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LOTTERY MEX CAUGHT
GERMAN TRADE HARD HIT
Oscar Cahn Arrested While Opening
Big Bundle of Tickets.
— m lotteries with an extensive bu*lne M In
thts country FiitTered a blow yesterday when the
pclice arrested Oscar Cahn. of N"". &* Kast J>Tth
■tre*t. who. they say. has been In charge of their
«->er»Tinns in this country. Complaints from p*r
fAhs In !Devers: cities of the Bast and Middle West.
that they were receiving bundle* of lottery tickets
frorr German y. accompanied by bills, made th»
portal authorities stirpidous, and for rhre* months
♦he mail to Cahn & Co. has been wsicbed.
.. c- week ro many seizures were made by th*
rosuil authorities that the collectors for the Royal
FXxeny. Dukedom of Leipsic and the Brunswick
Totterien told their regular cnKtomers that they
could not give, any tickets for two or three weeks,
«nd asked several' to allow them to have th« tickets
mailed to them to elude the postal authorities. In
this -■ »v a considerable number of duplicate ticket-.
got into this country and were distributed In place
r r those which were seised. More than a hundred
tickets ■for the August drawing of the. three lot
teriea were found in Cahn's letter files when he
»as arrested.
Cain) *** arrested by Detective Lieutenants
Orsn and TVilber laFt nijrht. just after they had
rounded up two allexed "con" men, members of
the Gondolff gang. There is also a federal war
rant out for his arrest for using the mails for
fraudulent purposes.
It is said that Cahn has been the chief American
representative of these German lotteries for twelve
years. It has b«en a profitable business, one which
has * .-.wed Cahn to move in the wealthiest Ger
iri«n sets in the city. An elderly man. he is most
populer with all the members of the numerous
(rrman societies to which he belongs, and his wife
arid daughter have entertained extensive'y
Fmm some of the sale? slips found by the police.
it was shown that his lottery business amounted
tr. JS.'W» or more a month. A notebook showed
that here In the city aJone he had more than two
hurdr*d and flfry clients. Many of the names
fn'.ind ie rsis M of customers wer<« those of some
vct>U known German professional men of this city.
H« aJ«" had many customers hi humbler walks of
life, for whom the lottery has even a greater
rav-inatior than the swindling policy game.
Oahn tnnde his headquarters at his desk in th»
©See of Wa'.lach & Brieger. silk jobbers, at No.
J25 Church street. Ever since the complaints w»m
- -«- revived by the pasta! authorities— most of
th>m coming from Baltimore and Akron. Ohio —
Cairn's mail has been carefully scrutinized. Wh»Ti
suspicion became almost a certainty the police and
the postal authorities collaborated. Every steamer
e r.r.«-a.r*«i to hrtn? bulky German mail for a hn 1»
quantifies that did riot appear to be warranted,
fv-w>n aft»r the watch begran It was noticed that
similar packages were passing through the mail!)
addressed to Cahrs wife and to his daughter. atlas
Parah Cahn. who lSves with her father. One o+
two nther --■•• — ..-.- = in the city also appeared to be
receiving similar packages frequently.
Terterdny morning the Rotterdam got in. and th#
portal authorities found two of the familiar pack-
Rges Ia tlie mail. Fosta! Inspector Hill and th«
two detectives went up to the Church street offices
and waited for the mall to be delivered. The poet
man about noon brought in two packages, one ad
dressed to Cahn and the other to Adolph Briefer.
The men waited a few moments, until, peering
through the door, they saw Cahn and Brieger opem
their mail. As th<ey did so. the detectives rushed
in and — The letter addressed to Cahn
bore a Le.'psic —lark It read:
Wi:h «am<"- mail I ser.<l others to following ad-
S <".. M. X.. A. H.. A B. Wishing that
nra have received them. I am. yours respectrully.
WILHELM OBT-AJR BRI'XS.
Bruns fs the active nx-Tit in Germany in th*
t», r# *» loneries with which Cahn has t*«n con
nected.
When Hi:i «-<?r!risc«ted the packages he also
s^zed a letter fll* on th» desk. Cahn paid that
this beion^d to WaJlaeh. but 'Walliich denied It.
T.*ner ? fonnd in •• revealed, the officers say. th«
nsmes of those whose Initials were mentioned In
Rruns'F letter. According to them "S. C." 1*
Sarsh Cahn: "M. M." is Max Mergentlne. of No.
ys Washington street; A. B." is Adoirh Breiger.
■srhile "A. H-." they ta?.-. it A. H»sse, who keeps a
Minors at Frankfort and William streets.
Mr. Hesse denied last night that he over had
T-poeiv^o an>- mail for Cahn or ever had any busi
ness relations with him of any start. He said that
be knew <"ahn. but men socially, as both belong
to Fnnni of the - me German societies.
ftn» of the tickets issued by the Duchy of
Br-.:n«wirk Lottery, printed on light green paper.
thws what all the tickets are like. On this is
printed in German under the arms of the duchy:
; i
ONE-HALF ORIGINAL*
145 th Duchy of - - m - — Lunenbureer jruaranteed.
Land lottery.
nm Clas« No. 21373* V».
i Holder of ?his ha* a pledge of first Sasi 145 Land j
,!>TT-»ry »hi.-h win tav< a. ■i'~a.-*'.r* July 20 and 21.!
]]S,>. for •-, drawing 12 marks including collection;
Mow and !mp"ria! stamp*. The wtnntnsj will *>» paid;
ißCcordini to mec&om 9 ar.d 10 of trie plans. Attention)
••» especially caj!^d to th« last sentence of section 10.
