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TITAN STEAMER
REACHES PORT
Lusitania Sets Time Between New
York and Europe*
BREAKS THE RECORD
Hakes the Trip From Queenstown in Five
Days, One Hour and Thirty-
Fire Minutes.
Anew steamboat record between
a European port and New York was
made by the Cunard line's new giant
turbine ship, the Lusitania, which
arrived in New York Friday morn
ing.
The Lusitania left Queenstown, the
nearest trans-Atiantic port to New
York at 12:10 a. m., Sunday, and
arrived at the Sandy Hook lightship
at 8:05 a. m. Friday, tasking the
time for the trip five days, one hour
and thirty-three minutes.
This Is five hours and fifty minutes
better than the previous Queenstown-
New York record of five days, seven
hours and twenty-three minutes, held
by the Lucania of the same line.
While the Lusitania has made anew
record for the time, a passenger is
actually on board ship, she has not
beaten the average speed per hour
recorded by the Kaiser Wilhelm 11,
which lias made 23.58 knots per hour
from New York to Plymouth, and the
Deutchland, with a record of 23.51
knots per hour to Plymouth, having
made the latter time. The Lusitania’s
*-l>eed per hour on her maiden voy
age la estimated at 23.01 knots per
hour.
The new ship was decked with flags
and bunting when she made her ap
pearance off Sandy Hook Friday
morning, her four big red funnels lend
ing color to the picture which was
marred by the prevailing haze.
A good sight of the beautiful vessel
was had from shore for only a short
while. Her passengers lined the rail
ings and crowded the different decks
■of the large vessel, waving handker
chiefs and American and British
flags. The marine observatory stations
on shore dipped their flags in salute,
other vessels in the lower bay blew
tlielr whistles in greeting, and the
Lusitania's blue ensign was constantly
lowered and raised again in acknowl
edgment of the reception given her.
She steamed slowly up the bay for
the new Ambrose channel, dug espec
ially for vessela of great draft, and
which she will be the first to use
in entering the port of New York.
While the giant Cunarder swept up
the bay, she was given a clamorous
greeting by an immense fleet of
eteara crafts, which had congregated
off the quarantine station to await
her arrival.
rsearly every one of the yachts, tow
boats and other steamers was crowded
with passengers, well supplied with
horns und other noise uvaking deviees,
and at times even the steamships
were almost drowned by the toots and
cheers.
The Lusitania presented a magnifi
cent picture as she slowly drew up at
the quarantine.
Her ke'ou, high bow. beautifully sym
metrical lines and finely modeled
stern, marked her a truly grey hound.
The first sight of New York which
the passengers on the big steamer
gained was one of welcome. From the
highest point of the towering Singer
.building on Broadway, the tallest
building on Broadway, there had been
strung a series of signal flags which
In the marine code spelled ‘ welcome.’'
The fluttering greeting was 600 feet
above Manhattan’s greater thorough
fare and could be seen far down the
bay.
For the past three years every one
interested in shipping has been
watching the express steamers build
iug for the Cunard Line. Ever since
the pioneer "Brittania." with her 1,154
tons and a speed of S 1-2 knots, made
her tuittal voyage in 1840, this com
pany has gone steadily forward, each
new conception outdoing the previous
one, until in the Lusitania, launched
June 7. 1906, the very acme of marina
architecture was reached.
The dimensions of this mammoth
ship convey but vaguely her size—
the figures are as follows: Length,
790 feet; breadth, 68 feet; depth
(.moulded), 60 feet; gross tonnage. 32.-
500 tous; displacement tonnage, 45,-
0 0 tons, load draught, 37 feet 6
Inches; height of funnels, 24 feet;
height of masts, 216 feet.
UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES
Enrage Women of Paris, Who Give Vent
to Their Feelings in Great Street
Demonstration.
The rising indignation of the
French masses against the escape
from the guillotine of Soleillant,
known as the "monstrous violator
and murderer,” whose sentence to
death for the atrocious murderer of
a 12-year-old girl, was commuted last
week by President Fa!liere3 to life
imprisonment, was expressed in Paris
Sunday in a series of the most cu
rious public manifestations that have
occurred in France for a long time.
The demonstration, despite the fact
that several arrests were made, was
almost entirely orderely. Many women
participated. The protest was organ
ized not so much against Soleillant
as to express the voice of the populace
against the wave of unspeakable
crimes committed on little girls which
lately has increased to an alarming
degree and which, it is feared, the
commutation of the sentence of Sole-
Hlant will only stimulate.
