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ADMIRAL DEWEY BEGINS JOURNEY HOME
Leaves Manila On the Olympia Amidst Music of Bands, Booming
of Cannon and Shouts of Thousands of Sailors.
i EXACT ITINERARY IS NOT AT PRESENT KNOWN AT DEPARTMENT
Hero of Manila Sat Upon the Deck of His Ship and Received Parting
Adieus From His Hosts of Friends.
The cruiser Olympia with Admiral
Dewey on board left Manila on her
homeward journey to the United
States at 4 o’clock last Saturday after¬
noon. As she steamed away the Ore¬
gon, Baltimore and Concord fired an
admiral’s salute. At the first shot the
band on the flagship’s aft deck played
a lively air and her white clad sailors
crowded the decksjand gave a tremen¬
dous cheer. As the Olympia passed
the Oregon, the crew of that battleship
gave nine cheers for the Olympians,
wdio responded by throwing their caps
so high that dozens of them were left
bobbing in the wake of the cruiser.
Then followed the noisiest half hour
known in the Vanila harbor since the
battle which linked its name with that
of Dewey. The din of guns and brass
bands echoed through tho smoke, a
fleet of steam launches shrieked their
whistles, the musicians of the Balti¬
more played “Home, Sweet Home,”
her flags signaled “good-by” and those
of the Oregon said “pleasant voyage.”
The merchant vessels in these waters
dipped their flags, the ladies on the
decks of the vessels of the fleet waved
handkerchiefs and the great, blafck
British cruiser Powerful, which lay
the furt.herest, saluted the Olympia,
The latter’s band then played “God
Save the Queen,” and to this the crew
of the Powerful responded with hearty
cheers for the Olympia.
The last music heard from Admiral
Dewey’s ship was “Auld Laug Syne,”
while the guns from the forts at Cav-
ite and from the Monterey, on guard
off Paranaque, too far to be audible,
puffed white clouds of smoke.
Tl\e Olympia was disappearing past
Corregidor island when a battery be-
fore the walled citv spoke Manila’s
last word of farewell.
Admiral Dewey sat on the deck of
the Olympia and received the adieu of
his friends during the most of the day.
The launch of Major General Otis was
the first to arrive alongside the cruiser
at 7 o’clock Saturday morning and af¬
terwards the admiral landed and called
upon the major general and the United
States Philippine commissioners.
Admiral Dewey was enthusiastic
I over his home going, but when men-
tion was made of the welcome to be
[ j extended to him he said he appreciated
the friendship of his countrymen
deeply, but hoped they would not be
too demonstrative. He intends to go
J directly to his home at Montpelier,
Vt., and lire there. On it being said
that the people wanted him to go home
by the way of Sail Francisco and across
the continent, the admiral replied:
| "If I was twenty years younger and had
ARBITRATION TO THE fORE.
I Second Session of tile Peace Confer¬
ence a Short One.
The second sitting of the peace con¬
ference at The Hague took place Sat¬
urday morning and lasted thirty -five
minutes.
The president of the conference,
Baron De Staal, read the replies of the
czar and Queen Wilhelmina to the
telegrams sent to them by the confer-} |
ence on Thursday.
The president, M. De Staal, then
addressed the delegates on the subject
of the labors before them, and it was
decided not to publish the speech. It
■was learned during the day that he
placed the question of mediation and
arbitration in the forefront during his
speech. The question of the laws of
war rendering war as humane as pos¬
sible by the extension of the regula¬
tions already existing was then touch¬
ed upon by the president and he rel¬
egated the question of the reduction
of armaments to the third place.
FINAL ORDERS GIVEN
For Payment of the Three Millions To
the Cuban Army.
A special from Havana says: The
order for the payment of the Cuban
troops and the delivery of their arms
to the mayors of the various munici-
palities under the supervision of the
civil governors was signed by Governor
General Brooke Saturday.
The first payment of the troops has
been set for May 27th at the foot of
the Prado in Havana, and the second
for May 30th at Santiago de las Vegas,
in Havana province. The payments
will be continued at other places in
the crovince day by day thereafter.
ROBBERS USED TORCH.
Big Jacksonville Cigar Factory Looted
and Then Set On Fire.
The entire plant of the G. H. Gato
Ci<rav Manufacturing company at
Jacksonville, Fla., was burned Satur-
day night. The loss is $15,000, with
$7,000 insurance. incendiary, the safe
The origin was robbed before tbe 1
in ttee office being !