Brunswick. April 15. 190" I
;i>uca: I>in4 lottery Directorate. Board of the Duca..
Bacnrar.T.. Berrer*. Land Lottery
Prinrljial Collectors. C "Wolff.
McoLacc Je<-oW Jr. Bremen. Aaa't Collector i
G'Ai Exchange. j
1 P.»r*tisln in the second .-.•:« drawines of which;
i«e-u- Aujruet K>. [1 a.-:-: 12. I!**. may be made up:
to Aucusi 3. ISi^. Fhouia delays b* unavoMabl*. an I
'•s:^?iir to Amru't «!. If*«. Tr.ar be mart*, with t"" 1
'"arr.t- t:twf for drawing, «!V. the payro»r.t of I
■Tr.a:t:« rr!l<~-tion« <3ue# sr.d Imperial stamp expense* ;
st r^« Lottery fc«»4auarters In advance •*■• •••".on*
\ r . ir.i 14 of the riarsi. * j
Aft-s- d?lvlr.g amone C--e documents and letters
*<vjn3 in the letter file on Cahn's desk the deter
ttves announced that they had full evidence of
Gabs's long connection with the Saxon. I-eipslc
e-rd Rrur.swick lotteries. The tickets found were
a! 1 for th»- August drawings. In addition to this
evidence rece ipts from all over the country, sent by
M who have won prizes at trie la^t drawings.
•w-t* f.-.und. The extent of Calm's business among
reputable <>»Trr.an professional men is not surprto
*« when it is considered that lottery drawings are
legaiized by the governments of the petty German
Ftat*-s. most or them depending on them for a gnod
Psri of their levejroe-
Aft«r Cahn had been placed under arrest he was
taV«>n to Vo'.ire Headquarters, and will }y arrafgned
ti*-<iay. chargnJ with violating the Penal Code.
After this he will be arrested agaJr by the postal
authorities on a charge •' fraudulent use Of the
sails.
SIDE KILLED LEGLESS WONDER"
Variety Performer Plunged to Death Loop
ing the Gap on "Circle of Death."
[By -. «s--— - tn Th» TrJbun* ;
'""yhoctin. Ohio. Aug. 3 — On hi" first public at
tTr.pt to rid* the "Hrcle of death." a mew bicycle
■"ring leap devised by hlraself. William Wilson.
Vno-a n « n i n » %-srlety world tw the *Tißfjteaa Won
«1»r." was killed 1n the Sixth Street Theatre here
to-night.
! T"i«*J to a bicvcl*. ;■• had whizzed do-wn a thlrfy
foot incline ar<s had hslf rounded the Hi-He, laisu
ly feet in from which he planned to
*tn»rgA fer ,d fly f- tr*T in the runway, when weights
•^'wtM Tcith the circle failed to work and he
*"«' pi'Jnre.j to death in the lower runway.
ELOPING RUSSIANS BAILED,
to the night court iast night Mrs. David Bsssacr
snd Jiosr^ s -nr-inerman, the Iluselan banker, tSM
«^'Ptr.g couple who n>d to this country from P»rm.
Russia, ami were arrested Isew In the Hotel Bruns
*iek on Saturday right, were admitted to ball bar
Sbcbttntc Harris. The couple then left the court
««» together, but not until Magistrate Harris.
•:<»a£ul G^n<r.U Nicolas de Lodygensky and others
i*d ii^i their good offices to effect a reconcilia
tion between Bo»t>er and his wife. Thr-lr efforts.
>io».-vtr. were In i an
DIES FROM AUTO WRECK INJURY.
Atlantic City. Aug. 3.— James McDameron, who
*■** injured Saturday nijht when the automobile
'« which n » was riding hit : , train, died in he
J "»spital to-night from c fractured skull. The
ix-Air* „-.. h nid mr Arthur Palmer, the chauffeur.
'"•5 J«n« Hart. rr«?hani«.inn. These two men
*W* in th» ■*r at ?he time of th« accident, but
2 s ? net "«"*iy »«»■«.
A 'VACATIOX FUND."
Inspector O'Reilly Investigates Re
ported Contributions.
Inspector Mile? O'RellJv. began an Investigation
yesterday of the report that liquor men in Miller
and liberty avenues. 'East New York, had con
tributed $5 each to the "captain's vacation fund."
Captain Christian Re*niels. who is now on his va
cation, is In command of that precinct.
It was r»i»orte<l that a committee from the local
/Liquor Dealers* Association a shr#t time before
♦he captain went on bis vacation solicited money
for him. Captain Reimels had a good record,
and when the reports became public yesterday,
residents in his district as well as the police were,
much surprised. He is < v.*> of the oldast officers
In the department. Persons livinsr in Captain
Reimels'B district were irclined to doubt the story.
One man. who paid he had known the captain for
nearly fifteen years, declared that a more honest
man -was hard to find, and added that he had
always known tn«? captain to be assisting others
instead of looking for anything for himself.
It was reported last night that a patrolman
connected with Captain Relmels's station had also
solicited money for the captain's vacation.
PICTURE SHOW STILL ON.
Theatre with Exit Through Fire
House Unmolested.
The moving picture theatre in Harlem which
ha* its rear exit through a fire house was still do
ing business last night, and the manager seemed
to have no uneasiness in regard to retaining his
license to run the place and use city property.
Meanwhile there Is more than one investigation go
ing on to find out why the license to open the the
atre was granted when it was known that the only
legal exit in the rear of the building was through
city property.
