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EVERY DAY IS THE FOURTH THESE DAYS.
—Chopin In 8L Louis Star.
CARR A WAY’S GRAND
GEYSER CASCADE
A Fourth of July Story.
From the Philadelphia Press.
“Uncle Major,” said Jack as he and
Mollie helped the major to remove his
hat and coat, ‘do you think there’s
much danger in little boys having fire
crackers and rockets and pinvvheels?”
"Or in little girls having torpoters?”
put in Mollie.
"Well, I don’t know,” the major an
swered warily. "What does your papa
say about it?”
“He thinks we ought to wait until
we are older, but we don’t,’ said Jack.
"Torpeters never sets nothing afire,”
said Mollie. '
"That’s true,” said the major kindly;
"but, after all, your father is right.
Why, do you know what happened to
me when I was a boy?”
"Haven’t an idea,’ said Jack.
"You burnt your thumb,” said Mob
ile, ready to make a guess at it.
“Well, you get me a cigar, and I’ll
tell you what happened to me when I
was a boy just because my father let
me have all the fireworks I wanted,
and then perhaps you will see how
wise your father is in not doing as you
wish him to.”
Jack readily found the desired cigar,
while Mollie brought the major a
match, after which he settled down
comfortably in the hammock and
swinging softly to and fro, told his
storv.
“My dear old father,” said he, "was
the most indulgent man that ever lived.
He'd give me anything in the world
that I wanted whether he could afford
It or not, only ho had an original sys
tem of giving which kept him from
being ruined by indulgence of his chil
dren. He gave me a Hudson river
steamboat once without costing him a
cent. I saw it, wanted it, was begin
lng to cry for it, when he patted me
on the head and told mo I could have
It, adding, however, that I must never
take it away from the river or try to
run it myself. That satisfied me.
"All I wanted was the happiness of
feeling that it was mine, and my dear
old daddy gave me permission to feel
that way. The same thing happened
with reference to the moon. He gave
it to me freely and ungrudgingly. He
had received it from his father, he
said, and he thought he had owned it
long enough. Only, he added, as he
had about the steamboat, I must leave
it where it was and let other people
look at it whenever they wanted to
and not interfere if I found any other
little boys or girls playing with its
beams, which I promised and have
faithfully observed to this day.
“Of course from such a parent a3
this, you may very easily see, every
thing was to he expected on such a
day as the Fourth of July. He used
to let me have my own way at all
times, and it is a wonder I wasn’t
applied. 1 really can’t understand how
it is that I have become the man I am
considering how I was indulged when
I was small.
"However, like all beys, I was very
fond of celebrating the Fourth, and,
being a more or less ingenious boy, I
usually prepared my own fireworks
and many things happened which
might not other wise have come to pass
if I had been properly looked after, as
you are. The first thing that hap
pened on the Fourth of July that would
a great deal better not have happened
was when I was—er—how old are you.
Jack?”
"Eight,” said Jack, “going on 9.”
"That was exactly the age I was at
the time,” continued the major bland
ly—"just nine to a day."
“Eight,” I said,” said Jack.
“Yes." nodded the major; "just eight,
but going en toward nine. My father
had given me $10 to spend on noises;
but, unlike most boys, I did not care so
much for noises as I did for novelties.
It didn't give me any particular pleas
ure to hear a giant cracker go off with
a bang. What I wanted to do most of
all was to get up some kind of an ex
hibition that would please the people
and that could be seen in daytime in
stead of at night, when everybody is
tired and sleepy. r?o instead of spend
ing any money on firecrackers and tor
pedoes and rockets I spent $9 of it on
powder and $1 on putty blowers.
“What I wanted to do was to make
one grand effort and provide passersby
with a free exhibitions of what 1 was
going to call ’Carraway's Grand Gey
ser Cascade.’ To do this properly I
set my eye upon a fish pond not far
from the town hall. It was a very
deep pond and about a mile in circum
ference. Putty blowers were then sell
ing at live for a cent, and powder was
cheap as sand, owing to the fact that
the powder makers, expecting a war,
had made a hundred tirrie3 as much as
was needed, and as their war didn’t
come they were willing to take almost
anything they could get for it. The
consequence was that the powder I got
was sufficient In quantity to fill a rub
ber bag as large as five sofa cushions.
