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LOST ITS QUAINT AIR
Business Section of New Or
leans Moderniied.
MANY RAPID CHANGES
EVEN THE FRENCH QUARTER
WILL SOON E INVADED.
Millions Being Expended by the Rail
ways for Terminal Improvements
Intereat in Panama Canal.
BY WM. E. CURTIS.
Speeal Corres,adence of The Evening Star and
the ihicago Record-HIerald.
NEW ORLE:ANS, April 5, 190~.
It will be regretted by tourists and sen
t'nenta people that New Orleans is losing
i .uaint air of anti-uity and foreign as
p.et. an is being gradually brought up
to date. The city has been the most pie
turesqiue in Ameri.:t. Its primitive con:]i
tih,n, its lawk of what people call "m'odern
iinprov'm.."nts." its odd, un-American cus
t.ms. aml the French flavor of life below
('.,nal stre"et have attracted travelers from
otltwr parts of the country and given them
gme:it cnj.yment. To visit New Orleans
was neV to a trip abroad, and, indeed.
nany fi,reign cities are not half so for
c-gn; that is. they are not so different from
i it we are ;reustomed to. While much
of the picturesqueness and peculiarities of
New Oirle ns remains, the business portion
or the city is gradually undergoing a trans
ft,rmation, atnd s:nce I was here seven years
ago the secti.-n around the St. Charles Ho
tel has hecn ilte"red very much. Old-fash
Iur.ed buildings have been torn down and
modern structures have risen upon their
tiundltlons. This change in appearance
has been accompanied by a change of at
nrosphere. The Creole methods of doing
business are gradually giving way to north
e rn ways. Enterprise is in the air. People
are boasting of the progress of the city
rather than lamenting innovations and dc
partures from "the good old days." The
greatest ch:inges. they tell me, have oc
-urred during the list three years. and the
plins for the future are still more con
Iehensive. They contemplate a regenera
tion, if I may call it that, of the business
tion. The French Quarter still holds i's
own. but will soon be invaded and the
New Orleans which (:ihle described with
- eI grai il' interest will gradually van
isi into history.
Deep Interest in the Canal.
The hotels are full of northern and wes'
ern men, looking for investments and spec
ulative opportunities. in anticipation of the
iempletion of the Panama canal. It is re
markable how much everybody in the
south is thinking of and depending upon
that project. You never hear it talkcd
about in a similar way in the north. In
ilbile, Pensacola, Montgomery and other
southern cities it has the most vitalizing
intftuence. and in New Orleans there is even
wider interest and greater expectatioti.
There is a universal conviction that when
the canal is finished there will be a great
boom. Everybody is counting on Immedi
ate prosperity from the sale of supplies
and the shipment of material and the pros
pects for commerce in the future. New
railways are coming in and old ones are
improving their terminals. The Illinois
Central railroad had a $i.I51.1,.N) fire here
not long ago, hut the phoenix was not a
ctnurnstanee to the offleers of that cor
p.'r,ation in the matter of rising from the
;ishws. They are inaItirig new docks, ware
house"s and elevators larger than befo"-,
and are using iron and steel for them in
ste:ai of tiiber. The Illinois Central wtil
build about two miles of warehouses, ele
tators. slls, cotton platforms and other
frcight f:n ties along the levees, where it
c:in tra nsfer ti'.' car:oes of steamers Into
its freight -ie an - vice versa, with the
gr.':ttet [om5nm of time, labor and e
.--nago of merchandise de
lIv."red h.r." hv thiat railroad now runs up
iiito billi.ns. +a i is growing every mont:t.
'T:iis sprinig it w-ili s;.'ml mire t han $t..~u -
I long tl Wuter-ront.
Millions Spent for Terminals.
The Iokl Isliwl and 'Frisco syst.ems.
wh-ih have just core to town. have bought
i..rly two miles of frontage on the river
ni.I t,e spcnding $11IMNAI,t*s in the construe
tion of stations. sl.,ds, docks. warehouses,
sidetracks and other term:nal facilities. The
Louisville and Nashville road is keeping
pace with the others. the Southern Pacific
and the i;uuld ysti em ar making tnormous
improvments, and within the next two
ealrs the railway lin."s centering at New
Orh-anis and thle steamships whichu connect,
with them will hi' tp-pared to hiandle an
'-t'nious t r;adi. The city government is
slwn'xding $2i.io.No for docks and steel
warehuses aini for paving the levees with
granite blo'ks. Wh len the work is finished
tere i iciim, about seven nilles of c-ontinu
mits whiiarfa itn the city side of the Mis
sissipi i, withi one if the most complete and
iioni-leri entitandX etinsive systemrfs of ter
miiil" for handlinig freight In the world.
Th- governmenit of thle I'niteud States is
c-ontribiuting its share to the general prog
re,' asnd liiprovemnxt. It Is spending mil
Ihit-i of dlolbars ini building a naval station
iin thei M~ississipipi otppotsite New Orleans and
it i ng a steel tiiating dry dlock capable
oif u--ionmmidating the lar'gest battleship
tut ti oats
Commerce of New Orleans.
Th"se impro(vemtslii hiavi' been made none
itsoon. Th'le growth or the import and
patr:tialarly tih- e'xlort trade reqjuires a
larigi' !nirsse if a-wuimmodation. During
the last t-en yearIs the itnports have In
eeised fr'n om $1MTh44 t'o $35,87.200, the
expolrts frim S7c75%.188 to $14ul.8iH,298, and
xi." cust iums r*ci ipts from $1,288,002 to
$5. Iiu.521.
There. are- niow twe'nty-seve-n lines 'of
5!t"amlers coniliet ing New Orleans with
tight' y -siven fo rieign ports, with an average
"t 125 st-ami'rs pe'r month. They reach
eve-ry setin oulf the world except Australia.
