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tSS^USTi^SrnS^- No. 17,525. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1908-TWENTY-TWO PAGES. TWO CENTS.
G0MPEflS_IS SILENT
Won't Answer Questions in
Contempt Hearing.
TAKES ATTORNEY'S ADVICE
Editorials in Federationist Are Involved.
FREE EDITORIAL OPINION
Labor Leader Sticks Up for What
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Bights.
The taking of testimony in the contempt
proceedings against Messrs. Gompers.
Mitchell and Morrison, officers of the
Federation of l,abor. came suddenly to a
temporary close at 12:^0 o'clock today.
At that time Mr. Davenport sought to
question Mr. Gompers concerning editorials
printed in the current September
number of the Federationlst, and on the
advice of his counsel. Mr. Gompers refused
to answer because the utterances
had been made since the tiling of the contempt
petition.
A number of questions bearing upon this
issue were put to the witness and It was
agreed that they should be certified to
Justice Gould to determine whether they
were relevant. It is probable that they
will be presented to the court Monday,
but Attorney Ralston, acting for Mr.
Gompers. refused to accept informal notice
of a motion hy Ralston for the
limitation and defining of the scope of
the inquiry.
This Mr. Ralston refused to do. because
he said his entire thirty days for the
taking of testimony might be consumed
in the argument of the instructions for
arm i <iit cm.
Objects to Davenport's Methods.
Mr. Ralston took occasion to state that
ho did not so much object to Mr. Gom- '
pors replying to the question regarding 1
the September Federationlst as he did to <
Mr. Davenport's effort to pile up unnecessary
testimony.
When President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor today resumed
t lie witness stand in the hearing in connection
with the contempt proceedings
against himself and Messrs. Mitchell and
Morrison of the federation. Mr. Davenport.
for the Bucks Stove Company, continued
his questions.
The first of these related to the effect
of the editorial printed in the Federation
ist for January. IPOS, but the witness
contended in reply to the interrogatories
that the article could not have
lad the effect of inciting its readers to
violate the Judge's injunction d??ree.
Wanted Money.
The editorial was reprinted and sent
at with a circular appealing for voluntary
eontributions so that we might have
money to defend the Buck's company
suit,'" he said. "The editorial was only
an argument on the principles involved
In the controversy, and instead of entering
into those arguments in the circular.
the editorial was reprinted so as to give '
1 he men of labor an opportunity to under- l
stand the question." j
tit; insisted that the Injunction could (
not be interpreted to interfere with his
right of free editorial expression.
Mr. Davenport sought to show that
there had been a conspiracy against the <
Buck's Stove and Range Company and i
to make it appear that Mr. Gompers' edi- I
toriais had had influence in producing this
state of affairs, but he did not succeed in
i iiciting much from Mr. Gompers in sup- t
port of this effort. The latter said he had i
not kept himself informed as to what the
lai?or press generally was saying or doing. 1
TRIED TO BURN HOUSES. J
Two Philadelphia Italian Families !
Saved From Incendiary.
PHILADELPHIA. September IS.?An
extraordinary effort to burn two dwellings
occupied by Italian families in Annin
street, in the southern section of the city,
was tnade early today. Had it not been
for the timely discovery of the Are the
result might have been serious.
One of the houses was occupied by Nicholas
Bottari. his wife, four children and a
sister. James Merchelia lives in the other ,
house with his wife and three chi'dren.
The flames were discovered by one of the 1
women and she gave the alarm in time
for all to get to the street without serious
injury.
An investigation showed the front doors
n? the houses and the fences in the rear
iad been soaked will) oil. There is no
?!ne to the perpetrators of the criminal
a?-t. but tlic po ice are making rigid inquiry.
HOSPITAL PATIENTS POISONED.
Nurse Confesses She Used Receptacle
That Had Held Poison.
DIEGO. Cal., September 18? A
r.urse In the County Hospital last night 1
COti fpcentl t A TBat.U* A . .X?? ~TT t.l.L.- I
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tliat she had accidentally furnished a
number of patients with drinking water
containing a quantity of poison. Six were
taken violently ill. one died and the
others are in a serious condition, some ]
being unconscious.
