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V<* LXX N° 23,413.
FORTY-TWO DEAD
IN CYCLE OF FIRES
Department Chief and Twenty
four Others Perish in Chi
cago Stockyards.
FIFTEEN BADLY INJURED
Chicago Hello" Girls Stick to
Posts Despite Fate of Dear
o nes — Search of Philadel
phia Ruins Continues.
FATAL FIRES IN TWO DAYS.
CHICAGO — Fire Chief Horan :*nd
tv.«nty-four men killed and fifteen men
seriously injured at a $1,000,000 fire in
the Nelson Morris packing plant at tHe
stockyards.
PHILADELPHIA— Fourteen dead, 'or
tv hurt, and several missing in a fire
vh'ch destroyed the plant of the Fried-
Ij-r.der Morocco Company.
CINCINNATI— Three dead and a
financial loss of $2,500,000 in fire which
destroyed an entire block in the manu
facturing district.
IBy Tc'e-raph to Th* Tribune]
Chicago. Dec. 22.— Chief *■■■■
.Horan. popularly known as "Sunny Jim."
Assistant Chief William J. Burroughs
and twenty-three men were killed under
falling walls in a -? 1.000.000 fire at the
stockyards plant of Morris & Co.. early
to-day- Fifteen firemen were seriously
injured, including two captains, who may
■
Mayor Busse.^who spent ten hours per
sonally directing: the search for the body
Of Chief Horan. who had been a lifelong
friend, himself narrowly escaped death
•wh^n « number of ammonia pipes ex
ploded. The chiefs body was recovered
late to-night, after a railroad wrecking
train with derricks and steam shovels
was used to clear away the burning,
ruins. The bodies of eighteen other men
Lave been found.
Marsha! Koran's body was pinned to
the ground beneath a heavy timber and
I-arily protected by several iron girders.
The fa" was free from bruises and was
recognized as soon as uncovered.
It took half an hour after finding the
riead chief before two hundred firemen,
city officials and friends of Horan could
extricate the body. It was taken to On
■undertaking rooms of Daniel Horan.
"brother of the" dead chief.
The list of dead includes the chief, the
assistant chief, two captains, five lieu
tenants, thirteen city firemen, two pri
vate firemen and a railroad employe.
The fire broke out afresh at 8 o'clock
-night, after ft had taxed the strength
of the fire department for sixteen hours.
Acting Chief S«i.vferJich sent a general
call to outlying stations for fresh men.'
These, aided by police reserves, contin
ued the fight on the fire and the search
for bodies of the dead.
Air Expansion Killed Chief.
Insurance men said that the killing of
the chief and his men was not due to an
ammonia tank explosion, as at first sup
posed, but to the expansion of cold air in
the beef warehouse due to the heat from
the fire. This, it is said, forced the four
story wall to give way and collapse. The
tor behind the wall was as strong a?
though an explosion had occurred.
Marshal Horan was married about six
years ago. He was the father of four
children, the youngest of whom- is two
years old. He assumed command of the
Fire Department after the death of Mar
shal Musham, who had Fucceded Mar
shal Campion, following the passing of
UK veteran. Dennis Sv.-eenie. He was a
r-- • baseball "fan." and Ban Johnson.
Omlskey and others paid glowing trib
utes to him to-night.
Moriarty, another fireman killed, v.as
a brother of the third baseman of th-
Detroit Ti^rs. who Is here for the hoff
oays. He is stricken with grief at his
brother's home to-night.
Apparently maddened by the death of
their chipf. who ' as popular in the
department, firemen threw themselves
recklessly into the work of clearing
away the fallen wall. More than fifty
men dropped from exhaustion and were
carried back from the intense heat of
the burning warehouse.
Burned All Day and Night.
Despite the work of many engine
crews, the fire continued to burn stub
bornly ail day «nd night. Thousands of
persons thronged into the stockyards.
and the police kept spectators back
from UK danger line with great diffi
■
Not since the days of the Iroquois
Theatre tragedy, which, like the fire of
to-day, wa= a holiday time horror, have
*uc!i pathetic .scenes attended a fire in
1 Tricago.
The bodies of victims were taken to
undertaking rooms oh -West -3*{d street.
n<*ar the fire. Widows and children of
*he dead men, white faced "and frantic,
ercv.ded into the place. The bodies were
so badly mutilated in most cases that
'hf police would not' permit relatives to
view them. In several instances women
fctruggled with i»olieenien In attempts to
tee their dead. '
Chicago will provide for the widows
and orphans of the :r.<r,<u With th«
i«nji<hin^ «»f several i»ublJ«; and sprni
public movements; for the raisins of a.
