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THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEWS-JOURNAL , FRIDAY , AI'KIL 13 , 1910. The Two Dig Trust Cases. The two blggont trust CHHOS which the government IIIIH hi ought to a lioiul that against tlio HO called Standard OH trust and that against tliu tobac- to tumt have now been i ( 'assigned for argument by I ho United StatuH supreme premo court. .hiHtlco Uro\\or was one of tnu judges who listened to the ar gument on this CIIHO , and Ills death caused a loiiHslgnmeiil. A hlsloiy of I bo two big eases may not bo milliter- ostlng. Chronology of Standard Oil. 1&02. .John I ) . Rockefeller Htarted In the oil business with $1.000. ISiii" . Rockefeller became the own er of ii rellnery In Cleveland. 1STO. Organl/atlon of Standaid Oil coniiiny. ] ) of Ohio , by Rockefeller and olhers. 1871. South Iinpio\enient ciiinimny arranges for tobiitoH fioin rail loads. 1ST ! ) . Organls-allon of "Vllas-Kelth Chester Irust. " 1SS2. Orgnnl/atlon of so called "Standard Oil trust. " 1S90. Passage of Sherman antl trust act. 1SU1 ! . DlBBolutlon of "Standard Oil trust. " 1S9S ) . Reorganization of Standard OH company , of New Jeisey , as bold Ing company. lOOti. Filing of petition for dlsso lutlon of Standard. 1910. Clicnit comt at St. Louis de crees diHsolutlon asked for by govern ment. 1UO. ! A ] > pont to supieme comt o the United States. For years "Standard OH" has beei under the scrutiny of state and federal oral go\einments. During the las lour years litigation has engaged tin attention of the fedoial courts. Slnci Match II of this year , the snpremi court has weighed the controversy o these yeais. Now It is to be reargued The llrst gieat tight o\er the methods ods of the Standaid Oil interest wai directed against the Standard OH com pany of Ohio. As a result of the lltl Ration , this organization was dla sohed. The stock dilfted Into tin hands of trusts of one form and an other , and more litigation followed Then the Standaid Oil company o New Jersey was reorganized In 189 ! ! With Its capital stock of $110,000,001 ] It became the holding company ; tha la , it acquit cd the stock , of nlneteci other oil companies , which In tun contioiled a still larger number o companies engaged In vatlous brand es of the oil business. The task o lighting "Standaid OH" bad outgtowi the states and the federal governmen took up the cudgel. The bin can of coipoiations was 01 ganl/cd , and as its llrst assignment mulct took an investigation of th Standard Oil. "It t cached Into th vety vitals of the cotporation , " a < cording to the desciiptlon of that ii qulry given in comt by the Standard' counsel. Then In 11)00 ) , Justice Moody , noi of the Mipicme comt , then attorne general of the United States , dlrec ed the llling of a petition In the fe ( eial circuit court for the custom ills tilct of Mlssoml , for the dlssolutlo of the Standaid Oil company of Ne' ' Jersey , as a combination in testrair of Intel state tiade and a monopol ; all In violation of the Sherman ant trust law. The petition was loade with the ammunition collected by th states and by the bureau of corpon tions. John D. Rockefeller , William Rock < feller , Henry H. Rogers , Henry J Flagler , John D. Archbold , Oliver I Pa > ne and Charles M. Pratt wet named as individual defendants. Th Standard OH company of New Je sey beaded a list of 114 companie designated as "defendant corpora ions. " The hearing finally came on. Onl the Wateis , Pierce Oil company vva resident in the clicult , and the Stam ard denied the light of the comt t compel the other defendants , outsid the circuit , to appear In court , lost In this contention. Testimony vvji taken in Missouri and In New Yorl Finally , eaily In this year , over thrc years after the llling of the politic in the cltcult court , the four judgi who had been called In to pass on tl suit announced the decree of the com That deciee upheld neatly evei contention the government had mad It did , however , dismiss some of tl defendant companies. It decreed tin the leorganl/alion of the Stanard 0 company of New Jeisey In 1S99 co stltuted a combination and a conspl ncy in restraint of commetce among tl states and with foielgn nations , mid combination and conspiiacy to mono 1I7C that commerce In violation of so tlons one and two lespectlvely of tl Sheunan anti-trust act. The piincipal or holding compai was enjoined fiom dliecting the a fairs of the subsidiaij coiporation and the subsidiary corporation we piohibitcd fiom paving dividends the holding company The defendan were enjoined fiom engaging in intc state commerce , until the illegal coi bination was discontinued. Lest