Senator from Massachusetts
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Mr Crane was recently elected to succeed himself as United States sen
a tor from the state of Massachusetts He stands high in the councils of his
party and is often called upon by the president as adviser in matters of state
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PROVIDED FOR BY WILL OF AN
ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE
Aim of Seybert Institution Will Be to
Train Poor Young and Develop
Them Is First of Kind in
the World
Philadelphia The Seybert institu
tion for poor children with a 1500
000 fund just available under the will
of Henry Seybert who died in 1883
will go into the business of relieving
poor children atthe rate of 1000 a
jrear first by an arrangement with the
Childrens Aid society to open a chil
drens bureau at 1506 Arch street on
February 15 next by creating a model
village unlike anything on earth on
a 300 acre farm at Meadowbrook with
cottages for 300 poor children and
school training facilities next by set
ting up a training school for child
savers
Other branches of child saving work
will be developed in the future as need
arises under the Seybert institution
created by the bachelor benefactor in
honor of his father and mother Adam
and Maria Sarah Seybert The full
text of the announcements has been
handed out by the trustees of the Sey
bert institution all well known citi
zens of Philadelphia
The childrens bureau a clearing
house in its way begins business
February 15 by going to the relief of
the juvenile court It offered by a let
ter to Judge Bregy to provide for
destitute and neglected children and
those whose delinquencies if any are
not sufficiently serious to require com
mitment to the house of refuge
The Childrens Aid society now hav
ing 1100 children under its care is to
work side by side in the same office
building and all the agencies are to
be invited to participate in harmon
izing and developing the work of child
saving and child training child em
ployment and child legislation
The Seybert institution offers for
poor girls the nearest approach to
what Girard college is for orphan
boys
Its model village for 300 will be the
first of its kind in the world The aim
is that the life of the children shall be
as near as possible like that of a nor
mal child in a family home in a small
community Engineers and architects
are at work on the plans for Meadow-
brook farm on the Reading railroad 13
miles north of Philadelphia to create
there the model child city a little New
Jerusalem for the boys and girls res
cued from slums
Seybert was a chemist and a son
of a distinguished chemist led a sin
gle romantic eccentric life studied
and traveled abroad lived three years
in Paris left a bequest to the uni
versity for investigation of spiritual
ism and gave the city the bell and
clock which rings and marks the
hours in the belfry of Independence
hall
WHITTLES BOAT WITH KNIFE
Ohio Man Makes Miniature of Side
wheel Packet During Leisure
Moments
Gallipolis O Andrew Wode of
Pomeroy has made a miniature steam
boat which is patterned after an Ohio
river sidewheel packet An ordinary
two bladed penknife was used in its
construction the blades being nearly
worn out before it was completed Mr
Wode did the work during odd hours
and completed it in less than three
months
The hull of the boat is four feet
and two inches long and 14 inches
wide From the bottom of the hull to
the top is 30 inches The swing stage
is 26 inches long On the lower deck
are the boilers and engines All the
figures and the yawls on the davits
were whittled from solid blocks of
wood In the rear is a well appointed
bar room with bartender and custom
ers A faucet in a beer keg looks like
the real thing One passenger is in
the act of turning down a glass of
beer and the nickel is on the counter
to pay for it
A figure on the forecastle wearing a
tile hat is credited with being the
captain Nothing is missing from the
outfit of the boat bell whistle stove
in the pilothouse spars etc are all
there
It is made entirely of pine and pop
lar except the wire at the end of the
swing stage the glass in the windows
and the small nails used in fastening
the various parts together A man
can carry it under his arm It Is paint
ed with great care and is named
Urika suggested hy a ship of that
name the picture of which Mr Wode
once saw
INDIAN WINS WHITE HEIRESS
Fiancee Pleased to Hear Lover Is
Elected Chief of Tribe
i Denver Col Miss Cora Arnold a
Wealthy young woman of this- city
who is engaged to marry Albino
Chavarria a Pueblo Indian has re
ceived word that her lover has been
elected chief of the tribe at Espanola
N M She expressed pleasure and
said that though opposition still ex
isted to her engagement she hoped
for the best She and her sister own
much real estate here
Ere many moons have sped into
eternity the Denver heiress may join
her dusky lover and bring to- a happy
stage a romance from real life that
finds not its counterpart in the tales
of the poets and novelists who depict
ed the aborigine in- song and story
Gov Albino Chavarria it is now
The course of true love has not run
smoothly for the Indian chief and his
Denver inamorata They first met
when Chavarria was brought here
with his tribe as a carnival attrac
tion Added to a magnificent phy
sique the Santa Clara brave has en
joyed unusual educational advan
tages He Is a cultured redskin and
affects the white mans dress when
in the white mans country
V The wealthy Denver woman who
with her sister owns the Colonnade
apartments at Colfax and Marion
streets found in the handsome red
skin her souls affinity They be
came engaged and marriage was de
