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CHRISTMAS CHEER
BRIGHTENS JAIL
Hg Feeds' for County and City
Prisoners Replete with Yule
tide Spirit
UNFORTUNATES REMEMBERED
Acts as Santa Claus in
furnkey Acts as Santa Claus in!
r■■■', Delivering Presents to Those
in Goal
Bands of steel did not bar Christmas
cheer from gaining tin entrance in the
r county jail yesterday. i
t; Two hundred and nine prisoners i
"licked their platters clean" at Jailor
1 George Gallagher's nnnual "big feed."
, ' Not one but had his fill, and from the I
bottom of his heart thanked a kind i
providence for placing him In the ;
Charts of "big hearted" men.
§':/ There was roast pork and cranberry
sauce, baked sweet potatoes and hot
mince pies, gravy and all the trim- I
mings, even cigars and cigarettes to
gladden the hearts of the men behind
the bars.
. The "boarders" and "trusties" got no
more than the men in the "tanks" who
jj had no money to pay for the luxuries
' of prison fare.
The big hearted man who holds them
In custody for the county, and who
during all the years of his stewardship
has never forgotten them on the one
day of the year, saw to it yesterday
'Nit Christmas would remain long In
f-« memories of the unfortunates as the
le bright spot during their period of
■nflnement.
The Y. W. C. A. and Fellowship so
f, dety held Christmas services in the
idsles separating the tanks shortly
, after dinner at the Jail. Christmas
\ carols were sung by the prisoners for
several hours and helped to relieve the
monotony of their confinement.
ACTS AS SANTA CI.Als
sJji "Major" J. B. Loving, the geni turn
jfc. jkey, who has been in the county's ser
\lvice many years and has acted as Gal
lagher's chief aid in giving the prison
ers a pood time Christmas, was as-
Igned the role of Santa Claus yester
!ay. Friends of the prisoners kept
lim busy during a greater part of the
iay delivering presents.
Loving was astonished shortly after
the dinner hour to come upon Robert
Mattingly, a one-legged negro prisoner,
confined in tank No. 3 with thirteen
Chinese, dancing a "breakdown" for
the benefit of the celestials.
"Here, here," called Loving. "What
tire you doing, Bobbie?"
"Sofuse me, massa jailor, but I'se '
ilonyfeel so dog-gone frisky after dat |
fee/ what Massa Gallagher done give
inelrlat I'se simply got to gel de en
thi:kla?jn out of ma system."
."^ru rSiead," said Loving, laughingly, i
'nee to your heart's content."
.-so throughout the county Jail
stmas smacked of Yulotide cheer
. brightened the dark Bides in the
s of its inmates.
■ the city jail Jailor .1. L. Shand re- I
d the day's monotony by giving !
•ity's prisoners a Christmas din-
They were allowed a certain
,*mt of liberty.
my persons called at the central |
tion and passed presents through
bars for delivery to their friends
l(n.
"■-lllagher Issued orders yester
he "chain gang" should be
y of rest Monday. |
KILLED BY EXPLOSION
AT CHRISTMAS DANCE
(Cigarette Thrown Into Can of
J Powder Brings Festivities
-J| ; to Tragic Close
iREEXSBURO, Pa., Dec. Three
arsons are dead, eight In danger of
■ath from their injuries, and ten more
j1.3 in the Westmoreland hospital with
Irious burns as a penalty for some- '
ldy's carelessness or somebody's r> j
\pk<*, while miners were holding ai
Hustmas celebration at Keystone
■ftl. near here, late .mm lii.-'.lit.
|Il'.i accident occurred nt tin home
■lichael Wilding, while ho was en-
Timing a party of about twenty-five
» " women.
Tleved that one of the men j
ince was In progress care
.v a cigarette butt unilor the
[Venty-five pound of black
vder are said to have been
•8 ii an open ran. Flames
powder shot through the
aSk the acrid pmnke blinded the
.rs ffv they tried to escape.
.6 clothing of nearly all the
.cers took fire from the explosion
d although the room was burned f.nd
slackened, the house was not serious
y damaged. Men in adjoining houses
•ushed In with blankets and wrapped
.hem about the burning women, saving
many from death.
TAFT LEADS WASHINGTON
i IN QUIET CELEBRATION
.hi and Family Pass Day
at White House
iSHINGTON, Dec 25.—Christmas
'ashington was the epitome of
ness. (President find -Mrs. Tuft and
family passed the day at home,
for attendance at church in the
,g-. The president went alone to
■Is Unitarian church, while Mrs.
