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CORNELIUS VANDERBILT DEAD
DEATH WAS CAUSED By A SUDDE/N
STROKE OF PARALySIS.
Was the Head of the Famous Vanderbilt Family
of Financiers and Millionaires.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the head of
the Vanderbilt family and multi-mil
lionaire, died of a stroke of paralysis
at 5:45 o’clook Tuesday morning at
his home in New York city. He was
iu his fifty-sixth year.
Mr. Vanderbilt arrived at home from
Newport Monday night, apparently in
the best of health. He arrived at the
Grand Central station at 9 o’clock,and
drove to his home, which he reached a
few moments later. Mrs. Vanderbilt,
his daughter, Gladys, and his young
son, Reginald, were with him. He
had not been more cheerful or appar
ently in better health in a long time.
He had spent most of the summer at
Newport, partaking in a mild degree
of the social life there.
Immediately after reaching his resi
dence he retired and was sooa sleep
ing. About midnight he was seized
with a serious attack, and the house
hold was aroused. Telegrams were
sent to Dr. Walter B. Janeway and
several physicians. Only Dr. Brown
could he located. Everything possi
ble was done for the patient, but he
grew rapidly worse until the end.
Physicians worked upon the distin
guished patient for several hours, but
nothing they could do would revive
him. Mr. Vanderbilt remained in a
semi-conscious state for five hours,
when he died.
The attack had occurred with such
suddenness that there had been no
time to send for Mr. Vanderbilt’s
friends or relatives in town. At his
bedside were only his wife, daughter,
young son Reginald and some of the
family servants. They were present
when the end came at 5:45 o’clock, a
little more than four hours after the
attack. The direct cause of death was
heart failure as the result of the stroke
of paralysis. Messages were sent to
his brother, his sisters, his son Cor
nelins and other relatives and friends,
announcing the sudden end.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew was
one of the first to appear at the house
of the deceased and be was deeply
moved by the death of the man who
had been his associate in business for
a number of years. William K. Van
derbilt, the brother, was next at the
scene of death. He was xveeping when
he entered the house. It was William
K. Vanderbilt who has managed the
great railroad properties of the Van
derbilts in recent years.
Conelius Vanderbilt made a trip to
Europe last spring. He came borne
on June 24th in company with his wife
and daughter, Gladys. The family
went to Newport at once and remained
there until last Monday. He left
Newport at 1:20 o’clock Monday after
noon for New York in his private car.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., was in New
port at the time of his father's death.
Mr. Vanderbilt's son Alfred is now in
Japan. Ho left in June with two
friends for a trip around the world.
A cable dispatch was sent to Yoko
hama for Alfred Vanderbilt.
A coroner’s physician made an in
quest into the cause of death and found
that it was due to cerebral hemor
rhages. The coroner also viewed the
body and indorsed this finding. Per
mission for burial was given and the
body was embalmed, The reason for
calling in the coroner was that Mr. Van
derbilt’s regular physician was not with
him at his death and a strange doctor
was in attendance who had been called
into the case loss than twenty-four
hours before death ensued.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on
Staten Island November 27,1843. Wil
liam H. Vanderbilt, his father, was at
that time a farmer, and Cornelius, at
Abandon Trip To Paris.
Indignation over the outcome of the
Dreyfus trial has caused a party of
over 700 Chicagoans, who were going
to the fair in a body, to abandon their
trip.
RAILROADS REJOICE.
Only One Stamp Now Necessary On
Freight Bills of Lading.
The latest information in reference
to revenue stamps is a circular sent
out by the commissioner of internal
revenue, notifying railroad men and
shippers that hereafter the govern
ment will require but one revenue
stamp for the bills of lading of a con
signment of freight, instead of one
stamp for each bill, which has been
required since the revenue act went
into effect.
The railroads rejoice at the decision
of the revenue department, for it wiil
mean the saving of thousands of dol
lars to them.