The wholesale poisoning was followed
by rumors that It had been brought about 1
deliberately as the result of a plot. The
sheriff and the district attorney immediately
began an investigation at the hosp.tal
and finally learned from one of the ,
nurses that she had used for drinking
water a receptacle that had contained \
poison. I
BEGINS NINETY-SEVENTH YEAR
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Material Increase in Registration for
Princeton Theological Semiaary.
l'RINCETOX. N. J.. September 18 ?
The Princeton Theological Seminary be- .
gan its ninety-seventh year today with |
<-x?-rcises in .Miller Chapel. Rev. James
Oscar Boyd. Ph.D. of the seminary faculty
delivered the opening address. A
material increase in the registration was
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Announcement was made of the annual i
autumn conference on subjects of practical
religious interest for October 5 and
t> at Princeton. !
Among tiiose who will speak are the
Key John I>. Adams, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Kast Orange. ,
N. J ; tlie Rev. I>r. Alexander, pastor of |
'he I'niversity P at e Presbyterian Ciiurch
of New York; R v. Dr. Klmon Harris.
? president of the Toronto Kible Training
School. Toronto. Ont ; Delavon Plerson.
associate editor of the Missionary' Review
of the World. New York city, and the
Rev. F \Y. I.oetscher. pastor of the Oxford
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. j
A general invitation lias been extended i
! > all clergy men aud interested laymen. |
RETURHSTONEWYORK
Bryan Will Speak in Carnegie
Hall Tonight.
CAMPAIGN IS WARMING UP 1
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Democratic Managers Pleased With
Controversy Over Steel Trust.
REPLY TO SHELDON ISSUED
Democratic Nominee Will Endeavor
to Lead His Opponents Frequently
Into Debate.
Special From a Staff Correspondent.
NEW YORK. September 18.?Certainly
there is no one who can now deny that
the national campaign is warming up
sufficiently to please the most aggressive
partisan that ever stepped in shoe leather.
The charges and denials that are flying
back and forth between candidates and
leaders would seem to furnish the best
evidence in the world that for the next
month and a half relays of political
stokers will keep the flres hot under the
party boilers.
The democratic managers view this
latest "you did" and "I didn't" controversy
with reference to the matrimonial
bonds alleged to exist between the republican
party and the United States
Steel Corporation with unmixed delight.
Mr. Bryan read, during the trip from
Wilmington to New York, the statement
of Treasurer Sheldon of the republican
national committee, published this morning.
In that statement Mr. Sheldon, who
was responding to charges made by Mr. j
Bryan in his speech at Harrington, Del., j
yesterday, asked if a member of the ex- ;
eeutive committee or an official of the !
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I'nlted States Steel Corporation did not
have the same right as any other repub- j
lean to contribute to the campaign fund
of the party.
This morning Mr. Bryan, coming over ;
on the ferry from Jersey City, called the
newspaper men around him and dictated t<
i short statement amplifying the charges "
made by him at Harrington, and saying 9
that Sheldon's reply constituted a practi- 11
ral admission of the truth of those P
charges. He says it is well known that ! P
Sheldon is an official of one or more of
the constituent companies of the Steel '
Corporation, and thinks that this fact, r
among other things, goes a long way toward
demonstrating the truth of his as- :i
sertion concerning the heart-to-heart re P
lations of the trust and the party. "
After his arrival at the Hoffman House
:h!s morning such a lot of pressure was n
orought to bear on Mr. Bryan and so K
nany questions were asked him by the n
lock of newspaper men who had gathered
:here to await his arrival that he sue- "
numbed to their entreaties and dictated a
ong formal statement. While interesting
is an academic discussion of various welliefined
issues it is not particularly ca- h
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Mr. Bryan's Aim.
But from now Mr. Bryan Intends to 1
take every possible opportunity of lead- s
ing his opponent and his opponent's party 1
into debate on just such questions as this
one concerning the relations of the steel t
trust and the republican party. v
He would be tickled to death, too, to
Jlscover that the republican party was a "
grass widow and had a divorced husband
in the shape of another healthy trust. c
walking around the land somewhere.