Oompanled by Ml Helen Tat't
■ii-; y Taft went to the fash
~t. John's Episcopal churchj
friends called at the white
uiinif tho afternoon to ix-
Christmas greetings.
of official Washington joined
quiet celebration of the day.
jplomatic corps observed the oc
<■ appropriately while several nun- j
r.embers of the two houses of
'•^served the day In their
ES AS GIFT TO
ISTY NEW ENGLAND
■Dee. 28 —An Inch and a
which fell yesterday and
is believed to have ef
.ed the drought which has
i water supply of half a
in New England,
ilplts today special thanks
offered, and the rain was
, a Christmas gift tv New
Canine Smiles at Jurors
in Order to Save Master
NEW YORK, Dec 25.—Tn spite o f his merrily waning Mil and his
broad grin. Bang got a pretty bad name yesterday. Kleven-yf-aif-oid Sophie
(Cann of 465 East One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street told Judjfe O'Dwyer
in the iity court that Hang had bitten her over one eye. WlNta Kilver
itetn, 15 years old, a student in the C Ity college, exhibited a torlP ear as
another result of Bang's vlciousnesa. \
l.ang. who Is a setter, came to court as star Witness for himself in
Sophie's father's suit for $2000 damages against Hiram p. Fhelps <^f One
Hundred and Thirty-sixth street and Willis avenue, Bangs ownerk On
taking the stand Ham,- looked pleasantly about the court room and geni
ally remarked "Woof." Turning to the Judge he announced that he "Gnr
>of gur-r." Then Hang made the round of the Jurors, graciously letting
sach one scratch his headi
But tiny Sophie gave him a characti r far different from that he gave i
himself, She showed h. r torn forehead and told how Bang had done it.
?he and other children were playing in front of Phelps' office,, she said, and
Brent close to his auto. Bang leaped from the machine and bit her Willie
Bllverstein said that two weeks before Sophie's accident Tang had bitten
him under similar circumstances.
Louis Steckler, counsel for Phelps . pleaded to the jury that the dog be
allowed one bite. And all the evidence .-hows only one nip was taken, he
added. After remaining out two hours the Jurors were unable to agree and
Judge O'lhurr instructed them to lining in a sealed verdlet.
CHICAGO HAS SAD DAY.
BURYING FIRE VICTIMS
Flags at Half Mast and Prayers
of Sorrow Are Said in
Churches
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.—Christmas was
a day of mourning for all Chicago.
The dlsastei at the stock yards Thurs
day when a fire In the Morris & Co
beef house swept away the lives of
Fire Chief Horan and twenty-four
other men covered the whole city with
sadness, in the churches Christmas
services were joined with prayers of j
for the dead and Fympathy for
their grief-stricken families. From tlio i
staffs of public buildings, department
stores and many residences flags hung
at half mast.
Bight of the i\< ad firemen were burii d
today. The funeral services were semi
public, being attended by all members
of the Hn department who could be
spared from duty, city officials and by
hundreds of citizens.
The funeral of James .1. Koran. lir>
marshal, will taki pl.tr.- tomorrow at
the same time as the burial of twelve
other members of the department.
Captain Dennis X. Doyle of engine
company '■".* and his son, Nicholas
Doyle, ..i' truck company No. 11 will be
burled side by side, their l»>,ii>-s hay- ■
Ing i> ■ • -11 taken from the wreckage only
ii. arm's length apart.
5000 DERELICTS GUESTS
OF 'BIG TIM" SULLIVAN
Bowery Unfortunates Get Square
Meal and Smoke
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—0n the Bow
ery today State Senator "Big Tim"
Sullivan iV'i i lerelicts ami unfor
tunates in the rooms of the Timothy
D. Sullivan association, marking the
Sftei 'iii annual "Timothy D. Sullivan
Christmas feast."
Tim" himself throw open thr
:i ii „ clock. There were three
long tab!, s exti nding the length of the
re 1, with capacity to feed 210 at a
time. There were no chairs, for it was
ii Btand-up dinner, although there
f lailiat y.
It took exactly fifteen minutes for
the first round uf Boweryites to eat,
drink and get out. As tiny passed out
ci h man re< ft pi] 11 l 1
oi tobai co and v neat littl ■ print* d
card, instructing him to be present on
Moll.lay. February 6, 1C» 11. Presi
tlon of the ■ ards will entitle the bi
to a pair . : and two pairs of
sto 1. Ings,
JAPANESE SEA FIGHTERS
ARE XMAS GUESTS OF DIAZ
Nipponese Dine at Castle and
Witness Buil Fight
MEXICO CITY, Deo. 25.— Twenty
(ifl ici 1- . mi c idi ta and twi 1
six mv of ih" Japanese navy
d 1 'hristmas todaj us the guests
of thi Mexican government.