“This I sank In the middle of the
pond, without telling anybody what I
Intended to do, and through the putty
blowers, sealed tightly together, end to
end, I conducted a fuse which I made
myself, from the powder bag to the
shore. My idea was that I could touch
the thing off. you know, and that about
sixty square feet of the pond would fly
up In the air and then fall gracefully
back again. If it had worked as I ex
pected, everything would have been all
right, but it didn’t. I had too much
powder. For a second after I had lit
the fuse there came a muffled roar, nnd
the whole pond in a solid mass, fish
and all, went flying up in the air
and disappeared. Everybody was as
tonished; not a few more were very
much frightened. I was scared to
death, but I never let on to anyone that
I was the person who had blown the
pond off.
How high the pond went I don’t
know, but I do know that for a week
there wasn’t any sign of it, and then,
most unexpectedly, out of what ap
peared to be a clear sky there came
the most extraordinary rainstorm you
ever saw. It literally poured down
for two full days, and, what I alone
could understand, with it came trout
and sunflsh and minnows, and, most
singular to all but myself, an old
scow that was recognized as the prop
erty of the owner of the pond sudden
ly appeared in the sky falling toward
the earth at a fearful rate of speed.
When I saw the scow coming I was
more frightened than ever, because I
was afraid It might fall upon and kill
some of our neighbors. Fortunately,
however, this possible disaster was
averted, for it came down directly over
the sharp point lightning rod on the
tower of our public library and stuck
there like a piece of paper on a pin.
“The rain washed away several acres
of cultivated farms, but the loss of
crops and fences and so forth was
largely reduced by the fish which came
with the storm. One farmer took a
rake and caught 300 pounds of trout,
forty pounds of sunflsh, eight turtles
and a minnow in his potato patch In
five minutes. Others were almost as
fortunate, but the damage was suffi
ciently largo to teach me that parents
cannot be too careful about what they
let their children do on Independence
day.”
"And weren’t you ever punished?”
asked Jack.
"No, Indeed," said the ma.ior. “No
body ever knew that I did it, because
I never told them—in fact, you are the
only two persons who have ever heard
about It, and you mustn’t tell, because
there are still a number of farmers
about that region who would sue me
for damages In case they knew that I
was responsible for the accident.”
July 4 a Slaughter Day.
Pearson's for July: That the Fourth has
developed Into a day to be feared as much
as honored Is a fact realized by the saner
men and women of the country.
The following table ahows the Fourth
•f July casualties of 1903 and 1904, the only
two years for which statistics have been
gathered from the country as a whole:
1903. 190-1.
Died of tetanus . 406 91
Died from other causes. GO 92
Total of dead . 466 183
Lost flight of both eyes . 10 19
Lost sight of one eye . 75 61
Lost arms, hands and legs_ 54 61
I»st one or more fingers. 174 208
Other Injuries .3.670 3.637
Injured, not fatally .3,983 3,986
. Total dead and Injured.4,449 4,169
A Torpedo Hunt.
For the torpedo hunt the hostess has
previously opened and hidden twelve pack
ages of torpedoes. Each player receives
a belt from which hangs a little cartridge
bag made of khaki or duck. A strip of
khaki twenty-eight inches long and six
inches wide 1f> folded and stitched for the
belt. It may bo fastened with ball and
socket fasteners. A square bag of the
khaki. 7 by 5 Inches, Is then attached to
the right side of the belt. From low limbs
of trees, among the roots and shrubs and
ledges of the piazza the treasures are
gathered and subsequently fired oil.
Papier IVlache Fireworks.
Fireworks In papier mache and In bon
bons are better than -ever and wonderfully
true to life. Pull the fu.-e of a g'ant fire
cracker and off comes a iid disclosing oost
lv bonbons. A box which oerfcctly repro
duces the package In which torpedoes are
sold opera to disclose sweetmeats done up
In tri-colored tissue paper, just as the
giant torpedoes are wrapped. These are
especially suited to children's parties.
THE FIRST FOURTH
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
“On the Fourth of July, 1899,” writes a
soldier who was with General Otis in Ma
nila on that day, “the main part of the
American troops were away In the interior
of the Philippines, strung out on long lines
in front of an active enemy. All our out
posts were close to the native camps. Not
only the men on post and in actual touch
with the enemy, but the reserves as well,
were under strict orders to be ready at a
minute’s notice to meet an attack, Fourth
or no Fourth. These orders were obeyed.
