movement
has spread to the colonies and to the con
tinent. It is estimated that "B. P." now*
hits about 31X4,4100 juvenile followers scat
tered over the world. No game ever
caught on here so rapidly or so eompletelv.
Within a month or two after Gen "B. P.”
launched his scheme parties of small boys
in uniform could be seen in every park
and open space in the suburbs of London
and every other large town in the country
drilling and scouting. The chance to be
real frontiersmen appealed to tbe boys,
and they flocked into the new organization.
"B. I’." has confessed since that he Had
no idea he was starting so big a thing.
But ho has risen to the occasion and he
is at the head of an organization that will
have a farreaching effect on the military
future of England. The boy scouts have
familiarized not only the boys, but their
parents, with the military uniform, and
there is not a shadow of a doubt that
many a parent who would have opposed
his boy joining tbe army or the territorial
force a year ago is converted to-day to the
idea of military service for everybody.
The boy scout is trained to take care of
himself in the open, to rea<X maps and to
observe the country and all the little signs
which are so useful to a frontiersman or
to a scout in war. The boys wear a uni
form. consisting of a khaki shirt, loose
blue running breeches and .a slouch hat.
They curry a long po^. which may be used
as tbe backbone of a tent, as part of a
stretcher for a wounded comrade or, with
a flag tied nt one end, for signaling. The
scouts are organized in patrols of half a
dozen to a dozen members, with an older
boy, who is known as a scout master, in
charge, and they are expected to render
military obedience to him. Every fine
afternoon they are taken out in the fields
and woods and trained in the art of scout
ing and the open-air life.
But the crowning glory of the scout's
life comes once a year, when a few hun
dred of the best, chosen for their profi
ciency in the arts of the frontier, arc taken
into camp somewhere far away from the
cities, and lire for a fortnight under the
couunaiid of "B. P.” himself. The de
fender of Mafeking against the Boers
knows the British boy ns few other men
do, and to his young followers he is some
thing more than human when he sits with
them round the < nntpfiro and tells them
stories of his campaigns in Africa.
It is no use saying that the tendency of
the boy scouts is not military. A receut
canvass of several hundred boy scouts
showed that 75 per cent of them intended
to join either the territorial or the regu
lar army when they are o'd enougb, 10
per cent intended to go into the navy and
most ol the rest were looking forward to
a life in th" colonies, where thev will be
able to put to good qse the lessons of self
help and woodcraft which they have
leartfed from "B. I'.’’ and his helpers. The
fever for scouting has spread even to the
girls, nml .1. A. Kyle, the secretary of
the national organization, lold me a few
days ago that be had been overwhelmed
with applications to form patrols of girls.
"Me are working on a scheme,” he said,
"to take in the girls, too. and put their
enthusiasm to some use. Broadly speaking,
we will teach them ambulance work, first
aid to the injured, nursing. ia mp cooking
and things oke these at which a woman
enn be of real use either in war or peace
Me me trying to work out a scheme to
keep an eye on the boys and help them on
in life. Me expect to pass a good many
of their ior the army and naw, and we
are arranging to get in touch’ with th.>
colonial agencies so that we may be able to
place our boys advantageously’in the col
onies, So fur wo have been able to make
use of all the boy 8 over IS who have
passed through our hands as scout masters
hut obviously we ennuot continue to do
that long."
The boys of the upper classes, too, hare
caught the military fever. All the big
public schools, like Eton. Harrow. Win
chester and St I'apl's have had the cadet
corps for years, but membership was op
tional, and the boys, as a rule, preferred
cricket and football to soldiering. Now.
however, the boy who doesn't do his drili
and shooting practice is hoventted, and
the crack shot has ousted the fast bowler
mid the goalkeeper from their positions as
the school herots. Mr Haldane, the war
minister, has been clever enough to turn
the new spirit to advantage, and has rerns
nizod the school cadet companies as offic
er's training corps and prescribed a
course of instruction for them.
