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V OL LXX. N° 23510. mm hasten 10 INSE MIES Interstate Commerce Commis sion's Offices Deluged with New Tariffs.. IN EAST AND MIDDLE WEST Attorney General Wickersham Undecided as to Further Suits — Increases from 3 to 31 Per Cent. Washington. June . — Undaunted by the government's proceeding under the Sherman anti-trust law. by which a part of the proposed increase of freight rates In the- territory west of the Mississippi River was suspended by injunction, rail roads in the Bast and the Middle West to-day filed tariffs embodying increased rates with the Interstate Commerce Com mission. Attorney General Wickersham declined to indicate what course he intends to r ursue in behalf of the government, and the Senate. Just on the verge of pass ing the administration interstate commerce bin. hesitated, and finally postponed ac tion until ail ll Hi day. To-night practically every railroad sys tem in the North, from the Atlantic to the Pat inc. had filed the legal notice of increases in commodity rates. These In crtases range from i to 31 per cent. The first roads to file schedules of in creases were the New York Central, the West Shore r.nd the Delaware. Lacka «anna & Western. Then the official no tice of the reads traversing the territory from Chicago and Milwaukee to Indian a;<olis and Ohio River points, twenty three in all. was brought to the comniis fion. In th.-- afternoon increased tariffs from the Atlantic * aboard to Chicago. St. Paul ar.-i intermediate points were filed. Thes<- included those from the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio, the New York. New Haven & Hartford, the Boston & Maine, the Brie, the Delaware i- Hudson, the Le^hieh Valley, the Cen tral of New Jersey, the New York. On tario & Western and the Philadelphia & Reading The Baltimore ft Ohio also filed with the commission ■ revised tariff of commodity rates from Chicago to the Eastern seaboard. Like the revised schedules Bled by the roads west of the Mississippi, the in creased tariff? from Central Freight As sociation territory were filed in concert. C. E. Fulton, of Chicago, representing the railroads traversing the field from the Ohio River to Chicago and Milwau kee, filed all the tariffs. The Eastern railroads filed their revised tariffs indi vidually. Increases in Effect July 1 and 5. The increases proposed by the roads in the Middle West range from 6 to 31 per cent Those fro/n the seaboard to the West vary from 3 to 24 per cent- The Baltimore ft Ohio's increases on rates from Chicago to the seaboard average n bout 10 per cent. These increases were figured approximately, the employes of the commission being deluged with tar iffs und unable to make definite compari sons. Tl*' time set for the increases to KO into effect on the Eastern roads was ~ f rurally July 5. On the roads in the Middle West July 1 was the date fixed. Before the revised tariffs began to pour into the offices of the commission Attorney General Wickersbam was re reiving tele^rair-s from Western BbJp l*rs asking him to take action to have the injunction issued by the federal court »n Missouri extended to other com modities, especially wool. He replied that it was too late. It was explained ih:it the government included in the bill such rates as had been called to Its at tention, and that the failure of other rat<£ t« lie Included must be laid at the cii.or of the snipers. Mr. WlcJ.-rsh.