By the way, up In San Fernando General
Young’s men were treated to a Fourth of
July salute from across th-e lines. The
Filipinos opened a fusillade about sun
down and outclassed all the fire cracker
fiends of Manila in getting up a celebx'a
tion racket.
“However, all over the islands, even in
the Isolated districts covered by our troops
in the Viscayas—that is, in Cebu, Negros
and Panay, where the garrisons were but
handfuls in comparison to the natives un
der arms or prepared for war—the holiday
was formally observed.
“When the day was officially ushered
in by the bugle notes of the army reveille
I the regimental bands along the miles and
miles of camps, a perfect girdle across
Luzon and the Viscayas, played ‘The Star
Spangled Banner.’ At xioon, when the
guns of the Sixth artillery tnundered the
national salute on the Luneta at Manila
and the warships in the harbor and along
the coast echoed in response, the field bat
teries of the army all over Luzon swelled
the salvos; so, too, in Negros and Panay
, and in the robber infested mountains of
Cebu. And to make the soldiers on routine
duty feel that they were Columbia’s chil
dren as well as her bodyguard every man
had an extra good dinner, served with the
best delicacies the camp and the available
markets afforded.
i. iJv u>3v.uiia, niutii uiigiu, uc uancu uiv
Broadway of Manila, although it Is a very
narrow street in point of fact, was alive
with bunting. Every flag that had a
mission in the Philippines was in
evidence along the Escolta—Old Glory
bunting. Every flag had a mission in the
here, there and everywhere, the
union jack ditto, then the red,
white and black standard of the German
fatherland, alternating with andpeacofully
caressing the tricolor of Da Belie France;
Spain’s flag wfa« in the display and waved
as proudly as ever. There were flags, too,
of the yollows and flags of the blacks—all
flags but Aguinaldo’s. But if Aguinaldo’s
standard was missed by any one on the
Escolta that day the disappointed indi
vidual didn’t let his neighbor know it.
“The Luneta was the scene of the- real
show. The Luneta of Manila is a crescent
shaped plaza overlooking the beach. There'
the bands play for the populace, and there
all the parades and public demonstrations
are held. It was crowded like a country
fair ground on prize day.
“On the Luneta were held the formal
exercises, without which no Fourth of
July celebration is complete. School boys
in holiday attire gathered around the band
stand made the most picturesque feature
of the scene. There was a swarm of. them
in clothes of variegated hues—Filipinos
and Japs and Chinese, trained to sing
patriotic songs in English.
"At first the school children wrere timid,
like average American children unused to
appearing in public. They began with
‘America,’ then struggled through ‘Hail
Columbia’ and ‘The Red, White and Blue.’
The band played popular airs between tho
songs. Finally, when the enthusiasm was
verging on the bursting point, the little
ones gave their masterpiece, ‘The Star
Spangled Banner.’ Some of the im
promptu choruses at home would have
been put to the blush by that performance
on the Luneta. The soldiers cheered as
only soldiers can when 10,000 of them let
their lungs loose; llags waved all over the
plaza, and even old ocean became patriotic
and lashed the beach with great waves
like some monster eagle flapping his
wings in a frenzy of delight. This was the
climax. After that Uncle Sam’s celebra
tion dominated Manila. The transplanted
holiday was a ‘go!’ ’’
The Republic’s Success.
From Daniel Webster’s Address in Con
gress, July 4, 1851.
I now do declare, in the tace of all tho
intelligence of the age, that, for the period
which has elapsed from the day that
Washington laid the foundation of this
capitol to the present time, there has been
no country upon earth in which life, liber
ty and property have been more amply
and steadily secured or more freely en
joyed than in those United States of
America. * * * Who is there that can
stand upon tho foundation of facts, ac
knowledged or proved, and assert that
these our republican institutions have not
answered the true ends of government be
yond all precedent in human history?
WHAT WE EAT
FOR REAL FOOD
Astounding Exposures of Im
purities Made in the
U. S. Congress.
HAS SNEEZELESS PEPPER
Olives in Machine Oil and Mocha Cof
fee from Brazil—Pure Poison to
Preserve "Fresh” Meats—Won
ders of Adulteration.