The show that is causing all the trouble is at
No. 122 East 12?. th street, next door to Truck
14 The place was opened to the publl? for the
first time on Saturday afternoon, and it has a seat
ing capacity of two hundred and fifty. There are
large doors in the front of the room, but the emer
gency exit in the rear opens directly Into the yard
of th« fire house, and the only way to get to
the street is to go through the flrehouse and climb
over the apparatus According to the fire law
every place of amusement must have an unob
structed exit In the rear.
The proprietors of the place are unknown, but a
man who said his name was G. Baher told a Trib
une reporter last night that they had building,
police and fire permits to open th» theatre, and
that they were within the law's requirements.
Ha her refused to say who owned the place.
Chief Howe of the 14th Battalion, in whose dis
trict th» theatre is situated, said that he couldn't
talk about the affair. He admitted that permit?
had been issued to the owners, otherwise the house
would not have been allowed to open. Fire Corp
mlwion^r Hayes said that he had only recently
learned of th« existence of the place, and that he
had already made a preliminary examination of the
facts. He said that the permit had been granted
without his knowledge, as the Police Department
had presented it to Chi^f Regan of the bureau of
equipment of the Fire Department, and that Regan
had evidently O. K'd it, because it had the ap
proval of the Police Department. Commissioner
Hayes added that Reßan will be back from his
vacation to-day, when he will go over the whole
matter with him. If everything Is not within the
requirements, be said, he would have to revoke the
Fire Department permit.
GOLDEN STATE LIMITED WRECKED.
Four Seriously Hurt When Fast Rock Island
Train Leaves Track in Arizona.
Los Angeles, Aug. 3 —The Westbound Golden
State Limited of the Rock Island Railroad was
wrecked near Hado. Ariz . on the Southern Pacific
line over which the Rock Island train;, run to the
Coast from El Paso, last night. Four persons are
reported seriously hurt, three others slightly, and
many severely shaken up. Two standard sleepers
and the observation car turned over, and the diner
left the track. The accident was caused by a
broken rail.
The Golden State Limited is a. transcontinental
tram running from Chicago to I^r.s Angeles, and
was due here at fi:5T, V clock- this evening.
.1 C. Myers, a capitalist of Kansas City, sus
tained internal injuries, and his condition is critical.
Others injured are: Mrs. W. A. R*agan. Big
Springs. Tex.: Basoom Reagan, son of Mrs.
Reagan. Louis Martinez de Castro. Sinaloa, Mei.;
C. S. Cafton, Chicago, Pullman conductor; Enrique
B. Arnada. City of Mexico: Fred W. Freeman, El
Paso. Tex., and K. Lennon, train conductor.
Practically all of the injured suffered from cuts
and bruises, some of them severely. All were taken
to St. Man's Hospital in Tucson.
40 SUITS AGAINST BREWERS' UNION
Compelled Discharge of Men Who Would
Not Join Them— Cost Them $200,000.
[By Telegraph to Th* Tribur^-. ]
Pittsburg, Aug. 3.— Twelve hundred members of
the Brewery Workers' Association threatening to
strike unless forty flren and engineers employed
in the breweries join the union. Pittshurg brewers
recently discharged the forty men, who refused to
desert their own organizations for the Brewery
Workerß" Association. John Marron. an attorney.
has now been engaged by the discharged men to
bring forty suits against the Brewery Workers' As
sociation for damages, aggregating $200,000. The
first suit, that of A. P. Johnston, a fireman, has
been filed. Johnson also preferred criminal charges
against four brewery workers for conspiracy.
BOY DROWNED— CLOTHING GONE
Lads Body Found in River by Swimmer —
Coroner Investigating Case.
THy THeKT-apVi to Th» Tribune ]
Hackensack. Aug. 3.— Vito. the nine-year-old son
of Vincent Di Mauro. living in Liberty street, Lodl.
was found drowned in the swimming pool there at
11 o'clock this morning. A boy who dived into th«»
Saddle River discovered the i" civ at th» bottom of
the water.
A strane-e circumstance in connection with th«
discovery is the fact that the boy's clothing can
not be found. Coroner Curry, of Hackensack, is
Investigating the case.
TO DIVIDE PITTSBURG.
<By T'l'craph v> Th» Tribune.)
FMttSburg. Aug. 3— Tt Is HOW said that the coup
made by K. H. Harriman In obtaining the roads
which were Intended to be used by the Wabash
system for PRtsburg terminal purposes means that
all other roads are to he shut on- of this city If
possible. Harriman. before making the deal for
the OOUld roads, is said to have conferred with fhe
Pennsylvania Interests nnd th» Vanderbllts. and
the three ar-- sold to have reached a sort, of work
his; agreement to maintain rates h^re nnd exclude
other roads
The ls»lin and Tu'eo interests are trying to get
into Pittsburg with th« Buffalo. Rochedte r A Pitts
burg, and are within thirty-five miles of the city.
The Good years are at Dubois with the Buffalo &
Dismmiiianns one hundred miles distant, and the
littshurg & Sliawmutt is within thirty miles of
this city.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
John Peyser, a postal clerk, who pleaded guilty to
robbing the malls, was sentenced yesterday by
Judge Hough to one year's imprisonment at El
m!ra Judge Hough also sentenced Ira C Bowman,
■ letter carrier, to Sttsaai months' Imprisonment in
the federal prison, at Atlanta, on th« same charge.
Martin Davy, a Columbus avenue line motorman,
charged with running his car too fast Sunday
night, was discharged In the West Ride court by
Magistrate Corri«rsn yesterday. "The trouble is,"
said il'.e Court, "thai Ciiinmlsslnnfir Blngham in
paring more attention to fool letters from cranks
p».«i foolish wosasa than h« is 10 his departmental
w orlLi
NEW-YORK DAILY TTOBCttS, TUESDAY. ATGTST 1. 196&
DEATH AVENT'E DELAY
OPIXIOX BY PEXDLETON.