-2m Non-Ccmmittal. As to the course of the government in rrg-ard to the railroads in the East and Middle West, the ■•. -m. v General was r...t rf3']y to talk. In-.mediate action is nr.t recessary. as the rates are not to go into effect f«»r about a month. Mr. Wickersham said that no com plaints had yet been received by him from shippers in the East and Middle West. Furthermore, he pointed out that conditions under which the roads in thai territory had filed th^ir rates might be entirely different from those governing the action of the Western Traffic As y<r jati<m. ■ 1 offl< ia!? of riffs would mak throughout the The ral may ■ att for th« se :ni:is bis It is believed that the railroads will* "use jio tim<» in fiiins other tariffs on ac count of the expected early passage of the administration railroad i .III. For a time 1-.; it l<»oked as through the *F<r.ate would ja^s the bi!J before night, but at the last momi-nt th>- Democrats desired to eras the bill, and the He publicans consented to postpone the Jinal vote. The 1 ill in its present form fives the ir.t'-r.stat^ Oonunerce Commission power to investigate the reas'.na bkness of pro posed Increases in rates. a.nd t<» suspend ■thf-ir coins into operation as long as t<-n months. Unless the railroads put th- new rates into operation by th» j time the hill becomes law. the Interstate Com ip.«r<<' Commission might suspend th-ir «-ifra'i.,n for j>urp<.i:es <>f Investigation. In this way the same result might be s< > orr.j.lislicd as v.as sought in tl.c- le-gal rr.-Vr-din.-s by the Department of JUS <(- agaicst tiu- roads west «<f tlit Mis t:iii;i;jj;i. THE RAILROADS* DEFENCE To Enter General Denial of Gov ernment's Charges. St. l/aitim. j unc . 2— The- Jwenty-flve rail road* tf-mi»or^ri]y restralrfd f r n advanc ing freight r;jt# s la the territory of the "t\e-?t*rn Trunk Line Comm.;t«-e. will as* for the dissolution rf the Injunction, *•*• CuiiUuurd OD BSBSSd paj«w To-day, cloudy. • To-morrow, fair; we*t wind*. FRED LJkNGAN, The jockey who was killed in a race at Gravesend yesterday. PONY ROLLS ON BELMONT Rushed to Town in Auto After Polo Crash at Meadow Brook. NOT BADLY HURT. 'TIS SAID Banker Went Downstairs to Din ner. Though Report Had It That Rib Was Broken. While playing polo at the Meadow Brook club, at Henipstead. Long Island. yrsurday afternoon August Belmont was thrown from his pony. At first it w:is thought that he was seriously In jured, as the pony rolled on him. hut at his home. No. 44 East 'Mth street, it was denied that he was hurt internally. Mr. Belmont. with his two sons Au pust. jr.. and Morgan, and Arthur Scott Burden. Bradley Martin and Hamilton Haddcn were having a spirited practice game. It was just the sort of after noon f r >r the sport, and th< ponies wheeled and dashed and turned and spun as the riders spurred them or nudged th. ir knees into their sides. • Evr .i if it was a practice game, it was an exciting one." said a man wh<> wat^h^d the play at Hempstead. Mr. Felmont is a fast polo player and hf Boon warmed up to the game. Just as the ponies came together in a scrim he leaned forward and gave the hail a blow with the maHet. following i* up. As h<* reached it again, he leaned lorwmd and swung the mallet in front r.f the pony. Intelligent as the little teas* was. it couldn't quite stop its rush ir,l the mallet swung between its front legs, throwing it to the ground. The r;d--r went with it, and the pony rolled on him. Mr. B^lmont lay st mned for a mo rr>*Mit. «nd bis 800. August, jumped into his motor ctf and sped away to West bury for a doctor. He found Dr John Mann and returned with him. Mr Brt nont, who. it was said at Hempstead. had broken a rib in his right side and • is nruiJ-'-d about the head, face and body, wa* carried to the automobile and brought to New York. . At his h/>me last night it was said that Mr. Belmont had been shaken up considerably, but that he had gone down stairs to dinner with Mrs. Belmont, and did n^t ?<}em to be in much pain. Mr Belmont has been a polo enthusiast for jnears, and was known as a crack ptayec for a long time He ha? been back from a European honeymoon only , short time, having married Miss Eleanor Robson. the actress, in February. BOSTON BARS T.R. CARTOONS Publishers Say They Can't Sell Gros's Book There. [By T< icpraph tm Tha Tribune 1 Pittsburgh Juno '2. — Raymond Gros, of Pittsburgh ""ho is issuing a book of 4.V» cartoons of ex-President Roosevelt, to night made public an indignant letter b< has received from his publishers, who complain that their agents have been diiven from Bost..n by the booksellers there, who refused to have anything to d.. with "any