FEVER STATUS IN NEW ORLEANS.
Seven New Cases Reported By Phy
sicians For Two Days.
The Louisiana state board of health
reported four cases of yelloA fever
Tuesday, making seven in all. Three
of these cases were reported to The the
board Monday by the doctors,
board still thinks it unnecessary to
quarantine the rest of the state against
New Orleans, the county members
agreeing with those of the city on this
point.
the age of sixteen, left school and se
cured a piece as messenger in the Shoe
and Leather bank. His grandfather,
“the commodore,” learning of this,
sent for him and asked why he had
not applied to him for a place.
“Because I did not want to ask you
for anything," was the reply.
This pleased the commodore, and it
is said that he made a codicil to his
will a few days later, leaving $ 1 , 000 ,
000 to his grandson.
Cornelius left the Shoe and Leather
bank to go into the employ of Kissam
Bros., bankers, but later his grand
father asked him to enter the railroad
service. The young man was making
$60 a month, and he declined to leave
his place unless he got more money.
He was given $65, and he accepted it.
He was then about twenty-one years
old. ,The first place he was given was
that of assistant treasurer of the New
York and Harlem railroad. His rise
was rapid, and he succeeded his father
as head of the Vanderbilt system.
Mr. Vanderbilt’s active career was
practically closed when he suffered the
paralytic stroke in 1890.
Despite his enormous business in
terest, he found time to devote to
church and Sunday school work,
which he began early in life. He gave
freely to the railroad branch of the
Young Men’s Christian association,
and to the work of St. Bartholomew’s
Protestant Episcopal church in New
York city.
Mr. Vanderbilt’s great business
career made his life necessarily method
ical, and he was noted for his punctu
ality.
When Mr. Vanderbilt was twenty
three yearR of age he married Alice
Gwynne, the daughter of a Cincinnati
lawyer. His first born son, William
H., died in 1892, while he was a stu
dent in Yale university,
Mr. Vanderbilt left five children—
Cornelius, Gertrude, Alfred, Reginald
and Gladys. Cornelius married a
daughter of B. T. Wilson, the banker,
about two years ago, and later Ger
trade became the wife of Harry Payne
"Whitney, son of the former secretary
of the navy, William C. Whitney. At
the time of his death Mr. Vanderbilt
was president of the Canada Southern
railway, vice president and director of
the Beach Creek railroad, president of
the Detroit and Bay City railroad, di
rector of the Detroit and Chicago rail
road, director of the Dunkirk, Alle
ghany Valley and Pittsburg railroad,
director of the Hudson River Bridge
Company, president of the Joilet and
Northern Indiana railroad, president
of the Leamington and St. Clair railroad,
president of the New York and Harlem,
president of the Niagara River Bridge
company, president of the Spuytou,
Duyvil and Port Morris railroad, di
rector of the Wagner Palace Car com
pany, director of the West Shore rail
road, director of the West Shore and
Ontario Terminal company, director
of the Toledo, Canada Southern Bail
road company, director of the New
York Central and Hudson River rail
road and a dozen other affiliated rail
roads.
Cornelius Vanderbilt,Jr., and Harry
Payne Whitney and his w’ife arrived
at the Vanderbilt mansion late Tues
day. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.,
remained at Newport. All of Mr. Van
derbilt's children were in the city
Tuesday night with the exception of
Alfred, and he will undoubtedly come
home.
The home-coming of Cornelius Van
derbilt, Jr., was an unusually sad
one. The estrangement between his
father and himself because of the
young man’s marriage with Miss Wil
son had never worn away.
Ammunition .For Transvaal.
A consignment of 547 cases of am
munition, presumably bound for the
Transvaal, has been landed at Louren
zo Marquez, Delkgoa Bay.
DISTRICT CITIZENS AROUSED.
Washingtonians Hold Hass Meeting
and Protest Against Verdict.
