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The Omaha Daily Bee VOL. XXXVIII XO. 41. OMAIIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 190&-TEN PAGES. SINGLE COrY FIVE CENTS. LLIS0N IS DEAD FERMEFORESTFIRE SPREADS LONG BALLOON TRIP Area Three Mile. Wide and Fifty Senior Senator from low Diet at Home in Dubuque. DEATH DUE TO HEAET FAILURE Count Zcppclin'i Dirigible Stays in Loup Burned Orer. Air Nearly Twelve Hours. LOSS ESTIMATES ABE TOO HIGH LANDS NEAR OPPENHETJI Many Sappesed Dead Are Ac-eon a ted Illneti of Two Weeks Becs for and Jin saner nt Fatalities la Row Placed at A bent Fifty. Machine Descends Because of Defect Saturday. in One of the Motors. SUMMARY OF. THE DEE Wedae.day, Angnst 15, 1IKI8. I90S stfifGdsr 1908 StX TtZ. uta 771" Fty. ET Lr- -r- -.r n3 4 5 0 t 8 10 11 12 IS 14 15 1Z 18 19 20 21 22 , i 25 26 2Z 28 29 A LONG ACTIVE 15 PTJBL1 Eight Yean in House and Thir in Senate. 3 posn. - DECLUTES. CABINET He Wa "'red Treasury Portfolio Ttr Tin. w Twin Candidate for Republican Xomlnitloa tor President. Dl'Bl'QtTE, Is., Au. t.-Vnlted States B.nstor William B. Allison died at hla home In thli city at 1:U o'clock this after noon. The Immediate causa of hla death wis heart failure. The end came aa the result of serious sinking apell due to a prostatic enlargement, complicated with kidney dlsesae, and during a period of un consciousness which haa laated since Sat urday afternoon. Two weeka hgo tha aged aenator left hla homa In the city to escape the heat. Ha went to the homa of Mrs. Fannie Stout, a friend of the family living on the Arbury road, a few mile from the city. For a few days hla condition aeemed to Improve, but he later began to grow worse. MedlcrJ advisers urged that an operation be performed to relieve tha prostatic en largement which waa bringing hla con- ' dltlon to a rlel. Baturday motnlng tha aenator waa brought to hla home In thia city. Boon afterwards ha relapsed Into a condition of almost unconsciousness. With tha excep tion of brief spells, when ha recovered somewhat, he haa remained In this condi tion until death cams to his relief at 1:U o'clock this afternoon. News of the aerloua Illness of the aged ..aenator waa kept from the public aa much aa possible and hla death cams aa a sud den and almost totally unexpected shock to his thousanda of friends residing In this city- Only tha moat Intimate frlenda of tha family were aware of hla critical and unoonaclou condition since hla return to tha city Baturday morning. There have been no arrangementa made aa yet for the funeral. Sketch of Ills Career. Senator Alllaon was i born at Perry. O.. 1 1 March t, 1S3. the son1 of John and Mary Alllsor Hla boyhood daya ha apent on tha farm, which waa hla blrthplaoe. Reach' tng young manhood, he secured his edu cation In Allegheny college In Penney! l.i vanla and In tha Western Reserve college ' ' of Ohio. In both of which schools ha dis tinguished himself, winning high honor , all the branchea which he studied. " Benator Allison was admitted to tha bar In Ha waa married to Miss Anna rirti-r of Weoeter. O..- at Ashland, O., in February, lttt From ISO untU 1867 be practiced law In Ohio. In 1S57 ha removed to Dubuque, where ha took up the practice Of the law. Senator Alllaon waa a delegate to tha ' republican atate convention In 1869 and , to tha national republican convention In Chicago In I860. Ha waa a member of the governor's , ataff during tha civil war and raised troopa to fight for the Integrity of tha nation In 1861. In 186S he waa elected to con tress and served continuously until 1871. In 173 hs waa elected United Slates aenator from Iowa, and represented hla alata in thia capacity until tha time of hla death. In 1111 he waa offered the position of aecretary of the treaaury of the United States by President Garfield, but de clined to accept tha office. In 183 ha again refuaed thia office when offered him bT President Harrlaon. For the third time .'