But it is not only the boys that have
been infected with the military spirit. Mr
Haldane's scheme for a territorial army,
whi.li every one predicted would bo a
ghastly failure, is a brilliant success. The
business win- minister abolished the old
volunteers, to whom soldiering was more
nr les- of a picnie to be undertaken only
111 fair wcatber and when evervtliing was
comfortable, mid substituted for them a
branch of 1 lie regular army under regular
military discipline and liable to he called
on for active service when needed. Everv
one predicted that the young Briton would
not volunteer under these conditions, but
every one was wrong. I n loss than a year
the oslabhshmoiit of 300.006 men prac
tioallv was complete, and Ibero arc a num
ber of regiments now with long waiting
lists.
But this is not all. Another movement
inaugurated by Lord Roberts has taken
hold of tfio people like wildfire, and it is
safe to say that if England wore invad
ed to-morrow by the kaiser. M'illiam would
be «eiy much surprised at the resistance
he would moot with. This is the civilian
rifle club movement, which is also organ
ized nationally mid has about 200.000
members These men practice dailv or
weekly with light rifles, and most of them
row ar" accomplished marksmen. Minia
ture ranges have been equipped in cellars
and on the roofs of nusiness buildings
and now instead of spending the lunch
hour chaffing the barmaid in the nearest
beer house, the clerks and salesmen in the
great London wholesale houses spend the
time shooting and qualifying themselves
to take their place in the ranks of their 1
country s defenders.
The military authorities. I am informed,
are considering a plan by which these
riflemeu iftjjy be recognized as part of the
country's defensive forces and given a
uniform, or at least a badge. If some
thing of this kind is not done and the
riflemen turn out to meet the Germans
if they over do come, they will meet the
fate of tbe French franc tirenrs. The
war office is arranging for a grant of am
munition to recopnized clubs, and from
this to formal recognition is a short and
easily taken step.
To crown it all. Ixird Roberts introduced
hi the Hotuo of Lords a bill providing for 1
universal military training for the youth of |
Ihe country Under it every one, duke’s
s"n ami < ook's son, between the ages cf
1“ and 30, would have to serve in the ter
ritorial army four months under canvas or
in barracks the first year and 15 days each
jear for the three succeeding years, in
addition to a certain number of drills
every month at regimental headquarters.
After the fourth year the men would pass
into, the reserve and uould be liable to call
in time of nntioua] danger.
Ihe hill, of course, has been defeated
I this your, hut "Bobs" is confident that in
five years something of the kind will be
written in the statute books. Meantime
people must become accustomed to the
idea. The day has gone by. Lord Roberts
says, when the British people can be
patriots by proxy. They no longer can
hire their fighting done lor them. If Brit
ain is to hold its place in the world Britons
must make up their minds to do their own
fighting if necessary.
JOHN SMITH AND DAVID SWING.
“A New Hampshire Farm and Its
Owner”—The Smiths and Sternes—
A Heretic Preacher.
From Our Special Correspondent.
Boston. Tuesday. August 31.
They say the longest list of names in
the Boston directory, that mercantile Bible,
is of the Smiths, aud next to it that of the
Sullivans. Both are New Hampshire
names of good fame, although the line of
the Revolutionary Sullivans of Durham
and Exeter has nearly run out in their
state. Of the Smiths, many yet remain,
and to their number have been added many
more from various nationalities where the
name is found with variations in the
spelling:—
Whence cometh Smith, be he knight, lord or
squire,
But from the smith that forged in the fire?-
says old Verstegen; and I fancy the name
itself as applied,to blacksmiths came from
the verb to smite. —that being one gr, at
function of the ancient smith, before trip
hammers and rolling mills and nail fac
tories were invented. M'hen the smith be
came a tanner, especially in New England,
the smiting went on quite as brisk!", for
be had trees to fell, and stone to split and
blast tor his stone walls, those ornaments
or our rural landscape:—
J ° hU fire’ takes P lea sure o'er his crackling
subdued the monarch oak,
-Ie earned the cheerful blaze by something
higher ®
Pensioned blows,—he owned the tree
ne stroke.
And knows the value of the distant smoke,
uh > h , e . ret i>™s at night, his labor done.