'place was fired. Mr. Gato, the pro-
prietor, states that he will rebuild im- ;
mediately- I
pclltical ambitions I would net miss that
chance."
Speaking of the situation, Admiral
Dewey said:
“I believe wo are near the end. The in¬
surgents are fast going to pieoes. The send-
ingot a third commission'shows that they
believe this commission moans business.”
Captain Walker, of the Concord,
the last of the commanders in battle
at Manila, went to the admiral and
said:
“Don’t leave me behind.”
So he was relieved and went home
on the Olympia along with Admiral
Dewey.
DEWEY ITINERARY.
Navy Department Will Soon Issue a Bul¬
letin for the Public.
A Washington special says: So far the
navy department knows nothing ... except .
in the most general way of the itinera-
ry of Admiral Dewey’s cruise from
Manila to New York. He has reported
that he will come by the Suez
canal route and has not indicated
officially how long he will take in mak¬
ing the trip. The actual departure of
the Olympia was made known in the
following five words coming by cable
from Captain Baker at Manila:
“Olympia, Hong Kong. Assumed
cammand.”
The understanding at the navy de-
partment is that the admiral will spend
about two weeks at Hong Hong, and for
the Olympia is to be docked her
drab war paint must be covered with
the spotless white which makes the
American naval ship the most beauti-
ful in the world.
In the absence of other information,
it is assumed that the Olympia from
Hong Kong will follow the usual
course of the warships coming home
by way of the Suez canal. She will
touch first after Hong Kong at Singa-
pore, then at Columbo, then, perhaps,
at Aden, at the entrance of the Bed
sea, to take on a crew of Lascars to
fire the boilers in the intensely hot
passage through the sea and the Suez
| canal,
Stops will be made of necessity at
Suez and at Port Said. It is assumed
that Malta will be touched, and per-
baps Genoa or Nice before reaching
Gibraltar. Leaving the Mediterra-
nead, the Olympia will stand straight
across the Atlantic, though she may
put in at Azores for two days,
The time that should be occupied by
such a trip is variously estimated by
naval officers, but the average is about
seventy days from date. However,the
public will soon be able to get a more
accurate knowledge of the itinerary, for
within a few days the navy department
will be in possession of the schedule
of the ship’s movements.
VIEWED OLD BATTLEFIELDS.
President Takes In the Shenandoah
Valley On Homeward Trip.
The president and Mrs. McKinley,
with the friends who accompanied
tbem, reached Washington at 5:30 Sat-
nrday afternoon. The outing has been
of great benefit to the president and
he resumes his official duties thor¬
oughly refreshed aud invigorated.
The party left Hot Springs, Va., Fri¬
day night and Saturday traveled slow-
ly through the Shenandoah valley, rich
in beautiful scenery and points of his-
toric interest. Thirty-five years ago
Mr. McKinley, as assistant adjutant
general on the staff of General Crook,
marched through the same valley par¬
ticipating in the heavy fighting which
occurred during Sheridan’s famous
raid.
The president went over this ground
and from the rear platform of recalled the spe¬
cial train which carried him
with great distinctiveness the places
which saw so much bloodshed. The
roadways aud stations were lined with
people to catch a glimpse of the chief
of the nation or to warmly grasp hi*
hand where brief stops were made.
NEBRASKANS GREET SCHLEY.
Omaha Citizens Tender Rear Admiral
a Grand Reception.
Vn the face of a biting wind of a
raw day, 10,000 people attended a
public reception tendered Rear Ad-
miral Schley in Omaha Saturday. The
rotunda of the city hall was elaborately
decorated and from 4 until 6 o clock a
constant stream of humanity passed
through. for closing the
When the hour re¬
ception came there were still people in
line. As he drove away in a carriage
a large crowd around tbe city hall
cheered him vigorously. In the even¬
ing by°the Admiral Schley was banqueted
members of the Loyal Legion.
’
SHAFTER IN COMMAND.
General Is Placed In Charge of Alaskan
Military Affairs, i
A Washington dispatch states that
the war department has turned over to
General Shatter the complete direction
c f a ll military affairs m Alaska. The
only general instructions sent to him
have been to relieve the soldiers who
have been stationed in Alaska by fresh
troops, it being deemed unwise to at-
tempt to retain men m that climate for
more than one year at a tune.
connissiON at Samoa
Members Begin Their Labors By
a Conference With Chief
Justice Chambers.