About 1,000 persons attended a mass
meeting at the Masonic temple in
Washington Tuesday night to protest
against the verdict of the Rennes
case. The speakers included all
creeds, Hebrew, Protestant and Cath
olic.
After a number of addresses the
meeting adopted a set of resolutions
affirming belief in the innocence of
Dreyfus, condemning the proceedings
of the courknartial and pledging those
present to use every lawful and proper
means to prevent the co-operation of
this country in the Paris exposition.
PROniNENT CAROLINIAN DEAD.
Hon. Leander Childs Passes Away
Suddenly At Saluda, N. C.
A Columbia, S.C.,special announces
the sudden death at Saluda, N. C., of
Leander Childs. In his death South
Carolina prohibitionists who have
gained muoh strength recently, lost
perhaps their strongest advocate; Co
lumbia one of her wealthiest citizens,
and Carolina farmers a progressive
brother.
TARTAR RELEASED.
British Officials At Hong Kong
Decided It Unwise To Inter
fere With Transport.
A Washington dispatch says: Clear
ance papers have been allowed the
Tartar at Hong Kong. It is expected
that she will proceed to the United
States at once.
The information that clearance had
been allowed came in a dispatch to
Adjutant General Corbin Thursday
morning from Colonel Metcalf, com
manding the Twentieth Kansas and
the troops aboard the transport.
It is supposed that clearance papers
were allowed upon the suggestion of
the British foreign office to the British
governor at Hong Kong that it would
be unwise to interfere with American
transports.
Another dispatch from Colonel Met
calf, in reply to one sent Wednesday,
states that the Tartar was no more
overcrowded and that the food was as
good as on other transports leaving
Manila. He said that the trouble arose
among the discharged regular soldiers
who were returning home on board
the ship.
The incident is now regarded as
closed. It is learned at the state de
partment that the representations
made to Mr. Choate, our ambassador
at London, on this subject were in
the nature of a protest.
HOB LYNCHES HENDERSON.
One of the Assailants of Mrs. Ash
Swung Up.
A wierd scene greeted the citizens
of Ty Ty, Ga., when they awoke
Thursday morning. A tall, slender,
black negro about 25 years old, who
was charged with raping Mrs. Ash,
was dangling from a telegraph pole
within three hundred yards of the
Brunswick and Western depot.
Ed Henderson was arrested atTifton
Wednesday and carried to Ty Ty, and
when in the presence of his victim he
was immediately identified by her and
her little brother, who is about nine
years old. When Ed Henderson was
arrested he was wearing different
clothing from those worn when he was
iu Ty Ty the day of the crime, but the
clothes he had discarded were secured
by parties in Tifton and carried to
Ty Ty, and they were recognized by
the victim beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Henderson claimed his innocence to
the last, but from his story related,
which was very conflicting, his guilt
was fully established in the minds of
all present.
The crowd was as orderly as if at a
legal execution. No insult or indig
nity was offered the prisoner. Not a
shot was fired, even while his body
was swinging. Not an oath uttered or
a shout raised. No lantern or torch
was lighted, and only the silent stars
looked down on the scene of retribu
tion.
After the execution all quietly dis
persed, but a determined search is be
ing made for the other criminal, who
is the real ravisher, Henderson only
being his accomplice.
In reporting this crime the victim’s
name was given as Mrs. Ash Johnson,
and the boy her son, but we find the
lady was a Miss Johnson, and married
a Sir. Ash, and that her name is Mrs.
Jennie Ash, and the little boy who
was in the cotton field with her is her
brother.
DELEGAL GUILTY.
Slayer of Deputy Sheriff Town
send Gets a Sentence of
Life Imprisonment.