Condemnation Proceedings Illegal
at This Time, lie Says.
The Public Service Commission receive^ from
Corporation Counsel Pendleton yesterday an opinion
favorinsr the New York Central in relation to the,
action of the commission on November 15 last, in
cal'insr on the Corporation Counsel to condemn and
acquire all risrhts of the railroad in certain streets.
The Corporation Counsel rules that no such con
demnation proceedings can he taken at this time,
because In the negotiations between the old board
< l f Rapid Transit Commissioners and the repre
sentative* of the railroad company there was no
substantial compliance with the terms of the Sax*'
law. under which the proceedings were, begun.
Mr. Pendletcn quotes from the Saxe law. and
disc US the plans provided by George S. Rice the
chief engineer to the. commission^ and points out
that It deviates from the plan for a subway as laid
down In the Saxe law. Mr. Rice's plan was to have
a subway below 60th street, hut above that point
the tracks were to remain at present grade and th»
•streets were, to 1-e carried over them by bridges, ex
cept at Manhattan Valley, and also in Twelve ave
nue, between 135 th and 136 th streets, where there
were to be elevated viaducts.
Mr. Pendleton holds that this arrangement was
not in accordance wit I: th? Saxe law. and says Mr.
Rice admitted as much in his report of November
14, 1906. when he said that th* act "looks only to
the construction of subways in lieu of the present
surface tracks.
He thought, however, that the plan he proposed
would be a more practicable way of Sealing with
the question, and that it could be authorized in an
amendment which "would not appear to be incon
sistent with the main purpose of the Legislature.**
Mr. Pendleton points out further that pans for
subways north of 60th street were never prepared,
nor. so far a? information in hip possession shows,
was any attempt to agree on a plan for such sub
ways with the New York Central official" ever
made
The making of an agreement was referred by the
Rapid Transit Commissioners to a special commit
tee, consisting of Mayor McOeltan. .Morris K.
Jesup end Charles Stewart Smith. This committee
recommended a hill which would authorize
the construction of th«» road a.= recommended by
Mr Rice, and add the condition that electricity
be substituted for steam
, Mr. Pendieton complain^ that his request for a
copy of the plans prepare by the Rapid Transit
Commission waF not complied with and a copy of
the plans was not obtained by his office until .Tune
of 1508. It was not until the pi -ins had beer, ob
tained and inspected, he says, that f t was ascer
tained that !"uch plan was not in accordance with
the act.
"Prior to that time." be adds, "such tim» had
been spent by myself and my assistants in pre
paring to Institute the condemnation proceedings
on the supposition that the plan provided for in
the act had been prepared and an attempt made
to agree with the New York Central Railroad
Company to carry such plan into effect."
He says that further legislation "would have
to be obtained to carry the plan under contempla
tion into effect. Such further legislation, how
ever, was never obtained and for that reason the
plan which was the basis of such tentative agree
ment never became effective.
"Wherever by statute the power to condemn is
made conditional upon the failure of an attempt
by the condemning party to agree with the owner
of the property to be acquired upon a price for the
purchase of the same.'" he says, "the courts have
without exception held that a bona fide attempt to
agree is a Jurisdicttonal prerequisite to the insti
tution of b proceeding to condemn the property.
and that the facts showing an attempt to agree
and the failure thereof must ho alleged and
proved."
A BLACK HAND PERSONAL APPEAL.
"Follow Up'" Letter System Supplemented
fay Call. Which Results in Arrests.
Two Italians, accused of writing threatening let
ters and trying to extort money from one of their
countrymen, were arres'ea last night. The com
plainant, Cnlojrero Flllera. an undertaker, of No.
91 Elizabeth street, has several times in the last
few months told the police of receiving Black
Hand letters demanding V..<**>. Ali of them have
been turned over to T*>tect!ve ArcbtopoH, of Lieu
tenant Petrosinl's Italian squad.
On Sunday the two men arrested decided that
>tter writing was Too slow and made a personal
call. They said they were Giuseppe Daina. a
butcher, or No ¥f'4 Fourteenth avenue, Brooklyn,
and his brother-in-law. Cotogero Scadute, a ped
ler. of No. 123 Elizabeth street.
after a talk with Biliera in front of Ms home
they told him if they did not get the Ji.ono inside
Of the nest week they would surely kill him.
Ar< hiopoli caught the butcher yesterday at his
Brooklyn home. Not having the address of Sca
riuto. the brother-in-law, ArcbJopoH, after ar
resting Daina. asked him if he would like to see
any of his relatives before Ix-ing locked up. Daina
replied that he would like to see Scaduto. S.» the
detective and his prisoner went to the Elizabeth
street address, and there Arohlopoli told Bcaduto
that he was not at all sure that Daina would bo
held, and advised him to go down to Headquarters
t a see his brother-in-law through. Scaduto went
along and was held.
The police say that Daina. about a jreai ago,
was arrested for shooting, and killing FiHppo Ma
caluso in Klizabeth street He pleaded self-de
fence, the police say. and was acquitted.
BOSTON & MAINE FILES DEMURRER.
Contends Petition Does Not Contain Basis
for Decree Nor Any Relief.