Ibrjje rcH<;f and trust fund it is probable
that tlift records made after the cold
:: 4 «jrrige war«'hoj»<?f> tin of World's Fair
linjc, v/hen a fund of over Si<W.<ioo was
cubgcribed for the Mesina earthquake
•Hid for th- Cherry 'mine disaster a year
a?o, will b i ItMUi >J. **■;■:. ',-,-.
Prompt Plans for' Relief.
' T I J • l '
Almost with tho first ncv.s of the fire
■■d before the extent of the loss of life
became known plans' for raising- the re
lief fur.d were laid. Public officials and
':u«iness and professional men banded
together, and by night several commit
tees bad ■.••■ formed and 'funds aggre
patuiß nearly >_:.'.«i"rf» were jjledgred.
Temporary aid and* provision for the
burial of the d.-^il firemen will be under
taken by a committee of the City Coun
cil. Th<; raising of a great trust fund to
prarMe an annual ineorne.fijr the bereft
f*mtiiiu'-'l on tiff!) i>u£«-
T»-da.r. mow ;ar rain and warmer.
To-morrow. clearing and raider.
! LOOK FOR RECIPROCITY
'Bright Prospect for Success of
Negotiations with Canada.
[From Th' Trlbun* Bureau 1
Washington. L)ec. 22. — En preparation
for negotiations on Canadian reciprocity
President Taft held an extended con
ference to-day with Secretary Knox and
Chandler Anderson, cxmaoeltor of the
State Department, who was recently ap|
pointed to the place made vacant by the
death of Henry M. Hoyt,
The prospects for a successful issue of
the negotiations are brighter at present
than they have been at any other time
since the subject was brought up in con
nection with the tariff agreement by
which Canada obtained the minimum
rates under the Payne-Aldrich law. So
far no serious obstacles have arisen.
President Taffs efforts to pave the way
lor the negotiations have been unusually
successful, and there has been much evi
dence of a responsive feeling in Canada.
The negotiations will be taken up
directly with t'.ie Canadian representa
tives early in January in Washington.
Mr. Anderson has been giving most of
his time to the question and carrying
on the investigations interrupted by the
death of Mr. Hoyt. The conference to
day was for the purpose of gathering up
the loose ends and mapping out the field
to be covered by the agreement.
CLEANS HOUSE; FINDS $4,000
Treasure Hidden Away in Closet
in Old New Jersey Home.
Sussex. N. J., Dec. 211 (Ppecial).— No
one in this section of the state has found
houseeleaning: more profitable than has
Miss Ida Simonson, who got $4,000 yes
terday afternoon in a brief hours work.
She was cleaning a cJoset in the DeKay
homestead in Vernon when under an
old wash boiler she brought to light the
treasure. There was $">O4> in gold and
the remainder in bills of large denomina
tion.
Miss Simonpon Is said to be entitled
to the money not only because she found
It. but because she is a descendant of
the one who probably put it there. The
Simonsons are an old Sussex family and
some of them occupied the house at
times in the past. Just who left the
money hidden away, however, is not
clear.
, WINS $30,000 A DAY
Young 1 American Nearly Breaks
the Bank at Monte Carlo.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.]
Bloomington, 111., Dec. 22. — A cable
dispatch from France records the ex
traordinary winnings of Will Darn
brough, a Bloomington young man, at
! Monte Carlo. It was said that he has
i won $30,0<K) a day for the last week and
was threatening to break the bank.
Darnbrough has been in Europe for ten
years and has won and lost dozens of
fortunes. Of late years he has ranked
with the most successful players at
Monte Carlo and other European resorts,
and a year, ago was credited -with win-,
ning $100,000. V „- '
lr>. the last week, according to the dis
pat' h from Mont? Carlo, It has been ob
served that he plays 29 oftener than any
itthet number, which has started a run
on 39 at roulette by those who wish to
profit by the American's luck. Tt is said
that Darnbrough plays roulette, almost
exclusively, and always piongeo, betting
thousands of francs on each flig+it of the
ball. His t?ble has been thronged with
envious gamblers, who are unable to
equal his luck.