. refused tha office when it waa offered him by President McKinley in 1ST. Twice Candidate for President. In 1811 ha waa chairman of tha Inter national Monetary ei-nference at Brussels. Ha waa candidate for the republican pres idential Domination before the national re publican convention In 1SSS and agaiu in im. Shortly after his first election to the national house of representatives, Sena tor Allison's ability waa recognised by his appointment to the waya and meana com mlttee. Ha Immediately secured the cod fldenoe ef tha laadara of hla party, and it waa Senator Alllaon aa much aa any man then In tha aarvlca of tha people who planned and carried through ail the great measures for tha conduct of tha civil war, tha ra-cstabllahment of the national credit and tha development of tha national re- aouraea. Ha waa a contemporary of and a co-laborer with every one of tha great men whoa aervlcea now are recognised aa of Inestimable value to tha nation Lincoln, Stanton. Chaae. Sumner, Blaine, Edmund. Sherman, Garfield, Imogen, Trumbull, Morton and others. Helped Xoanlnate Llaeela. HI aid In the nomination of Abraham Lincoln aa republican candidate for presi dent la 1140 waa, perhaps. Senator Alll ' eon' a flrat great aervloe for hla country. As an Iowa dslegata to tha republican convention In Chicago In that year ha Joined the other party leadera who had de termined vpon the nomination of Lincoln and by their united efforts the!? object waa attained. Oa the waya and meana committee of tha national house he begsn the career which made blm the best authority In tha country upon the revenuea and expendi ture Of the government. For more than forty year be baa been aas'.gned by the Judgment ef hla colleagues In the house and senate to the responsible task of plan ning the revenuea and supervising the ex pendltares, and bo man who ever bad part la this work had the confidence of both houses more completely. The care ful scrutiny of thousanda of Items which make He the annual appropriation bills requires a anoet painstaking labor, to gether with broad intelligence. COMMITTER ADJOlk.1l SESSION A m of I)Mla of Senator- Allteoa Received While Body to In eaelea. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DCS MOINES, la., Aug. 4. ISpectal Tel egram.) The republlcaa atate committee waa In aeealoa tbl afternoon when word reached It of the death of Senator Alll aon. The committee at tool adopted the following resolution and thaa adjourned: The uienibere ef the republlcaa state central committee. In commute assembled tuday, teafn UI poignant sorrow and re- ICentlBued oa Seoond Page ) Tan WZATESB, for Nebraska Generally ' fair nr aouth and east portions, lire at Omaha yesterday: i i Hour. Ram... I 4 a. m... C$ f 7 a. m... 8 a. m... a. m... 'iO ij m aoji.? 1 P- " ft&Zf t p. m... FZhTtjm 4 p. m... -J& 4 p. m... 6 p. m... 4 p. m... 7 p. m... 8 p. m... Ti 75 7 74 78 M 8f 85 m no w i , w 88 , 8 81 81 DOMESTIC. Senator William B. Allison dlea sud denly at hla home In Dubuque of heart failure. 1 Three deaths and aeveral prostrations from heat were reported to the police In Chicago. Pare 1 On account of bitter feeling in primary fight one St. Louis man ahoota another and la hlmaelf killed a few minutes later. The falling of a wall at the transfer building fire In Chicago rinks a fire tug, the crew barely escaping with their Uvea. Page 1 POBEXOsT. Forest fire at Fernle Is still raging and twenty bodies have already been found In the ruins. Black Hand aociety sus pected of starting blase. Page 1 Count Zeppelln'a airship makes a suc cessful flight at Konstans, Germany, and cause great excitement among the populace. Page 1 On account of the high rates to the orient, Japan Is organlxtng a ateamshlp line to trade by way of the Sues canal. Page 1 sTXBmaUTa, Boy at Broken Bow dragged to death by herae he waa riding. Pag 1VOCAT. An Industrial exposition 1 proposed by Commercial club committee to be held In Omaha next winter for tha purpose of showing the public aome of the $200,000,- 000 worth of manufactured products made In Omaha annually. Page 10 K. H. Harrlman atopa a few houra In Omaha on transcontinental trip. He aaya all that la needed to put buslneaa back to a normal basla la co-operation and ration alism. Pags S Greek boy will be Invited - to attend free night schools In Omaha. Superin tendent Davidson, at the suggestion of Dr. Holovtchlner of the School board, will give them formal Invitation.. Page James Alexander Dowle, brother of the late "Elijah III" of Zloa City fajne. conns to Omaha f.r a five months mission. He may establish a second Zion City near here. Page 8 POBTM. Results of yesterday'a ball games: Western League 1 Omaha va. Sioux City 7. l'-O lts Molnea vs. Uncoln 7-8. 