Boston. Aug. The demurrer of the Boston &
Maine Railroad Company to the bill m equity
brought against it by the federal government, on
the ground, that its control bad illegally passed to
the control of the New York. New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad Company, was filed in the United
States District Court to-day, and contends thai the
petition doss not contain the basis for a decree nor
any relief in such a ease
As in the demurrer Bled by the Now Haven Com
pany that of the Boston & Maine asserts that the
petition is multifarious, htm] that its allegations
and charges are loose, vague! general. Indefinite,
ambiguous obscure and altogether uncertain. In
closing the demurrer asks that the case be dis
missed.
EXHAUSTED SWIMMERS RESCUED
Cries of Distress from East Riw Heard
Aboard Ferryboat.
i F.i«-it»menr reigned for several minutes on the
ferryboni KavTidee. bound for Manhattan from
Brooklyn, last night, when cries foi help were
heard from the waters of the East River.
i aptain Thomai. Pmedley lowered the lifeboats.
Which soon picked up two men who were nearly
exhausted They were oiHf Strand, of s. dgwi.-k
street. Brooklyn, and Roy WTsstcott, who lives st
Arbuckles floating hotel, at Pier 12, Brooklyn.
They had challenged each other to swim from
Brooklyn to Governor > Island and bark. I: was
on their return to Brooklyn that th<-y found thatr
strength had been overtaxed an 1 cams nt-ur drown
ing.
N. Y. SPANISH WAR VETERANS MEET.
Troy, N. T.. Aug. 3.— The fifth annual encamp
ment of the Department of New York.' United
Spanish War Veterans, opened her*> to-day. Mayor
Mann welcomed the veterans at the formal open
ing of the encampment, and Department Com
mander Joseph B. Coghlan, who was one of Ad
miral Dewey's captains at the Manila Bay tight
and who has since (*•-:. retired as rear admiral,
responded. Judge Advocate Simmons read his re
port, and urged closer co-operation with the Grand
Army of the Republic In securing legislation which
would give privilege* In appointment to omco such
as are enjoyed by the Grand Army of the Republic.
LEASING COMPANY ASSIGNS.
The New York lva«ing Company, dealers In real
estate at No 27*R Broadway, assigned yesterday to
Henry ■; H»r«chfleld for the benefit of creditors.
The company was incorporated In 1906.
FEW DEAD IN FERN'IE.
r«-nrinTi<si from flr«t pn«»
jiired at Hosmer when the magazine blew up.
Several buildings were blown up on Sunday
afternoon In order to save the machine phops.
LOGGERS BELIEVED SAFE.
'Elk Hirer Company's Ozcners Dis
credit Report of 63 Lives Lost.
Portland. Ore.. Auk. 3. — A dispatch from Van
couver Fays* that Crnnbronk, th«» first station
west of Fernie. reports that sixty -one men and
two women were burned to death in No. 4 Camp
of the F.lk River Lumber Company. The camp
was surrounded by fire and not a single person
escaped Hundreds of refugees were sent
through from Fernie to Cranbrook last night.
St. Paul. Aug. 3. — F. B. Lynch and C. A. Rob
ertson, of. St Paul, owners of the Elk River
Lumber Company at Ferni<\ received word from
their maraKPr th«»re to-day, saying that th/»
mills, lumber yards and other buildings at Fernle
were destroyed, but no loss of life was reported.
Mr. Lynch, after reading a dispatch saying
that sixty-three lives were lost at Camp 4 of
the Klk River company, said:
camp 4 is a seventy-man camp, but I had
a telegram to-day from our superintendent say
ins: that mill, horses and property were de
stroyed, hut that the men were safe. The tele
gram said this is another Hinckly fire.
Mr. Lynch said that the company's loss would
be between $300,000 and $400,000. principally
covered by insurance. The standing timber,
which at first was reported destroyed, escaped
with little damage.
He ad. led.
Not an employe Of ours was even injured. I
am at a loss to know how a forest fire could
R*»t s>> neer Fernif as to burn the town, for the
standing timber there is thin and straggling,
and th^r- 1 is only one heavily wooded tract near
tb* town, and this comprises not more than
fifty or sixty acres. Our mill we considered
fireproof. It was, I think, the only one of its
kind in the world. V>"inp built entirely of con
crete and steel. Our annual payroll there is
about J300.000 - Companies near an have aggre
gate payrolls equal to ours, and altogether
about $2,500,000 is paid annually to worklngmen
at Fernie.
Fernie has been burned out twice, Seven
years .150 a disaster occurred in a mine of the
Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, in which 123
men lost their lives.
CANADIAN PACIFIC LOSS ENLARGED.
Interests in this city identified with the Canadian
Pacific Railway received dispatches from the main
offices in Montreal yesterday saying that the re
ports of damage to the company's property by the
fire at Fernie ar.l adjacent territory had been
exaggerated, and that this also applied to the loss
in general. The same dispatches quoted Sir Thomas
<;. Shaugrhnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific,
as saying that he knew nothing about the reported
proposed strike of machinists on the company's
lin»>s.
ONE LUMBER COMPANY'S LOSS.
Chicago, Aug. 3.— K. W. Stees, of Caron, B. C.
who has large interests there and at Fernie. said
to-day that the Eastern British Columbia Lumber
Company, with which he is connected, had lost Its
plant and about 60,000,000 feet of lumber at Fernie.
GREAT BANKING IMPROVEMENT.
Superintendent Williams Says Nearly All
Embarrassed Institutions Have Resumed.
Oakleieh Thome, president of the Trust Company
<.f America. stated yesterday that less than
14.006,060 of the JCS.OOrt.OHQ advanced to the company
by other financial institutions during the panic re
mained to he paid off. and that then, was enough
rash on hand to wip« out the balance of this In
debtedness. He added that the trust company hoped
to liquidate this amount in th« near future, when a
fall statement of just what had been accomplished
•would be issued.