TORE GIRL'S BIG HAT UP
She Wouldn't Take It Off in
Philadelphia Theatre.
[P.y Telesrap?i to The Tribune.]
Philadelphia. Dee. 22. — A man who
said he was Emil Edwards, of No. 34K
West 118 th street. New York City, at
tenflefl a performance nt a Market street
theatre last night. He had a seat be
hind that occupied by a young woman
who insisted on wearing a large hat.
despite requests that she remove it.
Edwards was unable to see the stage.
and when the girl persisted in her re
fusal to remove her hat he reached over
and began tearing the offensive headgear
to pie<-e?. Before the six ushers em
plcyed 1n the theatre reached Efi wards
there was little left of the hat. He was
arrested and held in $800 bail for a
further hearing next Thursday. Ed
wards declares that the ynun? woman
\va? breaking a theatre rule, and there
fore has no r^dresp.
THOUGHTS BY MAY YOKE
Would Write Autobiography, but
Fears Earthquakes.
| ! Br Tcl-craph 10 The Tribune. I
i Eon Francisco, Deo. ' 22— May Fobe Is
| thinking about writing her autot.'iojrraphy.
chronicling the happenings of _ her eventful
life.
"I should <aup? earthquakes all over
tiie world with my book.'*, she said, "in
stead of dating everything: from the time of
the big fire here, as they do now. people
would- say • 'since- May Vohe wrote her
book.' T have received an \ offer fur my
memoirf."
Her estimates of Lord Francis Hope and
Captain Putnam Br;idlee Strong are Inter
esting. Although I^ord Francis divorced
her. si c has only fulsome praise for him,
but with Strong it i? different.
MAY SIT .UNTIL DAYBREAK
Spanish Deputies to Remain in Session
Until "Padlock" Vote Is Taken. ;*
Madrid, Dec. The discussion of th«
"J'adlock bill" was resumed in the Cham
ber of Deputies to-day.
The Catholic members, following their
tactics of obstruction, introduced endless
amendments, and Premier Canalejas moved
that the chamber sit until the bill was
This motion was adopted, and Hie session
may continue until daybreak at least.
MAYOR NOT ILL, SAYS DOCTOR
Member of Family Also Denies Re
port of Impaired Health.
There was a report yesterda" afternoon^
that -because OB was ill Mayor Gaynor*
had been forced to leave the City Hall
early. At his homo. He. 20 Eighth avepue,
Pi whim, a member of his family said
last night that the Mayor was not sick. -
i,- John \VV I'.-.rri.-ii. his physician, also
denlod that Mr. Gaynor was 11! He said
he had not been called to attend him.
GREAT BEAR' SPRIN§' WATER, \
Us purity has made" it 4 famous.-Advt.
NEW-YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1910. -FOURTEEN PAGES. ** PRICE ONE CENT y h^hebe m fC m
BOARD OF ESTIMATE (MEDICAL CORPS MAJOR
HOLDS UP SUBWAY PLAN ARRESTED AT PIER
Sends It to Transit Committee,
Gaynor, Prendergast and
Mitchel, Which Opposes It.
MAYOR WANTED A DELAY
McAneny. with Him, Suggests
Committee of the Whole —
Controller Wants P. S. C. to
Commit Itself.
Opponents in the "Board of Kstimate
and Apportionment of the Tnterborough's
latest proposition for building new sub
ways won the first skirmish at the meet
ing of the hoard yesterday. In spite of
the desire of Mayor Gaynor and Borough
President McAneny that the communi
cation of the PuMlr Service Commission
no over. Controller Prendergast forced it
before the board and thence into the
hands of trre transit eonimittee. Presi
drnt McAneny moved that it be referred
to the committee of the whole, but with
drew the motion when he realized that
it would precipitate a fight.
The transit committee, which is com
posed of Mayor Gaynor, Controller Pren
dererast and President MiLchel of the
Board of Aldermen, was instructed to
report on the communication. If possible,
at the next meeting of the board, which
will be on January ">. as a recess was
taken over the holidays.
It is a foregone conclusion that the
majority report of the transit commit
tee will l>e against the Interborough
proposition, both the Controller and the
President of the Board of Aldermen be
ing against it.