Of course. It Is easy to understand why 11
:he democrats Invest this alleged relationship
with so much importance., I
They are making the claim that this
relationship, together with the fact that g
officials of the steel trust are heavy contributors
to the republican campaign fund
?achieving in spirit and effect, if not in
manner, the proposition of an old-time
and now Illegal net trust contribution, *
make it Impossible for the republican s
party to publish the names of contribu- 0
tors to its 1908 fund. t
The names of democratic contributors
will be published October 15. From that c
time on every democratic spellbinder will
open his throat and utter a loud harsh o
cry of triumph. p
"See ours," they'll say. "Where's
yourn? You dassen't publish it. You
Just dassen't."
That at least is the play. Having what f
the democratic managers consider an ex- ?
ceptionally strong issue in the proposi- "
tion for the guarantee by the government b
of bank deposits, it only needs another 11
such, they think, to bring them close in- *
deed to the goal success. They insist "
that the names of trust officials are down
on the treasurer's books of the republican r
national committee as heavy contributors, "
and that, therefore, the names of contributors
will not by any chance be pub- *
lished. That gives them something to f
talk about. If the names become known 11
that will give them something more. So,
from the democratic viewpoint, the repub- **
lican party at present is between the '
devil and the salty old ocean.
How Democrats Regard Outlook.
I chatted for a little while this morning T
with a democrat who does not let his
partisanship blind him to the possibilities C
of the future.
"In my honest opinion," said he, "the
republican party is on the run, and if to- j
morrow were election day we. under the n
standard of the peerless, would win in a .
walk. But"?and he paused for a moment
ai.a shook his head?"but the repub- v
lican party has such blamed wonderful p
powers of recuperation that there's no \
te'ling what will happen between now and .
November. Our only hope, now that we
have the republican party on the run. is j 1
to keep on chasing. We must not quit > '
for a minute, for if we do the republican i t<
elephant will turn around and step on us." I ?
That is what Mr. Bryan's managers are
telling him. and I understand he has about
r?l i?n ii n Vi/x ia f n*>i> oAet ,, t nil
m * *-ii u^i wvijir ui an) irni ai ait tiuin
now to election day. A swing clear a
through to the coast is being considered. n
moreover, for advices from California the v
other day, from some folks out there who. "
the democratic managers think, shoud f
know what they are talking about, have
it that Bryan can have the state if he'll ! "
only go out and get it. So it would not
at all surprise me if Mr- Bryan's campaigning
tour of this year would finally
turn out to be a record-breaker for con- ??
tinuous and concentrated streuuosity.
Democratic Harmony.
The spectacle of sweet and honeyed harmony
never was more faithfully portray- ^
ed than yesterday when Judge Gray and
Mr. Bryan clutched, dined and mineralwatered
and finally said "Good night; }
sweet dreams," or words to that effect, as
they separated to sieep under the hospitable
Gray roof tree. There'll be a I
couple more of these "how-l-love-thee" ' 1
parties Sunday, w hen Mr. Bryan will exile
himself for a few hours at .ik g'adsome io
village of Esopus, which Judge Alton B. v
Parker illumines with his residence In the
summer time, and later will journey to r
Wolfert's Roost to c/asp the pleasantly4 p
chilly right flipper of the Honorable n
David B. Hill. v
Harmony had been tire word used to ~e- 1
scribe the state of the democratic party I a
by its managers for some time now, and I I
oday th?y are simply yelling from the
ousetops. And the language they use to
escribe the scrambled condition of the
iternal mechanism of the G. O. P. is simly
scandalous. Some of it has got no
lace in a respectable family newspaper.
Broadway is such a quiet, restful spot
or a political meeting that the Oommerial
Travelers' Beague induced Mr. Bryan
c? perform in a building at five hundred
nd something. He did and several peo
if ncara mm eiucinaie me issues or me
ay and stroll up and down the recumbent
srm of the shrinking steel trust. But
tost of the folks who wanted to hear Mr.
tryan were shooed on by a swarm of
lounted and otherwise police. However,
ne. Commercial Travelers' League is
appy and that, of course. Is something.