The'r' are rI-gular !!ni-s to Liverpool. Lon
dont. Manxchi-ster. Itil fast. Hav're, Hamburg,
Anitw~erJ, ('open'tluigenx, Rotterdam, Barce
l'rnt. Trxi-stt, Venile.', Cubat and all the
prin-ital M'-xican x and Ceuntral American
ports. Some of the' vessels are of large
size. :th! C. of carryinig 2II,000 bales of
(-ittonIii. In .Jaxnaryv two of the Leland Line
sali-'ed frIorn tis p' rt 'a rxrig thle con tents
of tw-nty' mxih-s o'f freighit cars. This line
has xifty- ir- st-amnrs in Its service, with
o grioss ti nn:ige if 277.7i00 tons. They' ('arry
annuaitllty toi landoni i and1( .i vexrptool an aver
uge if -I0,(00 Ihls of eotton, from three to
fouri mnilllioshush-Is of gratIn an rd orther mis
u- a nos cargiueis. The Ia' ld'r-Item pster'
Lline- aieu!(S iii'rly 4'Mi.WI4 hates of i'ottion
and uabout threae mnillioni butsh'is of grain,
ai ither' steamishipls cairry similar cargoes
to thIe port s I have mneint iined. Niot long ago
lie l'ei'rliess sai!ed wIth 21 .t17 packages of
harves'ting machixnery, binding twine and
ilhii firm implemnxts for Novorisisk, Rtus
sit, aind sho'rt'y after was followed by the
Baroin LJieusen, 'a rrying 28,3104 packages of
a sixiilar 'a rgo to the same port, and the
Rtediv.rs Ilocken,. with 21,372 packages for
Thei exports t,f ctton have increased. more
thian :Mi per eer t daring the last ten years;
thet i'xports of fllour have increased from
$I&NIUM. to $4.-,t0,00, and other articles at
a similar ratio.
Promise of the Next Pew Years.
Speaking of the great improvxements. that
have alreaLdy taken place during t'he. past
three years, and the greater improvement.
thiat have bsen planned for the- Immediate
future. Mr Henry Miyjo, secretary of ie
Progressive Unions said that t.he butiding
improvementu by private parties. Ia 9
enst four- and a hlfA million. of dllwa
whilo t:hcose contemplated fler 1005O woud
cumt. twelt'e millions.
'New Orleans is on the verge of a~ pet
industrial development." ait Mr. Mayo.
"While man'y of the smaller manufacturing
giantu common to the south have been- es
tablished in ti' metropois, the people of
New Orleans, posbly from ihree vt hiabt
- or- lackr of .,mperience have ior many issm
a9tained i .a a ratiier conusev manas.
b-ean ksrting oapital- i ktiserM e
Thi =nnis .s more to hmss
suits rah' nta i sm3se
able outcome or .ucoel i manufacturin g
propositions. Possibly o a great national
event which has affected t1 a reputation of
New Orleans as a place nr secure invest
mrent and development itn all lines may be
found in the determinatk i of the national
government to construct i. Panama canal.
Being five hundred miles r rarer the isthmus
than any of the Atlanth seaports and in
close touch with the enp ^e central section
of the United States, it follows that this
point of vantage must inure to its future
greatness and must result in a condition
which will double its population within the
next ten years, and add t9 its commercial
life much of the enterprbie and capital now
tied up in the more populous and more
wealthy sections of the country, and which
are today more or less stranded by condi
tions due to a surplus of population and
restricted sphere of commercial expansion.
The rehabilitation of Cuba by the national
government; the wiping out of that great
bugbear, yellow fever, due to the efiorts of
the best medical. authoritles and expertt ir
the world, has practically eliminated from
consideration as a factor which has been
against the development of the south, and
has, in a large measure, operated to the
detriment of New Orleans in the minds of
the people of other states.
Healthy Ambition Engendred.
"The employment of eighteen million dol
lars in a system of drainage, sewers and
water supply,. now in the course of con
sti-uction, has stimulated public confidence
in local conditions and has inculcated a
spirit of enterprise. New Orleans is deter
mined to assert its right to a position oc
cupied by the other large commercial cen
ters of the United States. Since 1880 health
cot. ditions in New Orleans have shown a
wonderful increase, the rate of mortality
decreasing from 19.86 to 13.20, excluding the
mortality at the Charity Hospital, which
receives and cares for charity patients from
all parts of the gulf states. Again, the cli
matic bugaboo has been gradually elim
inated from the situation.
"Old conditions are rapidly passing
away," continued Mr. Mayo, "even as the
old portion of the city, quaint and histor
ical, is disappearing before the march of
progress. The removal of the old square
blocks from the pavements of its business
center has been followed by the laying of
asphalt. The scent of bitumen has been
a familiar odor in the public nostrils for
the past two years. Work is being daily
carried on in various portions of the city,
marking the redemption of outlying sections
and the improvement of the central por
tions. As an evidence of the increase in
business we have forty banks with a cap
ital of S14,921,M10 and deposits of $71,021,
998, an increase over 1102 of $15,000,410 and
over 19N93 of $5.000,00. The bank clearings
fo. 194 were 3970,928.984, an increase over
194J: of $143,218,114 and over 1899 of $512,
7(r),.T6t. The increase in the bank clearings
may be taken as a fair indication of gen
eral tendencies. The bank clearings for
last month exceeded all past records. Busi
ness in all lines has increased in proportion.
Increase in Land Values.