This gives the opponents of the propo
sition the tactical advantage. It gives
them a chance to present their argu
ments in favor of turning down the en
tire proposition, and places on the shoul
ders of those who are in favor of the
plan the responsibility of trying to over
throw the majority report of a regu
larly constituted committee of the Board
of Estimate and Apportionment.
It is not unlikely t-hat Mayor Gaynor
will present a minority report in favor
of the Interborough. It was predicted
last night that any attempt to over
throw the majority report and pass the
minority report would probably result In
a deadlock, which would leave the ques
tion where it stood yesterday. If the
board does not approve of the Inter
borough proposition, the Public Service
Commission is on record in Its letter as
saying it will go ahead with the tri
borough. letting the contracts for the
work without any settlement of the ques
tion of operation.
P. S. C Wants to Deal with Interborough
Inquiry among members of the Public
Service Commission yesterday as to
whether or not they would be willing: to
present to the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment further details as to the
temis they proposed to make with the
Interborough brought out the informa
tion that, they would rather negotiate
quietly with the Interborough. It was
suggested by an outsider that the com
mission mi?ht also bring the triborough
officialise before the board by letting the
contracts for that system, but the opin
ion seemed to be that it would be better
to have both the commission and the
board consider only the Interboroug-h's
offer on its merit?.
President McAneny. who was anxious
not to have the subway question come
up yesterday, saw the Mayor before the
meeting of the Board of Estimate. It is
understood that the Mayor agreed with,
him that it should not come up. Then
the Borough President went to the Con
troller. The latter declared flatly that
he wanted action as soon as possible and
proposed to call the letter up at the first
opportunity.
President Mitchel a!.«o visited the
Mayor before the meeting. The Mayor
said he would be extremely busy, and as
he did not think the subway question
would come up he guessed he would not
go to the meeting of the board. He
asked to be ti Id. however, in case any
thing of great importance arose.
After the regular matters on the cal
endar had been disposed of Controller
Prendergast asked the secretary to read
the communication from the Public Ser
vice Commission on the Interborough's
proposition, saying that although it had
been received too late to go on the cal
endar, he believed it to be of such Im
portance that it ought to be considered. .
"Wait a minute," said President
Mitchel. "I promised to notify the Mayor
if anything of considerable importance
came. up. I declare, a recess until he
shall have been called."
Ut.-utenant Kennel harried downstairs
and the Mayor appeared in a few min
utes. He held a short consultation with
the Controller and President McAneny,
asking If the matter might not go over.
but finding that the Controller was not
willing, he consented to remain. He did
not take the chair.
McAneny Makes Move.
* After the secretary had read the letter
from' the Public Service Commission
President McAneny moved that it be re
ferred for consideration to the commit
tee of the whole.
••1 do not mean by this." .President
McAneny continued, when the Controller
had uttered an ejaculation of surprise,
••to interfere in any way with the func
tions -of. the transit committee, but it
seems to me that the time has arrived
v.hen the entire board should get down
to the consideration of this matter. I.
for one, would be glad to sit In council
upon It." ; X s -
Controller moved to amend by re
ferring the "communication to the transit
committee/ saying that he did so with
BOOM embarrassment as a member of
that committee, but thought the experi
ence of the committee in such matters
.. ; ,,v;i<l be used' In the solution of the
problem. *. ,
President McAneny declared he would
Continued on fourth, page.
TTJsEFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT-
As-orVed Case Selected Wine*. $4. $5. $6-75.
$ fc T' "DeVey & Son* Co.. 138 Fulton St.. N. V.
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Created a Disturbance, with Two
Companions, While Waiting
for Liner to Dock.
H. H. RUTHERFORD ANNOYED
Trouble Arose, Says Raczkiewicz,
When Army Surgeon and
Friends Were Barred by
Customs Inspectors.
Major Henry H. Rutherford. I". S. A.,
of the medical corps, and two friends
had a clash with the customs officials on
the North German Lloyd pier in Ho
boken last night. The major v.as ar
rested by ord^r of Deputy Surveyor John
J. Raezkiewicz. as were his friends.
According to Raczkiewicz and Deputy
Surveyors Norwood and Harris Major
Rutherford and his companions were ar
rested as a last resort to make them
cease a tirade of abuse and highly
colored language.
