Dakota County herald. (Dakota City, Neb.) 1891-1965, March 31, 1911, Image 1
t DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD. i MOTTO-All The News Whes It I Newi. r,$f. rqiv10"' VOL. 19. DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1911. NO. 30. -. n - r, a- 141 PERISH IN FIRE BCORE8 OF EMPLOYES DIE BY JUMPING FROM BURNING SHIRTWAIST FACTORY. OTHERS KILLED IN PANIC Fire Marshal's Inquiry Reveals Fact Workroom Was Death .Trap That Disaster Result of Cigarette Smok ing 86 Victims Are Identified. New York. Of tho 141 employes, mostly girls and women killed In a fire In Triangle Shirtwaist factory at the corner of Greene street and Wash ington place Saturday, 86 have been Identified. Seventy of tho bodies were those of girlB and young women, tho remain ing sixteen those of men. There are 12 injured in tho hoapllals. Scores of others moro or less seriously hurt were taken to their homos. The building was occupied by a number of factories, and at least 1,600 persons were at work when tho fire started. Tho victims were either burned to death or were crushed into lifeless forms on the pavements when they leaped to escape tho swift rush of fire which quickly enveloped the building. Not since tho burning of tho excur sion steamer Oeneral Slocum, off North Brother's island In 1904, when 1,020 persons perished, has the city been so excited by a flro horror. At least fifty of tho victims were killed by leaping from tho windows of the seventh floor, and floors above. Many porlshed in the flames on up per floors, remaining, afraid to leap until tho flro surrounded them. Although tho fire started on tho eighth floorIt spread eventually to the basement and gutted the whole building. Tho blaze started in the cutting room of tho Trlanglo Waist company, on tho eighth floor. This concern occupied tho upper three floors of the building. Joseph Devontry, a Brooklyn auto mobile dealer, who was passing tho building when tho flro started, sayB that It was 12 minutes after the alarm was turned In before there waj a stream of water on the blaze. By that tlmo there were 30 dend on tho sidewalks. The scene was sick ening. With wild shrieks the girls leaped from tho windows, and, above the din and roar of the flames, their bodies struck the street and sounded like claps of thunder. The extension ladders of the fire men reached only to the seventh floor. The firemen were unable to got above that with scaling ladders because of tho Intense heat and tho dense smokoH pouring from tho upper windows. Unable to reach the upper floors, the firemen resorted to the uso of life nets. In most Instances the nets proved to bo worthless. Some of thom broke under tho pressure of a single body. Others were torn by two or more persons alighting In thom at tho same time. One net was lying In tho street after the flro with b1x bodies tangled in It. Grocery wagons and even pushcarts were pressed Into service to get the wounded people, most of whom were young girls, to drug stores and hos pitals. Stores In tho neighborhood wero turned Into temporary morgues. A great crowd gathered around tho sceno of tho fire. Factories In the neighborhood wero soon emptied of their employes. Some of tho revelations brought out by Fire Marshal Beers In his public Inquiry into tho causes of tho fire show that tho poor girls In that panic rush to escape from the flames found traps at every turn. It seemed that tho very arrange ment of tho workroom was a trap, with 700 women, jammed back to back at their machines. When the panic started, tho narrow aisles be came blocked with chairs and tho girls wero in confusion before they even started for the doors. Then there was a scarcity of exits, tho nward opening doors and the death trap "flro escapes." "Tho flie, without any question, started from a clgarotto or a match thrown Into a pllo of lawn clippings light cotton stuff," suld Marshal Beers. "There was no gasoline about the place, so far as I could learn and tho machinery power was furnlshod by electric motors. But I can provo that cigarette smoking was no uncommon practice among tho men employed In tho factory. "Tho flro started at 4:40 o'clock. Samuel Bernstein, tho superintendent for the Trlanglo company, and a boy tried to put It out with buckets of water, but fought it for only a minute and a half. The alarm was not turned In for flvo minutes. "While Bernstein was fighting