Roosevelt book." apparent ly «.n th^ ground that Mr. Roosevelt is not popular in Boston. The letter, date! May :;i. follows: "We wish to say that we are procur ing advance orders on your book, T. R. In Cartoon." We are sorry to say. how eevr. that the city of Boston has de < iincd to take the book, as our repre sentative informs us that the buyers in the various book and department stores seem to have no use for Roose velt, and they refuse to purchase any Roosevelt' book. Our representative asked why they declined to purchase a book <•! this character, and one replied that he had tried to sell such books be fore, but he found the public did not take kindly to them. Another said T. i: In Cartoon' might be a Rood book, hut that that people of Boston were not ar.lent admirers of Roosevelt and i here fore he did not care to take the chance of putting in a stock." TAFT GAINING GROUND Powerful Sentiment for Him; Says Justice Lurton. ; IBy Telegraph to Th*> Tribune 1 Cincinnati. June 2. — 'There is a great and |o..i!ui wave of sentiment now sweeping over the country In favor of President Taft. and his critics are being rapidly confused. 1 am glad to tell the people of Cincinnati this," said Justice Horace H. Lurton, of the United SlaU-8 Supreme Court, who arrived here to day. il« Hdded thai he n^v.-i saw Mr. Taft d ■ i- cheerful, more optimistic or more I hunwelf and th»- country fustlce Lurton vmm entertained to-night h« the 'it: <lvi. !»>■ fri«-nd*. and to-mor • n the. county bar will give (..in ■ reo< ption. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER. Its purity ha* made it famoub.— Auvt. NEW-YORK. I mi)AY, JUNE 13, lOIO^FOURTI^X PAGES. ••'PRICE ONE CENT JOCKEy KILLED IN GMVESEND MCE Life Crushed Out as Three Horses Go Down in a Bunch. OTHERS NARROWLY ESCAPE Fred Langan, Riding Into Fallen Pair, Stepped On as He Lies Stunned on Track. Fred Langan. a Jockey in the err. ploy of Richard F. Carman, the well known amateur whip, was instantly killed in a. race at Gravesend yesterday. He had the mount on the Oneck Stable's Stal wart Lad, which was one of three ani mals that went crashing to the track as the field of thirteen horses rushed around the turn into the stretch in the last race on the programme. The boy never moved after falling, and the doc tors say that death must have been in stantaneous, probably from a fracture of the skull. Jimmy Butwell, who is under contract to James R. Keene. and S. Davis, who went down at the same time, were more fortunate. The latter escaped with a bruised leg, but Butwell's nose was broken and the top of an ear was cut off cleanly by the steel shod hoof of one of the following horses. Little of the distressing accident could l.c seen from the grandstand, but a cry of horror and dismay went up from the crowd as Warwick swerved against the rail Just before the home turn was reached and went down in a heap. But well, who had the mount, shot up in the air and fell under the hoofs of the flying field. Muff, with Davis up, stumbled over Warwick, while Stalwart Lad. coming up from behind, crashed into both horses, and. to all appearances, turned a complete somersault, pinning I.ansran beneath him. Some other horse then stepped on the face of the prostrate jockey and crushed out rds life. Mrs. Butwell. the wife of one of the jockeys, who was sitting in the grand stand directly behind the press box, burst into tears, as if fearing the worst, and hundreds of others stood about with s-ober faces instead nf making the usual vild rush for the train, and waited for news of the boys that came all too soon. Willing hands rushed to the aid of the youngsters as they lay stretched out on the track, but Langan was beyond help. and his body was takejy back to the jockey room in the ambujance. Davis rode back on th'» tail of the starter's wagon, while Butwell waft hurried to the Emergency Hospital, at Coney Island. R. F. Carman and hig son, Dick, were greatly affected by the death of the boy, the latter being almost in tears as he came from the room where the body