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aha Daily Bee NEWS SECTION t It TJY WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Fair, cooler. For Iowa Fair, cooler. For weather report c Tnfte 2. 4 JL 1 Ljlj PAGES 1 TO 8. VOL. XXXIX NO. 63. OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1D09-SLXTEEN PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. OXYGEN SENT TO HARRIMAN Two Tanks of Gat and Portable Hospital Track Sent to Arden. NO STATEMENT GIVEN OUT ( Number of Indications that Surgical Operation ii to Be Performed. MANY EUMORS ARE AFLOAT Report that Magnate Hai Cancer of ' Btomach' Revived. MARKET IMPROVES SLIGHTLY Better To Prevails at Opening;, hut Dullneaa Enanra Rear Party Al tnchn steel and I'nion Pacific 4 Bath Ball Off. ARDEN. N. T.. Auk. 27. Whatever be E. H. Harriman's ailment, whatever his comiltlon, the public In not to know fl ha and hla family decide that such announcement in opportune. He la an solated Invalid, with the nature of his affliction a mystery to those outside his mountain retreat. At the' top of Tower Hill, where the railway atops with roads picketed by guards and all but the one telephone wire and that a private one severed, he spends hla days and nights In a seclusion that la almost absolute. Scraps of naws, dropped from the lips of a relative, an associate, an employe, indicate that ha spent a quiet day, part of tt out of doors, but there were other incidents which led those who are drain ing the meagre ohannels of information to believe that all waa not so well. Thei o was the arrival at the station at Turner of two tanks something which may have had no bearing on Mr. Harriman's Illness, but which appeared significant in that they were recorded on the bill of lading as "Oxygen." Shortly afterward there cam a small collapsible cot,' such as Is used In hospitals to move patients between wards. Both were placed in automobiles and later wera sent up the Incline railway to the estate. Man with Black Ba.. Coincident with the arrival of these requi sites to an operation oama two mon from New York, one of thera carrying what ap peared to ba the blaok bag of a surgeon. They vera taken up the incline to the house and rumors that Mr. Harriman was to b operated upon spread broadcast. One of the men, according to popular rumor. Is Dx. George W. Crli of Cleveland. O., an eminent specialist in abdemlnal surgery. Acoordlng to report ho waa summoned from Boston Woods to assist Dr. W. O. Lyle lot New York, who has been Mr. Karri- Iman'a physician throughout his Illness. All this gave strong color to the report that there waa to ba aa .-operation on kiwer Hill, but of this bo confirmation la . ba had tonight On the other band. lie who apoka of Mr. Harriman today Inclined toward optimism. Dr.' Lyle Ined to make any comment whatever, id former Judge R. 8. Lovett, general Lael for the Harriman Unas, who has i with his chief dally, but when Robert .'try of New York, Mr. Harriman's .law. descended the Incline railway I la tear this afternoon he talked at ngth. "I have Just left Mr. Har ming on the porch," he said, "talk- me of his workmen. Ha has apent part of the day out there in a Crwr y Dealu Operation. rrry denied that an operation was ,-rformed and said that Dr. Lyle I inly physician in attendance. rd, superintendent of the estate, Mr. Gerry's atatement about ' man's sitting on the porch. At throughout the day ho had ap- tha porch, he said, and had the head mason and others at unfinished part of the house. ia that Mr. Harriman is In a Lion are not founded on fact. ," aald Mr. Ford. "He has then he shakes hands and he Iter. Ho is In competent ir. Lyle and Judge Lovett not my place to ask quea- he la suffering from a na il from overwork and will ith plenty of rest and good iut again aa usual after a jwaa urged to say some- Mr. Harriman's condl- ,d: tto say nothing, no mat ted. I'don't wish to ap- but I deem it best to t Dmi Wot Know. Undent, deprecated the arrival of the tanks n oxygen. Thera was ace, he explained, and blllty that the contents carbonlo acid gaa used ire of lea. He waa not vever. The cot, he said. a taken to a camp near r re some workmen are llv Is he waa not sure either. the Impression grows that I serine character Is to be Mr. Harriman. but further J night Impossible to obtain. Indents on the scene are tree groups, standing guard t and aqueexlng dry every jo of news. One camp has id here at rden, another at 1 11 road station, and another of the Incline railway. No fr leavea the estate without f ited to lnqlilry. V the grounds today failed to unusual preparatlona or a .A eat among the members of the family. Mrs. Gerry and the Jirrled Harriman girls, accom I Mr. Gerry. W. A. Harriman, It Harriman