The case of John Delegal, of the
Darien, Ga., rioters, sent to the Ef
fingham county court on change of
venue from McIntosh county, was
concluded Thursday at Springfield in
a verdict of guilty of murder with a
recommendation to the mercy of the
court. He was sentenced to life im
prisonment. John Delegal, it will be
remembered,, shot and killed Deputy
Sheriff Townsend, who went to arrest
him during the time of the riots. His
brother and sister, who were indicted
with him, were acquitted. ,
The case of Henry Delegal, for
rape, which, after a mistrial in Darien
last week, was also sent to Effingham
county on a change of venue, was
taken up Thursday afternoon. This
covers the case out of which grew the
riots. There was no trouble in secur
ing a jury and the evidence was quickly
submitted.
SHAMROCK TO TAKE PART.
Owner of English Yacht Will Aid In
the Dewey Celebration.
Sir Thomas Lipton, owner of the
America’s cup challenger, Shamrock,
will make a noteworthy contribution
to the marine demonstration in honor
of the home-coming of Admiral
Dewey. Sir. Thomas’ steam yacht
Erin will at night be lighted with
3,000 electrict lamps.
The outlines of the yacht will be
etched against the darkness in ropes
of light and transparencies of the
Shamrock’s flag and the stars and
stripes will be displayed.
TO CANCEL SPACE.
Austria and Italy Show Condemnation
of Dreyfus Verdict.
Proposals have been made to both
Austria and Italy to boycott the Paris
exposition relict Rennes. as a protest against the
at
Demonstrations in denunciation of
the verdiot occurred Sunday in several
Italian cities. At Naples the demon
strators tried to attack the Freaeh
consulate and the polios were com
pelled to intervene.
BOYCOTT TALK
Paris Exposition to Be
Placed Under the Ban.
CAUSED BY DREYFUS CASE
Our Government Will Be Asked Through
Congress to Withdraw Support
and United States Exhibit.
A Washington special says: It is
believed that when congress assem
bles there will be considerable agita
tion of a proposition for this govern
ment to abandon its participation in
the Paris exposition. It is known that
widely sympathised in, and it is
thought that if the conviction of Drey
fus is permitted to stand there will be
very ,.fo. little frieudiy ...... feeling for t _ trance
among members of either the house or
senate. Such a move, however, would
be a grave one. It is pointed out to
withdraw from participation in the ex
position would be regarded as an ofTi
cial insult to France. No further leg
islation on the part of congress is
needed to carry out the plans of this
country for the exposition.
About $1,200,000 has been appropri
ated for the expenses of the commis
sion and the government exhibit; the
commission has been appointed nnd
the space desired for exhibits from
this country has been secured.
There are now only two ways in
which congress could interfere, one
would be to revoke aach part of the
appropriation as has not been already
expended in the expenses of the com
mission and the other would be to
pass a resolution declaring that on ac
count of the unsettled conditions the
valuable government exhibits should
not be sent to Paris.
To do either of these things is suf
ficient, it is believed, to break off
all friendly relations between the two
countries. Congress and the state de
partment may look at the matter from
different points of vieiv.
The president and the state depart
ment, having the responsibility for
maintaining our relations with foreign
governments, cannot be expected to
find iu this affair a reason for involv
ing the country in an international
complication, and it is likely that the
executive branch of the government
will use what influence it can to pre
vent any hasty action.
Unless congress expressly forbids it,
this government will proceed with the
preparations for the exhibition and
will send to Paris such government
exhibits as are decided upon, but this
will be done with a realization of the
probability that much of the space se
cured with such difficulty for private
American exhibits will be left vacant.
Little doubt is felt that the latitude
allowed the private citizen will be
quite extensively availed of to with
draw from participation in the expo
sition.
Another difficulty in the way of an
effort to prevent participation in the
exposition, however, will be found in
the fact that before congress has as
sembled much of the government ex
hibit probably will be packed and on
its way to Paris, if not actually there.
The exposition opens in April, and the
work of transporting and preparing
the exhibit will have to begin some
mouths before that time. Up to this
time, it is said, the preparation of the
government exhibit has not begun,
but the work will proceed as soon as
the government officials are ready.