lay. Both were attached to the youngster, who joined the stable last fall as an i x ercise boy and quickly developed into a jockey of great promise Lanaran was eighteen years old and a native of this city. His father is dead, but he leaves a mother, whose chief sup port he was, and several brothers and sisters Mrs. Langan moved to Sheeps head Bay yesterday, so that the boy could have a home near the tra.ks where he worked, and she was prostrated with grief when the sad news was taken to her. Lang-an rode his first winner at the Jacksonville meeting last winter. Sim c coming North he had shown marked skill, and. as Mr Carman said yesterday, was a good boy about horses. He did not know the meaning of the word fear. He did all the riding for Mr Carman when he could make th^ weight, and rr.de Semprotu* to victory in the National Stallion Stakes last Saturday. His last winning mount was Stanley Fay. on Wednesday. It is some time since a fatal accident has happened in racing on the fiat. Three or four years ago a boy named Frrishon was killed when his mount fell while rounding the paddock turn at the same track. CUBAN A PECULIAR SUICIDE Patient at Muldoon's Found Strangled in Strange Way. Jose Ctrße Dirivas. a member of a prominent Cuban family, committed suicide on Wednesday afternoon at Mul doon's sanatorium, on the outskirts of White Plains, by strangling himself with a silken cord from his pajamas He twisted the cord abmit his throat and is said to have given it a peculiar twist known only to Cubans, and thus to have killed himself. It was said that Dirivas arrived at BfuMoon'S yesterday afternoon and that he had been suffering from a nervous disease. After dinner he went to his room, and a few hours later the valet found him dead. It was evident from the condition of the room that the Cuban had torn the string from his pajamas. and standing in the centre of his apartment, had twisted it around his neck in a peculiar i strangulation knot until he fell to the floor dead. When his valet discovered his body he was lying in the centre of the room fully dressed with the cord , about his neck. Coroner Anus O. Squire, of Osslnlnsr. ; who undertook an investigation, said that Dirivas was forty-four years old ! a nd that his country homo was at Quorum. Long Island. H. leaves a wife and child. According to the death certificate filed In the town ' clerk's office at Harrison ori-the-Sound. in which township Mul dOOß'S sanatorium la located, Dirivas' * father 1 name is Ha "" >M Dirivas and his mother's in Maria Diriva.s. A brother* ; in -la" of .the suicide is F. F. Howard. c* j No. »IT» Worth street, Manhattan. «-Mi4n TO ST. LOUIS AND RETURN. ? Yaw 3 4 .'■ ar. : * I'«"'«sy»vHnlri Railroad. Tlck«£iikoort to .return. until June 19. Bc-e Ticket Ascnts.— Advu ENGLISH AVIATOR WHO FLEW ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL AND BACK. THE CLIFFS OF SANGATTE OV*ER WHICH ROLLS FLEW. TWICE ACROSS CHANNEL English Aviator Flies from Dover to Calais and Back. WITHOUT MAKING LANDING Captain Rolls Does the Round Trip of Forty-two Miles in Ninety Minutes. BRITISH CHANNEL FLIGHTS. Hon. Charles S. Rolls crossed and re turned (forty-two : miles) in 00 minutes, June 2, 1910. Hubert Lathuni attempted passage July 19. 1909. . r ' • ■■ Louis Bleriot crossed (twenty-three miles*) In 33 minutes July 24, 1909. Hubert Latham attempted passage July 27. 1909. Jacques de Le»K«pk crossed (twenty-sU miles) in 50 minutes. May 21, 1910. - Record Long Distance Flights. . Louis raulhan, London to Manchester (186 miles), in 4:11, April 27, 1910. Glenn 11. Curtis*. Albany to New York (137 mile in 2:32, May 29, 1910. Dover, England. June •_'.