the defendants get mound tl decree In some manner the court e joined them from carrving the coi bination Into further effect either 1 the use of liquidating certiticates glvi to tiustees , or b > an agieement or r rangemont like that adjudged illega It did , however , grant permlssli specifically for the dlstilbutlon n ably to the shareholders of the ho ing company of the shares in the si sldlary corporations. Then the suit was brought to t supreme couit of the United States the appeal of the Standard. On : count of the great Importance of t case , It was advanced for an eai bearing. On March 14 of the present ye ; the final argument of the case 1 gan. It lasted three days. For t Standard Oil , the moat brilliant In yers obtainable pleaded its cau John G. Johnson , of Phlladolph beaded the list and associated w Ulm wore John C. Mllburn of N York , and D. T. Watson of Plttsburg. For the government , Attorney General - al WIckorHham In person and Frank I ) . KolloKg * St. Paul directed the light The government dvvcic upuu what It teimed the Standaid's enormous profits and high prices , the pipe lines as an aid to monopoly , numerous "con tracts In icstiuliit of trade , " uillioad tobatoK and dim t Initiations In connec tion with the alleged monopoly by the Standaid of inllioad luhilcatlon and \ailoiiH forms of "unfair methods of competition. " The clicult court bused Its decree on the single finding that the icoigan- l/atlon of the Standard Oil In 1899 v\as a violation of the Hheiman antl- ttust law. In Its fight before the su preme comt the government argued that even If this weic not a viola tion of the law , other acts weie. For Instance there had been a continu ing consplnioy to monopoll/.e the trade he government claimed. In support if this contention of existing nionop- > ly , It pointed to the finding of the clr- ult court to the effect that the Stand- ud ; fiom 1899 to 1907 : Produced and operated more than ) iie-lialf of all the tank cars used to [ Hstrlhulc Its products. Manufactured more than thicc 'ourths of all the crude oil refined n the United States. Transported more tln.n four-fifths of the petroleum deiived from the 'emisylvanla ' and Indiana oil fields. Marketed more than four-fifths ol all the Illuminating oil sold In the United States. Expoited more than four-fifths ol all the Illuminating oil sent fortl : rom the United States. Sold moie than four-fifths of all the mphtliu sold in the United States. Sold moio than nine-tenths of al lie lubilcatlng oil sold to tatlroad companies In the United States. Throughout the light the teorganl Ballon of 1899 was the storm-center and In defense of that action the le .nl . talent of the standatd dliected Its energy. The claim was set up that the reor ; anl/atlon of 1899 did not restralr trade by reducing competition , be cause "tho piopertlcs Involved In thli suit formed a non-competitive grotii prior to the pabbage of the Shermat act In 1890 and their transfe : to the New Jersey coiporation in 189 ! ( lid not alter their status or restrlc competition. " This same defense was made in tin clicult comt. That comt held tha the power of the piincipal compan ; after the tiansfer of 1S99 to fix tin pi ices at which the coi potation should buy and sell the articles ii which they dealt , the terms of the ! purchases and sales , their tales fo the tiansporallon of oil and Us pro ducts and all the Infinite details o their vast opeiations in which the ; might compete was greater , mori easily and quickly exeicised am hence moie effective than It couli have been In the bands of 3,000 seal tered stockholder. It hold that th corpoiatlons were potentially compel Itlvo If not active competltois. The government advanced the sam aigumcnt before the supieme courl as It had done before the circuit com I The Standard replied by contendln , that the doctrine ot "potential compc tltlon" would mean that one perso could he compelled to compete wit ! himself. The argument over the sul ject and the discussion of what cot stitutes a monopoly consumed man hours of the heating. As to Its monopolistic tendencies the Standard's attomoys enteied denial , but boasted of Its largeness as the natural development and om growth of business begun nearly fift > ears betoie. "liy untiring energy , with Inflnit skill , with abundant capital and th steady reinvestment of early profits , said Mr. Watson in his bilef prepare lor the court , "these men and their ai soeiales cieated out of an entirel new , unique and unprecedented pr < ductlon of crude oil , a new , unlveisall used and cheapest Illumlnant th woild has known. They sucreedec as if one bad developed unexpected ! a