boy. . and Roland. I 'a tutor, wera aeen with tennis J going down back of the bouse 'urta. , i the great stone house loomed I n the crest of the hills against kut moonlight sky. What was jng there no one outside the eatate :arly In the evening the big elec- it In th front vestibule could be Iu-ly from the valley below, but j'clock this was extinguished. Surgaoas r Knraeaf ford came from the house and no L ended either to Turner or to Arden. o men who ascended the mountain 'bouse during the day wera phy- Oantlpaaa oa Sooon aa. Street Railway Employes Ask New Contract Local Union Presents Petition and Form of Agreement to Officiali of Company. When President Wattles reaches his of fice today, he will find among other things watting his personal attmtion, a petition from the Omaha union of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America. Along with the pe tition is an agreement the union would like the company to enter Into. It does not provide for the strict "closed shop," but does carry with It recognition of the union. A new scale of wagea la asked for. The agreement, which is Intended to oover a period of two years, provides that employes, members of the union, when discharged, or suspended, may have the right to appeal, and that the case shall be Investigated by a board of arbitration, whose decision shall be final. In event of reinstatement, the employe shall be paid for the time lout during his suspension or discharge. The scale of wages asked for la: First year, 28 cents per hour; second year, 27 cents per hour; third year and thereafter, 28 cents per hour. Runs are to be nine and ten hours, arranged as near as possible so that the time will come within a consecutive twelve-hour period. Time and a half for overtime. This Is a considerable advance over wagea now paid. Whenever a member of the union Is ex pelled for violation of Its rules or laws, the company Is to discharge him on written request of the union. The company is to maintain a sufficient force of extra men to permit all regular employes to lay off at least four days of each month. The company Is not to Interfere with men In exercising their choice between Joining the union or remaining outside. N A copy of the agreement has been left with the officials of the street railway company, and a conference asked. Presi dent Wattles has been away from the city, but Is expected home today. Ad Club Men . Will Meet in the Gate City Omaha Delegation Secures Next Year's Convention After Two Hours' Fight. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug 27. (Special Tel egram.) The Omaha delegation of ad men secured the next convention of the Asso ciated Ad Clubs of America after a spir ited fight on the convention floor that lasted nearly two hours. The chief con tenders wera Richmond and Minneapolis. The convention will bring about 1,500 ad vertising men to Omaha In 1910. Other towns which wanted the convention were, Memphis, Rochester, Nashville, At lantic City and Cedar Point, O. S. C. Dobba of Atlanta was elected presi dent after a apectacular contest, James Rodgers of New York, and O. H. T. Wer nlck of Grand Rapids, withdrawing at the last moment in favor of the Atlanta man. Other officers wera chosen as follows;. W. E. Campbell, Kansas City, first vice president; P. S. Florea. Indianapolis, secre tary; Lee Landau, St. Louis, treasurer; Ray Wolta, Chicago, permanent sergeant-at-arms; directors, Will M. Clenv. Mem phis; I H. Sawyer, St. Louis; Orva G. Wil liams, Chicago; S. K Evans, New York, and P. V. Collins, Minneapolis. Ingalls Kimball of New York made the chief address of the day, on "The Printing Art In Advertising." He said that It really does not exist and that most of the print ing turned out nowadays by advertisers Is a combination of sepia half-tones, gray ink and flamboyant coloring. "But printing Is Improving," he said, "and one of these days we'll get a printer even in the government printing office." The convention adjourned this afternoon. FAIRBANKS MEETS REGENT Received in Audlenca la Forbidden City hr the Acting- Rular ( China. PEKING, Aug. 17. Charles W. Fair banka, former vice president of the United States, and Rear Admiral G. B. Harber, United States Navy, were received In seperata audience by the prince regent In the forbidden city this morning. They wera presented by Henry P. Fletcher, the American charge d'affaires. Russian Duke, Czar, Sweeps Sweeping streets at S1-7S a day, John Panuska, employed on Sixteenth street in tho "500" block aa a "white wing," has found out that bo la a duke of Russia, a member of the czar's nobility, and en titled to live like a king without having to do a stroke of work on large landed es tates In Russia which only await