The customs officials. aft?r ordering
the arrest of the major and his friends,
made an investigation <>f thf-ir move
ments throughout the afternoon. Racz
kiewicz said that they had been drink
ing at a hotel in Hobokrn while waiting
for the docking of the George Washing
ton and became abusive when th<*y
made an effort to set inside the customs
lines shortly before the gangplank was
put aboard.
The major and his two friends ap
peared at the gate and started to pas?
through, according to Racziewitz. They
were detained by a customs inspector and
asked to show a pier pass. The major
explained that he had none, but offered
his card. The inspector told him that
the card would not do, so the major
tried to force his way through. The trio
was held in check by the two inspectors
and Otto Schmolinska, the special police
man at the Lloyd pier. Then followed a
lively discussion.
Word was sent in to Deputy Surveyor
Raczkicwicz that three men. one of them
an army officer, were trying to force
their way into the lines. He sent out
Deputj' Surveyor Norwood, accompanied
by Deputy Surveyor Harris. When they
arrived, they said, they heard the major
abusing the inspectors at the gate.
Harris made notes of the remarks of
the major and then reported them to
Raczkiewicz. When the latter came to
the gate a dozen men. accompanied by
■women, appealed to him to arrest the
three men. Raczkiewicz told the men to
go away quietly, and when they refused
ordered their arrest.
Major Rutherford and his companions
were taken to the automobile in which
they had driven to the # pier. and in that
to the police station, Harris and Racx
feiewica going along to mako a charge
of disorderly conduct against them.
On the way to the police station, Har
ris declared, the major's companions
planned two fictitious names and ad
dresses. The major, who had previously
proffered his card on the pier, made no
effort to conceal his identity. His com
panions gave the names of Daniel K.
Meyers, of No. 601 West 142 d street,
and Edward E. Albert, of No. 1666 Ster
ling Place, Brooklyn.
After getting bail. Major Rutherford
and his two friends returned to the pier
repentant and wanted to see the deputy
surveyors and apologize for their con
duct. Raczkiewicz and Harris were un
relenting and informed them that they
would bo at court this morning with
ten witnesses, who would testify against
them.
One of the major's companions said
later that his name was Maher and that
he and his party had ccme to the pier
to meet his parents. Tae only Maher
on the steamship was a. Miss Helen
Maher. but it was said she was not
related to him.
Major Rutherford, \* ho s a tall, good
looking man of about thiity-eight, was
greatly disturbed over hii arrest. He
said he had been in the service for
twelve years. He was raised to the rank
of major in January of thii year, and is
stationed at Fort Totten.
Major Rutherford Mas jorn in Ar
kansas on February 17. 1873. He
entered the United States volunteer ser
vice from Missouri in 1808. and in lfX»l
was commissioned to the regular army.
He served in Manila. an< was later
transferred as a Burgeon t* the United
States General Hospital at the Presidio
in San Francisco.
GIVES GOVERNMENT $1
Patriotic Ranchman Wants t)
Help Pay Expeases,
Washington. Dec. 22.— A ranchman liv
ing In San Antonio, Tex., wrote to Sec
retary MacVeagh a few da.s ago, asking
for a copy of the estimates of govern
ment expenses for 1911, inclosing a $1
bill. Robert O. Bailey. Mr. MacVeagh's
.■secretary, sent the estirr.ates showing
that it will cost about $686)6698800 to run
things another year and returned the $1.
The ranchman's refily was received
to-day, and the same -SI MU came
with It.
•Take my dollar." he wrote, "and
play it ten ways against the expenses of
ten different departments, with a merry
L'hriKtmas." This is the first time the
government has received a Christmas
present, so far as officials remember.
BAN FROM OPERATING TABLE
Victim of Appendicitis Said Four
Scars Were Enough.
Refusing to undergo a fifth operation for
appendicitis, Michael Schuman. of No/ 125
Madison street, leaped from the operating
table "and dashed "from the New Rochelle
Hospital yesterday, declaring: he was going
home to die. He-bears scars of four opera
tions for appendicitis, and he said they
were enough for him.
Schuman w»s taken with violent pains
in the region "of his appendix on a Stum
ford trolley car yesterday morning, * and
was taken to the hospital by the police.
The case waa diagnosed by Dr. Thomas C.
Taylor, the police surgeon.
Nn Xmas table should bo without Angos
tura Bitters, appetizer of exquisite flavor—
delicious on-*crapefruk— refubO substitutes.