gold or diamond mine , and abut dant levenue legitimately beea.t. theiis. " The reply of the government to thl line of argument was summed up 1 one outburst of Mr , Kellogg in a < dressing the court , when he 3hou ed "They waved the black lla OV.E the land , as others had done over tli sea. " The Tobacco Case. In many ways the tobacco case vva similar ; in some respects dlffeiont. The .government's pioceedlng wr ngalnst the Ameiican Tobacco con mny and si\tv-tive allied concems an their ofllcets , all of them weie chaipe th foi ming and maintaining a truss The suit was based on allegatioi of violation of the Sheiman anti-Inn law and albo of borne of the provlsloi of the Wilson-Gorman tat iff law. Tl put [ lose of the government was 1 force the dissolution of the coinbln tlon and the destruction of what wi declaied to be a monopoly of the t bacco business In testraint of coi merce , not only In the United State but thiougliout a large pait of tl tobacco using world. Four judges sat In the heating the case in the trial comt , while thn of them ultimately found comnu ground for a verdict , they were : divided In their respective lines reasoning that each propounded : opinion of his own. In general terms the verdict w a declaration of guilt for a ntajorl of the corporations on the ground th they constituted a combination cc trary to the law , and while an Injui tlon against these combinations w granted there was no pronouncome on the subject of monopoly , which t ! government had especially sought obtain. i , The bill as to the United Gig stores company , a domestic corpoi tr tlon , was dismissed , as wore also t hills against the Imperial and British- American companies , English corpora tions , and their subtmllnnte American cotucriiH , notwithstanding the conten tion b > the government that the Cigar Stores company waa the retail Instru ment of the tiust In this country and the English companies , the foreign divisions of It. The dismissal In the case of the Cigar Stoics company was due to a fallmo on the pint of the clicult comt to find that theio had been anv exor cise of contiol over It by the tiust lestilctlng the fieedom of trade , and In the cause of the two foreign cor poi ations to the circumstance that the contiact for the distribution of for eign business was made in England. Trust Lost In Lower Court. Dlsregaiding the plea of the govern ment on the point of monopoly , the clicult comt adjudged the American Tobacco company ilnd many of the suboidlnatc general companies to bo parties to an unlawful combination ; to be each in Itself an unlawful com bination , and each to be a holder of shares In other companies. They wore enjoined generally from continuing In the comblnntlnii or from doing any thing In furtheiance of It , fiom engag ing In Inter-state and foreign com merce , and from acquiring the plants or business or exercising control over ssulng companies. The Issuing com- anlcs also were enjoined against per- iltting such control. The bills against 10 ofllclals of the various companies ho weio included In the original : > mplalnt were dismissed. Uoth the government and the to- iacco companies appealed the case o the supreme court the former be' auso of Hie failure to Include all 10 defendants in the prohibition and Iso because of the limited scope ol 10 v oi diet as to the others , and the ompanics , on the general ground that tote should have boon no verdict at 11 against them. The aigument of the case In the sit ionic court consumed three times as iiuch time as Is ordinarily allowed foi he prcfaentalion of cases. The gov > rnment , which was represented iti 10 hearing by Atlornev General Wick rsham and Special Assistant Attornej jcneial McReynolds , made the mosl weeping chatges conceinlng the com Inatlon. They bought especially tc ave the exempted otganbatlons In hided In the prohibition , declaring hat the Impel ial company and the liitish-Americnn company had been sc naiilpiilated as to piovide foi a com ilete monopoly and division of tin obacco business of the woild. An of 011 albo was made to have the ver let ot the lower court so extended as o have the entire combination de laied a monopoly In restraint o : lade. On behalf of the companies Ii kas contended that no effoit had beet nade by them to restrict the pie luction of tobacco or to work a hard hip to independent tobacco dealers. It was charged by the goveinmen bat ever since 1902 theie has been at ipportionment of the tobacco business at the world between the America ! ompanj and the Imperial companj ind a piactical monopoly of most o he important branches of the bus ! less. The Diltish-Ameiican companj s alleged to be an outgiowth of thli irtangement , that company bavin ; been organi/ed by the other two t < arry on the business outside of tin 'nited States and Great Biitain. 