The Samoan commission, consisting
of Bartlett Tripp, former United States
minister to Austria-Hungary; Baron
Speck von Sternberg, representing
Germany, and 0. N. Elliott, C. B., of
the British embassy at Washington,
representing England, arrived at Apia,
Sam an Islands, on May 13th. Its
first sitting took place May 16th. The
commissioners were engaged all that
morning in conferring with the chief
justice, William L Chambers.
Nothing was disclosed regarding
the deliberations, but it is reported
that they will uphold the action of
Admiral Kautz, the American naval
commander.
Mataafa sent the commissioners a
letter of welcome and expressed hope
that they would satisfactorily end the
troubles in Samoa. It is understood
Mataafa will obey the unanimous or-
der of the commission, though it is
doubtful whether he will order his.
followers to disarm, unless the Malie-
toans are first disarmed.
The Germans are preparing com-
pensation claims. It is understood
one firm claims $60,000, aud that
other German subjects claim $20,000.
Replying to questions submitted to
him by a correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press, Mataafa said it was the
head chiefs, and not himself, who be-
gan the war, adding that they did so
b th j were angered e at power r
being taken from them by violonce.
Mataafa claimed he had upheld the
treaty and said his orders throughout
were not to fire upon the Europeans,
and that but for this order the whole
party of blue-jackets could several
times have been shot down by large
bodies of natives concealed in the
brush.
KAUTZ TO BE RELIEVED.
Satisfaction Expressed In Washington
Over Samoan Affairs.
A Washington special says: The
American member of the Samoan com-
mission, Mr. Bartlett Tripp, did not
make any report by cable to the state
department Thursday and all the de¬
partment’s information of the move-
ment of the commission came from the
naval cablegram and the press dis-
patches.
The officials were gratified to note
that there had been no fresh outbreak
preceding the arrival of the commis-
sion, and from what is reported of the
conditions at Apia, they are convinced
that the crisis has passed, and that the
commission, will have little difficulty
in securing the complete restoration
of peace.
It is realized that it will be no easy
task to provide permanently for the
administration of the affairs of the is-
lands, however, and it is possible that
this portion of the work will be passed
ovfer for the time and remain for ad-
justment when the commissioners re-
turn to the United States,
Respecting the reported approval by
the commission of Admiral Kantz’s
acts, it can be stated that little doubt
was entertained in Washington that
such would be the result when these
acts were examined dispassionately by
fair-minded men of large caliber, just
as they received the approval of the
j president and Secretary Hay, after a
j .careful scrutiny.
! Admiral Kautz will return to the
United States with the Philadelphia,
j j The fla >ship will be replaced at Apia
fly the cruiser Newark, which is as
f orm jd a ble in every respect as the
Philadelphia, and having been recent-
, jy renov ated, is in shape for long ser-
vice. She was started for Apia about
s i x wee h s ago from New York, making
her way around South America.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
Committees Consider the Subjects
Submitted To Them.
Advices from The Hague state both
sections of the committee on the laws
of warfare of the peace conference met
separately Thursday and began the ex¬
amination of the subjects submitted to
them, the Red Cross section discussing
paragraphs five and six of the circular
of Count Mnravieff, the Russian min¬
ister of foreign affairs, and the Brus¬
sels conference section discussing par¬
agraph seven. and
Both sections met subsequently
discussed the question of competence
as regards the scheme for the revision
of the Geneva convention known as the
Morgnier scheme.
WASHINGTON’S SCHOOL.
Eighteenth Annual Commencement
Occurs At Tuskegee.
The eighteenth annual commence¬
ment of the Tuskegee, Ala., Normal
and Industrial institute, Booker Wash¬
ington’s school, occurred Thursday.
Eleven hundred and sixty-four stud¬
ents have been enrolled during the
year, 801 boys, 363 girls. The atten¬
tion has been very steady, bringing
the avereage for the year above one
thousand. 1 The graduates in all de¬
partments number sixty-one, of these
forty-four are from both normal and
industrial departments.
NEW POST FOR COOHLAN.
Commander of Raleigh Is Ordered To
Puget Sound Station.
The naval orders posted Wednesday
assign Captain J. B. Coghlan to duty
as commandant of the Puget Sound
naval station, June 30th, by which
time the Raleigh will be out of com¬
mission. The remaining detached officers of
the Raleigh are also ami
placed in waiting orders or leave.