15 Pueblo vs. Denver 1. National Leagu 1-4 Cincinnati va. New Tork 4-4. 4 Philadelphia vs. Chicago 2. 4 Boston vs. Pittsburg 1. 0 St. Louis vs. Brooklyn. American Iieague t Washington vs. Cleveland 7. Philadelphia va. Detroit 4. 4 Boeton va. Chicago L American Association o St. Paul va. Toledo 1. Minneapolis vs. Columbus 2. 11 Milwaukee vs. Indianapolis 1. MOTIKISTI OP OCX AX TKA3ISXXPS. Port. Arrives. Bellet. NEW YORK Mlnnmonka - NEW YORK. Viu)rlnd TRIESTE (rlhl LIVE HP(XL lronU OLASOOW -OrampUa. IhKRBol'RO K. W. 4er OrotM.Oroww Kurfanrt. VOtbOONB Nleuv Aauierttsi WILL FAVOR CATHOLIC SCHOOL Plan for National University to I Endorsed ny Knights of Colnaabns. ST. LOUIS. Mo., Aug. 4. With more than 1.000 visitors and delegatea present, the twenty-alxth annual national convention ot the Knights oi Columbus opened her to day In Olennon hall. Knights of Columbus building, after a parade from Foreet park to Archblahop Glennon'a residence. The principal event of the day's program ia the banquet In the evening in Glennon hall. According to Edward L. Hearn, supreme knight, the plan aubmltted by Archblahop Glennon at the laat national convention to ralae 1600,000 aa an endowment fund for the Catholic university at Washington, D. C, will be reported favorably today. MAY REDUCE GRAIN RATES low Movement to Enrope May Reonlt la Action to Relieve Conditions. NEW YORK. Aug. 4-The slow move ment of grain shipments from Atlantic ports to Kurope that baa prevailed for some time, causing the withdrawal of many steamships frorr. service this sum mer and the operation of other at a loss, may be relieved oa Thursday, when tnere will be a meeting in thia city between the traffic managers' committee of the Trunk Line association and men representing the ocean carriers, to discuss a possible re duction of railroad rates' between here and Buffalo. JAPAN TRADE TO SUEZ CANAL liatlve Paper Deelar Action. of Roads and Ceuaastaaloa I' a- VICTORIA. B. C, Aug. 4.-The Nippon Tusen Kalsha, a Japanese steamahlp com pany, will eatabllah a new service com mencing In November to carry Japanese merchandise to Atlantic porta of the United Statee by way of tha Suea canal, according to advice received by the steamer Monteagle, which reached port last Bight. Japaoeae newspaper received by the Monteagle comment at length regarding the action ef the Interstate Commerce commission and United State railways. Some of the vernacular paper take the groan that the action la to be construed aa unfriendly te Japan. ' P. m. VANCOUVER, B. C. Aug. 4,-Th terri bly destructive forest fire which have swept through the Crow's Nest district of the Elk river valley In British Columbia alnce last Saturday, devastating a vast stretch of territory, destroying many lives and millions of dollars of property, wiping out entire towna and rendering thousands of persons homeless, are still raging, but are now sweeping a wild and sparsely set tied country and It Is believed the worst I over. The flame aro eating through vaat forests on the mountain sides and it la thought they will soon burn themselves out for lack of something to destry. It la Impossible at thia time to arrive at a aummary of the situation aa regards loss of life and property with even approximate correctness. So widespread haa been the destruction and so scattered are the people who lived in the burned area of more than fifty miles In length and three mile In wlrlh, that any estimate of the number who met death In the flame is nothing D ore 'than guesswork. Stories of missing settlers are coming from Fernle, Cran- brook. Michel, Hoamer and other places. but many of theae have turned up at some point far from their original habitation, and It la not believed the death list will exceed fifty names. Pronerty Loo Oread. - , The property loss haa been ery great, but this, too, la difficult to estimate cor rectly. A conservative valuation would probably plac the amount at M.OOO.OOO or 17,000,000. Several thousand persons have been rendered homeless, principally resi dents of Fernle, which according, to all accounts la almost completely wiped out, scarcely more than a score of buildings being left where