Several thousand persons were en
gaged in demonstrations at various
points of the city and especially large
was the crowd in the Place Saint
Ambrolse, near which lived little Mar
tha Eberding, the victim of Soleil
lant. The rage of the women of the
district has been great since Presi
dent Fallieres showed clemency to
Soleillant. They assembled Sunday
afternoon with their husbands and
other of the sympathizers and were
augmented in numbers by crowds of
curious persons. Their orderly cries
for justice were quickly changed to
cries of “death to Soleillant,” and
"down with Fallieres,” as the proces
sion, led by a woman, who carried a
little girl on her shoulders, with the
purpose of indicating the object of
manifestation, moved toward the Place
de la Republique. Soon the streets
were choked by a vast mob and the
police reserves were called out to dis
perse it. The paarde, however, as
sembled again, and several of the
more violent demonstrators were ar
rested.
The newspapers of Paris are devot
ing great space to the Soleillant case.
Many of them loudly condemn the
failure of President Falllieres to per
mit the law to take Its course, and
all of them agree that the coramuta
tatlon of this sentence signifies the
passing for ever of the guillotine from
France. Some of the journals ex
press the opinion that the escape of
Soleillant from the guillotine ooly
places a premium on crime.
The entire question of crime will
be taken up at the approaching ses
sion of parliament, especially as Paris
and other large cities are becoming
alarmingly Infested with another type
of criminal known as “the apache,”
who in the secluded sections, almost
dally maim and rob and sometimes
murder their vtcitims. Their weapons
always are knives, and, gathering in
I)ahds, they often wantonly stab pedes
trians and frequently policemen mere
ly for the sake of stabbing.
M. Touny, director of the Paris po
lice, declared that his force was en
tirely insufficient to cope with the
situation. He recommended the adop
tion of corporal punishment for
breakers as an offset to comfortable
and inviting prisons.
GETTING READY FOR IMMIGRANTS.
City Council of Savannah to Watch After
New Comers from Austria.
A committee from the Savannah
city council is busily engaged ia mak
ing preparations for the immigrants
that are expected to reach the city
next month from Trieste, Austria.
There will be about 170 in the party.
They will be distributed throughout
Georgia. Many of them, it is (bought,
will elect to go to the plantations, as
they are of a class that has bean
largely devoted to agriculture.
WOMAN KILLS ASSAILANT.
Defends Honor by Shooting Man Who At
tempted to Assault Her.
News reached Woodville, Miss., Fri
day of the fatal shooting of Nicholas
Messenger by Mrs. Aiuauda Hum
phreys in the country about four miles
northeast of the town. Mrs. Humphreys
used a revolver, Messenger dying al
most immediately.
Mrs. Humphreys appeared before
a magistrate and was released ou hail.
It is understood she will plead the
unwritten law. claiming that Messen
ger attempted to asault her.
MANY MANGLED
IN RAIL CRASH
Fast Trains Come Together Dealing
Grim Death and Destruction.
24 DEAD AND 27 HURT
Horror Occurred on Boston & Maine Rail
way and Was Result of Mistaken Or
ders—Scene Was Frightful.
A fearful head-on collision between
the southbound Quebec express and
a northbound freight train on the Con
cord division of the Boston and Maine
railroad occurred four miles north of
Canaan station, Vermont, early Sun
day, due to a mistake in train dis
patchers’ orders, and from a demolish
ed passenger coach there were taken
twenty-four dead and dying and twen
ty-seven other passengers, most of
them seriously wounded. Nearly all
of those who were in the death car
were returning from a fair at Sher
brook, Quebec, 160 miles north.
The conductor of the freight was
given to understand that he had plen
ty of time to reach a siding by the
night operator at Canaan station, re
ceiving, according to the superintend
ent of the division ,a copy of the tel
egram order from the train dispatcher
at Concord, which confused the train
number 30 and 34. The wreck oc
curred Just after the express had
rounded into a straight stretch of
track, but, owing to the early morn
ing mist neither engineer saw the
other’s headlight until it was too late.
The southbound train was made up
at Sherbrook, where it picked up two
sleepers from 'Quebec and two more
on the way down. It consisted of the
baggage car, passenger coach and
smoking car in that order, with the
sleepers in the rear.
The train .’eft White River Juno
tion, Vt., at 3:50 Sunday morning, for
ty minutes late, and followed twenty
minutes later by the Montreal Ex
press over the Central Vermont. The
Quebec express train is known as No.
30 and the Montreal train as No.
34.
Meantime a northbound freight train
known as No. 267 had arrived at
Canaan, 18 miles down the road, at
4:10 a. m., on time. According to W.