tho fire, Edward Brown, tho machinist? was trying to ot tho girls in lino to march to tho flro escapo and to tho elevator doors. But the poor things, In most cases, understood only Yid dish and did not know what ho was saying to them." Meets Death In Blizzard. Hammond, Ind. Bltndcd by the driving snow In a blizzard Monday, Anton Moollcr, prominent business man and alderman of Whiting, walked to his death In front of n Pennsylvania flyer. Wisconsin Educator Dead. Bololt, Wis. Henry M. Whitney, professor In Belolt college from 1S74 to 1800, died suddenly Sunday at Now Haven, Conn. Since leaving Belolt ho wbb librarian of the public library at Bramford, Conn. LIST OF HOLOCAUSTS OF A CENTURY Killed. 1811 Dec. 26, theater at Richmond, Va 70 1876 Dec. 5, Conway's Theater at Brooklyn 295 1881 Dec. 9, Ring Theater, Vienna..,. 700 1BB1 Lehman's Theater, St. Petersburg t 700 1885 Buffalo Muilo Hall and St. Louis Church 3 1887 May 26, Opera Comlque, Parle 20 1888 Temple Theater, Philadelphia : 8coree 1891 Central Theater, Philadelphia 10 1897 Charity Bazar, Parlt 300 1893 Pike' Opera House, Cincinnati 8cores 1897 Lyric Theater, Bucharett 2 1B97 Theater Central, Brussels 1897 Yore'a Opera House, Benton Harbor, Mich 1897 Robinson's Opera House, Cincinnati, panic 1897 Robinson's Opera House, Cincinnati, dome fell while the com pany was playing "Under the Dome" .'....... 4 1897 Coliseum, Chicago 2 1897 People's Theater, Aberdeen, Scotland '. 10 1901 Nov. 6, Klondike Theater, Milwaukee 11 1903 Iroquola Theater, Chicago 600 1904 Burning of ateamer General Slocum, New York Harbor 1,020 1908 Barnaley, England 16 1908 Boyertown, Pa. 173 1908 Avellne Hotel, Fort Wayne, Ind 16 1908 School, Colllngwood, 0 178 1910 L. Flan Furniture Store, Chicago. 1910 Forest Area, Minnesota 1910 Forest fires, Northwest 1910 Factory fire, Newark, N. J 1910 Philadelphia 1910 Morris & Co., packing plant, Chicago. 1910 Cincinnati 1910 Gas explosion, New York 1911 Factory, New York ' SEEK IN "HIGH UP" ALLEGED CARNEGIE TRUST COM PANY 8UBMITTED FAL1E REPORT ON ASSET8. MORE TRUE BILLS LIKELY New York Prosecutor Asserts He Hat Evidence That President Reich mann of Defunct Concern Mutilated the Records of Meeting. New York. Additional indictments against high officials of the Carnegie Trust company are looked for as a ro suit of the testimony given before the grand jury by Listen L. Lewis, former counsel for the trust company. District Attorney Whitman, It Is said, possesses conclusive evidence that the executive committee of the trust company, over which Joseph B. Relchmonn presided as president, knowingly made a false report of tho company's aBBets on August 31, 1910, and mutilated tho minutes of a meet ing held August 23 In order to con form to suggestions of tno state banking department. Both tho original minutes and the substituted minutes aro In existence and It will bo possible to produco them In tho prosecution of the offi cials responsible for the transaction. Another Interesting feature of tho developments was the supported statement that Samuel Untormeyer, tho well-known corporation lawyor, has become tho attorney for the com bination represented by Charles H. Hyde, Mayor Gaynor's city chamber lain; William J. Cummins, tho mas ter promotor of tho trust company, and Joseph B. Rolchmann, its former president. Joseph G. Robin, tho confessed bank wrecker, appeared before tho grand jury as Its first witness and his testimony, which occupied two hours, Is believed to have been con fined entirely to facts which surround tho loan of $130,000 made to the Car negie Trust company by Robin's Northern bank to tide tho trust com pany over tho August examination by tho state banking department. DRINK CRAZED, SLAYS TWO Council Bluffs Doctor Kills Officer and Man Who Refuses to Sell Him Liquor. Dcs Moines, la. Dr. H. D. Kelly of Council Bluffs, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Clarence Wollman, al so of Council Bluffs, and a short time later shot and killed Edward Stcrzlng, a Dob Molneu bartender. The Council Bluffs physician wa3 being taken by tho deputy sheriff to tho inebriates hospital at Knoxvllle. The two men occupied tho samo room at tho KIrkwood hotol during tho night. Kelly awakened early In tho morning, extracted a rovolver from tho pocket of tho deputy sheriff and fired three shots Into tho body of tho latter as ho lay asleep. Kelly then hastened down tho street. He entered a saloon and de manded a drink. Strrzlng, the bar tender, refused to glvo him the liquor. "You saloon keepers have made an Inebriate of mo and now you refuso mo a drink," Kelly said as ho drew tho revolver and fired flvo shots Into Storzlng's body. Sterzlng died an hour later. Kelly was arrested. 