once a prosperous town of 6,000 Inhabitants stood. There ha been suffering among the homeless, owing to lack of food and shel ter, but this has been alleviated or partly relieved by the prompt action of the people of every-city In British Coiunfbla, a well aa many of those of border atates, In send ing both money and supplies to the burned districts. This aid. has been most generous and the temporarily destitute people, will be adequately and promptly provided for. Mean of communication with the burned secUon haa been moat difficult. Tele graph and telephone wire Were destroyed for miles In places, and thia fact, taken together with the contradictory, report from the varloua towna. haa ted to great confusion and probably much exaggeration aa to the loss of life, Snsananry of Disaster. A summary of the reaulta of the fire haa been prepared here, which la believed to be a conservative estimate as to loss of life and property destroyed. It la a fol low: Town Of FernJe, about a.000 ' Inhabitant, practically wiped oat. less of twenty live and 94.eoo.009 or 15. 800, 000 In property, In surance about 60 per cent. Town ot Hosmer, about 800 Inhabitants. partially burned, with loss of one life and 1260,000 In property, S00 person homeless. Town of Michel, believed not seriously burned, but four persons reported killed and property destroyed in vicinity estima ted at 11.000,000, detalla unobtainable owing to lack or communication. Town of Bparwood. sawmill vlllaae. two killed and large mills destroyed, damage estimated at 1250.000, damage to atandlng timber throughout ' the burned area esti mated at from 41,000,000 to $2,000,000. Many Pathetic Storlea. Many pathetic stories of flight, and in many Instances the death of unfortunate settlers who were caught In the swirl of flames aa It awept through the great forests of pin and fir, are coming In from the various point with whloh communication haa been re-eatabllshed. It has not been de termined how tha fire started, whether through carelessness or design, but one It had gained headway. It awept with almost Incredible apeed at times, eating up the Umber aa if it were dry tinder, llghtlnr un the whole country at night and filling the atmoaphere with a choking amok that often hid the sun from view and turned daylight almost Into night Superintendent Hussey of the provincial police has been sent by ths government of British Columbia to the ftre-swept region, and la now In charge of the relief work In east Kootenay, acting with the local au thorities. The dominion authorities have offered to send a detachment of northwest mounted police Into tha devastated region to p reserve order, but thus far the nro- vtnclal authoiitlea have had the situation wen in hand. The large number, of for eigner employed la the mine In the dis trict have given no trouble, and no looting haa taken place, aa the fir left llttl of value to loot. A telegram today from Mayor Fink of Cranbrook says 1,000 Fml refugee are tnere and that he ha no definite Informa tion aa to who or how many perished. Black Hand as aneneeted. FERNIE. B. C. Aug. 4.-No person who haa not aeen can Imagine the awful devaa. tation which In the short apace of two hour transformed what waa a busy center of Industry Into a desolate waste and left 4,000 people homeless. The scene during the progress of the fire 1 described aa ap palling, men. women and children fleeing for their live, leaving everything they pos sessed to the mercy of the flame. From Michel, where the fire eoen be gins, on the eaat for twenty mile, is yet a sea of fire, with mile and mile of Dialing mountainside. Michel la yet safe, but the whole valley oi in river i on nre ad If the wind starts up the town 1 doomed. All th women and children have been sent to Blalnnore. Frank and Coleman for aafetv. All mine are abut down and the men are fighting the fire In relays, plowing, back firing, clearing -underbrush or soaking the rooce or house with water, of which, for tunately, there I a good supply. Only aKHit a doaeo house have been mirnea in Hoamer so far, but th fir la HUl around 1L Cohe Oeeaui an HefaaTa. Many from Feral have taken refng In th new coke oven being baUt by the Canadian Pacific, where they are safe even IT th town la burned. They are being cared for and