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DX. FREDERICK A. COOK.
Who had his first glimpse of New York last evening rtnee his sudden -lisappearanee,
more than a year ago.
'Photographed on beard thfl North German Uoyd steamship Oeorgr Washington.!
LAD SAYS HE WAS A
PRISONER TWO YEARS
Children's Society Seizes Little
Unfortunate in a Condition
Called Shocking.
ALL THE TIME IN ONE ROOM
Says Woman Who Was His Only
Companion Is His Mother —
Searching The Bronx
for Her.
Looking -like a pocket , edition of Kip
Van Winkle, with his matted and -un
kempt hair falling far below his shoul
ders and his clothes tattered and torn, a
boy, eleven years old, who said his nan»
was Henry De- Graff, was taken yester
day by : agents ;of the Society, for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children from a
room at No.' 1870 Third avenue, where
the. child said he had been confined for
two years. • .
The little fellow's release was brought
about by his own Ingenuity in writing a
letter to the society ! telling of his plight
and begging to be rescued. - -
• "My name is Henry De Graff. I am
eleven years old. and have been kept a
prisoner for two years in a room at No.
1870 Third avenue. Please come and
rescue me." he wrote.
When Superintendent Thomas -D-
Walsh of the society received the letter
yesterday morning he. first thought it
was another case of • kidnapping. But
before deciding to send the information
to Deputy Police Commissioner Flynn he
dispatched Robert W. ; Cosgrave. ,an
agent of the society, to the address men
tioned by the alleged prisoner.
It turned out. if the boy's story should
prove to be. true, that he had been held
captive under circumstances more re
markable than anything in the ordinary
kidnapping line. I ; .\, ■ - .
Cosgrave found the boy in. a dingy
and untidy room with a wrinkled and
wild eyed woman as his only companion.
The boy said she was his . mother, ■ and
that her name was Annie De Graff. She
didn't deny it. but would say very little
until the agent told her he would have
to take the boy away. Then she began
to rave and threatened to kill herself if
the boy was taken from her.
Agent Verifies Writer of Letter. ;
The boy told Cosgrave his name, which
corresponded to the one given in the
letter and said it was he who had writ
ten the letter to the society. Cosgrave
declared the youngster -presented; a
shocking appearance of neglect and.that
everything about the room spoke vol
umes against it as a- habitation, proper
and sanitary, for a growing boy. .
Young De Graff didn't complain that
he had not had enough to eat. His
mother had fed Mm two or three times
every day. he said, but she had .• not
allowed him to leave the room for two
years. She would not let him go to
school or even on the street.
"When I asked my mother to let me
go to school." Henry told Cosgrave, "she
would say that I would ler-.rn wickedness
from the other boys.-= and that school
learning didn't amount to' anything."
When the mother had been quieted the
boy was taken to the rooms of the so
ciety, where he said he had an older
brother living somewhere in The Bronx,
but be did not know where. His grand
mother also lived in The Bronx, I he
added, but he did not know her address,
either. 'He remembered that his mother
took him to see his grandmother two or
three times during the last three years.;
On those occasions she kept tight hold
of his hand and never g0.0f. : it. tie
said. , . •;. _ .".'
Later the shaggy little fellow was ar
raigned in the Children's Court before
justice Salmon. * Some one wag sent to
the Third avenue address with the' order
for his mother to appear in court, but
she could not be found. Justice Salmon
commented afterward on the extreme
neglect to which the boy "appeared to
have been subjected.
The small prisoner seemed in be dazed
' Continued .on terond page.
TRIPLETS FOR CHRISTMAS
Husband Presented with Three
Sons Weighing Thirty Pounds.
TBy Telegraph to The Tribune. 1
Newton, Miss., Dec. 22. — Mrs. William
Xorman, forty-two years ol<l. residing 1
near here, to-day became the mothrr of
her seventeenth child. Last night at
6:30 o'clock she gavt; birth to a nlne
pcund boy, and tnis morning-, at 7:30
o'clock, two more boys, ten and eleven
pounds, respectively, arrived. The trii>
lets are healthy and vigorous.
The fourteen children previously born
to the woman are ail alive. The father
is a farmhand, and his -wages are ?9 a
week.