4 Swallows HI Teeth; Dies. Boone, la. By swallowing his false teeth, Rev. S. A. Hall, a formor pas tor of the MethodUt church of this city and a pioneer Iowa lawyer, caused his death at bis homo In Wind sor, Mo., Sunday. Balllnger la Back Home. Seattle, Wash. Richard A. Bal linger, former secretary of the In terior, returned homo Saturday from Washington and was given a warm welcomo by bis fellow towns-mnn Many 11 16 12 100 15CT 25 14 25 9 10 150 DIAZ CABINET NAMED ALL MEMBER8 CHOSEN WITH ONE EXCEPTION. . Zacamacona e Inoland to Succeed De La Barra In Washington Dip lomatic Pott. Mexico City. Manuel de Zacama cona o Incland was appolntod ambas sador to the United States to buo ceed Francisco Leon do la Barra ac cording to tho official announcement of the now Diaz cabinet. In the cabinet ob announced the of fice of secretary of tho interior wu left vacant, and speculation as to its Incumbent still favored Toodoro Do hesa, governor of tho state of 'Vera Cruz. Tho cabinet as at present consti tuted follows: Foreign relations Francisco Leon dc la Barra. Interior Ponding. Justice Demetrlo Sodl. Public Instruction Jorgo Vera Esta nol. FoLueulo Mitmwl Murroqulny Ri vera. Communications and public works Norbeto Domlnguez. Finance Jose Yvcb Llmantour. War and marine Gen. Manuel Gon zalez Coslo. Senor Zacamacona o Inclotod Is the government's financial agent In Lon don, where ho has been stationed for tho last two years. El Paso, Tex., March 28. "Tho In snrrectos are reorganizing their forces, drilling their men, providing them with ammunition nnd distributing stores with a view of carrying on tho war to a declslvo Isbuo. No attention whatever Is being paid to tho so-called ovorturos for peace. Madero Is anx ious to show tho widespread extent of tho revolution and thus win recogni tion of belligerency from all tho na tions." This statement was given out by tho revolutionary junta hero as com ing from Francesco I. Madero, the so called president of the lusurrectoa. SHIP SINKS AND 26 DROWN Frail Steamer Built for Inland Lake Service Turns Turtle on Pacific Ocean. Victoria, B. O. Tho British Columbia Shipping company's lit tlo wooden steamor Secholt, built for passenger service on an Inland lake, turned turtle In a furious gale off Beechey Head, Vancouver Island, and went down with all on board, 22 pas sengers and tho crow of four men. Thirteen passengors had landod at William Head just beforo tho steamer went out to destruction. Most of tho passengers wore rail road laborers bound for a Canadian northorn railroad construction camp, but a few wero residents of Sooke. Shipping mon wero nstoundod ro cently when tho owners announced that the Secholt would ply between Victoria and Sooko, oxpoBlng tho frail craft to seas such as might bo met In tho open ocean. Tho Sechelt wns 82 feet long and 73 tons gross tonnago. FOUR DIE; 12 HURT IN FIRE Firemen Plungo to Death and Injury When Roof of Milwaukee Fac tory Collapses. Milwaukee. Four firemen wore killed and twolvo wore Injured, two perhaps fatally, by falling through a roof during a fire In tho building of tho Mlddletown Manufacturing com pany, wholesale hatters. Battleship Breaks Propeller. Norfolk, Va. By striking somo hid den object In ChcBapeako bay during tho firing upon San Marcos, tho old battleship Texas, tho battleBhlp Rhodo Inland broke one propeller blado and bent another. Jefferson Davis Guard Burled. Illoomlngton, 111. Tho funeral of William Bach, Sr., the last aurvlvor of tho Union soldiers who guarded Jef ferson Davis whllo ho was In captivity at Fortress Monroe, wu twld here Monday, DE LA BARRE NAMED AMBA33ADOR TO U. 8. IS MADE PREMIER TO DIAZ' CABINET. Mexican Circle In Washington Heart lly Approve Appointment la Con- gratulated by Taft. Washington. Francisco de la Barra, Mexican ambassador to the United States, was named min ister of foreign relations of the Mex ican cabinet by President Dlat. Immediately oafter telegraphing his acceptance to Mexico City Senor do la Barra wont to tho White House and informed President Taft Tho president expressed pleatmro