1 iv as especially contended that no judg ; nent would be effective that did no Iirohlbit the continued operation evei is purchasers in the United States. THE NO-TIP RULE A FAILURE. Walters in the Senate Restauran Have Found a Way Out. Washington , April 12. A dead sen ator Is valued at $7,1500 any way > oi Igure it. Quotations on live one vary. The senate always votes an extn year's salary to the family of a deai senator , besides paying all the funera expenses. Likewise employes of the caplto force all get an extra month's pa ; voted to them annually , making thel jear thirteen months for salary pui lo&es. Rut despite these little liberalltle the senate has gone on tecord agalns ipping. On every bill of faro in the senat icstaurant there now appears thl cgend : "Under the regulations of the set ate now in force , the wallet b of th senate cafe aie not permitted to n ceivo lips. " Theie was wailing and weepin nmong the negro waiters when th announcement was made. A few day ago a senator who insists upon goo service , said to his waller : "Geoige , do I nndei stand Iheio I no way I can lip you ? " "Oh , > es , sab , we've figgered It oi already , senatah , " teplled George. "What's the system ? " Geoige explained that the senalc was to go away and leave his chang as though ho forgot It. The negto vva to keep an eye on It and when ham ed to the senalor later he was lo dl claim ow nershlp. And on that basis the tipping reguli tlon has been rescinded. A LION IN HIS LASSO. Buffalo Jones Cables That He Rope the King of Beasts. New York , April 12. "Buffalc Jones , who has been toping wild an mals In Africa for months , sent th cable today from Nalrborl : "Lion roping successful. Everyboc1 well. " That means that the first wild lie over lassoed in the history of tl world has been tied up as easily i Texas cowmen rope steers. Jones he roped almost every kind of animal I Africa , but bo had not before tackU the lions. He was confident ho cou lasso a lion , however , as easily as tl . . quieter animals , and his cable todt o showed that he has been successful. THE SLIM FIGURE'S SECRET. Lie Down When You Put Corsets on , the Costumer's Advice. Paris , Apt II 11 ! . "Madam , ! f jou would be thin , lie down when you put on your coi sols. " This Is the advice of a Rue do hi Palx cosliimloi , who Is qualified to speak on the subjecl. Sltmnos.-i | j still all-fashionable for women and hips arc as much foi bidden as over. It Is as necessnij Indeed moie neces sary-lor a woman to have a slender appearance In the simple frock to to day as In the "tube" dioss. And this costumier , who lecoRiib.oj that the perfect-lilting corset is the first step toward the success of her modes , has discovered that if a wo man wishes to achieve the correct and most giacoful figure she must put on corsets in a tecumbont position. To bo able to do this she must He down also when being fitted for her corsets. When the body Is lying flat It Is nat urally narrower and Its weight Is not tin own on Hie hips. "I wish every woman would recog- nbe Hie impoilance of the fit of hot corsets , " the arllsle In dress said. "I have designed my own cot set and when I lit It on 1 request thai my costumer - tumor shall Ho flat for the operation. " The visitor suggesled Ihal the word "opeiatlon" in this connccllon vv as- good. "The bed ) Is Ihen In the best posl * tlon for obtaining the long , narrow line desired , " the coslumler continued "and when the wearer stands the same figure Is preserved. "I am quite conv inced that no cor set should be fitted on a woman in nn upright position. A woman , too should always put on her corsets when she dresses while lying Hat. " TO BAR THE ALIEN STARLING. The Government Believes the Bird at Great a Pest as the Sparrow. Washington , April 12. Neither Its 'oetlcal ' name nor Us beauty of shape ml plumage Is to save the Europeai tarllng , a destiuctlve , graln-eallnj lid , tiom Die list of undesliable I in ilgranls to this country. Along will .ho mongoose , the English spatiovv ml fruit eating bats , the starling is o he tefused admission at Amerkai oils. The lieasury depaitment has ust issued an older to that effect tc 11 customs inspectors. Di ought to this country some yonn go the bird spread south fiom New i'ork as far as Philadelphia and is loving wdstvvaid. Theie will be Iron jle , it is feaied , if the stalling gets nto Hie wheat belt. While the bin s not tioublesome in Europe , it lome , in New Zealand , Austtalia am ther coiinlilcs where it has beei