fed aa well a condition will permit. At Pernio, howereri th greatest scone of desolation exist. By actual count only tweaty-nv house are left atandlnn. Not a business bouao remain except the western Canada oosnpany' warehouse th CreW Nest Pas Coal company, which (Continued oa Second Page.) 1 1ll WM$mmm wmw - LOOKING From the Philadelphia Inquirer. MURDER IN PRIMARY FIGHT St. Lou.ii Man Shoots Adversary and ii Later Killed Himself. RESULT OF BITTER CAMPAIGN Hot Contest Oa In Mlssonrl Over Stnto Nominations Primaries - Also Being Meld la Kansaa aad Oklahoma. BT. LOUIS, Aug. S. Following a heated campaign and oa the eve ot the atate pri mary election. Hoy C Woods, a wealthy real estate dealer ot Welleaton, a auburb of St. Louis and candidate for th election for th republican nomination for public administrator of , St. Louis county, ahot Alexander Bteube, a Welles ton butcher shortly before midright and three-quarters of an hour later we himself hot and killed by someone unknown to the police. Th shooting of both Dieiie-Ahe result of bitter political campaigns ta JLbtt county, past and present.. No arrets have been made. Ml aeon rt Primaries Today. KANSAS CITY, Aug. .-Primary elec tions are being held by all political parties In every voting precinct In Missouri today for the purpose of selecting party candi date for the general election In November. Candidates are being selected for every state, county and township office with th exception of school officers, from governor down to constable. Th republican have but on candidate for governor, Herbert S. Hadley, the pres ent attorney general of Missouri, whoae fight on the Standard OH company and other corporations for alleged violations of the anti-trust laws of the state haa broucht him into prominence. There are two candidates for the republican nomlna tion for attorney general, three for railroad and warehouse commissioner and three for judge of the supreme court. On the democratic ticket there are four In the contest for the nomination for gov ernor. David A. Ball, for years prominent In the democratic party In thia atate, la asking for the nomination of hla party William S. Cowherd, former congressman and also former chairman of the national democratic congressional committee, la also a candidate. A third candidate la Judge H. Wallace, who became prominent through hla conduct of a Sunday law observance crusade In Kansaa City, caualng the arrest of hundreda of actora and othera who were alleged to have violated the Sunday law. He I receiving the support of the repub lican element, and as a large part of the atate In local option elections has voted out the saloon hla strength Is unknown. Henry F. Staple, tha fourth democratic (Continued on Second Page.) Another Open Letter to Mr. Bryan. My appeal to you to atop the propoBed fraud upon the ballot whereby your democratic presidential electors are to be masked la Nebraska as People's Independents, has elicited only the following given out by you to the press: t No attempt will be be made by Mr. Bryan to reply to the open letter of Victor Rosewater, charging a conspir acy between Mr. Bryan and his brother-in-law, Mr. Allen, the state chairman, to "purloin" populist votes In Nebraska "He simply addresses that to me to attract attention," said Mr. Bryan. "He Is hardly the man to go to the populace aa guardian." I confess to having sought to attract your attention. I have done so, not only to appeal to your sense of polit ical honesty, but also that you might not later again plead Ignorance of the acts of your brother-in-law in your behalf. As compared with him, I may be disqualified "to go to the populace as guardian," but if a palpable fraud is to be perpetrated in your interest and "larcency" is to be committed, to use your words, either "in riolation of the law" or "through the operation of the law," It ought not to matter much who sounds the alarm. If an officer accosted by a stranger with the information that burglars were looting a near-by house, should stand still and retort, "Are you the owner of the goods?" what would you think of him? De that as it may, the decision on my protests is that the proposed "larcency" Is not "in violation of the law," but may be perpetrated "through the operation of the law" that it