Chicago, June 20.—A Washington spe
I clal to the Tribune says:
The following comprised a portion of
the remarkable exhibit made to the
house of representatives today on the
opening of the debute on the pure food
bill:
Pepper berries made out of tapioca
colored with lamp black.
Preserved cherries first bleached
with an acid and then colored with
poisonous aniline dye.
Fancy liquors manufactured from
ethyl alcohol and a chemical filler.
Mocha coffee from Brazil.
Italian olive oil from Mississippi.
Manufactured glucose honey with
bees in it.
Breakfast foods which weigh less
than their pastboard covers.
Representative Mann was the show
man and he had an Interested audience.
Amazement and disgust were plainly
marked on faces of statesmen as they
eagerly leaned over their desks and
watched the Chicago representative
demonstrate the downright necessity
for a national pure food law by means
of scores of packages, cans, and bot
tles, the peculiarities of which were
elaborated with extraordinary skill and
In a way to insure passage of a pure
food bill In some shape within the next
two or three days.
Desk Like a Grocer's Counter.
It was late In the afternoon before the
pure food bill was taken up at all, and
Mr. Mann, as chairman of the subcom
mittee, had two hours in which to open
the general debate. He made use of
I the opportunity with marked success.
A pall- of tables, Just In front of the
! speaker's chair and below the range of
' the clerks, were povered with a strange
I assortment of food and drink and drugs
i which had been gathered in painstaking
lawyer-like fashion for months. The
[ samples were used to Illustrate In a
general sort of way the necessity for a
pure food law.
Before the debate began many of the,
' members examined the explanatory
tags on the samples and were so fa
miliar with the subject that when Mr.
Mann began his Illustrated lecture after
half an hour of general talk the seats
, began to fill up, and the house, which
! had been empty when he started talk
ing, soon contained much more than a
quorum, and both parties were repre
sented In about equal proportions, a
compliment to the ability of the speaker
j quite as much as to the Importance of
l the subject.
! It must be admitted In all that has
been written about the necessity of a
national pure food law there has been
nothing which In directness of logic
approaches the practical demonstra
tion made by the house committee on
Interstate commerce, with the Chicago
representative as the principal demon
strator.
Scatters "Pepper;” Not a Sneeze.
I Reversing the method of a sleight of
hand performance, Mr. Mann read cir
culars offering for sale a certain grade
. of adulterant which could be used to
I produce pepper or almost uny other
of the spices with some slight modi
fications. A package was opened In
full view of the house and a handful
of bogus pepper was slowly poured
• upon the congressman’s desk. Mem
bers In the vicinity started back In
: dismay to avoid an attack of sneezing.
| “Don’t be afraid," said Mann. "It
won't hurt you. It's called pepper, but
It's nothing but ground olive nuts."
I And then he went on to say the
! committee had found that spices were
quite generally adulterated, and that
i In fact It was difficult to find a pure
article. He convulsed the house when
he read a price list of adulterants
Showing they were offered to the trade
at $20 a ton in five ton lots, and that
at that rate they were guaranteed to
' moke the finest black pepper, which.
as every one knows, Is sold by the
j ounce. Then It was that the explana
tion came that even the pepper berry
was being imitated generally by a clev
I erly contrived manufacture of tapioca
I colored with lamp black. This will be
j bitter news to a good many thousand
| people who have Invested In Individual
I pepper grinders with the idea that In
' that way they were securing an abso
' lutely pure spice.
I When It came to handling the sam
[ pies on the table the house, of course,
| was Intensely Interested and members
! shouted “Down In front” as if they
' were at a theater.
Cherries Fair But False Shown.
Possibly the most striking demon
stration was a beautiful bottle of red
cherries. It was explained that these
cherries, which originally had been
green, were bleached out white by the
use of a powerful acid and then had
been colored brilliant red by the use
; of aniline dye, which of course Is a
i powerful and in fact deadly poison If
used In large quantities.
To complete the demonstration and
co shock the members Into remem
brance of their responsibility to the
people, Mr. Mann exhibited a cotton
j cloth colored to brilliant red like the
■ cherries from dye extracted from the
j Juice In the bottles.
There were half a dozen cans of sup
' posed olive oil. Several of them bore
| apparently Identical labels, and yet one
‘ would be genuine and the other coun
i terfelt. In many cases the counterfeit
j war merely good American cotton seed
oil, which makes a perfectly satlsfae
j tory dressing for salad, and Is abso
lutely harmless, but which costs about
I one-fourth as much as real Italian oil,
and less than one-fourth as much as
' California oil. One of the bogus
| samples. It was asserted, was part of
i a lot which had been used regularly
; by the Union League club In Philadel
phia.