Admiral Bokurl STashurl and his
who arrived In >• '■' terday from Sa-
Una Cruz, when two Japanese
ships are anchored, were received .t
ilte] ec co it le by President Di iz
morning. In th< afternoon they
I] fight and
dinnei
at the .1. ;
I
. 1 .rdi d lien rt ye ■c In re md I
'iirin- j
bi ■ ' 1: colony a re exert
■• t 1.. ma 1 liHi stay
WOMAN SANTA IS BURNED
Pi iRTL VNI >, Ore., Dec. 25 \ ■
sotting fin to her clot }•■•: .-. h lie s!f
, . ■ iMs today for
■■ . 'ii! Mrs, Eva
r.O year 1 old, was pi 1 I
fatally bun
MOTEL BEDROOMS TO
BE FURNISHED WITH
SIX THOUSAND BIBLES
i Fill \< .' '. i Six thousand
Ribli „ „i-.. to !"■ p ■ the hotel
1) driiom f>l ' 'lii- b
noi be cha Ini d down.
ir . ■ ■ .: .i i lible t.» read it
Hi. | 1j y pirn ed and the
r ■■ ! tn ihe credit aci ount,
beca of Ihe pr ijed
is to cncouro Bible j eadins.
Tin ■ in a sociatlon of
mi n ol the
Unii ri back of the
. . .■ ■ red to
i 3 p. m. on
tin t i f year The de
livery will be ■ I tOOO young
men from (ho hurch ■ ■ ither
Tin Blbli bi formed
Into i ' ' 'unl re i Y. M.
C. A. und ii,;. i ' i ■ ii antral part
in the loop distrli i. « horo tin y will
'' - rious
Imti
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY AIOKMNO. DECEMBER 2f>, 1910.
GERMANY WILL IMPOSE
DUES ON INLAND SHIPS
Government Wins Long Fight
Against Waterways Project
by Promise of Benefits
BERLIN, Pee. 25.—A bill imposing
shipping dues for the use of the natu
ral inland waterways of Germany has
hem Introduced in the relchstag by
the Imperial chancellor. The object of
the bill la to alter the clause in the
constitution which declares that ahip
, ping dues shall be imposed for Inter
' nal navigation, In order i" enable the
1 Imperial government to collect dues
for thi pui ;■■ c o| i taking and keeping
the internal waterways navigable and
[generally improving the facilities for
< Inti rnal navigai >■ in.
Thi projeel la of Prussian origin,
and partly for this reason some of the
German states have opposed it for
years. Havana was. however, won over
with the promise that the river Main
should be canalized, and Wurtemberg
with a similar promise respecting the
Neckar; and then In March, 1909, Prus
sia laid the first draft of the bill be
from the federal council. The govern
ments of Saxony and Baden still held
nut, and, with that of Hesse, Issued a
mi morandum against Prussia in which
it was stated that if the bill were
passed serious econ imtc damage would
be indicted on many Germans, the
ti r Of the empire would
nfrlnged, thi harmony existing
among the German federated states
I would be disturbed and confidence In
nvlolabllity of the constitution
would be shaken.
The Austrian reichsrath pass* 1 a
motion unanimously In March last In
which the government was requested to
oppose thi project with the utmost
energy, on the ground that the imposi
tion of such dues would grievously in
jure the trade, industry and agriculture !
of Austria. Holland, France and
Switzerland also strongly opposed the
(. Prussia, however, Ignored the
opinion of foreign countries; details of
the bill -.'.ere altered and concessions
were mad ■ to the opposing German
■i,:! s, which ultimatelj felt compelled
quiesce.
The i hancellor was thus in a position
tii announce that the bill presented to
the i"i' hstag had been accepted by the
federal council with a unanimous vote.
ll- declared, too, that when 'lie hill
had passed the relchstag the time
Id ha ye come to open tip negotia
tions with the foreign countries Inter
! In 'Ii" public German waterways
;md possessing treaty rights In c ■ -
nection with them. "We shall en
deavor," he added, "to convince those
j countrl '■ ' the measures we take
i will be beneficial also tr> their Interests,
and that we are speklng only to serve
universal weal."