Captain Coghlan relieves as command¬
ant Captain J. G. Green.
STEAMER PARIS
ALMOST WRECKED
Went Ashore On the Treacherous
Manacles Near Falmouth.
NO LIVES REPORTED LOST
Accident Occurred Near Scene of
tho Mohegan Disaster.
Advices from Falmouth, England,
slate that the American fine steamer
Paris, Captain Watkins, from South¬
ampton and Cherbourg for Norfolk,
struck on an outlying ridge of the
-Manacles early Sunday morning at a
point half mile from where the
wrecked Atlantic transport liner Mo-
hegau lies, and live miles from Fal-
month.
The Paris, which sailed from South¬
ampton Saturday, called at Cherbourg
and picked up fifty passengers. She
left Cherbourg at 6 o’clock Saturday
evening. Soon after 1 o’clock Sunday
morning, at high tide, and in a dense
fog, she ran ashore. From the first
there was no danger. Lifeboats and
tugs were soon literally swarming
around the vessel to render assistance.
A majority of the passengers, number¬
ing 380, were carried to Falmouth,
where they obtained lodgings for the
night.
Captain Watkins reported that his
ship was lying comfortably in smooth
.vater, and that there was no occasion
for any alarming reports. He report¬
ed the passengers and crew as well.
The first intimation of the vessel’s
striking the rocks was a slight grating
sound, followed by a shock and then
a more pronounced shock. The look¬
out shouted that there was something
looming ahead, but before there was
time to reverse the engines the ship
had gone on the rocks, 200 yards from
the shore. Assistance was summoned
by means of rockets, aud the coast
guards promptly telephoned to the
life-saving station for boats.
A majority of the passengers were
not aware that an accident had hap¬
pened until they were called up by the
steward.
On reaching the deck theyfound the
ship’s boats in perfect readiness for
their reception. The se4 was perfectly
calm, and the only discomfort that the
passengers experienced was caused by
the slight rain falling at the time.
Owing to the calmness of the sea the
boats could be managed with entire
safety. prevailed aboard the
Perfect order
vessel. Captain Watkins stood on the
bridge giving orders, and his perfect
self-possession and calmness of de¬
meanor had a reassuring effect upon
the passengers, In accordance with
the instructions of tho captain, the
women and children were the first to
be taken off the ship. Such perfect
order was maintained that a passenger
described the scene as simply a slow
procession of women and children
walking in single file to the boats.
IT 15 NOW AUTONOMY.
Representatives of Filipino Rebels
Have Dropped Armistice
Question.
The Filipino commissioners who ar¬
rived at Manila Saturday to negotiate
with the United States commissioners
held a conference Sunday morning
with Messrs. Scliurman, Worcester
and Den by. They say that t hey are
without power to bind the so-called
Filipino government in any particular
and can only refer any results of the
present negotiations to Aguinaldo.
The commissioners, General Gre-
Gorio del Pilar, Lieutenant Colonel
Alberto Barretto, Major Zealita and
Senor Gracio Gonzaga, with their
families, spent the day in visiting
friends in Manila and conferred with
Senors Florentine Torres, Pablo
Ocampo and Teodore Yanco, the mem¬
bers of the local Filipino association,
who will participate in the meetings
with Americen commissioners.
Autonomy is the burden of the talk
of the Filipinos, and it is thought that
the kind they wish for would be little
different from the American protecto¬
rate which they talked of before the
war.
LAKE CITY POSTOFFICE
Will Be Re-Established By the Wash¬
ington Officials.
President McKinley has assured
Congressman Norton of South Carolina
that he would take up the matter of
re-establishing a postoffiee at Lake
City with the postmaster general aud
see what could be done about it.
Mr.Noiton visited the capital at the
urgent request of the business element
in Lake City to make an earnest ap¬
peal in behalf of the conservative ele¬
ment of that city. They are now sub¬
jected to the greatest inconveniences,
having to carry their letters four or
five miles to be mailed to and from the
nearest postoffice station.
PARDONS ARE REFUSED.
Governor Candler, of Georgia, Turns
Down /Taiiy Applications.
Fourteen applications for pardons
were turned down at Atlanta, Ga.,
Monday, by Governor Candler because
the state pardon board failed to make
favorable recommendations.
Tbe wholesale refusal of applications
by tbe board indicates that to obtain
lavorable recommendation is not so
easy a thing as was imagined by many
people.