Olives in Machine Oil.
Another olive oil fraud, which was at
tractively put up, actually contained
machine oil, and yet It has been sold
i extensively In the American market as
the Imported article.
Among other curiosities was a bottle
bought In the open market and sup
posed to contain the clearest honey. The
manufacturers of this sweet fraud, in
order to fool the public, had Inserted
a real bee In the bottle to give the Im
pression It had arrived there by mis
take. Yet whole mess was un
adulterated aJCOse, and probably was
never nearer a hive than some great
ten story factory In New York or Chi
cago. Glucose, of course, Is not a bad
thing nor is it unhealthy. The only
deleterious substance in the bottle was
the be*, but It was put in to com
plete the fraud.
And then the Chicago representative
expatiated on the virtues of a preserv
ative for meat which manufacturers
guaranteed would work the same as
the stuff used In great packing houses.
It was said It has been used exten
sively by the smaller packers and by
retailers who found their meat liable
to spoil for want of cold storage.
Unsafe for Human Food.
It was given the suggestive name of
"freezum," or something like that. Mr.
Mann admitted the stuff would pre
serve meat to a certain extont, as It
was claimed it would do, but he In
sisted the preservative Itself was ac
tually poisonous. It was made of sul
phate of soda with red coal tar dye
and could not be used safely upon hu
man food.
One of the things which the pure
food bill, as reported to the house, alms
to do Is to put a stop to short weights
and short measures. It requires that
canned goods and similar articles,
which are so put up they cannot bo
measured at the time of retail sale,
shall contain on tho label nn approx
imate statement of tho actual weight
or measure at the time they were put
up. This amendment was offered by
Mr. Mahn himself In committee, and
he naturally fortified himself on this
subject, and to good purpose, because
the canneries all over the United States
have been opposing this particular
amendment with great vehemence.
They havo Insisted vegetables and
fruit vary In weight according to cli
matic and seasonal influences, and i(
would ho unfair to require them to des
ignate an exact weight for their cans
without some allowance for natural
shrinkage or variations In weight duo
to the different character of vegetables
and fruit at different times and under
different conditions.
Local Grocer Is Shown Up.
To meet this argument Mr. Mann over
whelmed the house, much to Its delight,
with a whole series of cans of fruits and
vegetables. They were of all sizes and
weights and the climax was capped when
three cans, purchased at a local grocery
and not even unwrapped, were put on tho
scales and found to vary by as much as
half a pound, although purporting to bo
of the same size. In line with this was a
dramatic demonstration when the Chicago
puro food expert held up before the house
a bottle supposed to contain a quart of
vinegar and slowly poured It Into a largo
graduated glass.
"There's where It Is," he said, Indicating
with hls finger the top line of vinegar In,
the beaker, “and there Is where It would,
bo If It was a quart,” as the finger movedi
two or three Inches upward, and the house
roared Its applause at tills clever and In
stantaneous proof of petty fraud.
"It Is the department stores and mall
order houses," said the demonstrator,
"which make profit from short weight
cans and undersized bottles. We are seek
ing to protect the legitimate grocer and
the honest canner from men who are will
ing to make money by depriving people of
things thoy think they are getting. AH
we urge is that an approximate weight or
measure may be put upon each one of
these packages, and then, If tho public
chooses to buy a smaller package at al
smaller price, It may do so, hut the manu
facturers and dealers must not any longer
deceive tho people as to how much they
are buying.”
tsreaKTasz r-ooao a ueiusion.
On the tables where Mr. Mann, ably butt
silently assisted by Mr. Stevens of Minne
sota, acted now as groceryman, now as
druggist, and now as bartender, there
w'ero a dozen or more packages of break
fast foods with their familiar labels. A
reforence to table weights and skillfull
dropping of packages upon a balance scalo
in front of him enabled Mr. Mann to show
that in a great many cases the public paid
full price for an abnormal amount of
pasteboard box. In scarcely any case did
the prepared food weigh twice as much as
the box, and in many Instances food and
package were In nearly equal proportion.