Snaps Jaws Ominously.
From Mr. Bryan's remarks this mornig
and the way he snapped his jaws toether
In mentioning that he Intended to
interest'' his audience In Carnegie Hall
Ids evening, I am Inclined to think his
peech will be well worth hearing?not
he prepared part, but the remarks he
iill interject, a la tabasco.
But, shucks, you never can tell. For the !
Jryan of 1H08 is not the Bryan of 1S1H5,
whatever populists and others may say
o the contrary. His vein of conservatism
owadays crops out so prominently in the
Jryan quartz that you can knock off
hunks of it with a simple question. It
s the same old knife, but it has a new
tandle and a new blade. I. C. N.
MMIGRANTS GROWING FEWER.
lecretary Straus Calls Attention to
New Bulletin.
"The enormous falling off in immigraion,
which extends all along the line,"
aid Secretary Straus of the Department
f Commerce and Labor, "is indicated in
he following advance tlgures from the
lulletin shortly to be issued:
"The total immigration for the month
f August, 190S, was but 27.7S2, as com>ared
with 9b,825 for the same month a
car ago, a falling oft of 71,043.
"The immigration for the twelve months
nding July 1, 1908, showed a net Increase
f the population of the i'nlted States of
nit 209,S?i7. The immigration from Rusia,
one of the countries from which
isually there has been the largest tlow,
his .",194 for August, 190*. as against 21,49
for the same month of 1907.
"Statistics of both immigration and
migration are available as late as the
nonth of June, HHjK. Tlie immigration
rom Russia and Finland for that month
tas 6,2H> and 1 he emigration of persons
eturning to tliose countries 5,573, a net
ricrease of 7<>7 to tiie population of the
"nited States. For Italy, another country
upplying many immigrants, the inimigraion
for June, 190*. was 3,220. as against
7,573 for Juno, 1907, lor a loss to the
opulation of 14,347."
OTJCHED LIVE WIRE AND LIVES
Ihicago Girl Receives 2,300 Volts
of Electricity.
CHICAGO, September 18. ? Moliie
"rank, twelve years old, of Rmerald aveiiie
is alive and well after receiving into
ier body 2,300 volts of electricity, 500
oils more than is applied to condemned
irisoners in penal Institutions in New
'ork and Ohio. Several companions dared
er to climb an electric light pole and
ouch a wire. She made the ascent,
ouched the live wire and fell unconscious
o the ground. Tiie girl was later revived
nd she will recover, the doctors say.
A physician who attended the child
aid that the recovery of the girl added
notber argument to be used by the
nedical men who charge that persons
irho suffer the death penalty by means
f elecirlcity are not killed by the elecric
shock, but by the knife of the sur
eon who performs the official autopsy or
y dissolution in the grave.
HISTORIC HOME BURNED.
The Shelter," in St. Louis Suburb,
Destroyed With Heirlooms.
ST. LOUIS. September 18 ?The Sheuer,
historic residence dating frc n 1816 and j
ocated near Normandy, a fashionable
uburb. twelve miles west of St i^ouis.
fas burned early this morning. Williapt
1. Lee, president of the Merchants-Lalede
National Bank of St. I^ouis, and his
amiiy tied.front the burning structure in
iieir night clothes.
Mr. Lee estimates his loss at about $12.Oo.
exclusive of the many heirlooms
k'hicit the house contained.
The Shelter was given by the state to
'haries Lucas, in compensation for his.
oss of land in the New Madrid earthuake
of 1816. Among tite many friends
t'hom Luoa? entertained there was
"homas H. Itcnton. Later they quarreled,
rid Benton killed -Lucjmc in a duel on
flood) island, opposite St. Louis. I
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SHIP LIMTO PORT
Colon Has a Close Call With
Terrific Hurricane.
LEFT NEW YORK SEPT. 10
Swept by Wind Blowing 100 Miles
an Hour.
AIL PASSENGERS BELOW
Three Seamen Lost Their Lives in
Hold by Gas in Effort to Protect
Water Tank.