cided on But friends interfered
Their Importunities were heeded and
questions of religion also had some
bearing on a postponement of the
wedding
This One from Horace
One of the best examples I have
ever seen of the perversion of mean
ing of words through a whimsical ac
cident said Wilton Lackaye I found
in Victor Hugos Les Miserables
while arranging its dramatization to
The Law and the Man The author
tells of a sign over one of his taverns
intended to read Carpes au Gras
meaning that the traveler could there
obtain carp fried In grease
The pointer evidently followed the
phonetic idea and the sign appeared
Carpes Ho Gras -Then the strange
accident happened and in the falling
of plaster the s of carpes and the
g of gras were obliterated leaving
the sign Carpe Ho Ras and from
an original sign of gross materialism
it became one of Horaces prettiest
odes Carpe Horas Seize the hours
gather ye roses while ye may
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LOCATE IOWA METEOR
LONG LOST ROCK FINALLY
FOUND IN VIENNA
Fell Near Esterville in 1875 and Has
Been Sought by George Barber
for Years Brought High
Price from Purchasers
Esterville la After a lapse of 32
years the famous Barber meteor
for which George Barber of this place
had searched for years has been
found in a Vienna museum carefully
labeled that all visitors may know
that it is one of Iowas products and
fell near Esterville In June 1875
Fearing the Barber brothers who
dug up the great meteor would be
able to recover the largest piece of
the precious rock it was quickly
passed from one person to another
as soon as it was shipped east until
its whereabouts soon became a mat
ter of mystery
Inspired with a desire to secure the
meteor for the Iowa Historical so
ciety or for the state university many
have attempted to locate the missing
rock but search for it has been fruit
less George Barber has followed the
meteor almost around the world and
Iowans have searched the museums
of England and of Rome expecting to
see It among the spoils of time but
it has been left to Thomas R Wallace
a former Iowan to discover the rock
which put Esterville on the map in
one of the great museums of Vienna
Thomas R Wallace who has noti
fied George Barber of finding the me
teor in Vienna is one of the men who
saw it fall on the farm of the Seven
Lee farm two miles north of here
about one oclock in the afternoon -
of June 28 1875 Charles and George
Barber dug it out of the ground some
14 feet deep The largest piece which
is now in Vienna weighed 132 pounds
The smaller pieces weighed together
400 pounds making a total weight of
532 pounds
At the time of the great phenome
non the land on which the rock fell
had been sold to a Mr Lee and only
a small amount paid down The Bar
ber boys were given permission by
him to dig out the meteor but the
former owners brought suit against
the Barbers and the Emmet county
clerk refused to accept signers to a
500 bond offered by the Barber boys
under replevin proceedings after the
land owners had secured possession
of the rock
While the boys were trying to re
gain possession of the meteor the par
ties loaded it into a wagon and hauled
it overland to Keokuk where it was
sold to eastern parties and resold to
other parties for 58000 It was sold
a year or two later to an English com
pany for 100000 Small pieces
which the Barber boys secured have
been sold for 500 each but Iowans
have always wanted to secure posses
sion of the big piece which now rests
among the marble and bronze statue
of Vienna
Within a short time the scientific
world learned of the meteor The
Barber brothers were offered 50000
for the big piece and believing that
it could be secured efforts have been
made from time to time to get it back
on Hawkeye soil The Barbers lost
10000 because the county clerk re
fused to accept a man worth 25000
on a bond for 500
INVENTS STUDYING MACHINE
Northwestern University Student
Finds Solution in Phonograph
Chicago Edward Jacobson a
Northwestern university student has
invented a studying machine which
not only abolishes the ravages on the
body caused by all night sessions
with towel encircled brows over
books of small print but also saves
he says the eyes and the mind
Young Jacobsons device is of a
phonographic nature for which he has
prepared records on which are con
centrated the essential points of the
entire courses He unstraps his case
of records selects Course No 1 turns
out the light lays himself down on
bed or couch and pulling a cord
which is attached to the machine pre
pares himself to absorb learning by
the roll
The machine Is provided with an at
tachment on the order of the works of
an eight day clock which will run an
indefinite period far longer than any
listener will survive Even if the
student drops asleep the constant
and monotonous repetition of tho rec
ord has the effect of impressing itself
on the seemingly dormant brain for in
the morning the student has the
course at his tongues end and goes
to his examination in campus vernac
ular prepared to knock the profes
sors eye out
Intricate formulas of calculus in
volved problems of algebra and ge
ometry taught to men who think of
taking up engineering and other deep
forms of mathematical lore can all be
caught by the machine without skip
or miss and formations so formidable
that the eye will not grasp them be
come easy to the comprehension when
drummed into the brain through thd
ear by repeating the record
The importance of the invention is
such from the student standpoint that
canned lessons promise to become
common on the Evanston campus
To Chloroform Bachelors
Boston Unmarried women of
Wakefield Mass have petitioned the
