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RALD
El Paso, Texas,
Tuesday .Evening,
July 11,1911 12 Paftt
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leased Wire,
WEATHER FORECAST.
Fair Tonight and Wednesday.
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GOES INTO AHIZlinn u UauuuuuJ
Wreck on New Haven Road
' Kills Nearly a Score of the
Passengers.
NEARLY A HUNDRED
SERIOUSLY INJURED
Open Switch Is Cause of the
Disaster to Federal Ex
press Near Bridgeport.
Bridgeport, Conn., July 11. Nearly
a score of lives "were crushed out in
stantly and three times as many per
sons "were frightfully hurt early today
when the Federal Express, running1
from "Washington to Boston over the
New York, New Haven & Hartford rail
road was hurled over a viaduct here
by an open switch.
The train "was late, and going at high
speed when the open switch, a mile and
a. half west of Bridgeport station, was
struck.
One Tremendous Crash.
There was one tremendous crash as
five coaches were hurled into the road--way
beneath and reduced to a mass of
splintered -wood and steel.
The engine- was twisted Into junk and
"was 200 feet south. The day coach was
entirely crushed and In it most oi the
deaths occurred. Three Pullmans also
were almost completely crumpled up,
but the passengers in a measure were
protected by the strength of the cars.
Help Rushed to Scem.
Firemen, policemen and doctors were
soon on hand and the dead and
wounded were laid out upon the lawn
of Mrs. B. A. Horan, on Fairfield ave
nue. Bnll Players 'la Wreck.
Members . of the St.- Louis National
league ball team on their way to Bos
ton were In the last Pullman and all'
escaped injury, although every man was
hurled from his berth by the violence
of the shock. Their car remained on
of the shock. "Without waiting to dress
completely the players hurried from
the car, climbed down the viaduct and
helped in the work of rescue. Prac
tically all the killed and injured were
eastern people. ,
Blame Engineer.
Boston, Mass., July 117 Twelve per
sons were killed and 42 were injured
and the wreck was-dne to the engineer
taking a crossover at 60 miles an hour
when the time card limited the speed
to 13 -miles per hour, is the statement
concerning the Brideporc wreck Issued
by the railroad officials.
Occurs at Dayligkt.
The "wreck occurred just before day
light, when 150 passengers .occupied the
berths and the one day coach.
Tust behind the locomotive three oars
were piled one above the other. At the
bottom of the heap was the day coach,
and mostrof the dead were taken from
this car.
Babies Axe Killed.
Many of the dead were so mutilated
that Identification was slow. Two
babies were found, one with its head
severed and the other Impaled on a
splinter. Mary of those pinned be
neath the debris owe their lives to the
promptness of the members of St. Louis
National baseball team. The ball play
ers were riding in the two last cars,
which remained on the track. "When
the crash came they piled out in their
pajamas and several of them were
bleeding from cuts about the feet
caused by racing over the "wreckage.
Bresnahan Tells of It.
"I was in the next to the last car,"
said Roger Bresnahan, the National
manager. "I was awakened and grabbed
some one and got out of the car all
right. None of our ifien was hurt, but
our baggage was ruined."
McFARLAND-WELLS
.MATCH IS ARRANGED
Chicago, I1L, July 11. Milwaukee
Dromoters announced last nisrht that
tLey had practically closed a match be- I
tw-een Hatt Wells, English lightweight
champion, and Packey McFarland, of
Chicago, before the Badger Athletic
club in September.
Atlantic City, N. J., July 11. Portland, Ore, Was selected this morning
for the next Grand lodge reunion of the Elks. This means that nil southern
delegations -rtlll pass throHgh El Paso. In the race for grand exalted rnler a
-vote was taken thls morning and, al-thongh the ballot Is uncounted, it looks
like John Sullivan, of New Orleans, be elected over Charles P. Rasbury, of B
alias, Tex.
Sullivan Is backed Ty the present: administration. .