The Knickerbocker Trust Company, according to
one of the officers. Is making- arrangements to make
a. third tnent to depositors at an early date, it
having anticipated two preceding payments. New
accounts, it is stated, are being opened in gratify
ing- numbers, and deposits DOW exceed $3S.OOf\OOO.
which is more than was on hand when the institu
tion reopened its doors on March 2*5.
Clark Williams, State Superintendent of Rank*.
in commenting: yesterday on the rapid recovery of
financial Institutions from the disturbance of last
fall, said:
'•The full significance of the Improvement that
has taken place in banking Is brought out by the
fact that of the thirteen institutions that were in
trouble in the latter part of the year, not fewer
than eleven have been able to reopen.
•This record speaks for itself. Remarkable prog
ress has been made by the various banks and trust
companies that became temporarily embarr;LSsed.
and the position to-day is a striking- commentary
upon the recuperative powers of American bank
ing institutions."
MAGISTRATE RAPS THEATRE
Says Ticket Speculators "Stand In" with
Management Calls It "Skin Game."
Magistrate Corrigan in the West Side court yes
terday criticised the managers of the New York
Theatre for allowing ticket speculators in front
of the theatre. George W. Young, of No. 136 West
12Sth street, had been arrested for selling tickets
without a license lie said he had just bought the
tickets, .-mil that when he tried to dispose of them
Patrolman Evans, of the West IT::. street station,
had placed him under arrest.
"You don't stand In with the management?"
asked the magistrate.
"No, sir." said the man. "I had a few dollars
and tried to make a couple more."
"Why don't you get in with the gang thai stands
in with the theatre?" asked the magistrate. "I
understand that tlie first five rows in that theatre
are sold only to speculators. You cannot buy a
ticket for those rows even in a hotel ticket office.
It's a skin game all the way through. I wish the
gang that stood in would be brought l*ere. This
man is discharged."
NEIL AND KNAPP MEDIATORS
Will Act in Lackawanna Switchmens' Dis
—President Truesdale Determined.
Rcranton. Perm.. Auk 3.— Grand Master ■*. T.
Ilawley of the switchmen's union said to-night
that lia had received word that Commissioners Nell
and Knapp would act as mediators between the
switchmen and President True*dal« of the Dela
ware. iArkawanna A; Wast* but be could not
say When they would commence.
President Truesdale, in a long distance t«!ephon«
interview, stated positively to-day that he would
not recede from th« stand he had taken, and that
he would not meet with the representatives of th«
switchmen. The organization, in invoking the aid
of Messrs. Nell and Knapp is the first to take ad
vantage of the Erdman compulsory arbitration act.
PARKER'S FIRM DEFENDS WIDENER.
The law firm of I'arker. Hatch & Sheehan has
been retained to art for P. A B. Widener. of
Philadelphia an.i New York, in the suit for an
iiiv, muting brought against Mr. Widener and the
other directors of the defunct Mrtropolitun Se
curities Company by Adriun H. Joline and Doug
las Kohinw-n. the recetvera for the New York
City Bailwaj Company An aaswat w;ii be nieii
t>n Beptembsr 3.
BEVERIDGE TAKES LONG SWIM.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.]
Manchester, Mass.. Aug. 3.— Senator Beveridge. of
lndiann. who is spending the summer on Smith
Point, made the longest swim that was accom
plished here to-day against a high rough surf. He.
swam from the rocks at th« southern end of the
beach to the raft. H*» Is keeping up exercise stead
ily, taking a horseback ride besides his daily swim.
<^)F |nTEREST TO^3MEi
WOMEN WHO TRAVEL
Those of America Constantly "on
the Go" in Summer.
"Travelling alone by women started the Co
lumbian exposition, in 1533," sriid Mary Garrett
Hay. of the "Woman's Travel Bureau, of this city.
"Before that women travelled alone from necessity,
but not for pleasure."
Miss Hay comes of a family In which all the
men ran railroads, more or less, and ever since she
was old enough to run alone she ha» been getting
rates, certifying tickets and proclaiming "official
trains" for women's conventions.
•"Travel by women has Increased enormously in
recent years." said she. "and It started with the
Columbian fair. That seemed to put the Idea, of
taking trips into people's heads. It Is since then
that the Idea has grown up that everybody's got to
take a vacation once a year, and every woman
who can goes somewhere during that vacation." It
is during these years that too number of women In
business has Increased so enormously, and the
business women are great travellers. They don't
r;ak« such long and expensive trips, but great
numbers of them make short and Inexpensive ones.
'It is within the yearn since the fair, you may
say. that women have for the first time In history
begun to earn good salaries, salaries which would
afford them some of the luxuries of life. Before
that the women of the stage were the only ones
who ever made much money. You may set this
down as an axiom— every self-supporting woman
spends all she can afford on travel.
"Americans, one and all. men and women alike,
are possessed of a fever for travel. They all want
to take trips. They all want to go to Europe. If
they can't do that they all want to go to Wash
ington or come to New York, or go out to Colorado
and Yellowstone and the Pacific Coast. You would
he surprised to know the number of women who go
to the Thousand Islands and down th« St. Law
r»nc*. who take the. all-water rout^ to Boston and
up the Maine coast. Boat travel is very much on
the Increase. You wtv.ild be surprised at the num
ber of women from ever all the country who com*
to New York City in the summer. The two unlv«r
sitlen bring hundreds to their summer sessions, but
thousands morn besides them com* for periods
varying from two days to two months.
"Why. after the biennial of women's clubs st
Boston I encountered nine women from Oklahoma
on« night at th« Martha Washington, and after
ward I saw women from the lowa. Kansas, Ne
braska, North Dakota and other Western delega
tions. They made their trip East include N#w
York.