hla lay ing claim to them. Rut John Panuska keeps on sweeping streets, just aa though nothing had hap pened, and to the disgust of hla son Joe, employed as an abstractor by Neale A Norton, says he believes he would Jusl about aa soon stay In America and sweep streets as to go back to Russia and be come a laxy, good-for-nothing duke whh nothing to do. For John Panuska Is an Industrious man. For several hundred years the house of Panuska ruled In a province of Russia, but about a hundred years ago the great-great-grandfather of the American Pan uska for John Is now a naturalized Amer ican cltlsen was driven from hia estates and the dukedom was usurped by another. During the frequent petty wars and the fierce struggle for existence In the old country, the fact that noble blood flowed through the veins of the Panuska family became nothing more than a memory, lit tle mora than a myth, and when a boy John Panuska came to America thinking himself to ba a peasant and winning to live where peasants are as great as kings. John waa never studious, according to his sob, and did not take the trouble to look up hla aneastry and establish the truth or falsity of the story thst he belonged to the caara official family. Bat not so with a younger brother of Jobs. Tula ,uegar fcroibor la at sta- OPERATOR bOES DOWN WITH SHIP Steamer Ohio Strikes Ledre rV roint, Alaska, and S11 v Thirteen Minutes. C. 0. D. CALLS ARE EFFECTIVE Three Ships Rush to Rescue and Pick Up Passengers. ONLY FIVE LIVES ARE LOST Four Members of the Crew and One Passenger Drowned. CREW STICKS TO THE LAST Final Measaare from Operator Says Last Boat Is Waiting; for Him, Then All Is Slleai. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 27. One man, a wireless telegraph operator, gave his life that more than 200 might be saved today when George E. Eccles of Seattle went down with the Alaska Steamship com pany's steamer Ohio, while sounding the "C Q D." His call for help as his vessel was sinking brought the steamers King fisher, Humboldt and Rupert City to tho rocks off Steep point. In Hlshkish narrows, British Columbia, and all but himself and four others were saved. Only one pas senger lost his life. The Ohio went down within thirteen min utes after it struck. The drowned: PURSER FREDERICK J. STEPHEN, Seattle. WIRELESS OPERATOR GEOGE E. EC CLES, Seattle. THE QUARTERMASTER, A 80LD1ER AND STEERAGE PASSENGER, names unknown. Pilot ffnow waa on the bridge when the ship struck. The boats were lowered at once and women and children taken off first. The soldier and the steerage pas senger were killed by the upsetting of a boat during the rescue of the passengers. The Humboldt took twenty survivors to Ketchikan, Alaska. The others will ar rive at Vanoouver tomorrow on Uia Rupert City. Operator Eccles assisted valiantly In res cue work and Is reported to have been drowned while so engaged. Purser Stephen Is also said to have given his life that the passengers and other members of the crew might be saved. 1 The Ohio left Seattle August 24 for Fort Graham and Valdex, Alaska, and Including crew and passengers had 210 persons on board. Some of the passengers were taken ashore In life boats and picked up by the fishing boat Kingfisher and taken to Swanson bay. Others were taken on the Humboldt and Rupert City. Tho Hum boldt's passengers will be landed at Ketch ikan and the Rupert City Is taking Its passengers to Vancouver. Early reports said that fifty or more Uvea had been lost, but the steamship company fixes the list at five on the strength of wireless dispatches from M. J. Heney, railroad builder, who was taken off by the Humboldt, Purser Stephen and Operator Eccles stuck to their posts and gave their lives to save the passengers. The Dolphin, another Alaskan Steamship company boat which left Seattle Wednes day night due at Ketchikan at midnight, was notified by wireless to stand by In Swanson bay and give assistance. It Is 320 miles from Seattle to Steep Point. The rocks where the boat went down shelve off rapidly Into unusually deep water. The Ohio waa Insured for $220,000. Captain John Johnson, her navfgator, was regarded as one of tho most skillful on the Pacific coast. Goes Down with Ills Ship. I NEW YORK, Aug. 17. The United Wire lesa company, one of whose operator, G. E. Eccles of Winnipeg, perished In the sinking of the steamship Ohio off the Alaskan coast today, received an account of the disaster from Operator Booth at Ketchlnkan, Alaska, late today. Booth says In the dispatch to headquarters of the company here: "About 1 a. m. I waa sitting with my re ceivers clapped to my ears, having just finished working with ,erator Eccles on board the Ohio when I was startled by hearing htm call 