George Wallace and Sam Gatlin have seats in the Grand lodge as repre
sentatives of El Paso lodge.
ACTRESSES HELD FQ&
SHOOTING OF STOKES
Xevr York, X. T.f July 11. Ethel Conrad und Lillian Graham -who on June
G, shot Vr. E. D. Stokes, the millional re hotel man, In their apartments, ivere
Jicld In $5000 ball today to the grand jury on a charge of felonious assault.
Chairman Smith Serves No
tice That Veto Will Fol
low Adoption.
SUTHERLAND TAKES
SHOT AT ARIZONA, TOO
"Washington, D. C, July 11. Fresh
from a conference with president Taft,
chairman Smith, of the senate com
mittees on territories today gave notice
of an amendment to eliminate the ju
diciary recall provision in the Arizona
constitution, and said if the resolution
is adopted as it passed the house it
would be vetoed.
Sutherland on Arizona.
To the "amiable band of insurgents
and soothsayers" all efforts In behalf
of the initiative, referendum and recall
provisions of the Arizona constitution
were traced by senator Sutherland, of
Utah, today.
He addressed the senate in opposition
to the approval of that instrument. Ac
cepting the application x of the refer
endum priclple as wise where it ap
plies to such general enactments as a
state constitution, Mr. Sutherland, con
tended that the general public never
would give sufficient time to general
legislation to pass intelligently upon
it.
"The people as a whole," he said,
"have neither the inclination, special
ized training, nor time requisite to en
able them to master the thousand and
one deetails necessary to qualify them
wisely to discharge the functions of
ordinary Jeglslation."
Mr. Sutherland generally criticised
the attitude of the progressives in all
parties as Utopian.
Cummins Fights Vote.
An attempt to secure an agreement to
vote on the Canadian reciprocits' bill,
July 19, the free list bill, July 20, and
the wool tariff bill, July 21, was made
in the senate today by senator Watson
Of West Virginia. The motion was lost
on objection by senator Cummins.
Resolution. Reported.
The statenood resolution was re
ported to the senate today by chairman
Smith of the senate territories commit
tee -with the recommendation of the
co'mmittee that It pass. In reporting
the resolution Smith stated that while
he x personally favored territories and
was -willing to do what he could to
bring them Into the uni6n, he deemed
It expedient to, amend the resolution
and he gave notice that atNan early
date he would offer an amendment
cutting out the recall of the judiciary
in the Arizona constitution. He closed
by saying that he asked for unanimous
consent for an agreement to vote on
the resolution at an early date.
Nelson Opposes Arizona.
Senator Nelson stated that, repre
senting a minority of the committee, he
favored the admission of New Mexico
-with the constitution they had adopted,
but was utterly opposed to the Arizona
constitution for two reasons: First,
"recall of judiciary;" second, "the fact
that 15 percent could Initiate the ref
erendum in."
In an interview Smith said president
Taft is in a very belligerent mood re
garding the Arizona recall and that if
the .territories were to get statehood
this session, he believed it would have
to be cut out. otherwise it would cer
tainly be vetoed.
BLANCO ARRESTED
BY EL PASO POLICE
Ware Did Not Recognize the
General Who Was Re
leased. Jose De la Xuz Blanco, military com
mander of Juarez, was arrested by
mounted policeman Ira "Ware at the
corner of San Antonio and Stanton
streets at 2 oclock and taken to the
police station on 8 charsre of carrying
a pistol.
As soon as he was recognized at the
police station he was immediately given
his release and without making any
remark march'ed out the door and re
turned to Juarez.
Educators of Nation Inter
ested in Binet Mind Meas
uring System.
ENABLES TEACHERS
TO GAGE STUDIES
San Francisco, CaL, July 11. Great
interest was manifested by those who
attended today's sessions of the Na
tional Education association in the
speeches delivered ty a number of ex-
I perts In education from different parts
of the United States. These speeches
covered a wide range of subjects, in
cluding: "The Measuring of Children's
Mental Capacity by the Bluet Scale,"
delivered by Henry H. Goddard, of the
New Jersey school for Feeble Minded,.