"There Is no one who will pinch and save out of
a small salary so as to take comparatively ex
pensive trips to famous points like the teacher.
The teacher gets more educational return out of
her trip, too. I think, than almost any one else.
She studies up that trip all the winter beior* and
knows exactly what she Is going to see and why:
and when she gets back ail she has seen and
learned goes out to the class again, so I really be
lieve It would pay the school system* to help the
teachers travel.
"So far as my experience go*««. the American
married ■woman travels alone, for pleasure, only
when she attends conventions. She very frequently
goes away with her children in the summer and
leaves her husband behind, but that Is not ex
actly travel: it is merely to get the children to
some spot in the country or at the shore for din
ner. When it comes to specific touring the hus
band and wife usually go together, and such
trips by husbands and wives are increasing- very
much. When a married woman goes off without
her husband or children it Is almost Invariably to
attend some convention, and that's another big
new branch of the business. Almost all this con
vention travel among women has grown up sine*
ISSG. Th-» Woman* Christian Temperance Union
has held national conventions for thirty-flve years.
but in the early yearn only the speakers, tn*
officers and a few prominent persons would go
from a distance. The convention would be made
up of the people of the place. It sounds queer, but
it Is a fact, that Frances Willard was a chief in
fluence in starting American women to travel
alone. She was such a drawing card and attained
such a personal following among women that she
first stirred plain, home-staying married women
to make long journeys to national conventions.
"The biennial of the General Federation now gath
ers the greatest conventions of women In the coun
try, and each one is bigger than the last. At Bos
ton this summer between five and six thousand
women came from a distance, and California sent
thirty delegates. Those who have not watched
the growth of women's travel and women's public
work do not realize what it means for thirty
women to pay their own way from California to
attend a convention In Boston.
"After the biennial in number*, and perhaps ex
ceeding it in the wealth represented, come the con
ventions of the Daughters of the American Revo
lution. Then the annual conventions of the Na
tional Woman Suffrage Association have increased
steadily since 1593, when it voted not to hold Its
convention always In Washington. Every conven
tion draws most heavily on the region surround
ing the point where It is hald. and after women
have beer, there one* they axe inoculated with the
virus and want to go again.
• There's? one distinct difference between the New
England woman and the New York woman when |
they travel." continued Miss Hay. with a laugh. ,
■•Th« New England woman loves that sort of trip I
where one pays everything down in a lump sum be- j
fore she starts, even to carriage rides and streetcar ;
fare Then her mind is at rest: she know- exactly
how much she has spent and what she has M ,
over an.l proceed* to enjoy herself. The New j
York woman Is a more reckless creature, who\
spends as ah- goes, and 'Let joy be unconflnsd is
her motto. The persorally conducted trip is enor- ;
mously popular with New England people: not so I
much so with New Yorkers."
THE TRIBUNE PATTERN.
The simple French chemise Is one in great de
mand. It ca.i be finished simply with a hand scal
loped edge and with buttonholes through which
ribbon is threaded It can be more elaborately em
broidered by hand or it can be trimmed with
lace, or embroidery applied over It. Again, It can
be worn over or under the corsets. and this one Is
laid In inverted pleats at the back, which giv<» ful
ness In the skirt portion, while the garment is plain
NO. 6.062 — TI3SCE PAPER PATTERN OF
FHEN'CH CHEMISE FOX 10 CENTS.
above. In the Illustration it is held at the waist
line by means of ribbon threaded through beading.
but such treatment is optional. The trimming
shown is a pretty one of lace applied over Indicated
lines, and there are touches of hand embroidery on
the front, while an embroidered frill finishes the
lo.ver edge. Batiste, nainsook, thin silk— ail th«
material* that are ui#tl for garments of the sort
are appropriate.
The quantity of material required for th* medium
size U 3V4. yards 35, 3% yards M Inches wtd*. with
5S yards of insertion. 1% yards of narrow, l'r%
yards of was* beading. * yards of edging and ♦
yards of embroidery for frill to trim as IHustrata**.
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HEALTH AJVD BEAUTY
The Hair and Its Correct Care in
Summertime.
"People who aren't very clean ha** the* , boat
hair.' said the hair specialist, as ah* uncorked
her tonic and got out her medicated cotton prepara
tory to starting on the pretty girl's head.
A horrified murmur came from under the pretty
girl's dishevelled locks.
"Yes. really." persisted the hair specialist. ~G<»
Into the tenement districts and see what tumi'lawl
heads of hair many of those women have. tbaaa
Italians. Germans. Bohemians and Jewesses. Of
course I know that many of them com* out sat
generations of peasant life. la which the outdoor
life and coarse food make for fme teeth and has*
and an forth: and I know that good hair la ■>
characteristic of certain foreign races, as. for ta
stance. the Italian. But the great secret of th<»
abundant locks possessed by many of those- women
in the foreign colonies Is that they don't drow»
them out with washing.
"Ton asked me Just now if your hair «agntaft
to be laundered to-day." continued the hair
specialist, parting th* pretty girl's mi and se
lecting a piece of scalp to work open. "when It
was laundered only » w»#lc ago! Tour hair is
naturally deficient in natural oil*. That
doesn't worry you now. because yon' re yonna^ and
your hair '.* curly, and M looks charming when
the short ends escape th» hairpin* and blow ab*wt>
But dry hair breaks easily, and that mean* r*Og*,
thin hair as the owner grows older. Tjal«s* th*» light
rare Ik given. Naturally, drr hatr '.»*• yonr*
oughtn't to b» washed oftenm- than one* a month.
even In summer. People with oily hair may •*"&»»
It more frequently, but •**■ they shotiM b^ care
ful not to err on the side of too much soap ansl^
■water.