'C. Q. D., C. Q. D.' I Immediately answered and he sent the fol lowing message: " 'Ohio struck a rock steamer sinking (Continued on Second Page.) Kinsman of Omaha Streets dloua turn of mind, Is a practicing law yer In Prague, Bohemia, while another brother la manager of the Vienna rail road. The lawyer brother, about two years ago. Instituted a rigid Investigation and after the expenditure of a large sum of money succeeded In tracing the fam ily's Identity anil establishing the claim of the house of Panuska to the Russian dukedom, though the family for scores of years has lived In Bohemia. The papers In the case were brought to the personal attention of the czar of all the Russlas with the result that he, too, was con vinced that the Panuskaa hold rightful title to the-dukedom. Then official papers covered all over with gold and silver seals and containing the signature of Czar Nicholas were made out showing John Panuska, American citizen, -to be a Russian duke and tho rightful holder of a large estate. These papers have Just been received by the family In Omaha, together with a strong letter of appeal from the lawyer brother tn. Prague to return to the land of ii's forefathers and clulm his own. John Panuska, who lives at 1474 South Nineteenth street and who has made Omaha his home for thirty years, is the oldest living member of the family a::l therefore if the dukedom Is to be claimed either he or his oldest son must make thd claim. John does not seem to care about going back to Russia. Joe, his son, would like to go, but Joe is the second son. lu the mtamtme the valuable papers rest In the Neale & Norton safe, usurpers oc cupy the Russian dukedom, and the law yer brother if Viugue, who spent a small fortaaa to straighten out the family tangla, la ju hotter 9it LLaa feature, onoaiu . RACES " . ""Jlb" aa,. PVv '"" From the New York World. CRABTREE IS FOUND GUILTY Corporal Who Killed Captain Has Only to Hear His Sentence. COURT IS nXDTO THAT NOW Proceeding Pursued hy the Court Martial la the Evidence that Verdict of Guilty Haa Been Aareed I'pon. "Haa the Judge advocate anything fur ther to offer." These words spoken by the president of the general court martial yesterday noon at Fort Crook showed that the fate of Pri vate Lislo D. Crabtree had been sealed and that the court had found him guilty of the charges, or at least part of them. It Is the custom with military courts, after coming to a finding. If the charges have been sustained, to again open the court to receive evidence of previous convictions by military courts to aid the court In fix ing th penalty. That the Crabtree court martial did thlt-Vtmws that at least one of Uu chargea waa sustained by the evi dence to a sufficient extent to warrant a conviction, and as the fight has been made solely on the shooting of Captain Ray mond, it Is to be supposed that Crabtree waa convicted of this charge. All the charges are dependent upor. each other that a conviction of one would mean a conviction of all three, that Is of the ad-, dltlonal charges of assaulting Sergeant Washburn and Corporal Such with a re volver at the time of the killing of Cap tain Raymond. At the opening of court yesterday morn ing Captain liuchan, 'he Judge advocate, stated that the government would rest Its case and not call Major Brattan as he had Intimated tho day previous. JudL'e J. M. Parsons at once began his plea for the accused. He said that this case was a new experience to him and that It was his first criminal case In which he had not asked the court to discharge the accused. He realized that there could be only one of three outcomes to the case. That the court would award the death penalty, would imprison the accused, possibly for life, or would sentence him to be confined In an asylum for the criminal Insane. He said It was clear to his mind that a man who would commit this crime was morally Irresponsible and Insane. He did not feci that he could ask the freedom of Crabtree end would not free him If he could. He ended by saying that the accused had had an absolutely fair and impartial trial. Sanity Only Issue. i The Judge advocate outlined the law of the enre briefly and called attention to the facts In connection with the article of j war under which accused was tried, the twenty-first. He said the first thing for the court to determine was as to whether the accused was sane, that Is whether or not he had sufficient use of his faculties on that fateful Sunday to know what he was doing. There had been no dispute as to the facta alleged by the government, except that of the sanity of Crabtree. Captain Buchan finished at 11 o'clock and the court took the rase under advise ment. At a quarter after 12 the court called for the