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COI.1ON, September 18.?The steamship
Colon, half-masted and showing other evidences
of distress, came limping Into port
early this morning. She had been badly
battered by the hurricane encountered
Sunday. Three members of her crew lost
their lives while engaged in the hold in
repairing a water tank.
The Colon belongs to the Panama Railroad
Company. She left New York September
10 and was due to arrive here
yesterday. She encountered the hurricane
at a point forty miles north of Watling
Island. The wind blew 100 miles an hour
and tremendous seas were soon sweeping
over the vessel. The staterooms and the
dining saloon were flooded; one of her
smokestacks was carried away, three
boats were washed overboard, and the
wireless telegraphy apparatus was dismantled.
Orders were given that no passengers
be allowed on deck and the travelers
had to spend Sunday and Sunday night in
the dining saloon. The water got to the
mall bags and the registered and ordinary
mail was badly damaged. Sunday night
passed with the ship laboring through the
storm and the passengers huddled below
In a state of panto.
Three Went to Their Deaths.
.Early Monday morning it was discovered
that salt water was making its way
into the forward fresh water tank. Fearing
that the fresh water would give out
the second assistant engineer, William
Liley, and the ship's carpenter, J. Olsen,
were sent down into the hold Monday
afternoon to change the tank connections.
The two men were below for an hour
without giving any. signs of returning.
Anxious for their safety, R. Barthl, a
water tender, and A. Sands, a Junior en- j
gineer, volunteered to go beiow and learn !
what had happened.
Barthl was the first to enter the hold, j
with Sands a few feet behind him. Barthl'
had walked but a few paces when he ws1
seen to drop. Sands staggered and fell, ;
but managed to make his way back to;
the hatch ladder, whence he was assisted
to the deck by the chief engineer. He
was partially unconscious and In a con
anion or prostration.
It was then seen that the hold was
tilled with deadly gas and all hope for the
three men had to be given up.
Deadly Gases Unexplained.
When the storm abated efforts were
made to reach the missing men. The
hatches were removed and the foul air
was pumped out of the hold until It was
possible to go below. The bodies of Liley,
Olson and Barthl were then found. Just
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what caused the presence of these deadly
gases In the hold of the Colon has not
been explained.
The victims will be buried In Colon.
The Colon brought In 135 saloon and
twenty deck passengers. Her officers declare
that the hurricane of Sunday was
the worst storm they had ever experienced
In all their lives.
The steamer Colon is in the regular
ul iiic x aiiaiiia laniuau ur;i?*cc.i
Colon and New York. She was formerly
the Mexico of the New York and Cuba
Mail Steamship Company, fehe was built
in Philadelphia in 1899, is 360 feet long,
TO feet beam and 4,019 net tons.
PRESIDENT IS MERCIFUL.
Grants Fifty Out of Ninety-Six Applications
for Pardon.
The President since July 1 has passed
upon ninety-six applications for pardon,
which brings the work of the pardon attorney
of the Department of Justice up
to date. Of this number forty-six applications
were denied and fifty were
granted. A large percentage of the applications
were for the restoration of civil
rights forfeited by reason of convictions
for penitentiary offenses.
K. Yashida. a Japanese, who. with
others, was convicted in 1905 in Alaska
for murdering the Japanese foreman of
a cannery in which they were employed,
for which he was sentenced for thirty
years in the penitentiary, was pardoned
on condition that he sail at once for
Japan, the pardon taking effect upon his
going on shipboard.
There are said to have been mitigating
circumstances connected with the killing,
one of them being that the murdered
foreman gambled with his men and by
trickery took all their savings. Since being
confined in the penitentiary Yashida
has developed a very serious case of
homesickness, which has since resulted
m a condition bordering on insanity.
FORMER JURIST FOUND DEAD.
Judge Van Fleet Had Taken Cyanide
of Potassium.
LOS ANGELES. Cal.. September 18?
The body of Charles C. Van Fleet, formerly
a judge of the supreme court of
Colorado, was found in a room in a lodging
house last night. The former jurist
had taken cyanide of potassium and had
boon dead for some time when found.