— The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, captain in the London section of the army motor re serve, driving a Wright biplane, crossed the English Channel twice this evening without alighting. He made the round trip between Dover and Calais in ninety minutes. While two Frenchmen, Louis Bleriot and Count de Lesseps. ha**r^roßsed the Channel in an aeroplane, it remained for an Englishman in an American machine to perform the double feat. The dis tant across between the two points named is twenty-one miles, so that his over-water flight of forty-two miles without a stop establishes a new record. Captain Rolls left Dover at 6:90 o'clock The atmospheric conditions were excellent. He lost no time in manoeuvres, but after describinc a circle headed toward the coast of Kiarn*. in anticipation of the flight torpedo boats steamed at full speed across the strait, but the pace of the aeroplane was swifter. Captain Rolls sent his machine to a height of eight hundred feet, and at that altitude he skimmed through the air like a gr.at bird. The motor worked per fectly. The crowd who watched the start confidently awaited the return, and it was not long before the speck which tho^t- who had telescopes saw disappear on the French coast reappeared, grow ing larger with every minute. When flnallv the a\iator became vis ible to the naked eye cheer after cheer arose fr<>m the enthusiastic spectators, and as he gracefully soared toward the landing place made famous by Bleriot he was givc*i an ovation. He alighted at 8 o'clock, at almost the same spot^ as Bleriot. showing little signs of the strain of his flight. When Rolls reached the French shore he circled the cliffs of Sangatte twice and then headed straight to sea, and made the return at a rapid pace. Three torpedo boats which had been strung tames the- Channel in anticipation of the night started simultaneously with the bird-man when he set out for France, lut though the boats were driven at full speed they were soon overhauled and passed by the aviator. Captain Rolls was overwhelmed with congratulations a? he dismounted, but these he received modestly. He said that much of the credit was due to the biplane, which ran perfectly throughout the whole Might, not missing sparking om c. As he was passing over Sangatte the aviator dropped a paper tied with tri color ribbons, containing the following message: "Greeting to the Aero Club of France, dropped from a Wright aero plane crossing from England to France. Vive I'entente!" Captain the Hon. Charles S. Rolls has successively followed the sports of bi cycling, automobiling, ballooning and aeroplaning. He is the third son of the tirst Baron Llangattock. and was born oil August 2.1, 1*77. At Cambridge Uni versity he was the captain of the bicycle team. Later he competed* successfully ir. numerous automobile competitions, and was awarded the gold medal for his performance in the t,600-adk trial of I'iiiu in England. He, drove as the rep resentative of Great BrttiOn in the- Gor don pennett rate «f l'. M »"> Several times he broke the world's record for speed. Captain Rolls has made more than on,- hnndred and sixty balloon aacen idona, Taking up the sport of heavier ;har. air machines, he Bade a flight with Wilbur Wright at L.c Mans In tuber. T.HIS. On May '11 last he started to make the cross-Channel flight, but he had gone ..niy a few yards when his engine failed him. und the attempt was abandoned. Louis Hleiiot and Count Jacques de I.cs?ei«. the French aviators, have sue- fully creased the channel, starting Continued on *econd »•««• MAP SHOWING COURSE OF FLIGHT. THE HOX. CHARLES S. ROLL 3. ROOSEVELT MEETS CROMER Both Guests of Honor at a Din ner in London. London. June 2.— Theodore Roosevelt and Lord Cromer, British agent and Consul General in Egypt from ISB3 to 1 f*o 7. were guests at a dinner given by John St. Lee Strachey, proprietor of 'The Spectator." to-night in honor of Mr. Roosevelt. They sat on < lther hand of the host. Mr. Roosevelt and Lord Cromer are believed to be perfectly agreed on Egyptian policies and that the com plaints of sentimental tendencies which the former President voiced at the Guild hall had all arisen after Lord Cromer' B administration. Mr. Roosevelt will go to Colonel Arthur H. Lee's country place to-morrow, where Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, who has written much on Africa: John Burns, president of the Local Government Board, and Captain Robert F. Scott, the Antarc tic explorer, wiil also be guests. He will spend Sunday at the home of Sir George Trevelyan. where he will meet Viscount Morlcy of Blackburn. $18,000 FOR AERO TRIP Cyril Scott Would Fly from At lantic City to Chicago. (By Telegraph to The Tribune. 