Vineland, N. J.; "Requisites of the Ef
ficient Teacher in Industrial Schools,"
by George W. G-erwig, secretary of the
board of "school controlers, Alleghany,
Pa.; "Sex Hygiene," by Francis M.
j Greene, M. D., Cambridge, Mass.; xne
Potentiality ot tne scnooi uaraen, Dy
Cyril A. Stebbins, Instructor in agri
cultural education, University of Cali
fornia, and "Elementary Science for the j
High .School," by professor W. C. Mor
gan, University of California.
The addresses that most interested
these attending the convention were the
ones on measuring children's mental
capacity by the Binet scale, and
Dr. Greene's paper on "Sex Hy
giene." In discussing the efficacy of
the Binet measuring system, Mr. God
dard said in part:
Measuring Mental Capacity.
"The research department of the New
Jersey Training school for Feeble
MiaTded children, has carried out a sys
tematic testing of an entire school
population of 2000 children by the Binet
method. The results amount to almost
a mathematical proof of the accuracy
of this system: It shows that there
a ro d nprnoiit nf nhtlrirpn who flTft
! precocious or better In mentality than
the average child, 78 percent are nor-
j mal, 15 percent are backward, and 3
percent feeble-minded. This ratio prob
ably holds almost universalis.
"We should therefore have schools or
special classes for these precocious
children in order that the natural ad-
! vantage with which they are born
sbould not be lost and that they should
not learn bad -ways and bad habits,
from being in classes that go so much
slower than they are able to go. The
15 percent that are merely backward
should be in special classes so that
they may be cpaxed and nelped along
and enabled to get through as much of
the school work as is absolutely neces-
; sary to make them useful. The 3 per
cent tnat are reeDie-mimiea snouia De in
colonies or institutions where they can
be cared for and enabled to be happy
and partially useful as long as they
live, but If this is impossible they !
should be cared for in special classes in
public schools where they are not asked
tn im-n rndlm- -tcritinp- Ann nHthmp-
tic, but are taught to do these tbings
"with their hands which they can, do,
and the doing of which makes them
happy. They must ne-rer marry because
the studies at the "Vineland institution j
have shown that 65 nercent -of feeble- I
mindedness is hereditary. Therefore if
these children grow up and marry they
will perpetuate the race of feeble
minded persons.
""It has also been shown in this test-
: ing of an entire -school population that
' some children are In classes that are
way ahead of their mental .capacity.
, These children run all the way from
one year to three years ahead of theli
capacity for learning. In other cases
j children are behind what they ought to
be from one to three y,ears. Two ten
dencies are shown to prevail, in teach
ing. First, to keep all children as near
as possible at an average, keeping those
that are dull up to the average, hold
ing those that are precocious down.
j The other tendency is to let those chil-
aren tnat are very oacKwara go, ana
not give them the attention they need.
They are, as a result, farther backward
than their mentality really warrants, or
on the upper scale, children who are a
little precocious are encouraged,
spurred on.ard placed in classes that
are even higher than their mental at
tainments can reach. This is an In
justice to both cases.
"In this misplacement of children,
getting them too hign or too low for
their mental capacity, lies the reason
I for a large amount of truancy and in
corrigibility; also the fact that pre
cocious children often break down. It
is not because they are precocious, but
because their prococity leads teachers
and parents to push them too far
ahead."
Tests Made By Others.
Mr. Goddard then goes on to tell of
the tests made of the Binet scale by
other prominent educational workers,
among whom are professor Huey, for
merly at Lincoln, 111.; Miss Johnson in
England, and by several other workers
who have not yet published their re
sults. He finds in each case that a
favorable report has been made upon
the Binet system, and advocates its use
in institutions of learning, stating that,
in a great measure, Its adoption will
alleviate the "apparent mental discrep
ancies now prevalent in our schools, and
strongly tend toward the production of
men ana women better calculated to
grapple with the problems that will
'confront them later on in life. The
Binet measuring scale for Intelligence
has received official sanction in Jersey.