Judge Van Fleet came to California fdx
years ago from Colorado and had been
living on a ranch near 8an Jacinto. The
widow and a son live at San Jacinto.
McFAR LAND'S SUCCESSOR.
Both Parties Will Name Candidates
Despite Governor's Power.
SAN FRANCISCO. September 18.?Although
Gov. Glllett is vested with- the
power to appoint to the supreme bench a
successor to the late Justice T. D. McFarland,
it was decided by the republican
state central committee to call a special
meeting of the state convention and nominate
a candidate for the office, to be voted
upon .at the election in November.
The attention of the democrats has beeh
called to the fact and it is probable that
the delegates of this party will be assembled
to select a candidate for the place.
SUICIDE OF SCHOOLBOY.
Fourteen-Year-Old Hangs Himself
in Cellar of His Home.
NEW YORK, September 18.?For some
Inexplicable reason Silver Weill, a fourteen-year-old
schoolboy, committed suicide
by hanging himself in the eel ar of
his home in. Mount Vernon. He is the
youngest suicide in the Mount Vernon police
records.
Young Weill was sent to the cellar to
arrange the coal bin for a consignment
of coal yesterday, lie was in good spirits,
and the last heard of him he was
whistling a tune. When he failed to
ri?rr.nnslairs his fttthor wpnt tn tha
lar and found him hanging from a crossbeam.
He had used a clotliline to hang
himself.
To Return Boxer Indemnity.
Special Cnblei*ram to The Star.
SHANGHAI. September 18?It is reported
that Great Britain intends to return
to China a portion of the Boxer indemnity.
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Rain Stops Bush Fires.
PORT ARTHUR. Ont.. September 18.?
All danger from the bush fires that have
threatened this district for the past few
weeks lias been averted by the welcome
arrival of rain last night and today.
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Not to Be 1
GOVERNMENT T<
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By Accident to Brotl
Will Go On?Pri
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Crumpled into a scarcely rec
and iron, the wreck of the \\ rigl
the shed at Fort Myer waiting th
how the accident yesterday really
Whatever is the verdict ther
army officers that the flying mach
and that the ultimate development
"Of course, we deplore the ;
acting chief signal officer at the \
one who saw the; flights of the U
doubt for an instant that the p
solved.
"If Mr. Wright should never
last week at Fort Myer will hav
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nistory as tne man wno snowca
was an assured success.
"Xo one seems to realize at t
the flights portend. The problen
work out the details.
"These accidents and setback
new field of endeavor, but the mai
"The death of Lieut. Selfridg
to the service. He was a splendi
physically and intellectually. He
He was the most enthusiastic of
liant future ahead of him."
Wilbur Wright in France str
Squires. The news of the accidei
Lieut. Selfridge staggered him fo
giving up aerial work for all time,
Then he rallied and declared
and his brother were conducting,
would see it through to the end.
This seems to be the attitud
aerial field, and there is little ques
in spite of its temporary check, an
ley, "The great overhead highws
the use of mankind."
The War Department will
though he were an army officer s<
at the post hospital or under mec
Nothing official has been dec
aerial test. But the War Departn
the Wright brothers. The future
await merely their convenience.
The Secretary of War, in c
the mishap had nothing to do wi
merely to a structural defect, anr
theory of the aeroplane, he was si
FATAL TUMBLE OUT. OF SKY
AEROPLANE STAGGERS AND
FLUTTERS TO GROUND.
Like bounded Bird It Falls to !
Earth, Bringing Death to Self- J
ridge and Injury to Wright.
Hurtling: through the air, turning completely
over and dropping with a dull
crash, the Wright aeroplane yesterday
afternoon buried Orville Wright and Lieut.
Thomas E. Selfridge under a broken mass
of splintered wreckage.
Lieut. Selfridge is dead; Wright lies in
a pallet In the post hospital at Fort Myer,
in Jeopardy of like doom.
Wright was taken from the mass of
broken wood, smoking engine and torn
cloth with a broken thigh and several
broken ribs and severe cuts and bruises.