1 Chicago. June 2— Eighteen thousand dollars is the fare offered to Glenn H. Curtiss to carry Cyril Scott, the actor. in an aeroplane from Atlantic City to Chicago in time for the opening per formance of -The Lottery Man" at the Lyric Theatre next Sunday night. Cur tiss according to a telegram received in Chicago to-night by Herbert C Duce. manager of the Lyric and Garnck theatcs. is considering the offer. J. J. Shubcrt. of the Messrs Shubert. made the offer after Mr Scott had sig nified his willingness to risk lif- and liml< for advertising purposes. If the of fer is accepted Curtiss will have three days in which to make the trip, includ ing all necessary stops, with no restric tions except that he reach Chicago be fore the curtain goes up Sunday evening HOT WAVE ON THE WAY Comes from Southwest. Where Mercury Reaches 109. Washington. June 1— A hot wave from the Southwest is advancing slowly east ward through the Gulf states, and is due to reach the coast within two or three days, according to the weather fore casters. Until its arrival cool condi tions and fair skies are predicted for the Eastern States. The cool conditions prevalent along the Atlantic coast are attributed to an over flow from the snowy and freezing condi tions in the lake region and Canadian border, and also to the lateness of the arrival of the Gulf Stream drift. Thermometers in Hobnrt. Okla.. reg istered Ktt> degrees W-day. marking the hottest day in the last seven years. GAYNOR FOR PURER PLAYS Will Co-operate with Fitzgerald in Elevating Standard. * [By Telegraph to The Tribune.] Boston. June 2.— Replying to Mayor Fitzgerald's request .that he direct his influence, toward suppressing the -sug gestive theatrical poster or the more cofoslve influence of the indecent play." Mayor Gaynor of New York has writ ten to Boston's chief executive stating ti,;-t he will be glad to co-operate in anything that may be done in this city in the way of elevating the stage. Mayor Gaynor writes in part: •I shall be most glad to co-operate with you in any way to elevate the tone of the theatre?. When I first came to New York I was an habitual the atregoer. I saw the classical j anil Shakespearian plays. I --aw Booth, Barrett Davenport and Bangs all to-* getber on the stage in 'Julius Caesar." 1 shall never forget it In a few years this all changed, and the, tune si the theatres began to fall, and continued to fall until we came down to the present state Of things. I hope' the -downward movement has spent itself, and that the stage la" now to steadily improve^ and 4-0 back to its found- high loUtf." # ' ' * A GUGGENHEIM IN JAIL Sentenced to One Day for Auto Speeding' Serves an Hour. Edmund A. Guggenheim, a Yale stu dent and a son of Murry OsjSJßjrniMrtaa, of M. Guggenheim's Sons, of No 163 Broadway, was sentenced to pay ,t tine of $100 and serve one day in th-- dtj prison for a third violation of the auto mobile speed law yesterday. As a mat ter of fact. Guggenheim was in jail less than an hour. He was scntencr-d about 3 o'clock and It was nearly 4 o'clock when he went across the "Bridge." his name was en tered in the prison book and he paid hi^ fine. After sitting; in what Is kn^wn as the "Ten Day House" for a few minutes he was discharged from custody at 4 o'clock, the statutory end of the day When arraigned in Special Sessions for trial. Guggenheim., through Edward Car pel, his lawyer, admitted that be had been convicted of speeding in November and December. 