at tho ambassador'c appointment, con gratulating him warmly. The am bassador left at onco for Mexico City. Senor de la Barra was congratulated by Secretary of State Knox also. The now minister said he did not know whether any other members of Francisco de la Barra. the new cabinet had been decided upon, or who would succeed him In Washington. In Mexican circles It was pointed out that President Diaz has accom plished a mastor stroko by naming Ambassador de la Barra to the premiership In his cabinet, because of his renown in Mexico as well as tho confidence that foreign .financiers would place In his governmental pol icy on account of tho record Senor do la Barra made in Europe. The ambassador Is popular with the local revolutionary representa tives. They have confidence in his ability. Though thoyhati not dealt with htm, they always have expressed tholr warm regard for his sense of justice. TEN ARE KILLED IN WRECK Five Cars of Dixie Flyer Go Into River From Georgia Trestle Score Hurt. Ocllln, Go. Ton persons are known to have been killed and moro than a score Injured when tho south-bound Dixie Filer on tho Atlan tic Coast lino, running betwoon Chi cago and Jacksonville, Fla., was wrecked on an Alapaha river trestle near hero. Eight of tho bodies have boon iden tified, among thom being that of Mrs. W. D. Fletcher of Rowland, 111., who was on her way to Tampa with her husband, who was Injured. They were married In Chicago a week ago. Tho Identified dead, aro: O. F. Banwart, Henderson. Ky. W. Culpepper, Tlfton, Ga. Lucius Ellis, fireman. Mrs. W. D. Fletcher, Rowland, 111. Charles J. Parnoll, conductor, Sa vannah, Ga. Albert Simmons, porter. Mrs. J. T. Watson, Lander, Wyo. J. Woodward, baggagemaster. Way cross, Ga. The accident was caused by tho breaking of tho onglno driving wheel. Although tho rfocomotlvo romalned on tho trestle, the baggage nnd express cars, two day coaches, and a Pull man plunged Into tho river, carrying away about 400 fool of tho trestle work. GETS STOLEN STOCKS BACK Attorney Recovers Most of Aaron Bancroft's $100,000 Certificates In a Mysterious Manner. New York, Most of tho stock certificates valued at J100.000 and stolen from Anron Bancroft, sonlor member of tho stock brokorage firm of Georgo H. Bancroft & Co., a month ago havo been recovorod by William M. Sulllvr.n, attorney for tho Ban crofts, In as mysterious a manner as they woro stolon, Thero aro still missing 300 shares of American Smelters worth about 121,000. Mr. Sullivan said ho was confident of recovering these, and Is hopeful of successful criminal action In the case, which has been placed In the hands of District Attornoy Whitman. Columbus Dynamiter to Prison. Columbus, O. William Cavannugh, tho first of four alleged dynamiters to bo found guilty, was sentenced Mon day to ten years In the Ohio penlton tlary by Judge Rogors. Cavanaugh was found guilty of placing dynamite on tho street car trackB. Delays Flight Over Sea. Kiel, Germany. Josoph Brucker, formerly of Chicago, decided Monday to postpone until next full his attempt to cross tho Atlantic In the dirigible balloon Suchard. i m NOI READY TO QUIT HOUSE REFUSE8 TO NAME APRIL 4 AS END OF SESSION. WORK TO BE DONE Opinion Expressed That It Is Yet Too Early To Fix Date For Final Adojurnment. Tho thirty-second session of tho lostgslaturo will not adjourn on April 4 unless tho majority of tho houso change their minds. It is still too early In their estimation and thero is far too much work of Importance to nttond to for tho members to be gin to think of going homo us soon as tholr pay stops. This waa the de cision as a result of tho report of a coufcronco commlttco on the time to adjourn finally. A fow days ago tho senate began action looking towards fixing a. tlmo for adjournment. It appointed n spe cial commlttco of throo. Tho houso appointed a like committee. Tho joint body of six men discussed tho situ ation nnd decided that Tuesday, April 4, would bo about right, Thoy figured that by fiottlng that date the two houses would rush through tholr most important business, and in cade thoro wns any unfinished work that absolutely had to be dono tho clock could be stopped according to time honored custom, recosses taken from day to day, and the final adjourn ment secured beforo tho weok was out. So tho report wns mndo. Tho eenato accepted It without comment. In tho houso Chairman Ncir mot no such