R. Ray, Jr., division superintendent,
J. R. Crowley, the night train dis
patcher at Concord, sent a dispatch
to John Greeley, the night operator
at Canaan, that No. 34 was one hour
and ten minutes late. The order which
Conductor Lawrence of the freight
train showed after the accident dis
tinctly states that No. 30 instead of
No. 34 was an hour and ten min
utes Conductor Lawrence, be
lieving that he had sufficient time in
the hour and ten minutes to reach
the sidetrack at West Canaan, four
miles beyond, before No. 30 reached
it, ordered his train ahead. The su
perintendent declared that the acci
dent was due to the mistake in plac
ing a cipher after the three in the
number of the train instead of ia
four.
One of those who escaped said that
as the train was rounding a curve
someone in front of the car began
to sing so that nearly every oue was
awake when the crash came. Those
who were in the other cars recovered
their dazed senses, jumped out to the
aide of the track and hurried to the
demolished passenger coach, where
groans, cries and shrieks were rend
ing the air.
Fortunately, with the engines off
to one side, the wreckage did not
take Are and add horror to the al
ready dreadful scene. The train hands,
ably seconded by the passengers from
the sleeping cars, groped their way
among the ruins and began the work
of rescue.
EXHIBIT BY GEORGIA MILLS
To Be Made on Extensive Scale at Stat*
Fair in Atlanta.
One of the features of the Georgia
state fair will be a comprehensive ex
hibit by the various Georgia mills,
members of the Georgia Industrial As
sociation.
Letters have been sent out from the
Atlanta offices of the association to
the 153 mills in the state which com
prise the membership, requesting the
owners of the mills to make their ex
hibits at the fair.
1 THIEF COMES TO GRIEF
Embezzler Letten Arrested While Contem
plating Suicide —Spent Stolen Money
On Negro Woman.
Charles E. Letten, chief clerk in the
office of the first district tax collec
tor in New Orleans, who disappeared
a few days ago, leaving a shortage
of over one hundred thousand dollars,
was discovered and arrested Thursday
afternoon while standing on the bank
of the Mississippi river attempting to
summon up courage enough to jump
in the water and commit suicide. He
said he had started toward the water
several times, but each time his cour
age failed him. He made a full con
fession.
Letten said, when carried before
the inspector of police and the grand
jury, that he had spent the greater
part of the money he had taken on a
negro woman, who lives in a hand
somely furnished house in the old
French quarter of the city, and who
is said to have bought considerable
quantities of real estate. Letten says
the greater part of the money he had
given her had been invested in realty,
only a comparatively small amount
being devoted to her living expenses,
and keeping up the house in which
she lived.
According to latest estimate made
as to Letten’s shortage, he was about
$107,000 short in his accounts when
he disappeared. In the meantime he
said he had been hiding in the weeds
along the river w r hile the police of
half a dozen southern cities were care
fully watching every train and steam
boat.
Virginia Reed, the negress in the
case, was at once arrested, and held
as a witness. An attempt will be
made to indict her as a principal in
the defalcation. Her will, a copy of
which was obtained, showed that she
had made provision to give much of
the stolen money to a church and to
an orphanage. Letten had only 83
cents in his possession when arrested.
MILLIONAIRE GOURDAIN INSANE-
Goes Daft in Atlanta Pen and is Sent to
Asylum in Washington.
Louis A. Gourdain, the millionaire,
who lived for a while in New Orleans
and then in Chicago, but more recent
ly an inmate of the federal prison in
Atlanta, was sent from the latter in
stitution Thursday to the government
asylum for the insane in Washing
ton. Accompanying Gourdain was
John Peterson, who also became in
sane while in the Atlanta federal pris
on. Peterson was serving a sentence
for robbing the United States mails.
They made the trip to Washington
under the guard of a company of fed
eral officers, headed by Deputy Mar
shal Rinard.
Louis A. Gourdain was a few years
ago tried on the charge of using the
United States mails for fraudulent pur
poses. While his case was hanging fire
he came into sudden fame by his dec
laration that he would use a part of
his great wealth in the erection of a
private prison if the United States did
not provide him with one.
A short time afterwards he was sen
tenced and sent to prison a few
months ago, being transferred to the
Atlanta federal prison.
|T AX ABLE VALUE OF SOUTHERN *
In state of Georgia Fixed By Arbitration
Board at $18,539,336.
The value of the Southern system
m Georgia has been placed at $18,539,-
336 by the board of arbitration, com
posed of Hon. Roland Ellis, represent
ing the road; Commissioner Stevens,
representing the state, and Judge Mil
ler, as umpire.
From this award Commissioner Ste
vens dissented, claiming that it was
too low. The figures were $3,655,383
over the returns of the company, and
$7,960,664 under what the comptroller
general had assessed the property.