ntrodnced it has turned into a pes' ' mil has been outlawed. VAS READY TO SWIM TO SITKA A Red Tape Tangle in the Governmen Service Disclosed by Old Letters. Washington , April 12. The red tapi ivhlch frequently binds ofllcials of tin government was disclosed a few day ! go in the treasury depaitment whei clerk in the revenue seivice cairn across correspondence between Lieu enant Richaul Sturtevant and tin hief of the service. Lieutenant Sturlevant , who is sill a revenue culler ofllcer , was stationei at Mobile a few years ago. One da ; iie received a telegram ordeiing bin o proceed forthwith to Silka , Alaska 'Foilhvvilh , " in the government message sago means take the earliest train Sturlevant was willing to obey th < order literallv , but being on a modes salary and the social dulies of hi station having eaten a bole in his su ] ily of ready cash , he wired the chle of the revenue service : "Telegram ordering me to Sllkr Maska , leeched. Please advance on month's pay in order that I may con : > Iy therewith. " The next day he received a tele gram reading : "Your telegiam received. Procee forthwith to Sllka , Alaska. " Slurlevant Ihen sent the follovvln message : "In compliance with orders to pri coed forthwith to Sltka , Alaska , at leaving lonight on foot for San Frat cisco. Upon reaching San Francisc will swim to Sltka. " Then he walled. That evening h received this reply : "Sublreasiirer at Mobile has been It stiucted to advance /ou sixty dayi pay. Ptoceed to Sltka , Alaska. " JOHN D. OVERLOOKED THIS. An Oklahoma Man's Scheme Has th Standard Oil Beaten a Block. Guthrie , Ok. , Apill 12. A Gutlul banker believes that the Imlt of big finance has been t cached in a schem proposed to him by an Oklahoma eager to join "get-rich quick" soclet ; These llgures are taken from the pie pcctus. An inveslmonl of ? 300 paid in I lliree slockholders , each holding on of the Ihree shares of the compan ; and three hundred geese at $1 eacl tolal , $300. The estimated productln is Ihree eggs a week from each gees making 900 eggs n week , 20,800 a yea and for Ihree veais ( the life of tl company ) , 140,000. None of the eggs are to be sold , hi all Incubated and hatched , and alloi Ing 40,000 for bad eggs , there wou bo a total of 100,000 goslings. 1 three years each goose would produi "conservatively , " three pounds i feathers , which at $1 a pound wou amount to $300,000. For 100,000 gooi livers would be received $00,000. E tlmatlng twenty buttons from eai geese bill , and the price of one coi n button , there would be $20,000 fro 2,000,000 geese bill buttons , whl from 100,000 marketed geese at $1.1 each would be derived the sum < $150,000. The operating expenses are es mated at $190,000 , to which should 1 added the $300 paid In by stockhol crs and Invested In geese eggs , mak ing the total outlay $190,300. The to tal receipts , ns onumotated , would be $5:10.000 : , making the enormous net piollts of $339,700 In three yeais , or an annual dividend of $37,711 for each stockholder. This scheme Is said to have been thought out b.v a man living In tow n who has devoted much time to the theoietlcal icsults of poultiy fann ing A HOAX MADE THE KAISER GRIN. "Captain Von Koepenlck , " V.'ho Perpe trated It , Is in New York. New Yoik , Apiil 1J. The man who made the whole world laugh at the expense of the Get man army , whose Joke , though it Involved the crime of lobbeiy , made the kaiser giln ami laus-ed him to pat don the n'lender be fete half his font yeais' sentence was horved Fiedeilch Willielm Volght , who posed as "Oup'nln ' Von Koopon- Ick" has eluded the I n'led Stairs iMinigiation authorities n it ) Is in Ntw York. Ills hope Is thai the United Stales authorities will smile at and forgive him as did the kaiser , and then let him appear either in vaudeville or In seiles of lectures. Volght was an old man when he .chleved his famous "coup. " He hud .erved . moie than twenty jears in piis- in for petty offenses. liy trade he was cobbler. He said he had decided .o lead an honest life In his closing , -ear.s. but always his pilson tecoid followed him to his undoing. Then , runk one night in a Invent , he slole captain's uniform , took a squad of .Ine soldleis and , after anesting the .nnyor and the tieasmer of Koepen- .ck , he lobbed the tieabtii.v of $1,000. When the hoax got out evety capl * .al In Em ope resounded with laugher - , er and when , three weeks later , . 