"Real estate values have been slowly ad
vancing, and numerous instances of sales
recently consummated show a doubling in
price during the past six years. Business
houses are at a premium, while the demand
for modern buildings in the residence sec
tion is far in advance of the supply. A
recent estimate gives the increase in popu
lation, over the census figures of 19010, at
nearly 54.15M). and scarcely a day passes but
that inquiries are made in the office of the
Progressive Union and of the real estate
agents for factory sites. This means that
northern men. always with an eye on new
opportunities, do not intend to neglect these
fertile fields for an exploitation of their
idle capital.
"New Orleans no longer considers that
purely commercial or jobbing institutions
are alone sufficient to make a community
prosperous," explained Mr. Mayo, "and the
past two years have been marked by the
institution of a large number of small man
ufacturing plants. Today inquiries are pour
ing in, asking for information relative to
the proposed establishment of other indus
tries. It is the one field in the United
States today which has not been exploited
by the manufacturer. Ninety per cent of
the manufactured articles consumed in New
Orleans or handled by its jobbing houses
are manufactured in other states, although
Louisana today contains almost every ele
ment utilized in manufacture, except iron.
The utilization of natural resourees must
become a part of southern prosperity, and
in this development New Orleans must un
doubtedly share. The field is open to com
p-tition. and the laws exempt from local
taxation all manufacturing enterprises until
191u
"One gratifying result of local competi
tion and ine realization of the city's magni
ticent advantages has been the creation of
a strong sentiment of confidence on the
part of the New Orleans people. A united
citizenship. working as a unit in all mat
ters affecting the public good, has created
a wonderful change in the current of its
operations and ambitions. The cry now is for
a greater New Orleans; a New Orleans in
which absolute harmony shall exist and in
w!acn every dweller in the municipality is
interested.'
CHICAGO STBIKE RIOT.
Woman Knocked Down by Crowd in
Shopping District.
Charles Stubner, a non-union driver for a
piano house, was the cause of a clash be
tween polIce and sympathizers with the
striking teamsters in State street, Chicago.
yesterday afternoon. ~He was assaulted
while delivering a load of piano stools to
Montgomery Ward & Co. Dragged from
his wagon, he showed fight and was
pounced upon. Policemen went to the res
cue and the man's assailants fled. They
were overtaken near Madison and State
streets, the heart of the shopping district.
A mob hemmed in the police and in a
minute the whole thoroughfare was blocked
with people and teams. A coal wagon.
forcing its way through the crowd, tipped
over a cab, throwing out a woman passen
ger. The crowd surged up and dowu.
trampling each other and knocking down
a dozen women, whose screams added to
the excitement.
Trwo police officers were injured, one re
ceiving a scalp wound and the other a,
cut on the shoulder. William Styles, one
of the attacking mob, was sruck on the
head and his skuil was fractured.
Fully 5,000) persons were In thle crowd,
many of them women and children. Pe
destrians who found themselves caught
in the disorder were helpless for a time.
A few were able to get into stores adja
cent, but the majority had to stand the
jamming and shoving until police rein
forcements dispersed or arrested members
of the mob.
Mayor Dunne again attempted to effect
peace between the contending sides in the
present' labor trouble, but at the end of
the day, after several conferences with I5k
bor leaders and representatives of the em
ployers, the situation was unchanged.
PAR2DON ATE 33 YRA1m
Eurderess Appealed Forty Times to
Court of Pardons.
Libbie Garrabrandt, thirty-ti'ee years a
prisoner and the only woman ever sen
ternced in New Jersey to life imprisonment,
is soon to have her freedom. Her case,
which has been before every court of par
dons at Trenton, N. J., for the last twenty
ye ars, has now received, favorable consid
eration, and if plans do not miscarry the
P. ter son murderess will walk out of the
prlson doors before the end of this month.
Dr. McKenzie. the prison physician, had
certified that Miss Garrabrandt was sub
ject to heart filure. Her appearance
moved, the judges to pity. The once pre
possessing young woman is now gray-hair
ed and so feeble that she can scarcely walk.
She has been before the court of pardons
many times before and has told. her reasons
for hoping for freedom. Yesterday, in re
sponse to q,uestions put to her, she replied
that she has nothing to add. to her former
pleas, save that she had, been confined
within the wails. of the big. prison for thfr
ty-three years and five months, and that
she believed she- had been sufeIentlyi pun
ished for her erime. Uha was told that Ben
case would be giver. due consIderadIOn. She
had heard these words so often before that
she seemed to .uwect. thera and" tihere was
no look af disappoIbtwnent. i h er eyes
Lilhi.a Garrabrandt is now paa mfty
years of age Who was only seventeen jesse
old, when she was convatedi int. the 1assic
county.cons of the. erlam og, triting a, man
with whom she Bad: ben iMang Mar Rve
for him bad, turaed tibRatil, sat en l*t
wailar she wiu ,p1a 1 Din mas@ M: put
poisadh is mr suttwamarl t
sae' lbs fbu. taas gbwe,
Charles Cole die@ -i eee.4 is
ta-h .u - ens- otitM
e meiWee - - niss
Pffi PEif AT K
Omrng Rato Out of the U.
3. Capitd
WITH DOGSANDFERRETS
EIBM WAR LAST i8M THE
Dous EM
Lany Bodents, Slaughtered During the
Ivenft-g-Battles to Be bn
tinued for Two Week..
The hunt was on at last. The houndsi
eager and watchful, were running hither
and thither, trying to Ibcate a scent. The
iraster of the hounds was in the lead, stir
ring up heaps of debris, in an endeavor to
start up something for a chase. His fol
lowers were just as anxious for some sport
and were ready to jump when anything
showed up.
"There goes one," shouted some one. And
just as his eyes had caught sight of the
animal, the dogs had seen it, too, and they
were off like a. flash. Their prey was cun
ning and was not to be easily caught. Now
he was hidden from sight; again he was
scurrying along in plain view of every one.
The dogs gained on him; faster and faster
they went, lessening the distance between
themselves and the object of their chase.