evidence of previous con victions and the Judge advocate offered In evidence one minor court offense. Crabtree had been tried and fined 110 in May, 1909, by a summary court for al lowing his gun to go off prematurely at the target range, through carelessness. The court then took a recess and met again at 1:30. After being In session a few minutes the court finally adjourned, having awarded a sentence. While nothing can be known definitely until the review ing authority passes upon the case finally. It is likely that the accused was given the (Continued on Second Page.) An almost com plete directory of the various rooms in Omaha will be found in the want ad pages of The Bee. The easiest way to fincl the kind of a room that you want is to glance through the large list of rooms which are offered for rent. Hava yea raad tag want ads, Jetj JJit . .. . Ti..l " Mfe 'i-Yr Zz3 v a --; 3 THE VICTOR Somewhat Hot ' Was Wcathei ot Yesterday Thermometer Reaches Within One Degree of the Hottest of the Season. Well, well, see who's back. Merry, playful old Summer is again In our midst, big aa life and more natural than ever. Two weeks ago there was some tempera ture, some that could be noticed by even the most casual observer, and yesterday the government thermometer way up on top of the government building got ener getlo and boosted Itself within one degree of the high mark. At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the high mark of 97 was registered, while at 2 and S o'clock It was 96, and 96 at 1 o'clock, all of which It must be admitted la going some. " . A merciful breeae waa blowing most of the day, however, and this helped some. No cases of heat prostration were re ported to the police. There Is also com fort in the fact that the prediction for to day is cooler. Dispatches received from over the state last right reported rain at Grand Island and Hastings and points north of Aurora, and shortly after mid night rain began falling In Omaha, but was of short duration. Hill Puts Brake on Crop Stones Railroad Man Fears Overspeculation Will Be Caused by Exaggerated Reports. ST. PAUL. Minn.. Aug. 27. A note of warning to crop statisticians who are pre dicting a bumper, crop of wheat In the northwest 'v ks sounded by James J. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the Great Northern railroad. In an Interview today. Mueh harm will be done to the business of the country In encouraging over-speculation by the statements, sent broadcast, that the northwest will harvest a bumper crop, according to the railroad magnate. "I believe the northwest will harvest a nn that will ha ihniit XVI 000 000 larger than some previous years," said Mr. Hill today, "but the statement that a bumper crop is expected Is far from true." COLORED PYTHIANS ELECT 9- W. Green of New Orleans Again Choacn Supreme Chancellor of the Order. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Aug. S7.-8. W. Green of New Orleans was re-elected su preme chancellor of the Negro Knights of Pythias hers last night by the supreme lodge. Other officers elected were John H. Young, Pine Bluff, Ark., supreme master of the exchequer; C. K. Robinson, St. Louis, supreme keeper of records and seals, and L. M. Mitchell, Austin, Tex., supreme lecturer. Locust Pest in Nebraska Due to Killing of Blackbirds SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 27 William L. Flnley of Portland, Ore., lecturer of the National association of Audubon societies declared In an address before the National Conservation congress that to destroy the wild bird Is to destroy the forests, and he orfered figures to show the Important part they take In protecting the agriculturist and the horticulturist from the ravages of insects. There are people, he said, who can sea use In nothing that has no commercial value or use. Taking this as a basis, Mr. Flnley specified the vast numbers of In sect pests destroyed by the wild feathered creatures. He noted the robin, which has been found to devour ITS caterpillars In a day; and Instanced tha finding of 100 po tato bugs In the craw of one. bob white, and two spoonfuls of chinch bugs In an other; a mother sparrow, he said, had fd seventeen grasshoppers and two spiders to Its T-day-old fledglings lu sixty-seven min utes. In Nebraska there once existed multitudes ef b lack birds and the farmers l-cm con WOMAN IS RILLED BY AUTO Miss Sadie Hooper Run Down by Car Driven by George Gilmore. MOB GETS AFTER THE BOY Arrival of Officers Prevents Youth from Falling- Into Hands of Angry Cltlsena Who Are Stirred hy Accident. Miss Sadie Hooper, a young woman em ployed as a domestic In the family of John Forbes at 8132 Woolworlh avenue, was struck by Mrs. W. B. Millard's automobile at Sixteenth