'eight was anested , he became an nlernational hero. Wealthy women , ent him dainties , two offered to mar y him and a pilncess declared he hould bo pensioned. KERN NOT OUT FOR SENATOR. Former Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Won't Run. Indianapolis , April 12. John W , Kent , demociatic candidate for vice piesident in the last campaign , issued statement in which he lelterated Us Intention of not becoming a can jidnte foi Ihe United Stales senalc. Mr. Kent gives Ivvo teasons for his Jeleimination not to enter the race , The first is thai his business engage nenls and duty' to his family would irevent his making the campaign. His second icason he stales as foi lows : "I have incmred the displeasure ol coi tain poweiful inteiests , notably the political brewery interests , and my candidacy , if I were so sltualed that I could be a candidate , would doubt less piovoke a contest in some re spects similar lo that of two years ago when , tinder the cover of a socrel Imllot , Ihese inlet esls brought about my defeat. " CITIES ARE GOING TO DOGS. Joliet Man Favors Commission Plan ol Government to Cut Off all Waste. Washington , Apt 11 12. "Municipal oveminent in this country Is going to the dogs , and it behooves the American people to begin working oul remedy. At present the commis sion plan of government seems to offer for Ihe best promise of reform , ant hope to see it adopted generallj throughout Illinois and other stales. " Demonstrations Against Peru. Lima , Petti , April 12. Official lele giams received here slate that dom onstrallons hostile lo Peat and in ta or of military support of Ecuadoi continue at Uogola , Colombia. This country remains quiet , though volun teets daily offer Ihemselves to tin army and navy and donallons to tin war fund are received. It Is remarkci that the Spanish award settling tin boundary dispute between Peru am Ecuador may be iccelved by the gov eminent at any time. ItIs believe < If Peru's dispute over the provinces o Tacna and Arica can be setlled am Icably with Chile and thus Insure tin neutialily of the latler republic Peru's Iroublo with Ecuador can b > met without dltllculty. SKYSCRAPER BUSSES TO GO. Motors Will Replace the Plcturesqu Paris Vehicles. Pails , Apiil 12 Visltois to Pail next year will miss one of the mos characteiislic featmes of the cltj The old double decked omnibus Is I go Half of the horse busses vvhici fo.-meily plied the stteets have dlsai peared in the last two years and thos thai remain will be replaced wllhi : the next twelve months. The motor omnibus w ill be the pi Ii cipal vehicle of.streel tianspoitalloi bul even on Die "chug" lines Hie dot ble decked Is lo bo eliminated. It ha been decided thai Ihe horse-busses ar lee slow mid the twoslorled mote busses are lee heavy. The latter ar expensive to operate because of th weight and wear on Ihe axles. So Hi onlj busses which will be seen hot before long will bo the closed vehicle operated by motors. Meanwhile as a patt of the goner ; modernisation scheme , the number c trolley lines is to bo increased. Aftc a lively contest between opposing Ii terests the municipal council has vo ed lo allow Ihe City and Subttrba Electric Tram company to extend 11 trolleys to the Arc do Trlompho. Thl means that the antlqualed steam lln which defaces the Avenue de 1 Grande Armee Is to bo replaced. A far as possible the trolley posta wl bo made works of art Nobody but the men who profit froi the operation of the steam cars wl object to the electrification of this sy tern , but the passing of the old-llin busses will cause much regrel. Paris ians have a mortal fear of draughts In busses and Insist on keeping all the window H closed , oven In August. And the mini who has never viewed the promenade ttoin the top of a hoi so htm tmining fiom the Madelleno to the Itastllle has never leally seen the ( iiand Iloulevaids. THE SKATING BUBBLE BURST. But Not Before Chester Crawford Had "Clcnncd Up" In Europe. Patls. Apilt 12. The "Rollot SkatIng - Ing King" of Emopo. Cheater P. Ciavv- foid , foniioily of Topeka , Kan , has boon dethioned Ciawfoid and F. A. Wllklns of Llveipool. his paitner. have just tosigiiod as dlroctois of manof the companies which own a siting of thlity-thieo links tu-atlorod about In England and the continent. The "linking" boom has burst and companies me now being wound up with the same tapidity as they wore foi mod seveial months ago Rinks aio to let lo anybody who will have them. The stockholders of sixteen of the companies met on one day last week to discuss the situation and to Invite Crawford and Wllklns to present their teslgnatlons. A compailson of nolos showed thai the public had subscribed neatly $800- 000 at the time when Ci aw ford and Wllklns woie capitalizing their enter- piises and when the boom was at Its height. These Investments weio made on the strength of large divi dends paid by a few links. It de veloped