DAUNTLESS CASE.
Little Pilibusterer Will Soon Be
Freed From Custody
of Courts.
A Savannah dispatch says: The
steam tug Dauntless, which caused
the United States officers so many
sleepless nights before the war with
Spain was finally declared, is about to
get a clean and clear discharge from
the United States court in Georgia.
The cases against the vessel have al¬
ready been dismissed in Florida, and
it will not, require long to Bettle mat¬
ters with the Georgia court.
When the case against the Dauntless
was called Monday morning in theUni-
ted States court at Savanah the district
attorney stated that the differences
between the government and the
owners of the Dauntless were now Vis¬
ing arranged. He stated that the
cases against the vessel in Florida had
been dismissed and he understood the
same course was to be pursued by the
Georgia court.
It was announced that as soon as
the owner of the Dauntless signed a
certificate of probable cause for her
detention by the United States author¬
ities so that there could be no action
taken against the government later for
detaining the tug the case would he
dismissed. It was desired to protect
the government from any embarass-
ment in the future. The certificate
will be signed within the next few
days and the Dauntless will have no
charge against it in any court.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Various New Industries Estab¬
lished the Past Week.
The more important of the new in¬
dustries reported during the past
week include a $25,000 box aud barrel
factory in Kentucky; a construction
company in Mississippi; six cotton
mills—three in Georgia, two in North
Carolina and one in South Carolina;
seven cottonseed oil mills—one each
in Alabama, Mississippi and two each
in Georgia and South Carolina; electric
light, plants in Kentucky and Tennes-
see; fertilizer factories in Georgia and
South Carolina; flouring mills in Ken-
tueky and Tennessee; a $50,000 furni-
ture factory in Mississippi; a window
glass company in West Virginia; $50,-
000 grain elevator in Georgia; a patent
hinge factory in Kentucky; ice facto-
ries in Florida and East Tennessee; a
knitting mill in North Carolina; a
leather goods manufactory in West
Virginia; a $600,000 lumber company
in Arkansas and a $200,000 one in Geor-
gia; machine shops in Texas; mining
companies in Texas and West Virginia;
a $200,000 novelty works and machine
company in West Virginia; oil compa-
nies in Texas and West Virginia; a
packing establishment on the gulf
coast of Mississippi; planing mills in
Georgia and East Tennessee; a stave
factory in North Carolina; a . ugar re-
finery in Louisiana; a tobacco factory
in North > avolina, aud a wood work -
ing factory in Alabama.—Tradesman
(Chattanooga, Tenn.)
THREE YEARS FOR KEENER.
Alleged Confederate of Dice Convicted
In United States Court.
In the United States ecu tat Atlanta
Monday morning John R. Keener, the
alleged confederate of George W.Diee,
the king of counterfeiters, was sen-
tenced by Judge Newman to serve
three years in the state prison at Nash-
ville and to pay a fine of $500, in ad-
ditio’n to all the costs of prosecution.
Keener was convicted for having in
his possession and concealing coun-
terfeit money. This money, amount-
ing to $9,000, was obtained from
George W. Dice, who sought to play
his hand during the days of the Cotton
States and International exposition
four years ago.
Dice is now serving a term of eight
years in the penitentiary and in addi¬
tion to that he has over him a fine of
$500.
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NEW CRUISERS DESIGNED.
The Building of Only Six Warships
Will Be Undertaken This Year.
The board of naval bureau chiefs at
Washington Monday agreed upon the
details of the six new cruisers, Den-
ver, Des Moines, Chattanooga, Gal-
veston, Tacoma and Cleveland, which
will be the only vessels provided for
in the last naval appropriation bill
that can be undertaken this year, ow¬
ing to the inability of tbe department
to secure armor for the others.
PROPOSED NEW ROAD.
Report That One Will Be Built From
Columbia To Jacksonville.
It is reported that the Southern
Railway is to build a line of its own
from Columbia, S. C., to Jacksonville,
Fla., as a result of the recent purchase
by the Williams syndicate of the
Florida Central and Peninsular rail¬
road.
The system will build an air line
from Alleudale, S. C., the southern
terminus of the Carolina Midland rail¬
way, which it recently acquired, to
Jacksonville.
The report is based on information
from Raleigh, which comes apparently
from Southern sources.
FATALITIES OF WAR.
Deaths Among Our Soldiers Since Be¬
ginning of Hostilities With Spain.