M Sun 1U b S actton " itb tbe long day's
To be sure. Jonathan Smith, in his
"New Hampshire Farm" on the hills cf
Peterborough, in sight of the near
Monadnoc, takes pains to say. “The fire-
Piace in cold weather would not warm
the room six feet away; on winter even
ings the family formed a circle closely
about the open fire; and while the face
was rod with heat, cold chills ran up and
down the back." This was only in the
coldest weather, or when the wmd blew
stron^Jy. for otherwise tbe blazing%gs or
the oaken or beechen coals threw k heat
about the room; as I well know from
avmg in old houses no otherwise heated
than by open tires. To be sure, when I
road (ireek with Mrs Ripley in the north
east parlor of the Old Manse, with
Raphael's St Michael in miniature on the
nail and Kosciusko's sketch of her grand
father. Col Bradford, on the high mantel,
wo did draw up a screen if the north
wind blew hard, to keep the chilly airs
from finding us out. but that was ex
ceptional.
Mr Smith, the author of this very pleas
ant family history, is tbe district judge at
Clinton, and a veteran of the civil war;
he is n studious antiquary, and has long
teen investigating the land titles in that
region of New Hampshire where he was
born: complicated as they have boon for
n century and a half by the conflicting
claims to jurisdiction of New Hampshire
and Massachusetts, though settled bv the
king and privy council in 17-11. aud'bv a
decision of the same council m the Bow
case. 1755 and again in 1762. But the
present volume enters not into any of the
disputed questions, and relates mainly to
tne two great families of Smith and Sterne
(corrupted in Massachusetts into Stearns),
from which ho descends. The Smiths go
back to an English M'illiam. who removed
to northern Ireland, and became mingled
with the Scotch-Irish emigration to Mas
sachusetts and Now Hampshire after 1720,
in which the father of the two Sullivan
governors of Now Hampshire and Massa
chusetts came over. He was one of the
heroes of Miss Jewett's novel of “The
lory Lover.'—a scholar and seboedmaster
who lived to be almost a hundred,—but
not connected either with the Smith or
the Stearns lino. M'illiam Smith had a
descendant. Jonathan, who settled on
Elm hill in Peterborough, and it is his
.farm, and bis son, Dea Jolin, with bis
wife, Susan Stearns, of whom this hook
tells,—their farm work and housework,
their holidays and Thanksgivings, their
weddings and funerals, their letters and
infrequent journals. The Sterne familv
came over before the Smiths.-in fact, a
< entury earlier; and settled in M’atertown
m what is now Maltham; their descend^
ants intermarried with tbe Phinneys of
I.exington, and the Parkers tiicre: so that
Iheodore P iker, as u,|| ils i,j s f r i en d
George Stearns, were of that descent Fi
delia .-ind Susan Stearns of Jaffrev mar
ried Dia John and Dr Albert Smith,
who wore cousins in the second degree of
George M nlkcr of Peterborough, Exeter,
Springfield, Now York. Paris and Wash
ingtoii, when* he died 21 venrs ngo. aiid is
buried in Springfield. His cousin the dea'-
con remained on Ihc farm, aud iu Peter
borough village, till he was in his 75tii
year, then removed to Illinois, where u“
died before be was qniie 8(>. Mani of
his cousins bad long lived nt the West,
m Illinois and St Louis, and none of
lus descendants now remain iu Feterbor
ough. His daughter. Frances, going to
school in Brattleboro in 1&51, saw a
“bloomer’’ suit in action, and thus de
scribed it:—
1 do wish you could have seen a jrirl who
was there! She had on a bloomer dress ot
steel-colored silk, which was some way above
her knees: the pantalettes were of the same
and slock out like two bags fv'l of meal. She
had on a blue satin hat line, with vellow
and trimmed with .ibbon about a ouarler of
a yard wide, hanging down to her waist. The
strings were tied on one side with a bow
and very long cnd<: and on the other side sho
had two large roses, one white and one blue.
Iwo mourning breastpins, black mitts, ami a
niaek s’lk shawl folded like a mantle, com
pmted her toilet. /
Francos was tben 17. nnd a judge of
toilets. Two years later she vas at Lee
visiting her great-aunt iby marriage).
Judge Smith's widow, Jiving on her form
of 3QO acres, with the great field in front
of 88 acres,—a kind of park. She went
to tbe Lee reading circle, whic h sbe cmn
pared unfavorably with her home circle.