Bepresentative Hepburn, of Iowa,
said that he had ceased to marvel at
the methods of French army justice
after observing how the trial of Drey
fus was conducted. No such trial or
verdict was possible in the United
States. He did not think it would in
any way affect diplomatic relations
between this country and France, nor
did he think it would interfere with
the United States exhibitors at the
coming evposition.
VAN WYCK SCORES MOSS.
New York's Mayor Appears Before
Investigating Committee.
A New York dispatch says: Mayor
Bobert A. Vau Wyck occupied the
witness chair Thursday before the as
sembly committee charged with inves
tigating the Various departments of
the municipal government. examination of
From the outset the
the mayor by Connsel Moss took the
form of an acrimonious colloquy, in
the course of which Mr. Vau Wyck
intimated that Mr. Moss was seeking
to reach a seat on the supreme bench
by pressing d partisan investigation,
and sneered at the counsel’s attain
ments as a lawyer.
MOORE SEEKS NEW TRIAL.
Badger Claims That He Has Found
New Evidence.
Application was made to Recorder
Goff at New York Wednesday for a
a new trial in the case of William A.
E. Moore, who last year was sentenced
to nineteen years’ imprisonment for
blackmailing and assaulting Martin,
a hotel keeper of that city. The ap
plication is based upon the alleged dis
covery of new evidence.
MTHMOPOUSB
in convention
An Interesting and Enthusiastic Meet
ing Held In Chicago.
PROMINENT MEN PRESENT
Te “* M “ Se ' er “ l7 Soor “ ,he
Trusts and Combinations.
The Ome Federation conferences
on the uses and abuses of trusts-and
combinations began at Chicago Wed
nesday with less than half the dele
gates appointed by the various states
in attendance. New York, headed by
\V. Bourke Cookrau, and Wisconsin
were most numerously represented.
The meeting took place in Central
music hall and was called to order by
Franklin H. Head, president of the
half of Governor Tanner, who by ill
ness was prevented from appearing in
P e Il°“, With the .. progress of ... the speaking . . it ..
beoame evident that many of the del
egations had come with firm convic
tions for or against trade combina
tions. The speech of Mr. Wooten, of
Texas, delivered during the afternoon,
hammering the trusts in merciless
manner, aroused the wildest euthusi
asm in the ranks of the labor repre
sentatives and the delegations from
many western and southern states,
while the easterners generally smiled
critically.
Mr. Wooten was frequently inter
rll pted by cheering and was rapturous
] y rece ived by his fellow delegates
from the Lone Star state upon the
com pletion of his peroration. He said
in par t:
“Accepting in good fsrith that
ame ndment which the heroic legions
„. W ,d aato do.tlr
0 n a thousand battle fields, we be
Ueve that <neither slavery nor invol
un tarv servitude, except as punish
ment for crime) shall exist within the
United States or anyplace subject to
their jurisdiction.’ And we confi
dentlyassertthat the commercial and
industrial bondage being rapidly im
posed upon the toil and talents of 70,- !
000,00(1 American citizens by the syn- ■
dicated wealth of a few corporate mo- !
nopolies is more dire and dangerous ,
than the slavery which bowed the
^" rde " e a th8 bflcks of
4,000,000 southern black , , men.
“And above and beyond these great
written guarantees of equality
justice, we look to the lessons of
history and appeal to the authority of
existence. "When we are told that the
spirit of commercial combination
promises golden rewards to the pres
ent tendencies of our economic republic system,
we remember that no has
j ever survived the mercenary despotism
0 f merchants and money changers.”
j Mr. William Fortune, of Indiannpo
]j S) president of the Indiana state
j board of commerce, made an earnest
| j plea for hopeful conservative than procedure the applica- as a
more course
tion of revolutionary or too radical
measures to an evolutionary problem.