Adjutant General Corbin has pre¬
pared the following statement of the
number of deaths which have occurred
in the army since the beginning of
tbe war with Spain:
In Cuba, 1,399; iu Porto Rico, 287;
at Honolulu, 45; in tbe Philippines,
664; in the United States, 3,872—
total, 6,209.
DEMOCRATS CONFER.
They Met On Occasion of
Anti-Trust Banquet.
CAMPAIGN PLAN DISCUSSED
Gathering At St. Ixmis of flembers
of the National Democratic
Committee.
With twenty-two members present
in person the Democratic National
committee went into secret session at
10 o’clock Thursday at the Planters*
hotel in St. Louis.
The special occasion which brought
together these democrats was the ban¬
quet of the Jefferson Club of St Louis,
the anti-trust banquet it was called.
Governor Stone stated the object of
the meeting as set out in the call. He
was then elected chairman.
J. M. Griffin, of Pennsylvania, who
was present as proxy for Committee¬
man Harity of that state, made a total
representation of 23 states Commit¬
teeman Stone, of Missouri, presided,
and immediately after calling the
meeting to order announced that re¬
ports of organizations and conditions
in the different states were desired.
One by one the representatives of the
different states outlined the conditions
existing at home and the reports were
accepted without recommendations of
any kind.
A number of matters of importance
were discussed and plans looking to
complete organization for the fight of
I960 were gone over,
The work that has been done by the
ways aud means committee was given
formal indorsement, and in order that
this might be furthered and other mat-
ters of vital importance might be cou¬
sidered officially, a resolution was
adopted requesting Senator Jones to
formally convene the committee at
Chicago on July 20th.
The date and place are left to his
discretion, but the above suggestions
were made by those of the committee
present. As this was only a coa-
ference and not a regularly called
meeting, they thought it best to Love
the full committee get together at an
| early battle date of next and prepare for the great
; year,
j After the committee had been in ses-
; sion an hour, Mr. Brvau was intro-
duced and made a short address, urg-
i ing the members to look closely after
the organizations in their states, and
suggesting that strong efforts be mad*
1 to provide campaign funds for the com¬
! ing campaign. He made no specific
! suggestions, merely talking in a gen¬
i eral way regarding the great advantage
j of organization.
j The banquet to which more than
fifteen hundred people sat down was
I spread in the exposition hall, a great
structure built somewhat on the lines
° f Madison Square Garden, with pn-
vate boxes and tiers of seats and gal-
leries on srHes; and it is estimated
15,000 people were withm
sound of the voices of the speakers,
Other thousands were unable to get in.
There were democrats, not only from
Missouri, but from all of the snrronnd-
»ng 8tat es. Indeed, almost every slat*
in the union was represented, and in *
sense, therefore, it was a national
^a^ering. All of the speeches were excellent.
It « not often that on an occasion of
this kind they are so uniformly good.
Congressman Champ Clark, who is a
great favorite with his fellow Missoa-
rians, pitched the speaking on a high
key and the others who followed wera
fortunately able to keep on the same
high plane.
“Bryan and the Chicago platform.”
This was the message the speakers
brought from the democratic masses.
However strong the declaration against
trusts or against an imperialistic poli¬
cy may be, there must be, and there
will be, no retreating from the ground
taken in the great fight of 1896.
And the enthusiastic demonstrations
with which this declaration was re¬
ceived showed how completely it met
the approval of the people who gave
this anti-trnst banquet.
PRESIDENT SENDS CHECK.
Chief Executive Subscribes To the
Dewey Home Fund.
Acting Secretary to the President
Cortelyou called upon Assistant Secre¬
tary of the Treasury Vanderlip, chair¬
man of the Dewey fund Thursday a*4
placed in his hands a check from the
president, constituting Mr. McKin¬
ley’s contribution to the fund. In do¬
ing so, Mr. Cortelyou conveyed tho
expression of the president’s interest
in the undertaking and his pleasure in
contributing with the people to this
testimonial to Admiral Dewey.
NEW YORK TAX BILL
Passed By Legislature Will Soon O*
On Statute Books.
The New York state legislature,
which met in special session Monday
night, adjourned sine die at 6:2*
o’clock Thursday afternoon after hav¬
ing passed the amended franchise tax
bill and a bill appropriating $75,00®
for the expense of celebrating Admiral
Deyey’s return. Roose¬
It is expected that Goyernor
velt will Bign the franchise tax bill
at once.