Twelve vears before Mrs Smith had se
lected for her niece. Fanny's mother a
domestic, whom she thus described,—show
ing how times have changed since IS4I :—
Her name Is Charlotte Durgin, sister to
our Clarissa, and one of a fnmllv of nine
sisters anti three hrothers. Her are Is "o
Ilir temper seems perfectly good, a n j ;
habits are very IndustriOw; she Is a iie.iltfiv I
plcuMiit-lonklng, tidy, wholesome girl who'oi
no one could dislike to nave near tbeir’norso'i
she agrees to do your work for $1 a week’
provided it Is not very hirrl, In which case
she would ask 7s <H <Sl.2s|. Xgrecs tn wait on
the table and hand tea In case of oomnaiA
when required.—a point about which girls
tom^ftmes boggle.
At this dnto ilS4l> butter was 17 cents
u pound, bvef mid pork 6, real 4. cbick
ons 7. potatoes ^0 c^nt^ a bushel, apples
M a bmrrl wood $2 a yord.—all iu Poter
borougb. Hardly a .domc^ic was thou of
t I * n Hampshire, though
Jrhh laborers w^ro on some of. tFe larger
fmpu. In Maj, jSGI Mrs Si-san Smith.
I mmy h mother, writing to her *on in
Dartmouth college, gi tea a family view of
the late Francis Abbot, then dividing his
parish at Dover. N. H.:—
Did you read "Outside of Christianity,” by
Air Abiiot? 1 think there are not many steps,
betweeu his "reliainu” and French infidelity.
He is a grand-nephew of our Dr Abie! Abbot,
and 4ran<]son of Abbot of Wilton, who
had a household bitterly divided in religious
beliefs,—the grandmother being strongly or
thodox. and taking all he^ children with
her except the father of the young minister
in question. It is a bold step for a young
inn if to come out and denounce everything
that has made the 19th centurv what it is,
and pay there is nothing In it. It Is said he
is ii very pure-minded man,—but what has
made him so? The very Christianity ha
ignores.
I used to lite in regard to Frank Abbot's
attacks on ('hristinns the story here told
of Mrs Smith's husband, who, one lowery
haling day. said to his son John, who
said, "Don t you think fish would bite w n ll
to-day?" “'Xe.-. but keep away from the
brook and they won’t bite you,"
However it may have been with the
Peterborough fish, tbe Presbyterian Chris
tians of Chicago, under the lead of a too
previous young minister mimed Patton,
did try their teeth on that emancipated
preacher, David Suing, in 1873-4, as re
lated iu tbe sympathetic biography of Prof
Swing published at Cedar Rapids, la.,
last winter by the Torch press. It is
written by Rev J. F. Newton, himself bred
a Presbyterian, but now still more emanci
pated. than Swing himself. Its title,
’’David Swing, Pcet-Freaeher.” gives a
key to its tone in describing this son of
Ohio, descended from ( aliimsts of Alsace;
before Alsnce was stolen by Louis XIV,
and Swing's ancestors driven to take
refuge from the bite of that most Chris
tian majesty, in lands free from all bat
ms red Indian's Catholic tomahawks, in
Louis s peculiar modes of propagating the
laith once delivered to Constantine. The
“ rs t American Schwing, born in London
years after the death of the
old persecutor of Calvinists (Samuel by
name), migrated in 1752 to Long Island,
and was very likely, he and his family, to
have been found in New Jersey by the
Airmail land surveyor, St John, when be
wns laying out his own New Jersey farm
a little after 1760. David Swing's grand
tather. son of this Samuel, removed to
Aewport in Kentucky in 1799 or earlier,
and sent his son. David, to be a river
pilot down the Ohio, and to live in Cin
cinnati, where the preacher was born in
August, 1830.
Ine younger David was brought up by
his mother, a widow after 1832, until she
married a blacksmith, Hageman, who soon
removed eastward and up the river to
Clermont county.—whence m due time
the striplhig David went, on northwest
wara to Oxford in Butler county, where
he entered the Miami university in 1847.
This is the little college about which clus
antislavery recollections of the
"Ihomas Correspondence” lately noticed
Swing graduated iu
18. along with Ben Harrison, afterward
president, of whom Swing said, "Beu did
well enough in Lathi and Greek, but his
taste ran to history, government, law ams
oratory. Swing's own turn wns for
philology and mathematics, "he knew his
’ ii’b'il by heart and the Iliad was as fa
nuhar to him as the spelling-book.” He
then began to study theology under the
proslavery Dr Hico, at Cincinnati, who
soon took his Old School sominarv over
into more congenial Kentucky, anil went
himself to St Louis to defend slavery and
the Pentateuch in a semireligious weekly
at St Louis.