Cordial reception. Gordes of Richardson, chairman of tho Hitting committee and floor load er of tho majority party, led n fight against accepting this date. He point ed out that It would bo Impossible to complete the work necessary bo fore tho dato recommended, that there has been but ono party plcdgo enacted Into law, and plenty of chance for conflict on some of tho others, notably the apportionment bills hnvo only Junt none to the Hon- ato whoro much work must bo dono on thom, and then possibly a con ference hold with tho houso on dis agreeing Items. As far as adjourn ment was concerned the huUae collld get ready In nn hour. If everything was out of tho way. Whnt, said ho, was tho use of fixing a date far in advance of tho actual tlmo and then rushing through with .business to moot that timo. If the house would buchlo down to it and work this week it would bo In n position to toll by the latter part thereof whether it could adjourn In tho middle of tho following week. He warned the houso that If It fixed this dato for adjourn ment thoro could be no moro houso bills lifted from thn general fllo and that tho lower houso would havo to confine Itself to senato bills. This nrgumont of tho mombor from Richardson hnd its offoct and when other members who hnvo Hills thoy wish to consider camo to his support the report of tho conference com mlttco was laid on tho tnblo, whoro It can bo tnkon up any tlmo in tho future when tho houso desires. Commission Form of Government. 'flu; apodal commlttco appointed to cousldor and roport on tho best form ot a commission form of government for cities of over 5,000 Inhabitants recommended tho pnHBiigo of S. F. 312, by Rauuiug of Cass, and rcoiiiineud ed tliopassnpo of S. F. 310, by Tan nor of Douglas, to npply only to tho city of South Omaha. Tho Skllcs bill, S. F. 305, wub commended, but tho committee doubted Its constitution ality. Supreme Judge Plan Opposed. Considerable opposition to tho pro poped plan for non-partisan Biipromo judgos In Ncbruskti hns nrison In tho leglBlatuie, especially over tho pro posed election of tho judges' by dis tricts. That Judgon of tho supremo court, If elected by districts, will represent those districts Instead of the state at largo 1h ono of tho argu ments made agaliiBt tho proposed de parture from present conditions. Apportionment. Apportionment yeoins to bo about tho only important question upon which tho present hossIoii of tho leg islature has mndo no decision of nny kind. Tho I'lacok legislative bill, which has passed tho sonnto for leg islative redisricting, 1b now boforo tho house, hut will probably bo ma terially changed buforo It goos through, Tho republicans nro not pleased with It and will probably do their best to mako changes in tho bill beforo It becomeH n law. Tho Albert judicial apportionment hill is also through tho senato, but Is of less Im portance politically. Senate Work Well Advanced. Tho bonato has Its work pretty well In hand. With its thirty-three men it can grind out Immousoly moro than the house. The lntter branch will probably hold night session In ordor to hurry legislation. Brown and Sclleck havo gone on rec ord as favoring a strong medical de partment at tho university, that de partment to bo maintained whoro it can recolvo tho greatest benoflt. Sen ator Selleck Is willing to trust the Judgment of tho board of regents, wliU'.i made Its recommendations. ACCEPTS OLLI8 BILL Lower House Refuses to Change One Word. Stoo,k yardB were tho storm center for a whllo In tho house. Tho dis turbance camo with tho messago of tho governor vetoing Hie Tuylor-Lolo-zal Btock yardB bill and closed with advancement of tho Ollls bill to the third reading calendar without mak ing nny chnngo In tho measure what ever. This virtually ends tho long strugglo over stock yards legislation, ns tho Ollls bill will pass tho houso with llttlo opposition, whllo tho gov ernor intimated plainly enough In his messago that ho will sign it. In general, tho governor's objection to tho Tnylor-Dolczal bill Is thai by declaring tho stock yards to bo pub lic markets tho legislature- placed thom In a position whoro tho state railway commission could not oxer else jurisdiction over thom. Ho arg ued that tho commission wns created to reguloto common carriers and that It could not regulate any corporation or class of corporations not defined as common carriers. Tho roll call