Greene on Sex HIglene.
Dr. Francis M. Greene, of Cambridge,
Mass., struck a new note in education,
when he addressed the association on
the subject of "Sex Hygiene." He ad
vocated the Inclusion of biology and
sex hygiene in the school curriculum,
predicting for these instalations a vast
benefit for the men and women of fut
ure. The doctor said in part:
"Initiative In sex hygiene was taken
(Continued on Page Elevs.j.
Miss Abbott Appears to Be
the Only One Having any
Knowledge Of It.
FILES ARE ALL
SEARCHED IN VAIN
"Washington, D. C, July 11. Wash
ington is waiting with much Interest
for the story to be told tomorrow
before tljfe house committee on expen
ditures In the interior department by
Miss Abbott, who claims to have copied
from the files of the interior depart
ment a letter from Richard S. Ryan, to
the then secretary Richard A. Ballin-
ger, showing that Ryan sought the
aid of Chas. P. Taft in securing presi
dent Taft's approval of the water front
on Controller bay, Alaska. The com
mittee was not in session today.
Letter Cannot Be Found.
Up to this time Miss Abbott appears
to have been the only person to have
seen the mysterious letter. Secretary
Fisher has said that a thorough search
of the department files failed to reveal
such a letter. President Taft has
stated that he had never talked with
his brother about Controller bay and
It Is announced that neither the files
at the white house nor those of Chas.
p Taffc shQW any corresponaence on
!' the subject.
Brown Denies It.
Ashmun Brown, former secretary to
Mr. Ballinger, from whom Miss Abbott
claims to hare secured the letter, has
denied absolutely any knowledge of it
According to published accounts, Miss
Abbott will testify that she found at
tached to a tj'pewritten letter from R.
S. Ryan to Ballinger dated June, 13,
1910, this note:
Alleged Memorandum.
TDear Dick: 'I went to the president
the other day about this Controller bay
affair. The president asked me whom
it was I represented. I told him, ac
cording to our agreement, that I rep
resented myself. But that did not
satisfy him. So I sent for Chas. P.
Taft and asked him. to tell his brother
who it was I represented! The presi
dent made no further objection to my
claims.
"Yours,
"Dick."
PROBING- MYSTERY ,
OF PETTIT'S DEATH
Think Grain Broker May
Not Have Died !Froin
Drowning.
Chicago, I1L, July 11. Mystery in the
riMih nf -TnTnA9 "Rettit. whose financial
, difficulties came to light last night
was probed further by Insurance of
ficials, who asked the deputy coroner
of Waukegan to a reopening of the In
quest and post mortem examination to
determine whether death was from
drowining as was reported os some
other cause.
Meantime jnews that the late grain
dealer and president of the, Peavy Grain
company, had been in financial straits
caused a stir in banking circles and a
meeting of the cqmmittee of bankers
having the dead brokers affairs In hand
i was called. The committee will en-
cleavor to learn the exast amount of
Pettit's debts, variously estimated at
from 750,000 to twice that much,
On the board of trade the Peavy
brokers were busy in the pit closing
out accounts of customers, or trans-
fering them as a preliminary to the
closing up of the Chicago end of the
commission department or tne dusi
ness. ARIZONA NATIONAL
GUARD TO CAMP OUT
Eight Companies Reach
Phoenix -En Route to
Prescott Encamp
ment, Phoenix, Ariz., July 11. Eight conv"
panies of the Arizona National Guard
arrived here today from different
points throughout the territory and
with two companies f rom this city, pro
ceeded to Prescott, where at camp
Brodie, the annual encampment of the
Arizona militia will be held..
The encampment will last ten days,
and will be under command of Col. A,
M. Tuthim, of aiorenci, ranking officer
of the Arizona National Guard.
PALISADE CITIZENS
OUST BOOTLEGGERS
Vigilantes Force Liquor
Men to Close Up and
Leave Town.