and Farnam streets shortly after 4 o'clock Friday afternoon and so badly Injured that she died at 12:22 o'clock Saturday morning. ' ' The machine was occupied only by the driver, George Gilmore, an 18-year-old boy, who is the son of H. C. Gilmore of 46u2 Magnolia avenue, Chicago. A crowd col lected Immediately and Instantly became so threatening that only the arrival of the police saved him from being roughly handled. Miss Hooper was taken at once to the office of Dr. Connell and from there to the Omaha General hospital, where she died. Miss Hooper was taken to the office of Dr. Connell and from there to the Omaha General hospital. Dr. A. P. Condon Is tak ing care of her. Her injuries are danger ous but not necessarily fatal. The boy had been hired as a driver only the day before and this was his first work on the car. He has had practically no experience, coming here three weeks ago and taking a Job at the Schlltx hotel aa a bell boy. He had left that hotel in the car Just before the accident happened and turned west into Farnam street off Sixteenth street. Al Shultz, a professional driver, who was standing on the corner, declared that the machine was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour. In front of the United States National bank Miss Hooper started to cross the street, saw the big machine coming, became con fused and stopped squarely In front of It. The crowd saw the woman struck and saw the automobile stop with tho front wheel across her chest and neck. The driver for a minute and a half did not know whether to go on or back away and the woman was pinned under the weight of the car. By the time he had backed a few feet and the woman had been taken up several men In the crowd were threat ening Gilmore. He started to argue with them and Officers Carney and Cunning ham climbed In beside him and told him to drive to the police station Just before the crowd attacked him. Mrs. W. B. Millard states that ..ie car had been taken out without her permis sion. The boy declares that he was on an errand for himself at the hotel and was Just starting to get Mrs. Millard at the residence. Miss Hooper came to the city recently from Tekamah. LURED FROM OFFICE AND SHOT St. Louis Business Man Wounded Tnlce While Answering Message. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 27. Lured from his office by a message call, Louis Denny, proprietor of the Brentwood Soda and Supply company, was wounded twice at noon today by a person with a shotgun In a clump of wteds. Denny runnot llvo. The shooting occurred In Brentwood, a suburb In St. Louis county. The arsavsln escapod. vinced they were damaging the crops, i'oiaoii was set for them and they with the wild game birds were destroyed In vast numbers. With the disappearance of the birds came the locust, and whole sections of country were devastated, tight hundred million dollars, thb speaker declared. Is the estimated annual loss from Insects and ro dent pests. Mr. Flnley's words In speaking of the destruction ot plumage birds were bitter and his denunciation of the Ufce of plumes by women was scathing. "It 1b," he said, "Just aa much a woman's busimss to look beautiful as some people think It Is to cook a meal or wash the dishes, but the carcass of a bird in a bon net never made any ugly woman beautiful, nor la It neoassary to make a good-looking woman attractive." He paid a high tribute to Colonel Theo dora Roostvelt, who while president of tha United States set aside the first reservation ever established for wild fowl and followed It up by establishing fifty-two others, dis tributed la tllii fiU if tlie awuiiu-y. NEW AVIATION MAKK 1JVFA1MAN Englishman Covers More Than 118 Miles in Endurance Contest at Rheims. FLIGHT ENDS AT DARK Record Made in Biplane Designed by the Operator. LATHAM WAY IN THE REAR Record of Thursday is Exceeded by About Twenty Miles. BIG EVENT WILL COME TODAY Contest for .1 nines tinrdon Bennett Cup Is Itenarileil as Principal Feature of tho Week's Sport. RHEIMS, Avg. 27. Henry Fsrmnn. the KnKllfh aviator, f lying tine today In a biplane of his own fleslt-n, exceeded all existing aeroplane teiniils for distanca covered and longth of time In the air. He broke Hubert Latham's record made yes terday in a monoplane of Stf S miles, na well as Louis Pnulhnn's record for time of two hours, fifty-three minutes and twenty four seconds, made the day before in a Voisln biplane. Farman has completed his seventeenth lap. This gives him a distance of 170 kilometers or 105 67 miles. It was almost durk when Henry Farnam completed his eighteenth round, giving him a total distance of ISO kilometers, or 111.7S miles. Searchlights locatea on the lop ot the tribunes are sweeping the plain