"Soap? Tes. that .'« the best thing to wasfc <**»
hair with. Egg Is very good for a shampoo, tat,
i contrary to the general belief. It Is rather dryts*
to the hair. I believe ia soap., but be careful ta
rhoos* a. good sort, one that is manufactured Cor
the hair. There are several sucb_~
"If the head Is washed only once a month, how la
It to be kept clean? I'm not willing to.ba a Mlrty:
person." even for the sake of having nlee hair.'*;
said a muffled voice from under the mat the hair
specialist was working at.
"Patting on the tonlo and trashing the na>»
cleans 11. Notice, when you harre don* yonr hair
thoroughly with a clean brush, how fmr from
Clean the brush looks at the- end, of tS» p«rfora»
ance. A careful brushing with ■> dean brash
every night '.<• important, especially tf your» •»••
a pood deal in the city streets. But the brns'a 1
needn't be washed every day. A. careful wtptnar 1
with a dry cloth Is often quite enough.
"There are many good dry shampoos far ta«
hair. The next time I come to you I wOl. I think.
give you a cornrneal shampoo. I use fine coraraeal
—It is specially prepared, many times finer than,
the cornnxaal ground for cooking— €md X mix it
with a little powdered orris root. I will scatter it
through your hair and rub it Into the scalp, let
M remain a short time, then shake It ant. and
use the brush thoroughly. And you'll b*» sur
prised to see how the cornmeal changes the color
In the process.**
"Is moisture, then, bad for the hair?" asked th«
pretty girl. _
■ Not at all; it's very good, and whenever you're
In the conn try and have a chance to walk out
bareheaded In a fine rain I advise yon to do It.
Nothing refreshes the hair and makes it shine like
a rain bath. I know a •woman who always has
some fresh rain water— or as fresh as she can
obtain It— an atomiser on her toilet table, and
every morning before her hair is colled It is sprayed
and then dried In the sunshine if there la any. It j
Is a fine, thing, too. to dampen the hair with sage
water every night. Make an effusion of one Biinaa !
of sage and a pint of boiling water and wet the j
hair with it once in twenty-four hours and you. are.
pretty sure not to have gray hair until you're old, j
"But when you spray the hair use the flu sat. ;
lightest spray. It should be like dew. A tpray- j
Ing or a dampening with sage tea is one thing;
washing the head Is Quite another and much
harsher process- When your hair is washed be
very sure that every bit of the soap la rinsed out. ■
Rinse it in clear water again and again, and sea j
that It Is well dried— by wiping it gently wttn. :
warm cloths, and then fanning It- To alt wlta it j
spread out in the sunshine 1* the Ideal way.
••Never let your hair be shampooed with alcohoL j
There are establishments where they will do It ;
If you don watch out. but nothing turns tn« :
hair gray so quickly.
•The great trouble with many heads of hair ia .
tight scalp. The scalp tightens down mo that th» j
roots of the hair have no room to grow. The j
cure for tiiat Is what I'm doing now." continued. ,
the hair specialist. She had put the brashes aside
and was massaging the pretty girl's head- Some- ;
times she rubbed with the tips of the fingers, in •> j
gentle, rotary motion toward the crown of th« j
bead. " Then she planted the finger tips firmly and j
••wriggled" the scalp in all directions aa far as It |
would go. Lastly she gave delicate upward strokes \
at the base of the skull.
-It makes me feel like purring." murmured th« j
pretty girl when it came to those upward stroke*.
"Your hair needs a little food." finished the spe
cialist. "Once in a while— too often— ro* •>
bit of olive oil or castor oil well Into the roots. IST* ;
very nourishing. But wash It out the next morn- •
ing, else it will give your hair a bad odor."
"How can I make my hair smell sweet T' asked !
the pretty girl.
"One way Is to spray the hair and then wea#
a little scented cap for a few moments before
dressing it- The latest plan is to wear little sachet
bags or roll* concealed in the pompadour. the. i
braids or puffs. They cons ready for tha purpose |
and *r» very dainty."
GLEAXIXGS.
Th« first national btmqwt of wonr>*n phyatetaoaa j
was held, at Chicago during the meeting- of tne
American Medics.! Association. Threw hundred .
women physicians members of the association sat •
at tables.
Mrs. William Knight has been a -o'lntv superin
tendent of schools In Wyoming for the last elg»
teen years. Grace Raymond H«bar<i Is secretary
of the board of trustees of the Wyoming Stat*
University. Miss Laura H>lr» Schneider la «a
alderman at Buena Vista. CoL
That the astonishing prohibition movement ov«r
the country has caused the liquor manufacturers ta
sit up and take noti.-e is evidenced by the fas*.
adopted by the recent brewers* convention. In MU
wauk«e. Thla report declared:
"That the saloon should not be used to foatar Urn
sot lal evil, and should be utterly divorced from tt.
"That the saloon should not be used for gaasWtea}
purposes.
That the saloon should not be open to minors
and that the .-vile of intoxicant* to children abaukj
be proscribed."
* A Catechism on Blindness." in "Charities aa*
the Commons ' for July X. is an article af teteasS)
interest to all women.
Mrs. G. Meyer has erected at Port CUsaseta.
South Africa, a $5,000 monument to the harass that
died in the Boer war. It i* a stone ■slMfdJ
trough, on tor* of which are the broom (bssfsja sg?
a cavalryman giving » drink to his Utthful bora^