Grand Junction, Colo., July 11. A
mob of masked and armed citizens of
Palisade, Colo., last night took the law
into their own hands, and -visiting a
number of places where liquor has been
sold illicitly, ordered the alleged
"bootleggers" to leave town 'immedi
ately. Ministers and town officials are said
to have been in the vigilance committee.
The liquor dispensers are defiant and
violence is looked for, unless they com
ply with the demands to close up im
mediately and leave town.
AVIATORS FORCED
TO STOP FOR FOOD
Washington, D. C. July 11. Tired
and hungry, aviators Atwood and Ham
ilton alighted on the aviation field at
Colloge park, Maryland, near this city,
at 5:45 this morning. They left Stem
mers Run, Maryland, where they were
forced to descend yesterday on account
of the fierce heat and humidity, at
4:35, and had an uneventful flight at
an altitude of about GOO feet. They
will probably fly into Washington later
in the day.
Maxine Is Expensive
Declares Nat Goodwin
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New York, X. T., July 10. Maxine Elliott, world famous actresses styled
as "expensive" in the book of memoirss written by Nat Goodwin, which. he
calls "Why Beautiful Women Marry Nat Goodwin." Goodwin describes her
as the jnost eccentric of all his many wives and goes on to tellfhow she
tried to break Into English society when they lived on the leased estate at
Jackwood, England. " ,
"The fair Maxine had the English bee in her American bonnet," he says,
"and insisted we must try and get together some of the Impeosnlons no
bility and a few army men as guests. I knew of no one who represented, these
particular branches of society and had no particular desire to, but. being
under her hypnotic influence, had to do my best, which was very poor, and
Maxine .was disappointed."
BRITISHERS WIN FIVE
YALE AND HARVARD VANQUISHED
BIG ATHLETIC EVENTS
London, Eng.. July 11. Johnny Bull
captured five firsts out of nine events
in the athletic meet at Queen's club
between the athletes of Oxford and
Cambridge, the two great British uni
versities, and the representatives of
Yale and Harvard.
The sun shone forth for American
athletics today and this was taken as
a good omen for the men from Tale
and Harvard, when they trooped onto
the field for the fourth struggle
against the combined forces of Oxford
and Cambridge. It was a perfect aft
ernoon. The games began at 3:30
oclock. A distinctly college crowd was
present, including as many women as
men.
All Americans appeared in fine con
dition except Kelley, Harvard's quarter
miler, who sprained his ankle recently
and was somewhat lame.
In the first event, the hammer
throw, the American team was beaten
by an American, G. E. Putnam, of Kan
sas, a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Put
nam made 151 feet five inches, Childs,
Yale, second, with 140 feet 7 Inches,
Cable, Harvard, third, 137 feet 10
inches.
Running high jump, won by Wooster
Canfleld. Yale, five feet, 11 3-S inches;
Albert D. Parker, Harvard, second, five
feet, 10 3-8 inches.
Half mile, won by B. M. Preble, Har
vard; Anderson, Oxford, second;
Jacques, Harvard, third. Time, one
minute, 57 1-5 seconds.
Hundred -.sd dash, won by Duncan
MacMillarf, Trinity, Cambridge. Time,
10 1-5 seconds. Fred Reilly, Yale, sec
ond. One hurdred and twenty ranis high
hurdles, wn by George A. Chisholn:.
Yale, J. G. Cvmmings, Harvard, sec
ond. Time, 15 2-5 seconds.
Two mile race, won by E. Gowan
Taylor, Pembroke. Oxford: C. H. Por
ter Brazenose, Oxford, second; Paul R.
Withlngton, Harvard, third. Time, 9
minutes. 29 1-5 seconds.
Running broad jump, won by John
R. Holden, Yale, 22 feet, 9 1-4 inches;
J. R. Kilpatrick, Yale, second. 21 feet,
9 1-2 inches; M. J. Suskind, Pembroke,
Cambridge, third. 21 feet, 5 inches; J.