legislature asking for a law taxing all
bachelors up to 40 years old and an
application of chloroform after that
age
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New York What that congeries of
financial interest which is usually
spoken of as Wall street has been
looking forward to anxiously and with
much speculation for several years
has actually come to pass in the
House of Morgan The Old Man
as J Pierpont Morgan is generally
called in the street has to all in
tents and purposes gone into retire
ment and in his place in the most
famous banking house fn America
there reigns in his stead J P Morgan
Jr or Jack as he is more frequent
ly called and spoken of in the same
district No one can cry The king
is dead Long live the king for the
head of the house is very much alive
Only he has handed over the practical
administration of his banking con
cerns to his son while in his magnifi
cent new library on East Thirty sixth
street he is spending the evening of
his days in the pleasures of the collec
tor amid his collections
Like all of the things the elder Mor
gan does this change in his banking
house was accomplished with little
flourishing of trumpets So quiet
and gradual has been the process that
until the last few weeks but little at
tention has been paid to the impor
tant change which has for several
years been going on in the house of
Morgan John Pierpont Morgan the
first financier of the country and per
haps of the world has practically
turned the reins of power over to his
son Jack Of late Morgan Sr has
not been in any too good health and
for more than a month has not been
in the financial district at all Every
time the stock market tumbles dis
quieting reports are circulated from
one end of Wall street to the other
that the old man is seriously ill
and in spite of frequent denials from
other members of the firm including
Jack the reports persist and come
to the surface at every favorable op
portunity
Seeks Leisure in Old Age
But there seems to be nothing Im
mediately alarming in Mr Morgans
condition He is merely an old man
and is retiring from the multifarious
duties of his position as Americas
greatest financier As he has with
drawn from financial worries he has
devoted more and more attention to
art and charity
The more time J P Morgan spends
among his art treasures and the fewer
his business cares the more these
cares and responsibilities fall upon
Jack Morgan In fact the affairs of
the great house of Morgan are now in
the hands of three men J P Morgan
Jr George W Perkins and Charles
Steele Mr Steele is thelegal man
so that the heavy financial work
formerly -the joy of The Old Mans
life is in the hands of Jack Morgan
and Perkins Not that these are the
only members of the firm but they
are the active ones The stock ex
change firm of which John W Gates
is a member has frequently been
called The House of the Twelve
Partners The Morgan firm has 11
partners but the members other than
those mentioned are little more than
head clerks
J P Morean Jr is by no means
an inexperienced boy He is exactly
40 years old and his training in tne
intricacies of banking has been long
and thorough Whether he will prove
the genius in the world of business
that his father has been remains to be
sfien But if genius consists in an ex
cessive devotion to hard work he may
compare favorably with his illustrious
father
Characteristics of Jack
He Is a big man physically six feet
in height and weighing 200 pounds
From his college days he has been an
athlete and although football golf
and riding have at various times en
gaged his attention his chief delight
is in yachting In 1903 when he was
working in the London branch of his
fathers firm he returned to this coun
try for a few months chiefly to see the
International yacht races
Jack Morgan has none of the bad
habits orfrivolities that so often char
acterize the sons of the very wealthy
He is exceedingly methodical and
during the years when he worked as a
clerk in his fathers office and lived in
New Rochelle he caught the 824
train to New York as regularly as
clockwork Though he goes about in
society a good deal to please his wife
he cares but little for the pleasures
of the smart set Even if he does
not prove as able as his father he is
certain to make as many friends for
he lacks the brusque manner for
which the elder Morgan is so noted
and which has grown upon him with
years Young Morgan is an affable
man and is far more democratic in his
manner than the organizer of the
Steel trust Although he lived in
England for quite a time and is said
to have introduced the custom so un
usual in this country but common
enough among English bankers of
taking afternoon tea in business
hours he is nevertheless considered
thoroughly American
His devotion to the British bever
age is shown in one of the best pic
tures of him extant a snapshot
showing him getting into a motor car
and carrying a heavy afternoon tea
basket
Has Fathers Desk
Within the last few weeks the
younger Morgan has occupied the desk
where for many years his father
worked and besides which nearly
every important banker and railroad
president in the country has at some
time stood and often trembled The
training which the son has had in
order to fill this all important place
has been practical and thorough He
was graduated from Harvard in 1889
and soon entered his fathers office
where he began at the bottom both
as to pay and nature of employment
He worked successively as loan
clerk bond clerk corresponding clerk
and through other grades He be
came a junior partner in 1895 During
the period of his early training he
lived during the summers at New Ro