also that Ciawfoid and Wll- klns had quietly sold out a majoiity 01 tbeli own abates at a huge ptolit befoio the other shaieholdois dlscov- eied thai Hie huge dividends were lee good lo lasl The Ivvo men received , in addition to their profits as piomoteis and man- ageis , and as a commission on skates impoitcd fiom America foi the sev eial links , salailes of $40 a week fiom eacli ot about twenty links. The companies paid the energetic dlrec- lois a total of about $800 a week , or $41,050 a vear to look after their af- faiis. When the "King" and his ally involuntaillv abdicated last week , Ihoy weie cul oil fiom access lo this royal ptiise. Ciawfoid is a son of L M. Ciawfoid , who owned thealeis in Topeka many yeais and was once manager of the Gillis thealei in Kansas City. Ho op ened a big link al Coney Island sov- ei al jeais ago and Ihe lad made money. Then ho extended his field of opeiations lo this side of the water ind wan the chief instiumenl in diiv- ng the staid and stolid Iliitisher "iol- er skating mad. " Ciawfoid hiied Tournament hall , In Jveipool , in September , 1907. In the list tvvonly-seven weeks Ihe receipls iggiegated neatly $73,000. Then ho seemed Exhibition hall , in Newcastle- Ht-Tyne and almost duplicated ills Jv ei pool success. After thai he In- .ailed . London. llo oigam/ea a new company and eased Olympla , the convention hall of Condon , for three months , agreeing .o pay a weeklj lental of $1,200. He aid a maple floor over the vast as- > embly area , spent a vast amount in lewspaper and billboard advertising , ind opened the doors of the biggest skating rink in the world. Figures which Crawford allowed to be piinted showed that in thirteen nonths 785,000 persons skated theie , [ laying neatly $193,000 for the privl ego. So he renewed the lease , gain- ng possession of Olympia from Do- ( .ember to Match during the next four years. Then be began organizing the itock companies and Investors flocked o him. A few of the rinks are still paving iiandsome dividends , but many of them have failed to realise the ex- icclalions of shareholders and Craw > ford and Wilkins' holdings in seveial cases ate said lo be llmiled lo n single share eacli now. The records ol Somerset house , London , with re gard to seven of Ihe companies show Ihat Crawford had 17,672 shares twc years , ago but that he retains enl > SO now. He disposed of 11,992 af ter the original allotment. In the same time the shares held by Wilkins decreased from 8,842 to 4,317. I3e tvv eon them the partners sold 10,51 'i of Iheir own shares in the seven com panics before the public discovered that links ate not a permanent ! ) jlelding gold mine. HE WHO FIGHTS IN PARIS. The Consequence May be Expulsior for an American. Paris , April U. Because he foughl and bested two Paris policemen , Ed gar MacAdams of Plllsbuig , Pa , f joung sculptor , piobably will bo expelled polled fiom Fiance. MacAdams Is one of several talented young mei who have been helped in obtalnliu their art education in Paris by Mrs Unity Payne Whitney of New Yoik. The annual ball of the artists am models of the Academic Julian , one of Ihe most famous of the Latin quail er schools , was held Salmday nigh in a hall In the Boulevard du Temple The women who attend are Iliinsll ; attiied and , so far as possible , tin ball takes on the form and color o nn ancient Greek , Roman or IJab ) Ionian festival. In the couiso of the night Mac Adams became involved In a dlsputi with a French aitlst , one of Ihe girl w ho was present being Iho cause. Alter tor tin eats had boon exchanged blow ; were struck. Other Frenchmen rush ed to the aid of their compatriot , whlli several Americans rallied to Mae Adams' support , and models , In varl ous stages of deshabille , fled In tot tor. The police wore summoned am the combalants were ordered from tin hall. MacAdams , who Is 25 years old , 1 a povvet fully built chap. Occasional ) ; at the Cafe du Dome , a favorite re creation of American studenU In tin Latin quarter , ho vaults over ono o tbo billiard tables supporting hltusol on ono hand. In the shoot Mai'AdaniH In said to have bitten the hand of one policeman and blackened nn eje of n Hocond. Hoth men locelvod medical tioatmunt mid hud to be telloved fiom duty foi sovouil days. The siulptor dually was o vet power ed and was taken to the Santo pilson If pmbahl ) will be several months he loto ho Is ( nought to tilnl , as the wheels of Justlie In Fiance move- with exceeding slowness. To ( lomuilt an ( Ulcer of the law Is a HIM Ions offense and Ihe punishment usually fits the Fioni'bman'H mm option of the otlme It piecodontH aie followed It In piob- able that MacAdams , aftei