J. Hartley. Merton, Oxford, fourth, 21
feet, 1 1-2 Inches.
Quarter mile run, won by F. G.
Black, Pembroke, Cambridge; Duncan
MacMlllian, Trinity, Cambridge, sec-
ona; jonn .n. oievari, jr., laie, mini;
Herbert W. Kelley, Harvard, fourth.
Time, 49 4-5 seconds.
One mile run, won by Phillip John
Baker, Kings, Cambridge; C
Moore. Exeter Oxford, second; H. P.
Lawless, Harvard, third. Time,
4:29 3-4.
CHARLEY GATES IS
AT FATHER'S SIDE.
Paris, France, July 11.
Charles- C. Gates, who hastened
to his father's bedside from
New York, arrived here today.
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LIFE IN -
Working to Save Remnant
of Canutillo Bridge, He Is
Swept to Death.
.OWB PORTIONS
OF CITY FLOODED
Adobe Houses Crumble, Cel
lars Flooded and Railway
Tracks Are Washed Out
CAR TRAFFIC IS
ALSO INTERRUPTED
Old river grand has taken Its toll
of another victim.
Having worked all night 'Monday In,
a desperate effort to save the remain
ing spans of the Canutillo bridge above
El Paso, Quirino Garreon, a Mexican
laborer, fell exhausted Into the water
at 6 oclock Tuesday morning and noth
ing has been heard of him since then.
Carreon, with a numher of native
and American residents of Canutillo
had been working desperately 'all day
Monday and Monday .night In an effort
to save the bridge from being washed
away. Carreon had a rope tied around
his body and the end fastened to the
remaining span of the bridge.
Lioses Hi .Bone.
During the night he lost his. rope and
while holding to the bridge stringers
with one hand, and reaching down to
remove the collecting brush and drift
wood from the pier of the bridge, he
lost his balance and fell into the yel
low water. Being completely exhausted
from his night's -work. Carreon was
unable to swim ashdre and the last
that was seen of him was y when lie
disappeared a half mile down stream.
A reward of $10 has been offered
by Joe Spivey, of Canutillo, for the
discovery of the body of the Mexican,
as the settlers in Canutillo district
wish ta honor the aged Mexican with
a decent burial.
"Water Covers Iiovr GrouMeL
The water is over the lower ground
near Canutillo, and the river is higher
than it has been at any time since
the rains started. All the damage that
can be done to the wheat and other
crops, has been done, and the ranchers
are devoting their entire time to sav
ing the remaining spans of the Can
utillo bridge, in order that communi
cation with the west side will not bs
cut off for a very long time.
Much Damage La City.
In the city, flooded cellars, car
schedules thrown out, dirt and rocks
washed down, from the hills and many
adobe houses damaged, were the results
of tbe two storms on Monday after
noon and night.
At Overland and X.eon streets an
adobe grocery store, conducted by
Pedro Melendrez, was -wrecked during"
the worst of the afternoon storm. At
4 oclock the entire front of the building
caved in. and shortly after the wall on
Leon street cracked and a large part
of it fell. Many cracks in the building
rendered it unsafe, and a force of men
was employed tearing It down on Tues
day morning. The building had been,
damaged in the storm of two weeks ago
and all the goods had been moved.
Rooming- Houses Damage.
Two rooming houses, also owned by
Melendrez. at 3J.3 and 315 Overland
street, were completely flooded at about
8 oclock, and the occupants were forced
to move. Over two feet of water lodged
on the floors, and has done considera
ble damage to the walls. ,
At midnight Monday the front of the
house at 125 Chihuahua street caved
In, wrecking the whole front of the
building. It was ocupled by two men.
who were sleeping in a back room and
were not hurt. They sat up the re
mainder of the night fearing the rest
of the house would fall also.
On Durango street from, the railroad
tracks to Overland, the adobe houses
on the north side of the street were
all flooded, and are now standing in
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