1905. and pleaded guilty as a third offender. A prison sentence is mandatory under the law for third offen ders, in addition to a fine of Q##. Mr. Carpel a?ked in vain for a suspen sion of sentence, promising that his client would never again run an automobile in New York State He said that Guggen heim will \>f married next week. • ON SKATES, UNDER AUTO Boy Glides Directly in Way, but Escapes Serious Injury. As Jacob Do'!. sr.. president of the Jacob DolJ & Sons* Piano Manufacturing Company, and Jacob Doll, jr.. the assist ant treasurer of the concern, wore riding in 124 th street, near Madison avenue. last evening a boy on roller skates gilded di rectly in front of their automobile Be fore the machine could be stopped the lad. Louis Bishoff, fourteen years old. of No. 2391 Second avenue, was knocked down. The machine was brought to a stand still and the boy was lifted into th<=> ton neau. Then all haste was made to th? Harlem Hospital There Dr. Richardson examined the boy and s:iid his condition was not serious. The police took the names of the occupants of the automobile and allowed th^m to go. SEEMED TO LIKE POISON Made a Glutton of Himself, and So Got an Overdose. Bartholomew Dillon, thirty-six years old. of No. .'iOl East HOth street, went to visit his wife yesterday at No -"«> West SSth street, where she was employed as a maid. He had not been living with her for several months, and his visit was for the purpose of killing himself in her presence. i Taking a package of paris green from his pocket, he proceeded to eat It up a3 if he liked it. Then he went home and told the keeper of the boarding house where "he was staying with his five-year old daughter what he had done. She called Policeman John McMahon. who in turn summoned Dr. Evans from the Presbyterian Hospital. Then Dillon was pumped out ' Dr. Evans said Dillon's gluttony was responsible for his living. He had taken an overdose. • RICE AT WEDDING FATAL Grain Thrown Ten Years Ago Finally Causes Eride's Death. When Mr. and Mrs. -Asa Cummlnj?3. of Binghamton. N. Y. were married ten years ago th?lr friends showered them with rice. . . One kernel lodgerl in the bride* ear. For ten years it tlenea the efforts of, phy sicians and • surgeon* to dislodge it. Three fruitless operations were per formed, and a short ti:n«» ago she en tered the Post Graduate Hospital her© for ' treatment. Brain fever developed and she died yesterday. "MOTHER JONES, AGITATOR, ILL. Cincinnati. June *. —"Mother" Jones, who has appeared prominently as an agitator in many labor strikes of the last decade. Is seriously ill at a hotel here. She suf fered a nervous breakdown a few days 4«co a Landmarks of hlttery on famed Hudson beat wen ftoia Seeks of Day Une steamers.' -Advu ! ' (a City of .\>w York. Jer«*y CUy »nd ! i»«ke«. EL.HEWBJE!tE TWO CENTS. HAMILTON DDES SOME .STARRING AIR STUNTS Mcst Remarkable Exhibition of Trick Fifing Ever Seen Here, Aviators Say. ANXIOUS FOR FLIGHT WEST Harmon Tries to Fly to Green* wich. Conn . sawfoss Sound, but Ha 3 Accident and Lands in Ditch Unhur* Charles K. Hamilton, the aviator, did the kind of an art in the air at Mineola" yesterday that might have been ex pected from a trick bicycle rider on a summer, roof garden. He performed a succession of antics in his aeroplane that were said to be only suggestions of what he will do when he lets himself out. To those who saw the swoops, slides, darts, "flgure elsrhting" and 'cross-country dash« 3 a description will seem inadequate. , There were persons present yesterday who believed that before Hamilton quit for the day he would disrobe, stand on his head, throw away one plane at % time and «orr.e in on the carburetor- He did not -I 1 this, sol his work sugs g-estcd that some time he might ||jm| Members of the Aero Club who have; seen everything In the way of flying said that yesterday's exhibition by Mr. Hamt ilton was by far the greatest aerial per formance ever seen in the East. For about thirty minutes three aero planes, driven by * Hamilton, Captain Thomas S. Baldwin and Clifford B. Har mon, were in the air at the same time. But Hamilton rrs^ three times as high as the others and went twice as fast. He dropped from an altitude of six hundred feet, front rudder pointed almost straight to earth, his motor turned on at full speed, and Just hen the spectators wera