may be done under cover of , legal techni calities. That, however, does not make it right. I fear I have offended by quoting too copiously from that excel lent sermon of yours on "Thou shalt not steal," preached In New York apparently for exclusive consumption there, but I beg permission to cite one more passage from It- Tou say: If a highwayman were to engage a lamyer to follow a few roda behind him with a horse, that he might have a ready means of escape after having committed an act of robbery, we would call the lawyer a party to the crime, and we would visit upon him th same punishment visited upon the principal In ths robbery, and so. If aome one living near the spot whr th robbery waa committed, furnished the robber a change of clothing, and In return for part of the booty conspired with him to conceal the booty until the suaplelon waa passed, auch a one could not escape legal responsibility for th crime; and yet It Is considered quite respectable today for the salaried attorneya of these monopolies to follow close after the offender and furnish them horses In the way of legal technicalities upon which to escape from punishment. I It not time to rslse the moral standard? Is not this moral standard, which you set up, equally applicable to the political monopoly which you are trying to erect In Nebraska by resort to legal technical ltlea, and deceptive subterfuges devised by cunning law yers The whole purpose of putting up your double standard presidential electoral ticket under spurious party labels, la to fool somebody and get votes for you which you could not get for your democratic electors If they wore their own clothing. Every vote secured by deception is a fraud, not only upon the victimised voter, but also upon thoa whoae rotes are cast for other candidates. A vote secured by deception would go just as far to under mine popular sovereignty as would a vote procured by ballot box stuffing. The right to complain does not belong solely to thoa whoae party neone Is being stolen, but It belongs to me and to every other citizen regardless of polit ical af filiation. - I therefore repeat my appeal to you la all seriousness, Mr. Bryan, to stamp your disapproval upon this Im ponftiooa and put a stop to It, becaus It ia wtobjc ssren though It mar ba lawtuL Omaha, Aug. 4, 1108. VICTOR ROSEWATSB. FOR SOMETHING TO CATCH HOLD OF DROPS THREE HUNDRED FEET Occo pants of Anto Have Mlmenlons Escape, Only ChanlTenr Being; Serlonsly Injnred. NEW TORK. Aug. 4. United State Dis trict Attorney Baker of Washington, who successfully prosecuted the government land frauds In ths northwest, his bride of two months, and several friends who were accompanying them on their honeymoon, had an almost miraculous escape from death today. Whllo the automobile In which they were, traveling waa running down a sharp hill on Walnut mountain, near Liberty, N. T., the machine got out of control and plunged over a precipice nearly SnO feet In height. All were badly bruised and frightened, but none seriously Injured, with the exception of the chauf feur. Hla skull was fractured, one of his ears torn off, and he sustained other In juries. Those In the car with Mr. Baker and hi wife were Dr. O. E. Jellf fe, the alienist, who testified In th Thaw trial, and M. Mane an of Washington As soon aa thry Were rescued from their perilous . position In the suspended automobile the party came to New York,' and' after a rest at the Hotel Astor started for their home. FALLING WALL SINKS TUG Fatal Aeeldent Narrowly Averted at Barling-ton Transfer Fire In Chlcaaro. CHICAGO, Aug. 4. The tug Illlnola. which had been working all night on the smouldering ruins of elevators "K" and "F," which burned yesterday, was sunk In the river today by ths falling of a wall of elevator "F." Members of the crew jumped Into the river and only one waa Injured. The tug la valued at $200,000. The fire destroyed the Burlington ele- .vatora "E" and "F," the dock tranafer warehouse of that road and either burned or rendered useless 100 box cars. The loss on the grain. In tha two elevatora Is placed by Armour & Co. who owned It, at $700,000, The total loss Is placed at $1,000,000. During the height of the fire a rumor spread that six firemen had been caught under a falling wall and killed. Chief Horan denied the report, aaylng that all the mem ber of hla department had been accounted tor. STILL DYING IN CHICAGO Heat and Hnmldlty Fatal to Three, with Thermometer at Ktnety-One. CHICAOO, Aug. 4. Three deaths and several prostrations due to heat and hu midity were reported to the police up to 1 p. m. today. The thermometer Indicated 91 degrees. TO REVISE MONEY SYSTEM Congressional Committee Leaves on European Investigating Tour. CURRENCY BILL IS TEMPORARY enator Aldrlch Says tt Was Adopted to Core Panicky Condition aad Will Be Followed by Com prehensive System. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Legislation estab lishing a comprehensive monetary system undoubtedly will. In time, supersede the Vreeland-Aldrlch bill la the opinion of Sen ator Aldrich. The aenator made thia an nouncement In a statement given, to the Associated Press before he sailed for Eu rope with bis fellow members of the sub committee of the monetary commission, which goe abroad to study financial con dition In foreign countries. Senator Al drich' atatemert Sollowa: "To obtain more complete and accurate Information than la now available with ref erence to the monetary and banking sys tems of the leading commercial natlona Is the principal purpose of the aubcommlttee of the national monetary commission, who are leaving today for London. The aub commlttee also Intends to make a thorough examination into the methods In use for the- collection and distribution of the pub lic revenues in each of the leading coun tries of Europe. "The active work of the commission this summer will be carried on by the aubcom mlttee which la going abroad and by an other subcommittee, of which Representa tive Weeks Is the acting chairman, which la now engaged in considering amendments to the administrative features ot the na tional banking laws. Report on Complete System. "This work Is but preliminary to the re port which the commission is required to make to congTesa of a complete monetary and banking system for the country. It waa not expected that the legislative pro visions of the act of May '30, 1908 (the so- called Vreeland-Aldrlch bill), would be final or permanent. They were adopted with the alngle purpose, already accom plished, of . providing agalnat the recur rence of deatructtva condition similar to those from which the country suffered In October laat. This act will undoubtedly be superseded In time by legislation estab lishing a comprehensive monetary system." The subcommittee which sailed today la composed ot Senatora Aldrlch ot Rhode Island, Hale of Maine and Daniel of Vir ginia, and Representatives Vreeland of New York, Overstreet of Indiana and Pad gett of Tenneaaee; Prof. A. P. Andrews and Arthur P. Snellen, secretary. MAKES THIRTY MILES AN HOUR Wondering Thousands Watch Its Many Evolutions. MACHINE UNDER GOOD CONTROL It Dart. Ahent I.Ike a liege Bird and Seem to Obey Will of the Operator nt All ." , Tlsiti. ' ' Bl'LLKTW. OrPENHElM, Aug. 4.-The ZerP'Hn al nlilp, owing to a defect of one of the mo tore, landed on an Inland In the middle of the Rhine near here at S o'clock this even ing. KONSTANZ, Ormar.y. Aug. 4. The weather win excellent this morning, when at 4 SO o'clock Count 7.eri',Hn' great air ship emerged from the swimming dock at Frledrichshafen. The airship rose Immedi ately from the waters of the lnke to a height of about 0 feet ard after describ ing one magnificent circle over the lake proceeded In a bee line for this -lty. ar riving here at 6:65 o'clock. The ship con tinued on Its nay and within another hour had covered forty-five kilometers and wa over Schaffhausen. From that point It continued along the Rhine to Basle. Count Zeppellu'a plan Is to continue to Mayence along the Rhine and from there return to Mela, croas over to Stuttgart and return. If th weather continues favor able, to Freldrlchshafen at about 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. Not the faintest cloud marred the beauty of the day. The surface of the lake wes like a mirror and the distant Alpine giant stood out strong and mighty In the clear atmosphere. At 6:15 the colossal boy of the airship emerged slowly from the Host ing shed, towed by three launches. Vnder the direction of Dr. Eckncr, the pontoon were towed out from