Everybody knew, as Mr. Mann stated,!
that about 25 per cent, of all the coffee
used in the United States is sold as a
mixture of Java and Mocha. He wus pre-i
pared to show from official figures that
while he used last year more than a billion,
pounds of coffee, and while about 250,
000,000 pounds wero supposed to bo
Mocha and Java, there were actually irai
ported into this country last year only a
fraction over 2,000,000 pounds of Mocha and
10,000,000 pounds of Java, or approximately
less than 13,000,000 pounds, or only 5 per
cent, of the popular blend. It is stagger
ing to know 95 per cent, of the people who
think they drink Mocha and Java every
day have been deceived, and yet the facts
seem to be rather plain.
Demonstration Amazes Members.
Figures like these, however, although
ordinarily impressive and convincing, did
not attract so much attention In the house,,
because the members were so absorbed in
the practical demonstration of the extent
to which fraudulent manufacturers of food
products have been willing to go in the
way of swindling the public.
Only two of the twelve hours allotted to
the pure food bill wero U3ed up today.
There is a disposition in the house
to amend the bill materially and It Is liable
to be pretty badly patched up by the time
It gets Into conference, which will be eom^
time next w'eek.
congressional Mnxieiy.
Washington, June 23.—Debate on
pure food bill in the house proceeded
smoothly until Mann, in charge of tho
bill, offered a committee amendment
that the time a package was put up
must be on the container together with
the weight or measure on the outsido
of the package.
A dozen members were on their feet
immediately, "Mr. Chairman" being
heard all over the house.
Sherman of New York offered an
amendment, in substance striking out
the time provision. Sherman said that
under the penalty provided the weight
and measure, if stated, must be cor
rectly stated, which he argued was
very difficult. lie said this was a most
serious question, involving as it did
vast interests, and it should not be
hastily considered.
Clark of Montana wanted to know if
it was true that quart and pint bottles
were one drink short.
"I do not know as to that," said Sher
man, "the gentleman is evidently talk
ing on the product of corn grown in his
district. 1 am talking about fruits and
vegetables."
The sundry civil bill was sent to con
ference today in the house, the con
ferees being Tawney of Minnesota,
Smith of Iowa and Taylor of Alabama.
The house adopted the conference re
port on the District of Columbia ap
propriation bill, which passes tne
measure.
The conference report on the post
office appropriation bill was adopted,
which passes the bill.
Coudrey Gets Seat.
The house unanimously adopted tho
report of tho committee on elections
that Ernest E. Wood was not elected
to membership in the house in the
Fifty-ninth congress from the Twelfth
congressional district of Missouri and
that Harry N. Coudrey was elected to
said membership. Coudrey took the
oath
The following bills were passed by
the senate today: Authorizing the pon
toon bridge across the Mississippi river
at Prairie du Chten, Wis., and permit
ting the building of a dam across the
Mississippi river in Sherboughe coun
ty, Mir
DEATH SENTENCE
FOR KILLING COW
Russian Peasants Emulate tha
High Officials in Adminis
tering Punishment.
BIALYSTOK JEWS FEAR
i
Panic Stricken Over Report of Re
sumption of Anti-Semitio Ex
cesses—Spectacular Robbery
of $125,000 and Recovery.
St. Petersburg, June 2G.—Dispatcher
from Blalystok report the citizens there
nre panic stricken owing to unconflrm
uble rumors that nntl-semltlc excesses
w'lll be revived today.
There Is a general display of Ikons
nnd crosses before the houses to pro
tect the inhabitants from attack, pa
trols nre to be seen everywhere and
strict martial law Is enforced. Threo
men, two of whom were Christians,
were recently shot for falling to obey
orders to halt.
In 8t. Petersburg a sergeant of po
lice was killed last night In the tur
bulent Nnrvn district.
Peasants In the village of Krutnya-i
gorki enraged at the killing of a cow
by two members of the police called a1
commune meeting and formally con
demned the two men to death and exe
cuted the sentence.
Spectacular Robbery.
Messengers on the Southwestern
railroad who were carrying $125,000
were attacked yesterday near Kiev by
four robbers, who killed one messenger
and wounded the second, seized tha
money and drove away at a gallop in;
a cab.
Two other messengers pursued thaj
robbers and wounded the robber car-'
rylng the money, with the result he fel»
from the cab and the money was re-(
covered.