AID ASKED FOR STRIKERS.
President Gompers Issues Assistance Call
in Behalf of Telegraphers.
Asa result of a recent conference
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor will issue an ap
peal for aid for the striking telegraph
operators. “It will be,” said Mr. Gom
per, “a general request to organized
labor for assistance both finapeial and
moral, in accordance with the pledge
made at the recent meeting of the ex
ecutive council of the federation.”
HERITAGE OF CIVIL War^
Thousands of Soldiers Contract-
Chronic Kidney Trouble While
in the Service.
The experience of Capt. John L Pi.
of Cos. E, 17th Ohio, now living at
East Second St.. Newton, KanJ
twill interest the th on .
sands of veterans who
Civil VVacsuffering tor*
tureswith kidney com?
"I contracted kidnw
trouble duringtheCivft
\\ ar, and the occasions/
attacks finally devel
°ped into a chronli
case. At one time I had to use
crutch and cane to get about, jj.
back was lame and weak, and beside*
the aching, there was a distressii*
retention of the kidney secretions 1
was in a bad way when I began usini
Doan’s Kidney Pills in 1901, but th
remedy cured me, and I have beet
well ever since.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box,
Foster-Milburn Cos., Buffalo, N. Y.
NEW SPECIES.
Brown Zebras and Black-Lined Ant*
lopes Seen in Africa.
Intimation concerning two nei
species of animals, indigenous to At
rica, has been conveyed to Europe by
Mr. J. E. Speares, who has bee*
spending several months in trapping
and hunting big game in Portugew
East Africa in the regions surrouni
ing Lake Nangadi and the Rovunul
River. One of these refers to a nei
type of zebra, a whole herd of whicb
the hunter observed near by, but i
specimen of which ha failed to secure
Many members of this herd wen
marked differently to the
type of this animal, the heads and
necks being brown, while the bind
quarters were striped in the convei
tional manner peculiar to this quad
ruped. When the natives were quen
tinned upon the point, they asserted
that they were a variety of zebrj
but that they were becoming veq
sarce. Although the hunter pursue
the herd for several miles, owing t
their agility and timidity he was un
able to approach them closely. Upoi
another occasion, however, he wj
more fortunate and secured a close
view of the animal. It resembles tb
zebra In shape, but the head, necl
fore-legs, and fore half of the bod
were quite dark brown in color, tb
hind part of the body, including tb
legs, being striped. He also
ered a peculiar type of antelope sldm
ilar In size and shape to the Boer rol
buck or irapala, the distinctive diffeii
ence being a black line down til
centre of the back and on either hiuJj
leg down to the foot. When the asl
mal is startled It immediately takl
to flight, the initial leap being full
ten feet through the-air. This sped*
of antelope is essentially gregarioil
being found in herd3 ranging fro*
ten to fifty in number, and is el
ceedingly wild and active. Mr. Spearl
also secured what is believed to bel
new species of buck which is pel
fectly hornless, about as large asl
steenbuck and possessing a brillial
red coat. —Scientific American. 1
THE COMPELLING CAUSE, jl
Little Millie: “Grandad, what mal*
a man always give a woman a diam<®
engagement ring?”
Grandfather: “The woman.” —Pi®
Me-Up. ||
HOW SHE KNEW.
Him: “How did you first learn tb®
you loved me?”
Her: “I found that I got very an;®
whenever I heard anybody calling f®
a brainless idiot.” —Cleveland Lead®
FOUND OUT.
A Trained Nurse Made Discoverf-I
No one is in better position!
know the value of food and drl®,
than a trained nurse.
Speaking of coffee, a nurse i||
Wilkes Barre, Pa., writes: “I used®
drink strong coffee myself and s®|
fered greatly from headaches and®;,;
digestion. While on a visit to ®|
brothers I had a good chance to <®
Postum Food Coffee, for they dra*|
it altogether in place of ordinary <®|
fee. In two weeks after using -' ®
turn I found I was much beneS*
and finally my headaches disappe
and also the indigestion.
“Naturally I have since used I*l
turn among my patients, and have*
ticed a marked benefit where col*|
has been left off and Postum use( */®|
“I observed a curious fact aw*|
Postum when used among niotb*
It greatly helps the flow of
cases where coffee is inclined to
it up, and where tea causes ae:' ro *
ness.
“I find trouble in getting serv*
to make Postum properly. *g’
most always serve it before h *9
been boiled long enough. R
be boiled 15 to 2 0 minutes after
ing begins and served with c r e*|
when it Is certainly a delicious
age.” Read “The Road to Wei!™*
in pkga. “There’s a Reason." | ,