underneath It and the airship hovered low over the aurface of the lake. Then slowly the airship was raised to a higher level. Above tha noise under the machine, like the noise of giant drums, aroxe the voice of the count. Riving the command to "caM off" and the airship roae horizontally to a height of about 400 feet and than swept off In the direction of Konstans. It turned shortly, however. In a graceful circle, and came back over the lake. So light and agile were Its movements that the count neemed Justified In starting his long Journey of twenty four hours without any previous trial trip, and he started In the direction ot Schaff shauaen. HI departure waa the algnal for prolonged cheering by the spectator on land and aloat, jM. varjnua small .craft, who wished him a good voyage and aafe - '. return. . Darts A boot I.Ike He are Died. Headed In the direction of Konstans, th airship sped along almost In a bee line over drowsy vllingea and sleeping towns. Suddenly, while still over the water the etishlp apparently came to a full atop for several minutes. Thia gave ths cor respondent of the Associated Press, who wo following In a motor boat, time to overtake the menster. After a short rest the two front propellers, which looked like the fans of a great fish, began to revolve and at once the bow of the ship ascended. From Iwlow It appeared as though something had gone wrong. In a few aeconda, however, the rear propeller moved and the airship again resumed It horizontal position. Gracefully swinging first to the right and then to the left, It took up ita rapid courte. It waa evident that Count Zeppelin had been subjecting the aerial craft to aome severe test and that the result had been to bis aatlafao tion. The mass of 1. 000 pounds of metals, woodwork, machinery and cloth no longer aeemed colossal and gigantic, ungainly and uncouth, but a creation so wonderful that the spectators for the moment forgot that It waa the handiwork of man. Alrsllp Rival Speed of Anto. At Konstans the correspondent left hi motor boat and In an automobile sped around the city and finally caught up with the balloon far beyond the city limits la the Rhine Valley. The airship had risen again about 1X feet higher, and there wa further maneuvers. Tlie laborers In tha fields rested on their spades to gaze aloft at the strange visitor. Over the Island of Retchenau the airship ascended to a height of l.OuO feet, but this was only tor a few minutes. It came down to Its previous level to save gas, which escapea more easily In the thin air of the greater altitude. Had It not been for these maneuvers It would have been Impossible to have kept up with the airship In a fifty horsepoaer automobile. The traveler In the air could easily have out distanced a car of thia power. Allowing for the time lost In maneuvering, the airship wss proceeding at the rate of about thirty miles an hour. t'lrrl Aronnd Old C'natle. At Stein the Rhine valley widens con siderably, forming the Lake of Zell. With this expanse In front of It, the airship roae first, came down sgain to an altitude of about 1,000 feet and continued at that height until it again re-entered the Rhine valley not far from tha famous castle of Hohen wlel. This stronghold, unconqured for 1.00S year Ul.tll the coming of Napoleon, today was a mute witness ot the marvelous achievement of the Napoleon of the air. Over th old feudal caatle the airship swept silent and speedily, and lis moata and tur rets flashed ttft-lr greetings to the intrepid sailors of the air above. There was a faint wind from the north west In the txlnning, which was appar ently quite powerless to Influence either the speed of the airship or Ita course. This wind later changed and blew from the southeast, from which direction It wa helpful to the navlgutora. At Stein It waa seen that the airship was quickening Ita pace considerably, going at the rate of probably thirty-seven miles an hour. In the forward gondola are five men and In the after gondola three mem bers of the cr w. One -f the men from the forward gondola, anon after the airship paaaed Hohenwlel, waa aeen to ascend a ladder and disappear In the great body of the ship. Ship Disappears Behind Mountains. Something may be wrong with one of the sixteen small ballosus fUllns th i