and aiding the daring aviator tn hlA flight! Farman stopped at the conclusion of his nineteenth lap. This gave him a total dis tance of 1M kilometers, not counting the curves In his flight, or 118.04 miles. The committee ceased recording Far man's rounds at 7:30 o'clock. He had then covered 1M) kilometers, or 111.78. miles, la three hours 4 minutes seconds. Farman's time at the end of the sixth to the seventeenth rounds, Inclusive, was: Sixth round 1:01:2K4. Seventh round l:ll:3fi Klghth round 1:21:; Ninth round lltin Tenth round l:4l:47Vfc Kleventh round 1:52:03 Twelfth round 2:22::U' Thirteenth round S.12:4r Fourteenth round 2.2 blVa Fifteenth round 2:3o:l Sixteenth round t:i3:35 Seventeenth round , 2:64: 44 At the completion of the fourteenth round It was seen that Latham's distance record, only four kilometers more than fifteen laps, was In danger, and the completion of hla seventeenth lap put him ahead of the rec ord of 2:53:24, made on Wednesday by Paul han. Farnam today used a Gnome revolv ing motor. Record of Latham. ' Latham, at the end of hit" seventh round, had been In the air one hour two niiiTutea 28H seconds; at the end of the eighth, his time was 1:11:20V; the ninth, l:iW:26k; the tenth, l:2H:2Mi, and the eleventh, l:3!j:i4. Latham alighted after having covered a distance of 111 kilometers, or UsM miles. Tlssanditr completed his first round In 9 minutes .H seconds; his time al the end ot the second, lSKltrV the third, 2:4tiM,; the fourth, &:22Vt; thu fifth, 47. A. V the sixth, 67:44ft; the seventh, l:'.iy-0; tho eighth, l:itM; the ninth, 1:2..1K; tne truth, l:8t:22, and the eleventh, 1:U:12,. ' Bunau-Varllla and Captain Ftrber also had brought out their machines for prac tice flights, and at 6:30 In the afternoon, five aeroplujies were circling around the course. At this hour the spectators were treated .to a rare sight. The military dirigible balloon Colonel Kenard came up from the south and maneuvered over tha plain jjt a height of 1.0U0 feet. The tiny aeroplanes were sweeping around beueallt the balloon, and It seemed as though they were prearing to attack tho huge aerial monster that dominated the scene. The Kenard moved back and forth over tha sun-lit pluiu, while the vast crowd watched the enchanting picture with expressions ol delight. llunuu-Vaiilla and Captain Ferber ended their flights in the "aeroplane graveyard ' al a turn In the course. The committee late today overruled Puulhan's cluuri that lie had been fouled thi.s morning hy lt Lugrunge and re quested t lie postponement of the finals In the liix Do La Chuiupuguo until to morrow. Two dirigible balloons, the Zodiac and thu Colonel lienartl, while evolutlng al a great height lata this afternoon In liont of the Tribune, passed within forty feet of eaotl other. A catastrophe was averted only by the skillful manipulation ot Count de La Vaulx, the pilot of tha Zodiac The two dirigibles were preparing for a rare. At the time of the Incident the aeroplanes wera sweeping around the coursw beneath theiu. Bis; JUeet Saturday. The conlest tomorrow for tha Interna tional cup, known otherwise as the Gordon BoMiolt trophy, to go to the aviator, who covered two laps, or 12.42 miles In tho shortest time. Is regarded as, the principal event of Aviation week. Both the Wright and the Knglinh machines are cuiiaidured too Blow to stand uny chutice, and the contest consequently lies among .ttieiiol, C'urt:BS and Latham, liienoi' big machine Is being fitted up wall new unit and pru pelleiK, and the pilot announces he Will try out his aeroplane ihm oiternoon. Doth lileiiot and his engineer agree that the motor was not damuged yesterday when the machine ran Into a fence surrounding the tribunes. Cortlandl F. Bishop, . president of the Aero Club of America, and Kugrr Wallace, president ot the Aero Club of Great Bri tain, had a conference this morning on the deflation of the committee to allow lileirot to use a machine In the race for the international cup other than the ' one with which he qualified. They decided that the lxsue raised concerned the French flyers only, and If the other contestants were satisfied the foreigners nad no reutun 10 protest. Glenn H. Curtlss, the American aviator, after further consideration, this morning filed i formal protest against Ills penaliza tion of one-tenth of his lime In the contest for the Prix De La Vitesse, on the ground that lie was distinctly Informed no pen alty would be inflicted If he did not start Sunday. He is willing, however, to ac cepted a penalization of one-tw entieth for his fault of Tuesday, as most of his compet itors received similar handicaps. Paalhnn Has Accident. While making hia second start Taulhan had aa accident, appaieuliy due to Lis