The governmi nt declares thru tlio
money raised by these dues will be
applied solely and exclusively to the
purposes mentioned. The bill will soon
i ■ law The Socialists h.;' ■ ■
: that the bill is Introduced In
Inter' I of the "agrarian ec i
poll >;," but the friends of the
bill point "Ht that, for example, as a
result of Its passing it will be pos
n of v, in at to lir carried
thou md kilometers (625 miles) for
nts.
HOLIDAY PREPARATIONS
CAUSE FIRE: TWO DIE
Children Killed and Four Burned
Attempting Rescue
VTTLE, 1 tec. 25. Preparations for
•; . home i f I
O'i mnor, a mail i arrier, ended i ily
toda; in a fire « hii i cosi the lives of
dren, FS< >, • d 6 monl h
Linnalil 3 years old, seriously injured
[four other persons and destroyed the
i ii 'i mnor residenci ,
;■ i ire Mr. and Mrs. O'Con-
Owcr Peter on, Mrs. O'i lonnor's
1 ■ r-in-law. and Patrolman Bcott
White, all of whom were badly burned
j while trying t<i rescue the children.
Tin elder peopii were up late pr ■
I paring the children's Christmas tree.
1 Whi ii they retired t hey left a lamp
ng which expl ting fire '■>
| the Ii
MORE COLD FOR THE EAST
PREDICTED FOR THIS WEEK
: Moderate Weather Expected in
Most of Country
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—With the
• ■\!-, ption of ,i colii peli on .Monday
in the eastern states, moderate tem
perature will prevail everywhere dur
ing- Christmas week, according to the
. bulletin today,
The prlnclpi l disturbance 6t tha
whi. ii rtii in Pacific coast on
Tuesday or Wednesday and rho Atlan
tic cos ■ !'v. or Saturday, will bo
attended I ral preel] itatlon and
a proni iuni ed ■ ■• t- colder wi
IBOY HUNTER KILLS SELF
WHEN SHOTGUN HITS BOAT
SAN DIEGO, i i ■ 23.. Harry Lamar,
' old "on of Josi pit Lamar, fore
man of .1 ranch . i i 'pper Otay dam,
■ enta ll] hoi dead yei terday.
The boy wai drawing >. shotgun from
his boat to kill v crania The hammer
<if the ■• i 11"'ii utruek tlio sld< n
boat, i ge, the con
t. mi <ii v h!, ii enter, d 'he boj '.- bod>
r the i Ight arm.
DEAN OF WISCONSIN
UNIVERSITY TO TELL
OF RURAL CONDITIONS
Bftwl
H. L. BCBBISI.Ii
CONFERENCE CALLEDTO
DISCUSS RURAL TOPICS
Farmers. Ministers. Teachers and
Editors to Relate Experiences
of Country Life
MADISON, AVis.. Dee. 26.— The first
Wisconsin country life conference has
been called by Dean H. L. Russell of
the College of Agriculture of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, to be held at ■
Madison under the auspici of the state
university here February 14-15. This;
Is the first time that a meeting on con
ditions Of rural life has ever been held
in the middle west.
The purpose Is to brinjj together Wis
consin farmers, teachers, ministers,
editors, business men and librarians to
discuss the social aspects of country
life and describe what has been ac
complished toward Improving eondi- I
tions through various agencies.
The two days' program will Include
sions of the social and
ecoiiomii problems of country life In
the state Each afternoon will be de- i
voted to round table confereni es on
particular topi s. The functions of the
church, the business man aad farm. ;.-'
organizations in relation to rural con-
Idered on Tu<
rj 14. The country school, the
: .lie library v. I BUb
j, t- tor discussion February 15.
■» • » —
CHRISTMAS MAIL
RECORD BREAKER
500 Sacks of Yuletide Gifts Yet
to Be Distributed in Los
Angeles
"With 500 Backs of Christmas mall
In aped up in the post off ice, despite the
untiring efforts of the officials to have
it all delivered, there are estimated to
1,, about 125,000 pieces of Bant i Claus
mail which are still to bring Yuletlde
joys to thou '.nils of persons In Lob
Angeles, The immense quantity of
Christmas letters and packages coming
into this city showed no diminution
yesterday, and the postoftlce is
swamped under the influx. Postmaster
Harrison estimates that it will be Im
possible for the department to "catch
up" with Its deliveries before Decem
ber 28, so Santa will continue driving
about Las Angeles for at least the first
hall' of this week.