Prince Kanveloff, an extensive landed)
proprietor and former officer of tha
guards, was killed on the streets of,
Ufa yesterday. The crime was com-l
mltted for political reasons.
PRIVATE CAR LINES
ARE ON THE WANE1
Armour and the American Transit!
Companies Said to Want to Sail
Coal Roads Correcting Abuses.
Washington, June 26.—The Inter-!
state Commerce commission has been)
Informed that Armour & Co. and the.
American Transit company are en-j
deavorlng to sell their private cars.
Members of the commission believe1
this is an Indication of the passage o£
the day of the private car. The senti
ment against these cars is growing*
stronger every day, the demand fo»
their regulation Is Insistent and the!
action of congress in the pending rail
road rate legislation promlsos to be
only a step toward more stringent con-,
trol. The advantage heretofore ob-|
talncd from the use of such cars cor-j
rectly is diminishing. It Is predicted)
that In ten years no coal concern wilL
have private cars.
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion has practically finished its inves-i
tlgntion of the railroads which carry!
bituminous coal to tidewater in the!
east. The commission considers itself
Justified In believing:
That there will be a more equitable!
distribution of cars to coal companies,! 1
which will mean in the future an ab
sence of discrimination for or against)
any concerns;
That there will be no repetition, fop]
some time, at least, of the colossal graft
such as was developed in the Inquiry)
Into the Pennsylvania system;
That, as a result of the report it will)
make to congress, legislation will bo!
enacted at the next session placing)
coal-carrying cars under the Interstate'
Commerce commission, as is done by
the pending railroad rate act In the.
vases of refrigerator and other private) j
cars.
l ne Pennsylvania ana naiumore anal 4
Ohio railroads announced at the clos® J
of the Interstate commerce hearing) I
that already they had taken measures, fl
to correct the evils growing out of tho 3
discrimination practiced In the dlstrl-! fl
button of their coal-carrying cars. Thai M
Baltimore and Ohio stated It was work-1 If
'ng out a system looking to the dally) fl
publication of their car distribution. Ati p
the first hearing of the commissions I
Chairman Knapp expressed a decided, 1
conviction that this distribution shouldi I
be made public. The Pennsylvania) i
has advised the commission It had put) 1
into effect a system of publicity. fl
The Investigation of the commission) fl
disclosed also that the system of rat-1 B
tng mines was wrong. fl
Evidence has been furnished that I
commission showing that the relations m
of the Union Pacific with various coat H
enterprises along its lines are such, fl
that they should be Investigated. It H
is proposed also to investigate the coali H
situation In Illinois. fl
In order to ascertain the facts with fl
•egard to other sections of the country; fl
and other roads than those which hav® fl
been under tire, it has determined to fl
appoint special agents who will have rfl
direct personal knowledge of local con- H
dltlons. _ fl
SINGER’S LEG BROKEN. H
Pauline Hall Is Seriously Injured in • H
Runaway. H
Yonkers, N. Y., June 23.—Pauline H
Hall, a well known comic opex-a singer. H
had her leg broken and otherwise waa Hj
bruised badly and shaken up in a run- flgf
away accident here. fl
Her sister, Miss A. Hall, also waa Bp
bruised, out her daughter, Pauline J, 111
and a girl friend escaped injury by flfl
lumping. H
Miss Hall is the owner of a beautiful fl?
team of Shetland ponies, which sh® |fl
drives fretiuently ip Yonkers. Whll® fl|
going over the crest of the hill near $flj
Mosholu, one of the traces broke, H?
i'rlghtenlng the ponies, causing them to H|
run away. _ flj
STICKNEY FOR THE LAW »■M
President of Great Western Stops El®
vator Rebating.
St. Paul, Minn., June 23.—President
Stlekney, of the Chicago Great West—
tin railway, formally announced that! |Bfl
the Great Western would stop th® BUI
pracilc 1 of granting the "grain elevator HU
rebates.” v^H
“These net rates,” said President! '^H
Stlekney, "will be the present rate%'Hp
less ihe 1 Vi cents per hundred welghtjj^H
so the actual rates will be the sain® Hi
a.s before, and the rate will be the sam® ^Hj
for Peavey &. Co. and for the Trans- H||
Mississippi Grain company, who n«H
reived this 114-cent rebate, as to any- Hlif
body else. This is tlie law and the laaftl
must he obeyed." jSffij