They were almost on. him; but he turned
and eluded capture. The dogs, however,.
were on his heels, and there seemed no
chance of escape. He circled, made two or
three false starts, and was off like a flash
in a new direction. But the stop was too
long. One of the dogs pulled up even with
him, and with a little yelp of exultation
the dog snapped the throat of his victim in
his teeth. There was a fierce struggle. The
squirming animal struggled to be free. He
was just slipping from the dog's grasp when
the canine, with a snap of his head and a
movement of his jaw, caught a fresh hold.
For one last moment his victim worked to
get free and then gave up to the inevitable.
And the dog, with his head in the air, re
turned to the hunting party with his cap
ture-a big rat.
Plenty of E5citement.
It was a rat hunt, and it furnished plenty
of excitement to tne small group of on
lookers. No one knew just at what mo
ment the next rat would snow up, as they
came at no snail's pace. If one showed his
body in plain sight, it was usually the last
journey in his existence, with no chance to
outrival Patti in the number of farewell
tours. Let a rat but be seen by one of the
dogs, and he might as well have been a
Russian soldier in the aim of a Japanes3
gun. and he certainly did not have time to
write any last letter home or send any
death-bed messages to his family or friends.
It was simply the questioi of a short run.
a visit to the inside of a bulldogs mouth
and the crushing out of life. Each rat got
inside information of tile construction of a
mongrel's mouth and very intimate ac
quaintance with the teeth that go'with it.
Pied Piper Story..
Apparently it was the story of the Pled
Piper of Hamelin acted in real life. The
Hamelin in the case was the United States
Capitol and the Pied Piper was Clarence M.
Barclay, son of E. L. Barclay, "the ferret
man." Mr. Barclay has made a contract to
hunt out the rats in the Capitol for twelve
consecutive nights, and last evening the
first hunt took place. In the next fortnight
the campaign is expected to result in the
practical extermination of all the rats and
mice in this center of government. C. M.
Barclay is an expert rat hunter. having de
voted much of his time to that business for
the past two years and over. In the work
he employs an assistant. a colored man of
keen wits. To look at him he looks like an
ordinary person, with a sleepv look in his
eyes. But when he gets into a rat hunt his
wits work like a flash, and many a rat has
laid down his life under a blow from this
rat charmer's stick.
Mr. Barclay uses two dogs and two fer
rets in his hunts. One of the dogs is a
large, powerfully built bulldog. At all times
lie is ready to spring on a rat jike a flash.
lie is a trained rat hunter, following up
scents and routing out the little animals
wherever possible. It is an unusually quick
and cunning rat that escapes the snap of
this bulldog's jaw if the dog once sees him.
The other dog is a small terrier, active,
hard-working and quick. One wonders,
wh,,n lie tackles a big grandfather rat,
which is the dog and which the rat. But
t'e end of the struggle always sees the rat
lik. a Napoleon at Waterloo. The two fer
rets are used to run out the rats from wood
pil. s, holes, crevices, etc. There is no ani
mal. even several times the size of a fer
ret, that a rat is so afraid of as one of these
little fellows. A rat will run into a red-hot
oven to escape a ferret if there were no
other place for him to go.
Began in Basement.
Last night's hunt began at about half
past 7. In the basement on the iHuse side
of the Capitol there Is a large room, used
for waste paper. This is a Mecca, for rats.
as the paper furnishes them with the finest
kind of domiciles. The rat hunters began
to stir up the papers in order to start out
a rat. Two men worked for some. minutes,
turning over piles of paper and l-oking up
crevices.
"There's one," resounded from m :errl
throats at once. And sure enoug run
ning along one of the walls was ' ittle
rat. He didn't seem to want- to sLip ta
see what the excitement was, but ran
right along home to his mother. The
dogs were in another part of the room
and failed, to see rat No. 1. The work of
stirring up the papers continued for
about two more minutes, when suddenly
a large rat darted out, almost under the
dog's feet. The rat made a start for the
door, but it was closed, and he turned in
another direction. "General. Lee," the bull
dog, had glanced In the direction of the
rat and was after it like a tramp would
go after a piece of apple pie. The rat's
run was short, until the dog overtook
him. The rat .was running in a circle, his
feet making about 1,000 steps per second.
The dog's first snap did not make connec
tions with his prey; but the second did.
A snap, a violent shaking of the head,
and a beautiful specimen of an aider
manic-appearing rat lay dead on the pa
per at the dog's feet. It was the first
eatch of the evening. Hardly had the on
lookers taken their eyes from this inci
dent when there was a little yelp from
the terrier, a shaking- of his head, and he
trotted over-to his master with a second
victim. Thus the sport continued for
some time.
"We'll have rat pie tomorrow," sug
gested one of the guards.
"Too bad Mr. Roosevrelt couldn't be- here
for the hunt. How he would enjoy get
ting after a few rats," another suggested,
Whole families were cleaned out in the
terrible- onslaught. Fathers, mothers,
cousins, uncles, nieces-all were treated
alike, Like'the toothache' that goes away
when one goes to the- dentist, so- the- rats
last night seemed generaly' to have had
an inside flip on wtrat 'wasn coming, and
mxany removed out od sight.
For years, the basement of the United
States Capitol has; been- namst an antlti
for rats. Guards, engineers, fireman and
others around the bulankg tell beanlfl
stories off the number and dating of these
anhinals in- this plane. Any day ther- can
be seen scampering arounds the fifed vol..
umes of boelms along conduits, and water
pipes; is. fact, all. throught the basement of
the buildlag.