Selfridge followed him in the tender hands
of soldiers and onlookers a moment later!
wf + 1* o fra.dnrpH ckllll ft tPTrihlft put on i
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his heaa anil face, unconscious and a mass
of blood.
He died three hours later without regaining
consciousness. He spoke as they
came to lift him out:
"Take this thing off." he said, and then
lost his 3enses, never to regain them.
Wright was conscious, but In a dazed
condition, unable to speak Intelligently of
what had happened or why.
"Please take care of my leg?my leg,"
was ,all he could say.
The Immense throng of spectators
crowded about the two Injured men. who
a few seconds before were aloft, trying
to break the world's record for two men
in an aeroplane, held by Orville Wright
and Maj. George O. Squler. They were
witn the greatest difficulty held back froni
the sufferers by the guard of cavalrymen.
Ambulances anil stretchers were sent for
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- LIVE;
DGE IS DEAD
Experiments Are
Abandoned.
0 EXTEND TIME
to Abandon Aerial Work
her, But Rallies and
nciple All Right,
lonstruction
lame*
cognizable mass of muslin, wood
ht aeroplane lies this mornihg in
e verdict of the army board as to
- occurred.
e is no question in the minds of
ine experiment will be continued,
of the machine will be successful,
accident," said Maj. Squires, the
Var Department, today. "But no
ist four days at Fort Myer could
roblem of aerial navigation was
again enter an aeroplane his work
e secured him a lasting place in
the world that mechanical flight
his close range what a revolution
1 is solved, and it remains only to
s will occur as they occur in every
n problem has been demonstrated,
je is deplorable and a serious loss
id officer, well developed, morally",
was clean strained clear through,
all our aeronauts, and had a briluck
almost the same note as Maj.
nt to his brother and the death of
r a moment. He said he felt like
that it was not an experiment he *
but a demonstration, and that he
c of all the experimenters in the
tion that the work will-go forward
d that in the words of Prof. Langiy
has at' length been opened for
take care of Orvillc Wright as
3 long as it is desired to keep him
lical attendance elsewhere,
ided about the continuance of the
rient feels under deep obligation to
development of their machine will
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uuiiiieuung uii uic dctiunii, >aiu
ith the main problem ; it was due
1 not to any fault in the scientific
ire.
WRIGHT TALKS TO HELPERS
MACHINISTS THEN DISCUSS
BUILDING NEW AEROPLANE.
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No Indications of Internal Injuries.
War Department Will Wait. ;
Inquiry Is Begun.
Lying in the Fort Myer hospital with,
fractured thigh and cibs, QrviUe Wright,
the aeronaut, who fell with Lieut. Selfridge
in yesterday's aeroplane accident,
is making a manly tight for recovery.
Through the night there was much anxiety_
over the aviator's condition. As
dawn broke and no indications of internal
injuries developed, and as tlte attending
surgeon; after a call shortly v after S
o'clock, announced that Wright was doing
well, there was great relief expressed
among those who were watching the
progress of Ihe patient.
Wilbur Wright, brother of Orville. was
notified today of the latter's improve>ment.
This -telegram was sent this
morning to Wilbur Wright, at I^e Mans,
by Charles R. Flint of New York, a close
friend of the Wrights, who represents the
foreign Interests of the two brothers:
"Wilbur Wright. Le Mans. France: Orville
in good shape this morning."
The report of the condition of Wright
this morning had been eagerly looked
forward to. It was felt that any internal
injuries that might have been sustained
and not shown at the diagnosis made just
after he was. taken to the hospital w? uld
be manifested by morning, and the fact
that no reaction had set in and further
that he is in "good shape." as one of tha
reports from the hospital early today expressed
it, is taken to mean that It i? now
only a question of time before Wright will
be able to leave the hospital.
May Be Out in Six Weeks.
Flint, who made inquiries at the hospital
as early as 5 o'clock this morning, said
later 'he believed from the doctors' reports
that Wright would be out again
within perhaps six weeks.
Miss Katherine Wright, a sister of Wilbur
and Orville Wright, who wa^s imra^
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