beginning to think th v would see a sick ening sight he changed the front rudder ■-•nd flew away again, having missed the ground by only twenty feet. Other Flyers Inspired. Mr. Harmon, inspired apparently by the young wonder from the West, circled the large field time and time again, maintaining an altitude of about thr*« hundred feet. Then he flew across coun try in the direction of the Meadow Brook Hunt Club, tiv» miles away, and when the outlines became very indistinct was seen to descend rather suddenly. He was unable to come back, and at first It wa3 rumored that he was injured Captain Baldwin caught th*» fever and kept flying '■lose to ground in his 'Red Devil." making numerous circles over th*» ] field and once endangering the life of a woman, fifty, years old. who fell to her knees, .thus pi i sains the, machine by less than three feet S Hamilton had been literally capering up and down in the ayr and around his t-vo Companion.*. Harmon was flying- \n the machine that Paulhan exhibited at the Jamaica racetrack. He was half way around the two-mile course and two hundred feet high when Hamilton first started at 5:15 p. m Hamilton clung to his cigarette and nodded. The machine was soon six hundred feet in the air. The second time around he. overtook Harmon in the exact meaning of the ! word, as he was four hundred feet di 1 rectly above him. and in that aerial plane 1 they travelled for more than a minute. It may have been a horse that first put the spirit of mischief into Hamilton's mind, or probably it ■»!? the conscious ness that th* crowd would gasp again at the sisrht Anyway, he mad- another ii most perpendicular dash toward tha 1 meadow and the horse escaped by only a few feet. It seemed as if Hamilton wanted to play tag. and he swerved sud i denly in the direction of a man until then rooted to the spot. A few more times over the field, add j ing a new adjective to each round trip. i and he flew over the telegraph wires toward Garden City, came back again and alighted for the second time He ' had been up on the first trip 9 minutes '10 2- . second? and on the second 12 minutes 24 1-5 seconds. Harmon had disappeared in the d:3 tance a few minutes before Hamilton made hi« second descent. "How does she go?" Hamilton was asked. She's going pretty good." he replied. ; "Where's Harmon?" •We don't know He started for the Meadow Brook Club." "Guess I'll go over to Harmon's shed j and bo'nw a little of hi* gasolene and ! go and see if I can find him.' he said. reaching for a cigarette. Mr. Hamilton ; carries a piece of lighted punk SI hi» aeroplane to assist him in consuming i cicarettes while In flight. Perfect Day for Flying. There was no wind. The sky was blue above and gold where the sun was setting, and its rays ' threw a yellow tint over the green grass. A few minutes after 7 o'clock Hamil ton flew to Harmon's shed, borrowed Harmons gasolene, and with his back to the sun soared high jo* travelled. at the rate of fifty miles an hour in search of his friend/. No fancy aerial waltzing now. He had a mission which he want ed to perform before . dark. He flew straight toward the spot i where the crowd had pointed as Har ' mon's landing place. His machine, being smaller than Harmon's, «as lost to view in five minutes. The shadows {fell, a few birds" twittered, some coun j try teams and wagons bumped dia*> unally across the field. Several hun tlrt-d »uton»ob*lis.ti stood peering toward the cast where the fascinating vtsso« i hud melted into a slate colored cloud." •There were no tidings for half an hour. ••He's coming: some one shouted. * -Where?" asked the -tense throng, running In the direction ' of th« man who made the announcement. -There he is. just above that white J cloud on the left, and to the right of ; that clump of trees." . j It mlsht be a bird the man saw. or I Hamilton and . his _ aeroplane. It was too early to be, positive. Then it was proved to be a rtylns machine, but per-; I haps it was Harmon's, murmured the ; crowd. • - — ■ 1 •No." some one said, "see the ailerons