being kept In suspense lor a time , will bo given a quiet tip lo slip oul of the count ! y ind to stay awav. DUPED BY "MILLIONAIRES. " How a Group of Flashy Swindlers Did n $10,000 Job. Now Yoik , ApiII 12 For lavish stage setting , woikmanllke execution ind ample llnani Ing , the stoiy of a lacing swindle , as told the police by Homy Wagnei. senior member of a Hi in of bllllnid table manufacture ! s. lias no equal In the leroids of the New Yoik detective bmoaii. To ob tain $10.000 the confidence men In- liuslod tholi dupe with $10lOOI ) ) In cash , filled a ptivato car fiom Haiti moio to Jacksonville , Fin , and Impel- - * > M. . . X , Minuted mioiossfully a paity of mil Homilies , one of whom was "H. H Rogeis , jr , " son of the late vice presl- den ot the Standaid Oil company. The stoiy came out with the airont ot a man who gave his names as John Hi own , 08 .vcar.s old , dcsciibing him self as a bioker and speculator , but who , the police say , Is George 0. Rockwell , alias Geoige C. Hammond , Alias Old Joe Eaton , a notoilous con fidence man. Late lasl month Wagner met a man lepiesenting hlmsclt lo ho Alfred Sanford - ford , pi iv ate societal y to : i Pommy ! vanla millionalic with money lo spend on coal lands. Would Wagner lake an option on two thousand acios at $7 an aero ? Ho could soil at a hugo pi ollt. The societal y lacked funds to finance the deal himself , but If It wont tluough he asked onlv 25 per cent for his tip A tilp to Baltimore followed , where enteied the "mllllonniies , " including ' H II. Rogers , ji. , " "Colonel Moffett , " ol Coloiado , one Palmer and one Mar shall. Fiom Baltimore the party jour neyed lo Jacksonville by pilvalo car all on the "mllllonalies" and at the lace tiaok Iheio was heavy bel ling "between filends , " in which the victim was not asked to join. Instead his confidence was soothed by his being ing made stakeholder , until at one time he held $100,000. His draft for $10,000 was obligingly cashed , and ho geneiously loaned the money to ono of the ciowd to fill out a $20,000 bet. Then came the getaway. Wagnei said that Blown , anested this afteinoon , took the part of Mof fell. When seaiched by the police ? 2,071 in bills was found strapped aiound Brown's waist. He was held for arrangement tomorrow. GAYNOR , JR. , ASKS DIVORCE. A Bigamy Charge MVide by Son of New York's Mayor. New York , April 12 Rufus W. Gay nor , son of Ihe mayor , is suing to annul his marriage with Maria Oddo , and a referee who has been taking evidence bad advised the court to giant the petition on the ground that the woman had a husband living at the time of her marriage to young Gaynor. The young man was a student at Amherst college about a year ago. Ho' met the voung woman whom ho mar ried in Boston at a dinner. They went together to Chicago and were married there. She was a pupil In the Con- servaloty of Music In Boslon. She was inlroduced to joung Gaynor as Miss May Queen and was married un der that name. GOING AFTER DR. COOK'S DATA. Harry Whitney Will Make Another Expedition Into Arctic. New York , April 12 Another expe dition lo the arctic during which ho expects to stop at Etah to recover the Instruments of Dr. Frederick A. Cook Is being planned for this sum mer by Haiiy Whitney of New Ha ven , Conn , the first white man en countered by Cook on bis return from the noitli and who flist heard Cook's assertion that lie had reached the noi th pole. Paul Rainey , the horse man and yachtsman , will accompany Whitney. Look for Comet Next Friday. Washington , Apiil 12. Friday , April 15 , at t 30 o'clock In the morning will bo the eaillesl time at which it will bo worth while liying to see Hnlley's comet , it was repoited at Georgetown university observatory. Dm Ing April and tbo eaily pait of Mny the comet will bo visible in the east before sun rise , a degieo north of east. By May 17 II will ho too near In line with the sun to bo seen in the morning , but from then on will appear In the west In the evening ns soon as it gets dark enough. On May 20 it will set two hours after Ihe sun. with Iho Inlorval growing longer each day. THE STORM HANGS A NEGRESS. Queer Freak of Near-Tornado at Pine Bluffs , Ark. Pine Bluffs , Ark , April 12. A dozen or more collages and small buildings In Iho soiilhvveslern porllon of Ibo city wore wrecked last night by a fierce \ wind storm , resembling a tornado In V proportions. No lives wore lost , but several negro residents of the subur bans were badly bruised by flying timbers A freak of the wind was the lifting of a negro woman off the ground and whisking her up Into a mass of telegraph wires whore she hung until men with ladders took her down.