on reconsideration of tho Taylor-Dolezal bill to dotormlno whether 11 should pass over tho gov ernor's veto wis taken In tho nftor noon. Tho bill failed to rocelvo tho noccssary sixty votes, thrco-ftfths of tho membership of the house, and was therefore declarod lost. Follow ing that an attempt was mndo to nmend tho Ollls bill to mako It con form partially to tho Taylor bill, but this wns defeated. Tho Ollls bill was then recommended to pass with scarcely any opposition to It. Somo of tho opponents of the Ollls bill havo uncovered what thoy allcgo to bo a serious joker In tho bill, ono Which will cost the shippers of tho stato thousands ot dollara. This jok er, thoy say, Is In uniting tho storage pon department and tho switching de partment of tho stock yards under ono head as common carriers. If the supremo court holds this Is valid, thuy say that It will mean that ship pers must pay directly tho switching charges that aro now paid by tho de livering railroads. TIiIb nmounts to $1 n car. Tho governor In his veto expresses his Idea that both depart ments of tho stock ynrds business can bo classed togother. On this point he says: "I wish, however, In this connection to say that it Is my opinion that any stock yards or public market that oporatos a railroad which Is a part and parcel of said yard or market and Is essential to Its operation in the per formance of its duties, then In thai cuso the wholo thing should be con sidered together "as ono enterprise. In my opinion tho ontlro subject can bo defined by tho legislature ns a common carrlor nnd by proper statute brought under tho regulation of tho railway commission. This mensuro in question, in effect, plainly declares tho stock yards aro not common car riers by defining thom to be public mnrkotfl." Tho house, following tho nctlon of tho previous day, put tho Ollls bill through by a voto of 71 to 21. This will leave the mock ynrdB law up to the govornor and in Hpjto of tho asser tion by Taylor, nuthor of tho Taylor Dolozal bill that was votood, tho gov ernor Is not oxflcctod to show nny aversion to making It a law. Tho op position to the bill did not manifest Itself bucauso It could do nothing. The Medical School. UiiIosb thoy chnngo tholr attitudes, oxprcascd u short tlmo ago, mom hers of the LancuHtor county delega tion will not offer tho opposition to tho university medical school that was displayed by tho Lincoln con tingent In tho houso. Both Senators Cuts Maximum $100,000. A 1100,000 cut has been made In tno maximums of tho funds proposed by house roll No, CI, the Onmha char tor bill, Tho reductions woro made in tho various funda by agreement after consultation with jobbers, and taxation. Aldrlch Doubts Legality. Although doubtful of tho bill's con stitutionality. Govornor Aldrlch has signed II. It. No. 107, by Housli, to prohibit gift enterprises und the using of trading stumps. Before do ing so, ha hold a hearing und listened to objections mado by several mer chants and ittorneys roprosontlng doalors in various lines, Fault of Buildings. Tho commlttco on reform schools, asylum for feeble minded and homo for tho friendless lllod a roport fn tho senate finding serious fault with tho condition of buildings, old nnd now, at tho Instltuto for tho feeble minded youth at Beatrice Tho roport was laid over. The Ad Club Bill. Tho special committee composed of Senators Tlbbots, Sollock nnd Ban ning, to pick out tho best commission plan bill thoy could obtnln nnd report It to tho senate, hns resulted In tho reporting of senato fllo No. 213, with a fow minor amendments. This Is the Ad club bill. Judicial Bills. Both pending Judicial bills woro recommended to pass by tho houso commlttpo of tho wholo. Theso nro the Loo non-partlBnn judiciary bill and tho Juni'kenbiiBh bill providing for election of supremo court Judges by (llstrlctH and for an Intermediary court of appeals. Tho voto on both bills was almost a sttuight party lino up. On tho Leo non-partisan Judiciary bill tho voto stood GO to 42 with olght abaont. Hnrdln was tho only repub lican voting for tho bill, whllo throe democrats wero against tho measure to$ MONEY THAT IS WELL SPENT Insurance Companies Could Not D Better Than Seek to Improve Dwelling Placet. The groat life insurance compaaie' have been bestirring themselves la tho Inat two or three eara and look ing Into the subject of how and way; longevity la Increasing