Th ■ distributing department of the
local postoulce, reinforced by 150 extra
cirri and clerks, presents a busy
scene as sack after sack is emptied,
sorted and carried away to the many
branch stations, when as rapidly as
possible it will be sent out to the
homes,
Automatic conveyors hum Bteadlly,
quick-eyed, nimble-fingered sorting
clerks rapidly reduce the stack on the
receiving table, while as soon as the
yawning sacks are filled they are
whisked away to the waiting wagons
for delivery.
The postoffi officials estimate an
increase of from 25 to 35 per cent over
last year's Christmas mail, but .expect
to make deliveries much sooner than
was possible last year on account of
the better facilities of the labor-sav
ing apparatus installed In the new
build
"The year Is turned around for us,"
Bald an employe yesterday, "Christ
inas is the Fourth • f July and vice
versa. I have changed my time for
Christmas trees to the summer holidays
and we have just as good a time. All
the Christmas mall will be distributed
by December 28, and you may be sure
we won't 1 uvc any time to enjoy life
until every package and letter in that
heap over there," and he pointed to
the tack of mail on the receiving
table, "has been delivered and every
thing li back on the usual grind."
The general delivery window, regis
try and stamp departments will be
open from 8 o'clock until noon today.
The same hours will bo observed on
New Year's day and next Monday.
Extra carriers have been engaged to
deliver the mail as speedily as pos
sible, although no regular hours will
be observed. The regular carriers will
deliver twice daily as usual.
*-~»—
BUILDERS COMPLETE WORK
ON ALASKA ROAD BRIDGE
Trains Soon to Run on Morgan-
Guggenheim Railway
SEATTLE, Dec 23.—Brldgebullderi
and members of construction things
working on the Co] per River & North
ern railroad celebrated Chrsltmai in
Alaska today by clinching the last
rivet in tin- greut soo-foot cantilever
bridge over tin- Kuskulana river, 149
i up tiic Copper river from Cor
dova, cablegrams announcing the fin
ishing "I tin' lawk wfri' received here
today.
Train* will be running over the
bridge by Tuesday and tracklaylng on
th« last fifty mites of the Morßun
(Juggcnhoim railway will bo begun.
London Women Defend Dogs;
Resent Pastor's Denunciation
LONEX >N| Dec. 25.—An American pastor, the Rev. Dr. Chris
tian F. Reisner, ha^ caused a bit of a flutter in London society,
particularly among those women who own pet (logs, by his de
nunciation of the affection which they lavish on them.
"A woman who lavishes her whole affection upon a dog sinks
to the level of an animal," he said, when he visited the pet dog
show in Horticultural hall, and, startling though the statement
was, it was agreed to by sonic of those to whom it was addressed,
at the same time adding that the fascination of the dog was-so
great that they could not resist it.
Then the debate grew hot. Some women denied that they
sink to the level of the dog. On the contrary, they agucil, "they
rise to it."
"What human being could give the complete faith and trust
that a dot; can? They will never deceive you. No man could be
as true and devoted as a clog. Such gifts as a dog possesses arc
on a higher level than those of mankind."
The pet dog which is conquering all hearts just now appears
to be the Schipperke. As one owner said:
"'lie has no tail with which to wag himself into popularity,
and his victory is one of sheer personality."
CURTISS SCORES
MARS FOR ACTION
Aviator Who Breaks San Fran
cisco Contract Must Act as
Independent Flier
(Ipteikl in Tht Htrald)
sax FRANCISCO, Dec. 25.—There is j
' trouble among the blrdmen. one of
ti.em with (he militant name of Mara
has loft the Cookery and has flown out
across the Pacific where the feeding
grounds are sale) to be better, and there
is a great fussii^r and fuming.
In other words, "Hud" Mars, who was
to have been the Mar attraction of the
curtiss team at th" forthcoming avta
'• tion meet at South San Francisco
aviation park, has '('Jumped his con
tract" and gone to -.Honolulu, where
he intends to start on v world tour.
lie threw over his San -.Francisco con
tract which was to have ( brought him
$5000 and has gone to takei up the first
stage of his flight around the world—
a flight which he says means more
I than $50,000. \
Glenn 11. Curtiss, through whom the
contract with the local aviation board
was made, asserts that Mars has cast
discredit upon the Curtiss caipp by
failing to keep his agreement, and to
show that all aviators do not regard
their word so lightly he will make a
great many extra concessions ln\ the
way of exhibitions and flights during
the meet here. \
Mara before leaving for Honolulu
stated that he could not afford to miss
the engagement there, a contract fdtr
which had been made by his agent,
who had his power of attorney. The I
contract which was to have brought j!
him here for the January meet was not '
made directly, but through Curtiss. !
and Mars claims that he only worked
on a percentage or leasing agreement ,
with the manufacturer-aviator.