The rain wema- inilgnee las eening at
the disturbamea et tieimh peae ad. trwn,
uili. For generanas, past their aucem
toes had been ailhwed to flv i the mains.
lng grantim1t' uennnims@. TSey bae bereti
boles; throught dours- or- wizgdaw. By 1r4
womit of' .ears. Beone an empMiat Am
bn maraibbeG to' thene ditte 1he thuee
that.,fr tRisatlbnn begaes 14-Ew e s
aner p ag =mmWTher 3.6 Be
get li t R eng noap in weptam
manam N~ dsinatiUr we asskieim
the emuflr tree ot a ret esurbr a am
timne of Jeferson- or only tpa tie gesi i
of r.JZOntU.
-eg the -e 40 thes as 20
the Cb~- W be 39esomn fer & wka
The rats have turnilbed amimement for
maay tde moments and flor many humor
ous stories. No more. can o0
properly may, "I smelA a. rat." Awil
diaeent if Mr. rclay: proves his melf o
be a true Ped. Pipe of $amlan.
iU Iinth IN iBma=
hkim WAta is thta " Cis t1A b
v==== Conmrta
Frank C. Marrin. alias Frank E. Stone,
alias "Judge" Franklin Stone, etc., the
prime factor In the great Storey Cotton
C panase landed at lavre- Framef
ean Mascb 23, at 4 o'clock In the afternSon
>ei the steamsiip Toaraine, having saied
from New Tork em Maret 3% the de the
Storey Cotton Company went into the hands
of a recetver.
Marrin was acceapanied in Wio flight
from. America by his wife and two sons,,
Thomas and Frank. Thomas H. Quinlan,
secretary and treasurer of the Storey com
pany, was also in the partg. Quinlan ap
peared at. Trenton- N. J., on the morning of
March 16 and aided in throwing the Storey
company into the hands of a. receiver. He
left Trenton immediately after the receiver
ship proceedingo and sped to New York,
arriving in the latter city in time to join
Marrin and his family.
Marrin engaged passage for all of the
party booking his own family under the
name "Mr. and Mrs. Stern and two sons."
Quinlan was booked as. Mr. Stern's secre
tary. Matrin bought the tickets for the
party from the clerk on the Touraine's;
dock just a few moments before the ship:
sailed. In buying the tickets Marrin paidi
for them with money taken from an im
mense roll of AIfp bank notes.
On the voyage of the Tonraine from New
York for Havre Marrin frequented the
smoking room during the greater part of
the trips and was a conspicous figurs in
the card games played during the voyage.
The Touraine arrived in New York a few
days ago and sailed thence yesterday morn
ing for Havre. During the stay of the ship
in New York the purser was seen and inter
viewed, as well as the clerk on the dock
who sold the tickets to Marrin. Both indien
tilled Marrin as the man. who had bought
the dock tickets in the name of "Stern."
Marrin, it is now believed, is in France,
although it is possible that he may have
crossed into; England. The latter supposi
tion is not likely, as F. Ewart Storey is
known to have fled from. Liverpool, and the
affairs of the Storey Cotton Company in
England have been thrown into the chan
eery courts by victims of the swindlers.
MEAT PACKERS INDICTED.
Three Employee and an Attorney Held
by Grand Jury.
Four men, three of whom are employes of
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger, meat packers,
and one an attorney for that corporation,
were named in an indictment returned yes
terday afternoon by a federal grand jury at
Chicago, which is ihvestigating the alleged
beef trust. It is charged that four men
obstructed and impeded Deputy Marshal
A. A. Bach in efforts to serve a subpoena
on Edwin B. lish, a clerk employed by
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger. Fish recently
rturned from Canada. The indicted men
are:
Joseph Weissenbach. attorney for
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger.
B. S. Cusey, traffic manager for the com
pany..
George D. Hopkins, auditor for the com
pany.
Leo S. Joseph, employed in the provision
department of the concern.
The indictment alleges that a subpoena
was issued for Fish on March 3; that this
subpoena was given to Each for service;
that the four men had arranged for the
departure of Fish from the United States
to Canada, and assisted him in leaving the
jurisdiction of the court.
Attorney Weissenbach, who was for sev
eral years an assistant to Gov. Deneen
when the latter was state's attorney in
Chicago.. declares that it was at his in
stance that Fish returned from Canada and
agreed to go before the grand jury. This
is not denied by the government officers.
Weissenbach also declares that he has
never seen or spoken to Hopkins, has never
spoken to Cusey concerning Fish, and' as
serts that Joseph was never in any manner
interested in the affair.
The four men were taken into custody
shortly after the return of the inc'aments,
and were released in bonds of $1.0th) in each
case.
SCARED TUG'S CREW.
Philadelphiar Craft Thought to Have
Struck a Torpedo.
Special Corrspondenee of The Evening Star.
NORFOLK, Va., April 13. 1905.
Dempsey's Philadelphia tug Peerless came
in here today with the liveliest sensation
aboard which has been on a ship here
abouts since the Spanish war. Capt. Rob
ert Freburger, commanding the tug, re
ported that as he passed Old Point yester
day morning, outward bound, the Iron
hulled tug struck some obstruction which
made a thundering noise and gave out a
nietallic sound. The concussion felt, he
said, as though the tug was about to be
torn to pieces.
The nervousness aboard when the ob
struction was struck was nothing to the
shivering which began when the tug's chief
engineer, Capt. H-erbert Groome, reported
to the captain of the lighthouse tender Jes
saminie that the Peerless had struck some
thing which he thought might be a wan
dering buoy and was told that the tihing
was a torpedo.
"if 1Ed a-known that when we hit it," said
Capt. Freburger, "I'd a-gone overboard
ri.ght then." The captain of the Jessamine
calmned the tug men to some extent by ex
plaining to them that the mine they struck
is not exploded by contact. but is one of
those connected. by wire with Fort Monroe,
which are blown up by electricity at the
will of the artillerymen in the tort.