and how it oaa bo made to increase still further. Thoy havo found that more people reach forty-five years ot age than1 over beforo in the history of the' world, but that they die faster afterj forty-five than they ever did before.' The high pressure of modern life, thoy say, is to blame for this as wellj as for the tremendous lnorease of In sanity. Although human life Is lengxheBlnr bo much the mortality tables upon1 which tho Insurance companies baae the premiums they charge their cli ents are more than fifty years old. Nearly halt the population ot the United States Is Insured and the com panies are reaching out after the other hair. Many plans have been devised for the lengthening of the lives of tho policy holders so that' they may pay premiums the greatest possible number of years. Most of thoBO plans have been along tho llnee of tho prevention of tuberculosis and' other prevalent diseases, but none ofj them has boon carried out except la theory as yet. It Is safe to say, how ever, that if tho great Insurance com panies, with the incalculable sums of monoy that they control, should take up seriously tho Question cf purifying and battering the cities in which, tholr policy holders llvo they would! speedily got tholr investments back many times over through the In-1 creased Income In tho village of Bournvlllo, a suburb of Birmingham, England, the death rate is less than' half what It Is in Birmingham. The village is owned and kept sanitary by a great manufacturing concern that1 gives employment to its inhabitants and spends money In koeplng them housed and clean purely as a business investment. PROPER TREATMENT OF TREES -Q' - .X-tT .... .. U Much Injury May Be Done by" Inju" 1 dlclouo Application of Vari ous Substances. It requires protty close observa tion and thorough understanding of conditions In ordor to distinguish gas poisoning from some other typeB of Injury which aro sometimes likely to arise. For example. In the gypsy moth district about Boston, the trunks of many troos havo been treat ed with crude oil and various other substances which aro exceedingly In jurious to trees. Crude oil or kero sene, when sprayed on the bark of a tree, will penotrato the bark and kill the cambium, and theso substances will also penotrato tho wood to some extent. Unloss one is perfectly famil iar with tho characteristics of trees poisoned with gas, It would be a very easy matter to confound theso two claBsoB of InJurioB. In both casern the bark becomes Ioobo and falls off the tree very quickly. From careful ob servations of the trunks of trees, however, the effects of crude oil can bo generally distinguished from those caused by gas by one who is familiar with theso characteristic Injuries. Would Add to New York Parks. Anothor Important office of the pro posed park and parkway system sug gested for New Fork would bo to pro tect tho great bridges, says the Sun of that elty. The apace under and for somo 200 feet each sldo of tho brldgo approaches should be Included In tho park space and should bo free of buildings. A comparatively small con flagration along that part of the Bast river containing the approaches of tho Williamsburg, Manhattan 'and Brook lyn bridges might destroy all thrco of theso bridges. In such a case tho loss to the pec plo In business, tlmo and situation would probably bo greatly in excess of tho aotual money value of tho de stroyed bridges. Tho largo public buildings should bo protected In the same way, and all futuro schools, etc., should bo located along tho lino of tho park system. Although cities cannot bo built to order to definite ideals, much can bo done to improve those that havo been handed down to us. Park Engineers. The engineer should bo ono who can cut looso from exact lines and grades when, by an adaptation of ex isting circumstances, an artlstla et feet can bo produced or a saving mado. This is especially Important In constructive work. Whllo a good onglnoor ennnot know too muoh about horticulture, ho should, at least, know trees und shrubs fairly well, and have a knowledge ot their soil require ments, Beating the Enemy. A Lovell, Wyomlngmerchant has a halt page advertisement In a looal paper stating that any one conteaplat-' Ing sending an order tq a mall order houso can, It they will come Into kit tore, get the order filled attae price and on the use teraa a iul -J .Vl l "SI V 4 I N .ii .. 1 ,&