MAX DEFENDS HIMSELF
Curtiss, claims Mars, could not hold
him here, and .. ■ felt perfectly justi
fied In accepting the more lucrative
agreement. He stated, however, that
he would have preferred to have waited |
until the end of the San Francisco |
meet as he particularly wished to fly
here, but to do so he would have been
canceled in Honolulu and Radley, one j
of the other Curtiss aviators, would |
hove secured the engagement. Mars
left on the Wllhelmina, in company |
with Captain Baldwin, the aeronaut,
and two mechanics, and the party will
sail to the Orient from Honolulu.
F. E. Scot ford, chairman of the local j
aviators' board, is indignant at the
manner of Mars' departure, which he
characterizes as discreditable and tend
ing to reflect against the aviators as I
a professional class. He claims that I
these leasing agreements are supposed
to hold a man to the head of his camp
and that the contracts are made with
that understanding that these men are
to appear. He warmly praises Glenn
H. Curtiss for the stand he has taken
in the matter and states that the gen
erous concessions he has made, and
which the public will receive tlio ben
efit of, show that Curtiss is in no way
responsible for the failure of Mars to
appear at the local meet In January. |
Curtiss is emphatic in his statement
in regard to the attractions which he
will offer to offset the non-appearance j
of Mars, and says that all of the prom- ]
ises made by him will bo fulfilled by
other Curtiss aviators.
RELAY RACE IS PLANNED
McCurdy and Wlllard and Augustus
Post and a new Curtiss star, Robert
son, will appear here for the Curtiss
camp in the great relay race in which I
the Wrights and the Farmans will
compete with the Curtiss aviators. I
There will be a thriller entirely new
to aviators.
Curtiss' statement in regard to the
Mars desertion follows:
"Mars, whom I taught to fly, will no
longer bo connected with the Curtiss
camp. He will act as an independent !
! aviator, making his own contracts and
keeping them, let us hope. I will ful
fill all the contracts made by me for
.Mars with the San Francisco aviation
hoard. More daring and possibly more
competent men will do all the things j
Mars promised to do, and there is no j
doubt that all world's records will
be broken in January."
President F. K. bcotford and Lieut.
Paul W. Reck, secretary of the com
mittee, have been enjoined from par
ticipating in their proposed goose hunt
until after the meet, the members of
I the executive committee objecting to
their taking any chances of injury that
might interfere with the administra
tion of the great exhibition. Glenn
Curtiss has promised in the event that
the Wright machines are not available
at the close of the meeting, to furnish
the hunters • ith two of his machines
for the trip. It was originally in
tended to take one Wright and one
Curtiss biplane.
WREATH OPENS GAS COCK;
WOMAN IS ASPHYXIATED
THICAOO, Dee. 25.—A Christmas
holly wreath swinging from a chan
delier torrid open a ffas cock today
.Hid caused thf asphyxiation of Mre.
Eda May Simpson of Toronto, Ont.
.Mrx. Sitnt'snn was dead when found by
her daughter.
Before retiring last night Mrs. Simp
son hung a wreath on the chandelier
over her bed. Whllo she was asleep
tho Wind from an open window causey
the wreath to open the gas cock. Mis.
Simpson, came here from Toronto last
week to visit her daughter, airs. Ed
ward Tigsoy.
EXPERTS ADVANCE
WORK ON VULGATE
President of Commission to
Leave London and Continue
Labors in Rome
LONDON, Dec. 25. — The Abbot <;as-
I q,uet, president of the commission ap
pointed by the pope to revise the text
of the Vulgate, Is shortly to leave
ESngland for the commission'! head
quarters In st. Anselm's college at
! Home, He win have considerable
progress to report.
The present commission's tusk is to
restore the Version to the exact form
in which it left the hands of St.
Jerome. To determine the correctness
of St. Jerome's version will doubtless
be the tusk of a future commission.
Search for ancient manuscripts of the
Vulgate has been going on for some
time among the public and monastic
libraries of France, Germany, Spain,
Austria, Hungary and other continen
tal countries, as well as of England,
and several Important manuscripts
have already been found.
The work of comparing these manu
scripts with the commonly received
j published in 1502—will evidently
Ibo long and laborious, but as any
i skilled palaeographer would expect. It
la being much facilitated by the large
and systematic use Of photography.