The tug men, however, still have- their
scare on, and were telling this morning
how the tug Bristol. when- passing Sandy
Hook some three years ago, suddenty blew
up, killing every man aboard save one. The
boiler was said to have e::ploded. but a
diver afterward found the boiler intact and
secured evidence that the tug had struck a
mine.
It is stat'ed at the War Department that
no loaded torpedoes are being planted in
the waters of Hampton Roads. Qjuite a
number of blank torpedoes, however, have
been put down for practice purposes during
the coming army and- navy maneuvers. A
fuse- is attached to these which Is just sufit.
cieat to make known the presence: of tihe
torpedo If It is struckt by a ship. These
blank torpedoes- are- harmless. No tor
pedoes are beIng placed in the channel,
where they would be In the way of ship
ping.
P%thxen SeheL Aass1ute hy Saloon Man
Father Schell, a Roman Catholic priest,
who, has been: attacihg alleged. abuses of
the Indians, on the Omnbha and Winnebagp
l'ndian agency In. Nebraska, was assaulted
by a saloon keeper at Dakota City, Ne.,
yesterday afternoon. R!BS was brought to
a hospital in Sioux City. His ja,w is
broken, but he is not fatally injuredt
Famous Paiting by Verestchegiu.
The historical painting, "The PrIree of
Wales in India," by Verestchagin, the- great
Rus#ian artist who lost, his life in thesi
lng; of 'the battIeship Eetropaviost outfile
Port Arthur,. ham ben. Durchased. of WhiTer
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ALDERMAN INDUCTED
AT~G101
NOTED ZDUCATOBE
Zany Plomineat in OQ l and Cvil
Life, Also Psrseat-Rockefeller's
Splendid Gift.
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, in ra
diant sunshine, distinguished guests and.
faculty formed at. the rotunda of the Uni
versity of Virginia, at Charlottesville, Va.,
and in procession marched down the long
lawn to the auditorium. Each man wore
the hood of the institution which had con
ferred degrees upon him-Johns Hopkins,
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cam
bridge. Leipzig, Heidelberg-and the pur
ple, gold, blue, scarlet, green and maroon
gave color to the most notable procession
of educators Virginia had ever seen.
Irt the auditorium the large mural paint
ing of the School of Athens was flanked by
immense national flags that framed the
portraits of Jefferson, Madison, John Cocke,
Joseph CaLell, James Monroe and James
Madison and the bust of Lafa,yette, pre
sented by the French government. On each.
side hung the state flag of Virginia.
To the strains of "The Diplomat" march
the hundreds of students marched into the
galleries cheering and giving the college
yell. As the long procession filed in judges,
congressmen, legislators, men of business
and professional men, college presidents
and the students sang in a roaring chorus
the college song "Virginia." to the air of
"Auld Lang Syne."
"Virginia, Virginia, Alderman!"
After an earnest prayer by Rev. Dr. Rich
ard D. Smart, the rector of the university,
Mr. Charles Pinckney -Jones was presented.
He reviewed the history of the creation of
the office of president and the election of
Dr. Alderman. At the mention of the presi
dent's name the students broke into cheers
and gave the inauguration "Hooray! Hoo
ray! Virginia! Virginia! Alderman!'
The rector declared he believed the
change would have been, under present
conditions, advocated by Thomas Jefferson.
Presenting to him the constitution of the
university. the rector administered the oath
of office to the new president, who was re
eeived with enthusiastic cheers. In a few
words the president made his pledge to de
vote his life and strength in upbuilding
the university. Wearing the black and gold
cap and gown and purple hood of his uni
versity the governor of Virginia spoke on
behalf of the state.
Gov. Montague Speaks.
Gov. Montague spoke for the state and
her institutions. -
"In the stir of expectancy," he said,
"which greets this occasion, and the exalt
[ng confidence with which we look to the
triture, we cannot forget the deeds and tra
ditions and the purposes for which it was
iounded. The father of the university con
tributed more fully than- any statesman of
his day to the educational needs of a repub
lic. He devised this school, not for the sub
lects of a king, but for citizens of a repub
lic.
"We must demand that this agency of
the people as it grows in new power and
strength shall also grow in service to the
people. We must place her hand in mater
nal touch with the common schools of our
land, thereby energizing all the forees that
make for popular enlightenment."
Prof. Smith's Allegiance.
The venerable Prof. Francis Henry Smith
then doffed his cap to the new president
and spoke on behalf of the faculty. He
quoted Adams' dying words:
"We feet that Thomas Jefferson still
lives."
He pictured Jefferson as the real presi
dent of the university and Alderman as his
first successor. He declared that the new
president had filled the university with. in
spiration and hope.
"You are not called here to take charge
of a sickly institution," he said. "You
were not called to raise the dead."
Congratulating the new president on the
fact that he came from North Carolina,
the ever-loving sister of Virginia, he created
much amusement by declaring that her
sons had "ever been among the foremost in
peace and war." He hoped that they would
always be united in friendship. Pledging
the new president the support of the facul
ty, he eloquently expressed "a hope. rising
to a prayer, that your future leadership
may be as successful as the beginning has
been auspicious."
Senator Martin's Address,
Serrator Thomas S. Mfartin spoke on be
half of the alumni. He welcomed the im
portant and radical novation which has
been made, and said he had failed to find
any utterance o,f Jefferson indicating that
it was his fixed conclusion, that there should
never be a president of the university.
After reviewing the election of William
Wirt as president, he read the objections,
written by Jefferson at the time in the mia
utes, to the election of a president.
Prof. Arohibald Cary Coolidge af Harvard
spoke on- behalf of She- universities of the
east, which, he said, were indebted to Vir
ginia for the eleatite systerm and the code
of honor w'hich holds that men should, be
gentlemen bet e they are scholars.