chelle in a house close to the waters
edge Although fond of yachting it
is related that he would seldom take
a day off to enter a yacht race and
on one occasion asked the managers
of a yacht club to postpone the race
from Wednesday to Saturday after
noon so that he could be present
Had Charge of London House
In 1901 the younger Morgan was
sent to London where he was con
nected for four years with the house
of J Spencer Morgan Co Toward
the latter part of his stay there espe
cially after the death of one of the
older partners he took entire charge
of the London house About two
years ago he returned to this coun
try and has since devoted his time to
the business of the firm here As yet
he has become a director in but few
of the imporant companies in which
Morgan Sr is interested but this is
only a formality and in time he is
expected to fill these many positions
Nevertheless he has been a director
for several years in two of the most
important corporations with which
the Morgan firm is associated the In
ternational Mercantile Marine com
pany and the Northern Pacific rail
way
Young Morgans New York home is
at 229 Madison avenue which prac
tically adjoins the residence of his
father at 219 Madison avenue His
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club3 here are the Union Metropolis
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Harvard and New York Yacht while
In London he belongs to Whites St
James Devonshire and Bath In loBO
he was married to Jane Norton Grew
of Boston
Morgans Fine Art Gallery
Meanwhile Morgan Sr Is spending
his days In his beautiful library and
art gallery on East Thirty sixth street
that is connected with his brownstono
residence at the corner of Madison
avenue As has been said his con
cerns nowadays are more with his
esthetic treasures than with the ma
terial things of Wall street Here his
partners come from time to time to
consult with him but In the main he
is left to spend his days as he pleases
possibly laying plans for the future
presentation to the city of his new li
brary and the turning of it Into such
a gallery as the Tate in London
There are years of this work ahead
of him for his varied collections are
so large that It is only with these
leisurely days that he can really be
said to have an opportunity to become
thoroughly acquainted with them
Morgan has been called a close man
and anecdotes have been told of his
having given a gold piece to a news
boy in mistake for a quarter and send
ing a policeman back to recover the
yellow coin t there Is no doubt
that Morgan has given great sums to
charity and that all his gifts nave not
been heralded abroad as have those of
other millionaires As for art his
hobby for picking up masterpieces in
every quarter of the world is too well
known to need repeating The library
building itself is a proof of his prodi
gality Two years were required to
build the library Its cost was placed
at 300000 In it are gathered many
of the choicest art objects and books
on which the finacier has spent at
least 10000000 during the last 27
years
HOW TO STOP REVOLUTIONS
Mexico Has a Way of Causing Disturb
ers to Disappear
Mexico of all nations wherein Span
ish blood predominates alone seems
to understand the shortest and most
satisfactory way to dispose of revolu
tionists Central and South America
countries hardly have breathing spells
between revolutions Cuba has been
indulging in one continuous revolu
tion for many years Santo Domingo
and Hayti are ever at it But Mexico
has reduced the revolutionist to a
cipher If he exists at all in that
country he is scarcely ever heard of
except in a way that shows Mexicos
complete control of him
The truth of the matter seems to ba
that the South American revolutionist
is a business man at his trade He
revolutes as a professional matter
In Mexico as soon as a man shows any
symptoms of the revolutionary disease
he is unceremoniously bundled off to
jail and allowed to think it over be-
hind the bars If he is at last released
from durance vile and then behaves
himself all may go well with him
But the government keeps an eye
on him and in case of a relapse he Is
quietly taken out to some secluded
spot and cheerfully shot Then the
report of the mysterious disappear
ance is given out
Obviously it is rather a depressing
business to conduct aid or abet a rev
olution from behind steel bars
In fact there is absolutely nothing
inside of a jail calculated to keep the
flame of revolutionary desire brightly
burning However should the would
be reorganizer of governmental
Entrance to J P Morgans Magnifi
cent Private Museum
fairs fail wholly to divest himself of
his aspirations while inside the jail he
has an even more dreary prospect
ahead when he get3 out
To die the death of a martyr to the
cause of revolution may in specific in
stances appeal strongly to a sashed
bucklered and belted knight pro
vided the spectacular surroundlngj
necessary for a correct and approved
death in that manner be also provided
But just to mysteriously disappear
that is not alluring attractive or cal
culted to inspire
On the whole It looks as if the
Mexican Idea has stood the test of
time The great man at the head of
the Mexican government is not alone
great himself but is surrounded by a
splendid corps of advisers Never has
Mexico been allowed to lag or recede
as other nations marched forward so
long as Diaz has been in command
The bane of other Latin American
governments the revolutionist has
been reduced to naught in Mexico
There are few revolutions there
opera bouffe or otherwise President
Diaz has made good riddance of prac
tically all such bad rubbish
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