FROZEN FAST TO ENGINE
Man Beating His Way Home
Bides 41 Miles in 40 Minutes.
Ithaca. N. T.. X>ec. 22.— With his
hands frozen fast to the rod to which
h© dun*. Arfolph Jerge. of South Bos
ton, Mass., wat taken from the pilot of
the engine of an express train to-day,
after riding forty-one miles in forty
minutes in the teeth of an icy wind. His
ears and hands "<vere 'rozen, and he was
brought back to life only after hard
work.
Jerge told the police that he was try
ing to beat his way home. and. thinking
that he could make better time, left a
freight train at Geneva and boarder! the
engine of the express. For the forty
one miles, which the train ran at more
than a mlle-a-minute clip, he faced a
biting wind, and a few miles more wuuld
have meant death.
AEROPLANE DUCK HUNTING
Latham Enjoys Novel Sport at
Los Angeles Club.
"Los Angeles, Dec. 22. — Hubert Latham,
the French aviator, went duck hunting
in a monoplane to-day at the Bolsa
Ohieo Club. He circled 0% - er the feeding
grounds of the wild fowl at high speed,
frightening thousands of birds into the
air.
With a double barrelled shotgun
Latham fired ten times at the ducks,
killing a few and crippling others. Ho
then pursued the birds three miles out
to sea. After half an hour of hunting
Latham landed at the clubhouse.
DAYS WITH DEAD WOMAN
Hostess Stayed in House Alone
oV; : -^7-- with Body. ■•_ t ;
..After, being in the " house four days
with a dead woman, and two dead dogs,
Mrs.' Agnes ". Brennan. of No. 1631 j St.
Peter's" avenue, The Bronx, reported the
matter! to 'the. police last night, or, rather
fourteen -year-old ". Charley .Crowley,' a
bright boy , who • lives at . No. 1519 Hoe
avenue, reported it for her. Investiga
tion did not make .the police' think that
Mrs. Brennan had anything to do with
the death of Clara Hughes, who was her
friend, and cso no • arrest was made.
Illuminating gas was the cause of death.
Mrs. Br^ntian said Clara-Hughes was
in the habit- of coming to the St. Peter's
avenue 'house j about twice a week and
staying- over night. • Long conversations
under midnight gas Jets' were '.their di
version, and the two were great cronies.
The last time "the- dead woman came
there.' according to Mrs. Brennan. was on
Sunday evening. \ ' About, 9 o'clock on
Monday, morning Mrs. Brennan awoke,
almost suffocated, and ran out into the
yard. ••.<•.-
. ' "When she came back she saw Clara.
Hughes lying on th.' floor, but did not
disturb her. thinking she « was asleep.
When Charles ' Crowley went 'to the
shanty last night, Mrs. Brennan told him
she thought her friend was dead, and he
ran around-, to the. Westchester police
station. The Lieutenant in charge sent
two men to investigate, and the Coroner's
physician was summoned."
ROOSEVELT IN LONDON SOCIETY.
London. ■-, Dec * Theodore , Roosevelt.
Wilfred ' Hudson Osgood.*- of j the Field! Mu
seum of Natural j History, l Chicago, and
Samuel Hubbard ■ Scudder. of Cambridge.
Mass., have -been elected corresponding
members of thf< l.orwlon Zoological Society.
m
Delicious appetizer tor Xmas '(Inner*
Dole's Pure Hawaiian Pineapple Juice.
Serve cold.— Advt T
GEORGE WASHINGTON
BRINGS US DR. COOK
Hirsute Disguise Lacking. He
Appears Stocky and Strong,
Calm and Assured.
THINKS HE REACHED POLE
Presence on Ship Breeds Intense
Partisanship Between Two
Factions of Cabin
Passengers.
r>r. Frederick A. Cook came back in *+■
least one sense last night— that is. ha
returned to this, the country of his birth
and the scene of his aldermanlc and
other triumphs. Singularly enough/. or m
perhap3 by design, he steamed into port
on that North German Lloyd liner called
the ' George Washington. aft<»r a man
who could not tell a lie even in infancy.