Preuideii ter's Good Wishes.
President Nieholas Murry Butler of Co
lumbia College. New York, said he came to
hail a friend, to stand at his side as he
publicly consecro-ted himself to. an ideal
the service of trudi and mankind.
"The university's shackles are gone,." he
said; "truth has made us free."
To the president he said:
"With high hope and sincere affection, we
bid you Godspeed."
Chancellor Walter B. Hill of the Univer
sity of, Georgia spoke for the unIversities of
the south, bringing the congralulations of
Virginia's neighbors and next of kin. Point
ing out the stra-tegic position of the UJni
rersity of' Virginia ad its leadershig i
like south, he- said: "Providence hasa given
yrou. a leader."
President Richard Henry Jessee of- the
University of Missouri spokti briefly on be
laalf og the universities of tie west.
For fifty years, he declared. the Univer
sity oC Virginia land been. the foremast In
making great men in America, until 1&18,
wrhen the Johns Hopkins University was
establshed, and the scepter departed from
ludah. To Dr. Alderman,. he said, the man
tle of' the prophet, long suspended in. air,
lSad fallen. "May a doa. portion of hia
spirit be upon you," he said,
Enthusl*mR ft Aldrarn.
When President Alderman came fowrd
to deliver his inau:naral addres, the entire
assemhlae arose and cheered, and the stur
fents game the Alderman-'ll.
All through the Dua address there were
authuset of applause,. and a:t the close a.
Erat demonstration, scoren crowding on to
Erasp the hand of the new president.
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styles for boys' clothes are not as numer
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mother and sisters, they are trim and
smart and well suited to the small youth.
The illustration shows a natty outfit, com
pcsed of knickerbockers. aad a bkanne with
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worn. Serge and cheviot are be:ng mad,
hito garments of this description, and wil
stand an unlimited amount of wear. Navy,
cadet, brown and maroon are favorite co
ors, and can be procured in linen and crash
as well as wool materials. The material
required for medium size is 2% yards 36
inches wide.
Pattern No. 2R52 is cut in 4 sizes, from 4
to 10 years.
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City and State
the shaping of the Constitution. so compact
i.f high sense and tragic compromise; that
Interpreted its spirit; that widened colonial
rision from provincialism to empire; that
txed faith in average humanity as the
philosophy of a new civilization, and that
set the frame work of the great- popular
axperiment in forms of imperishable
strength and beauty.
Its Future Destiny.
Whether the University of Virginia shall
realize its great destiny rests upon the de
cision of the commonwealth of Virginia,
whose civic life it has energized and en
nobled, upon the will of its alumni whom it
has invested with cultured manhood, and
pon American citizenship, whose public
spirit it embodies. I have emphasized
everywhere the idea of service due from
the university to the state, and I shall con
tinue this emphasis, for I should sin against
the mighty dead if I did not bring to these
brave young men a straightforward mes
sage of social duty. In Ben Hill's phrase,
this shall be the University for Virginia
as well as the University of Virginia.
Great states care for their universities, be
lieving such care to be a mark of greatness
in states. I believe that this state, which
has always known how to act broadly, will
make it an axiom of Its legislative life to
cherish and strengthen its chiefest in situa
tion in proportion to income and prosperity.
An additional annual income of $100,0t0)
could be wisely used here. We need men
here, first and foremost-great scholars and
teachers to reinforce our overburdened
corps-and books and instruments and
buildings, and then more men.
What Universities Stand For.
Universities stand both as servants and
as symbols of the spiritual insight and
the social needs of their epochs. The Greek
peoples studied philosophy because the need
of their time was ethical. The Englishman
is Intent upon the getting of general cul
ture because his need Is for the man of
breadth and culture will. In the second
tiecade of the republic popular thought
centered upon the rights of man and the
bounds of polItical freedom. The state
ment of the purpose in the founding of
the university, therefore, drawn up by the
same hand that had drawn up the Declara
tion of American Independence, while re
fecting this mood of the age, passed be
yond it with a daring comprehenstveness
that marks our founder as a master of
toresight and interpretation.
President Eliot, a great modern master
and interpreter of educational method and
purpose, has recently declared that there
ire three indispensable~attributes of a true
university: Freedom in the choice ,of
studies; opportunity to win distinction in
special lines of study; a discipline which
imposes on each individuial the responsibil
ity for forming his own habits and guiding
his own conduet.
Know the Dmriplim of War.
The Americans of the southern states are
the only Americans who ha-ve known In
cifrest form the discipline of war and the
education of defeat. They alone of this
anbeaten land have had intimate enperience
af revol'ution and despair. The University
if Virginia as their chief'est servant has
shared with them this stern, self-revealing
tutelage. One can never know what fair
visions of its destiny filled the eye of
Thomas. Jefferson.. He beheld it guiding
wisely the local life of Virginia. He be
bei it as a training plad~e for demnoratic
teadership in the state and nation; as an
nispirer to the great northwest and south
west, as those sta:tes swept into ordered
tie; but his opimilsmt, as well as human
timitations,. shut it out from his sight in
ta sacredest relation,. as the source of
.ight to a land left in darkness and silence
by the storm of war. Is there in academic
munas sueh a story of precious privilege
Led fuLfilment?
byrt gf Nlm It- Hag raduated.