SPECIAL CAMERA IS CSJ&D
Dom Henri Qucntin, whose work on
the martyrologles was crowned by the
French Academy, is in charge of this
branch of the work. To begin with,
he superintended the construction in
| Paris of a special camera, litted with
what Is believed to be the llnest lens
ever made by Goerz. Accompanied
by Dom Cotineau (the revision was
intrusted to the Benedictine order),
l>pm Quentin goes from place to place,
wherever an important manuscript Is
known to exist, and sets to work. He
began with about fifteen complete
Bibles in Paris: came to London and
produced several Important manu
scripts in the British museum: has
now , returned to Par)*, and next year
will lie similarly at work on the treas
ures of Italy.
The) camera has been made to act
vertically, from above. The manu
script; volume, therefore, does not need
to he fastened in an upright position.
It simply lies open under the camera,
which "takes" two pages at a time.
There is no need to take a negative
first and then print through it to
make 'what it commonly called a pho
tograph. Ail that is wanted is the
negative; showing white letters on a
dark ground. The sensitized film or
paper is* made in rolls, like those famil
iar to Any user of a kodak, but on a
most unfamiliar and gigantic scale.
Some ojC these roll negatives are about
100 feet long. They are rut Into sec
tions, developed, fixed and mounted on
sheets sit stout material coated with
rubber, to which they adhere without
the use of any gum or paste.
An illuminated manuscript adds
greatly to the photographer's difficul
ties, ana many copies are lavishly
colored, / gilded and silvered, while the
Psalms i are often found written on
purple vellum. Every difficulty of
this sort, however, has been got over
by using; colored glass screens with the
lens; and, as the almost microscopic
lettering' of small manuscripts Is pho
tographically enlarged, in some cases
the copit is easier to read than the
original. | Nevertheless, there are many
places where a word or letter is faint
or blurred by erasure or correction.
The photograph is therefore compared
with the ! manuscript very closely, line
by line, before being sent away for
final comparison with the authorized
version.
The final comparison demands the
patient exercise of keenness of sight
and quickness of observation, with
some degree of scholarship and some
familiarity with the various scripts.
Such a combination of capacities is
rare, hut it appears that persons both
able and willing to undertake this task
are not lacking. The work is now
being done In several countries.
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HORSE RESENTS BEING
CALLED NAG; KICKS MAN
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 25.—Abe
Clark, » teamster of .1629 Olive street,
is in the city hospital with a broken
leg. He was hauling" a load of coal
west on Olive street and at Grand
avenue his horse stalled on the car
track.
A policeman stopped to see what
was the matter.
"Aw, this old nag couldn't pull a
baby carriage. He's no good," Clark
said.
Suddenly the horse made a vicious
kick. The shoe hit Clark midway
between the f/>ot and knee and the
bone was snnpped.
"I guess the horse resented my re
mark and kicked me to get even,"
Clark remarked on hiß cot in the
hospital Friday, (.'lark was em
ployed by the Fedder Coal company.
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EXPRESSIVE
On« day little Oorgr's' father brought
homo some Roquefort cheque. Upon / belni
asked ho« he liked it. Oeorga repll<M, with
all Mrlouineu: "Papa, it tastes just \ like
the animal cages at the circus."—Succc»a.
COLLEGE INNS AID
NEW YEAR GAYETY
Spread of Novel Type of Grill
Rooms Continues Rapidly
Through Country
COLOR AND SPIRIT MAKE HIT
Establishment Recently Opened
in Chicago Vies with Most
Beautiful in Country
(Bp«CUI to The IlrruM)
CHICAGO, DSC 2">.—Not all laments
for "the old-fashioned New Year's'
have ceased, but the new sort—the Now
Year's eve Joy parties Which came In
when the epidemic of "college inns"
broke out—evidently lias the dear de
parted New /oar's Ignomtnlously on
the run.
"00-no-oo," 11 histrionic star with
stentorian voice, inquired of several
hundred sympathetic and responsive
celebrants last year. "00-00-00, why
does New Tear's eve come but once a
rear?" He paused, there wan a hush
and he added, confidentially: "When
there are more college Inns 'twill come
oftener."
Hut he was wrong; the country Is
speckled bow with "college inns" ga
lore and of all sorts, from Seattle to
Jacksonville, Flo., and from New
Haven to Lafayette, md., and to Mil
waukee, yet New Year's continues but
an annual occasion, one of mellowness
and merriment beyond any other of
the year—as witness the champagne
record.