This threw Swing, who was an abolition
ist. back upon Oxford, where he became
a Latin and Greek professor at $559 a
year, and staved there, preaching now ami
then, aud having his salary increased, till
he went to Chicago in 1866. to preach in
a small wooden church at the corner of
Dearborn and Ontario streets, ou the
"North Side.” This was swept away by
the great tire of 1871. along with Swing's
house and all his old sermons; and a few
years later young Patton began to kindle
under the preacher those tires of dog
matism which, like a blaze under a baikv
horse, are supposed to start the superin
cumbent towaid the true Zion. On the
contrary, the heresy trial singed the feath
ers of him who lighted the blaze; and
Swing retired from the presbytery to be
"an-'azad or free mini, like tbe cypress,
wbieb is always flourishing: nnd of this
nature are the religions independents, the
uzads."
MAURETANIA BREAKS RECORD.
Goes From New York to Queenstown
in Four Days, 14 Honrs and 27
Minutes.
The .steamer Mauretania arrived at
Queenstown Monday from New York,
over the short course, and made the pas
sage in four days 14 hours and 27 min
utes. This beats her previous best pas
sage by two hours and 53 minutes. The
Mauretania arrived at 7.27. and quickly
landed the Irish contingent of her pas
sengers and mails. Sne then continued on
to Fishguard, where she dropped anchor
at 1.95.
Her four tenders took oft the passengers
mid mail--, and a special staff of customs
officers were in waiting to insure a speedy
inspection of the baggage. Special trains
were quickly on their way to London,
where they were scheduled to arrive at
6.55 p. in. The journey from New York
to Loudon will thus be completed in five
days, one hoqr nr.d 35 minutes. Newport
and Fishguard were htvishiy beliagged
with the stars and stripes and union jacks
for the occasion The Inhabitants turned
out to cheer xhe incoming liner, and a
general holiday was proclaimed.
SONS OF VETERANS ELECT.
Nn Great Contest far Any Office Ex
cept That ot Commander-lii-niiet.
Organization politics involving the elec
ti-ni of luitioiin) officers occupied the atten
tion at M'ashington Thursday of the na
tional association of the Sous of Veterans.
The contest for commnnder-in-cbicf was
spirited, but the other officers were elected
without difficulty. The list of new officers
follows: Commander-in-chief, George M‘.
Tollitt of Paterson, N. J.; senior vice
commander, Albert J. Routwell of Con
cord. N. IL: junior viee-commander, Capt
Francis E. Cross of Washington. D. C-;
members of council-in-cbief, Thomas J.
I'lnnmm of pedham, Felix A. Kremer of
Madison. M’is., and John A. Bommliardt
of Cleveland. Mi ■■ Molly Donaldson ot
Paterson. N. J . was re-elected national
president of the ladies' auxiliary; Mis
-- red Tschudy of Johnstown, Pa., vice
president. util Miss Edna Gergowitz of
Columbus, 0., member of the national
eouueil.
ALLOTMENTS FOR MILITIA.
Mauxaehusetts to Receive 8142,000
From National Government.
Four million dollars, appropriated by
Congress for the militia, has beeu allotted
among the several states and territories
by Li^ut-Col AVcaver of the general
itaff corps of tbe army, who is chief of
the division of militia. The enlisted
strength of the militia, as shown by tables
prepared by Col YVeaver, is 109,761, and
ihe allotments under various heads include
$1,472,250 for imns. equipment and camp
ptirposcs; $4191.750 for promotion of rifle
nnii-tiie: $628,561 for ammunition, and
$970.6511 for supplies. Th" allotments in
clude tbe following: t ounreticut. $66.-
(XtO; Maine. $40,060; Massneliusgtts, $142,-
000; New Hampshire. $37,000; New York,
$360,000; Rhode Island, $30,000; Veriuout,
$26,000.
THAW TO BE LIBRARIAN.
In their search for regular occupation
for Harry K. Thaw, recently recommitted
to the state hospital far the criminal in
sane at Matteawau. N. I’., tbe authori
ties of tbe institution hare appointed him
to the post of librarian.