This university Ia just ene of the cir
:le of American institutios seeking so
tuarintee the right answer to these large
luestions of human welfare. A sectional
ike a sectarian university, is unthinkable,
.nd we are spiritual neighbor to Harvard
mnd Columbiia, to Michigan aind Texas, to
:xioed andi Candbrige. As a briefi anwer
is the vtbal. questions. What sort of men
ave you made? I may reply 45i per cent
af our students come to us from thirty
site- states other- theim Vlrginia; 200 of os
sa.Dnn have- preached the gampel. thrbeui.
mt the world; 411 have occupied chaira. In
L51 uniuersities and colleges in thirty-th-e
tates and four foreign countrien atty
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can discard heavy materials and let f incy
run riot among the dainty fabrics and deli
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sp . A fasaitating creation which sug
sets apple-Wimm time it shown in the
acc.ompanying sketeh. Wb4.e crystal iilt
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cuffs and stole collar are emhroidered in
pastel shades. Narrow bleck velvet in :t
Greek key pattern gives charactei -ti the
bodice, and both of these decor ations are
novel as well as inexpensive. Appiikue.
guipure or the popular spangh- can be u+ed
in place of the embroidery. A bodice sut
able for formal ocetaions is effected by
omitting plastron and cuffs. The material
required for medium sise is 4be yards 21
inches wide.
Pattern No. 2S24 is cut in tl sizes, from 33
to 42 inches bust.
postpaid. by inclosing 10 cents and sending
number. name and address, to the Fashion
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that "the scholar should be a patriot and
the patriot a scholar, and that scholarly
patriotism. exalting country above seif. rich
in social knowledge and sympathy, unafraid
of difficulty and unashamed of sentiment.
is the noblest offering universities can
make toward the integrity and majesty of
republican citizenship.'
ASPROZ FUNERAL OBSEQUIES.
Arrangementn at Annapolts for Satur
day's Cortege.
Special Correspoudenee af The Evening Star.
ANNAPOLIS. Md.. April 14, 1965.
The final orders for the funeral cortege
on Saturday, when the remains of Don
Manuel de Aspiros, the late Mexican am
bassador to the United States, will arrive
here, have been issued at the Naval Acad
emy.
The escort will consist of two companies
of marines from the Naval Academy, one
company of marines and two companies
of blue jackets from the U. S. S. Columbia.
The Naval Academy Band will form a part
of the escort, and the whole will be com
manded by Lieut. J. H. Reid. U. S. N. The
officers from the Naval Academy will as
semble at the station at 3:h) o'clock and
will march in the funeral procession.
The Standish will convey the remains
from the dock to the U'. S. S. Columbia,
which lies in the Annapolis Roads, and
when the Standish leaves the dock with the
remains, a salute of nineteen minute guns
will be fired. The funeral arrangements
are In charge of Comm-indant J. Badger,
L. S. N., commandant of midshipmen.
Tho following officers of the Marine Ccsps
have reported for instruction at the school
of application; Second Lieutenants C. A.
Lutz, H. S. Green, H. G. Bartlett. R. S.
Shepard. H. W. Stone, J. D. Nevin, H. M.
Smith. J. R. Henley. R. S. Keyser. A. B.
Drum, D. M. Randall, V. V. Sweeney. C.
Anaunn and V. I. Morrison.
Lieut. L. C. Bertolette, U. S. N., has been
ordered before the naval examining boad
Washington, April 2, for examinatimn for
promotion.
There has been a change made in the
schedule for sports at the Naval Academy
on Saturday to avoid conflicting with the
funeral arrangements of the Mexican am
ba.ssador. The basd bell game and boat
rye will occur- in the mnorning instead of
kI the afternoon as customary. The double
header boat race will start at 10:30) a.m..
tomorrow (Saturday, when the rnidshipmen
will row the Georgetown crew. and at 1.1
a.m., the base ball game with the Uiaver
sity of North Carolina will be played em
the aca@emy grounds.
The preliminary contest to decide the sta
dent who shall represent St. John's College
in the intercollegiate oratorical contest was
held in McDowell Hall last night. Cadets
Fox and McBride, both of the senior class
were so close that the judges- could net
decide. Others contesting were Cadets
Filling. '0. .Raisin. 'O&i; Clark. GI. Another
contest will be held next weezt.
General Freight Agent R. D). Joh.nson et
the Short Line railroad received a message
this morning announcing the death of his
father at Warrenton. Va. The message
was received over the wire by the son
of the deceased, who was at the tele
graph instrument.
Galloway Cheston, fifty-nine years old, a
well-known farmer of the first district of
Anne Arundel county, died at his home
y-esterday morning of cirrhosis of the liver.
Hie was promInently identitled with demo
cratic politics in this county and had served
four years as judge of the orphans' court
and several years as a member of the board
of county commissIoners. The funeral took
place this afternoon from Christ Church.
West,River, the Rev. W. M. Mayo, rector,
ofBciating.
Arbor day exercises were held today in
th.e public school.
The entire peach orchard of George B.
Stlnchcomh, at Jones station, on the Short
Line railroad, has been destrawed by the
serertty of the past winter. The orcha.rd
contains between 8.000 and 10,000) trees, not
one of which has blossomed.
Thte marriage of Miss Myrtle Ray of Har
mna's; Anne Arujndel county, to Mr.
Georigs Chaney of Odeston to,k place last
night. The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. 0. C. Beall at Friendship M. U!.
Church.
Naval Academay society was welt reprne
mined at a leeture at McDowell Hafl. St.
John's CeNege. last night. It w as g'ven by
Pye. Henri Marten, under the auspices of
the Aanapolis group of the Alitnce Frau
caise. The subjeet was "Old French Cas-.
tlmies.*ian was ilhintrated with stereopticoml
(h the base ball feld at St. Jetta's Cal.
l4 yrday aftsneen the niat of tbepe
lmsi3nsan played a. game with the- team
et the: University of North Chrekna. The
smer we & o I in favr- of the Marth
Caaasm University.
TeAge tesm of the eeit eewt e
Lans Arundel county will onene &m
de. These- are twn murdes- esae em the
MaL. The psineleal em- l that of WS
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