Stocky and strong looking. . with no
hirsute disguises and with ■ calm, as
sured manner in keeping with the smile
; nf amusement which never deserted him
during the interview. Dr. Cook handed a.
typewritten statement to each of th«
score of reporters ■'.).■> had boarded the
George Washington at Quarantine and
j had swarmed about him in tho dies"
| saloon with questions pertinent and im-'
pertinent. He wore a black cutaway
coat and tan shoes, a favorite combina
tion with him in the days when he en
joyed the "freedom of the city" and <'»
played a gold key. Ills statement Col- .
lex s:
"I have no statement to make oth*»r
than that which I have carefully pre
pared and -which is now being pub
lished. I want the American people to
read that story a3 a whole .and not to
depend upon extracts rom it. With the
best intention in the world, extracts
from a document so large as my com
plete story are liable, to misleading.
"Any interview I might give would
necessary be fragmentary and doubtless
misleading; also, so I shall not no*
give out any interviews, and any pur
porting to come from me will not bm
authorized. I spent weeks carefully pre
paring my story, and I have frankiy
said in it ail that there is to say. Every
charge against me is taken up and
answered in its proper place in my nar
rative.
Was in America a Month Ago.
"Where I have been and what I have
been - doing during the last thirteen
months since I left the United States in
November, 1909, is fully set forth in my
story. I will say. however, that I was
in' the United States less than a month
ago. I arrived in Quebec on October "9.
•went to Troy, N. V.. thence to Xewbiirg
and Poughkeepsie. I was in the two last
named cities about three weeks, writing,
revising; and correcting proof-* "on mv
story. •■'* t i:./
"I registered under an assumed narr.a
because I was very busy — too bus/ * I
receive my many personal friends or'
newspaper men. No other precautions
were taken to keep my presence con
cealed. I stopped at leading hotels and
took an automobile ride «»ach pleasant
day. I was at the Palatine Hotel, in
Newburg. most of the time. I left Pough
keepsie on the night of November 23.
and went directly to Halifax, where I
sailed for Europe on the same steamship
line," on the same steamer and just a year
from the time I sailed from the sam»
port when I left America in 1905.
"I dc not know what my plans for 'ha
future will be. I have no plans what
ever for going on the lecture . plaforcn.
I have not returned to America with tha
intention of making money out of mi-
Arctic experiences. Money did not
prompt the writing of my story. A3 |
have seen suggested in certain news
papers. As I said. I have come back
srlelv for the purpose of rehabilitating
myself and my family by setting: mat
ters right with my countrymen.
The band of cross-examiners could
hardly be content with this document,
carefully prepared with the aid of a
representative of the magazine in which
the explorer's- "confessions" are appear
ing, while the ship was coming up >.*
bay. They pressed him tor something
hot off the bat. with no press agent
strings attached. At first he refused ab
solutely to amplify his statement, but
finally he consented to answer a few of
the rising tide of questions.
Still Thinks Ho Reached Pole.
"13 it possible that you will enter into
a debate with Peary on the lecture plat
form r* he was asked. '
- "No. it isn't possible." *
v * "Why do you say it isn't possible?**
"Because that isn't -my manner, ms^
■way of doing things. '
~t "Do you contemplate a lecture tour?"
■•I do not." '
"Do you believe now that you sot to
the North Pole?" was the next qu«?ry. ;
"I haye stated circumstantially j-J.n
what I. do believe in my magaizne story
and wherein I may be wrong in m>; -'
belief."; .
•'Yes. but the people arc anxious, to
know to-morrow morning what your. at- 5 '
titude is, to-day— what you' think about
it as you enter New York fur the first
time since your disappearance."
"But I have explained all that.'
"Can't you give us anything definite
for to-morrow morning, doctor""
"Well. personally I believe I got to Uj» r
p<'!P."
"What. then. do you think of the ver-V:
diet of the University of Copenhagen
with regard to your 'proofs'?*
."I- accept its verdict for the reason
that I d.'tit believe any man could pre- V
sent such a thing as positive proof that ■■■
he had reached the pole."
"Dldti't youv'believe in. your "proofs*
when ><«v forwarded them, to •.>■■ uni
versity for ' examination?"
"I felt as confident of them as a -vi x
can of that sort of thing.". -.
"Do you believe Peary got to th >
n«)le'"'
"I said I believed he had reached, 'ho
pole when [ w*» here over a year "ago.
and I haven't* changed my .mind." J
- "Are you done with exploring, doctor?" '•■
"Is think I-am-dono with* exploring" «
Few"'of the 'passengers eoiild •-.: 'Ai^ u