The spread of the college inn, not
only to college towns and cities north,
south, past and west, has In fact been
a startling phenomenon. New York,
though it lifts its eyebrows disdain
fully when anyone mentions the possi
bility of anything new originating In
the west, has fallen in line with Mil
waukee, Lafayette and the other cities
which have college inns. Whatever
the relation ay bo between the ebul
lient celebrations of New Tear's eyes
and the college inn—no, not colly gin —
the number of cafes that bear the name
and seek the reputation is legion.
SPREAD OF COIXEOK INNS
From New York to Lafayette is a
big Jump in point of population, but
the Hoosier college town has a better
Imitation of the original than the east
ern city and its college atmosphere
Is much truer to the standard than
the Gotham cafe. Milwaukee has re
produced in detail the Chicago original
and the Cream City's copy in the near
est approach to the original "college
inn" of any of the many Imitators,
some of Which are poor counterfeits.
They will be poorer counterfeits by
comparison when the Chicago proto
type moves Into its handsome quarters
in the new $3,000,0U0 Hotel Sherman
during Christmas week. If New York
and .Milwaukee and Lafayette and the
other cities which have college inns
want to keep up with Chicago they will
have to go some.
The "college Inn" idea, like other suc
cesses, came suddenly. Joseph Beifeld,
having secured control of the old Sher
man house, was impressed with the
need for a grill room that would be
something more than a mere place to
eat. He thought If he could make th"
place more attractive without being
cold and formal ho would be a bene
factor both to that part of the public
which must eat ill hotels and to him
self.
In talking it over with his son. Dr.
William Beleld, the latter suddenly
advanced the idea of calling the grill
room the college inn and redecorating
it to carry out as well as possible the
name. This was done, college flags and
colors were used In the redecorating
scheme, a few stalls were put in at one
end of the grill room, partitions and
other things that made for formality
were eliminated and the college inn
was a success from the start. The
reason ascribed for the widespread suc
cess of the idea Is that it revolution
ized the old way of looking upon cafes
as mere eating places and introduced
a more cozy, neighborly, cordial atmos
phere without sacrificing any Individual
rights or tastes. People liked the col
ors and the spirit of the college inn.
The Wow Year's eve receipts for the
last three years of the College inn
were: 1006, $10,000; 1907, $12,000; 190 S.
$15,000.
EUROPE T.K>I>S SUGGESTIONS
So successful in' fact was it that
when it was decided to tear down the
hotel and erect a modern fifteen-story
hostelr] the College Inn was not closed
but carefully moved to temporary
quarters in Clark street. It has been
doing business in the smaller quarters
while the handsome new structure was
being erected at Clark and Randolph,
on the site which has been occupied
by five hotels for seventy-five years.
The new College Inn was opened dur
ing Christmas week— for New
Year's eve, and has been made the
largest and probably the most beauti
ful grill room in the United States, a
creditable original of the college inn
idea, upon which millions of dollars
have been lavished. With the kitchen
and bar it occupies the entire base
ment of the big hotel building—a quar
ter of a block. The old and the new
worlds were searched for suggestions
that would aid In carrying out a
scheme for decoration and comfort.
The decorations are of the Elizabethan
period, with silver, d oak paneling to
the ceiling, which is of ivory, the we
vereness of the white relieved by bright
colored small frescoes.
About the walls are enameled wood
shields representing fill the prominent
English and American colleges, the
decorations which have been copied so
widely. Along the south wall there is
a row of booths like those of the old
English coffee houses which were fre
quented and made famous by Thack
eray, Hen Jonson, Sheridan, Dickens
and other literary and theatrical celeb
rities.
There are two entrances—one off tho
main entrance to the hotel on Clark
■trset and the other from the lobby.
The main entrance Is of beautifully
carved oak and gothlc windows with
heraldic designs In leaded glass. Open
ing off the grill room are seven private
i ning rooms, with accommodations for
from six to twenty-four persons. Each
of these rooms has It* Individual dec
orative scheme, every detail carrying
out some special perior' in fact, there
is vastly more study and work put Into
the decorative scheme of the new Col
lege Inn than visitors realize, but the
general errect is one of warmth and
friendliness, and that was the idea that
set the college Inns to blossoming wo
profusely, even where the decorations
are but cheap and superficial.
FINANCIAL
Knlcker—Are you cutting down ex
penses? • ■
Mrs. Knlcker— I am paying: only
half lUo bills.— ruck* . ;