He indicated a grave doubt of the use
fulness of the doctrinaire in arriving
at a radical solution of the question.
He guardedly suggested the danger
capital may bring to itself by heedless
abuse of its power and indicated the
importance to it of seeking proper reg
ulations which will make trust meth
ods acceptable rather than obnoxious
to the people by whose permission and
toleration only can their existence con
tinue.
The committee on permanent or
ganization met after the afternoon ad
journment of the conference. The
committee, consisting of one delegate
from each state represented and each
organization of geneval scope, was, in
part, as follows:
Texas, Hon. A. B. Davidson; Flor
ida, John Franklin Forbes; West Vir
ginia, J. B. Harris; South Carolina,
B. C. Kaufman; Mississippi, J. W.
Culver; Louisiana, W. W. Howe.
A programme for Thursday was pre
sented and adopted. It was the inten
tion to have W. Bourke Cochran talk
Thursday night, but he objected to
the arrangement and expressed a de
sire to speak Friday evening, follow
ing W. J. Bryan.
TO INTRODUCE BOYCOTT BILL.
New York Congressman Will Ask For
Withdrawal of Exhibit.
A New York dispatch says: Con
gressman Jefferson M. Levy announced
Monday that as soon as congress meets
be will introduce a resolution in the
house withdrawing the support of this
government from the Paris exposition
on account of the Dreyfuscase.
Preachers on Dreyfus Verdict.
At the meeting of the Methodist
Preachers’ Association of New York a
resolution was unanimously passed
deploring “the shameful miscarriage
of justice iD the reoent condemnation
of Captain Dreyfus.”
NEWS FROM MANILA.
Filipino Rebels Attack Three Towns
But Are Unsuccessful.
A Manila dispatch says: A force of
450 rebels with one cannon attacked
Santa Bita, Guaga and San Antonio
simultaneously. All the attacks were
repulsed without loss to Americans.
Colonel Bell and his regiment,while
attempting to take the rebels in the
rear, met two small patrols and suc
ceeded in captaring a rebel captain^ a
lieutenant and six privates.
TARTAR HELD
jthokgkong
By British Officials Who
Ciaim Overloading.
OUR SOLDIERS ON BOARD
Authority For tlis Detention of ths Ves*
sel Is Being Inquired Into By the
Washington Officials.
A Washington dispatch says: The
war department was informed Wed
nesday that the steamship Tartar,
which is returning to the United States
from Manila with a large number of
soldiers on board, was detained at
Secretary Root had a conference
with the president Wednesday after
noon regarding the matter. When he
returned to the war department he
g aye oa t the following two cable mes
sages as an official statement of the
case:
“Hong Kong. September 11.—Cor
bin, "Washington: British authorities
re fase to clear Tartar because over
crowded; authorize eight twenty four.
“Mitoalf.”
» “Mu.ila, September 18.—Adjutant
General, Washington: The Tartar was
gen t Hong Kong to dock, as re
quested by Major Long, no dock be
j n g ) ar g e enough at Nagasaki. She
bas capacity for 1,145 men and 111
4 ab j n passengers. She took hack
j ’ 244 men and sixty-one cabin passen
s _ On her trip from San Francisco
gh e carried comfortably 1,145 men and
fifty-five cabin passengers, Otis. ”
„»£ , ZAm . „ ab1fi ““fatatZd.b? from Hone
K »
J* 400 disoharired "£“IS regulars 13 on board
re f " rh . Twentielh volnn
* . . , _ ith Geneval Funstou
Bab oard the Tartar, but it is under
gtood thftt the volunteers make no
F !aint and are anxious to have
c]ea , anoe nted the Bhip in orde r
th th r/ m pr0 ceed homeward.
The artflr is a Britigh ship . 8he
bgI * s to the Canadian Pacific Steam
£mbia c mpany> plying between British
Co and Australia. She was
chartered by the quartermasters’ de
part £ ment of the United States army to
Relieved United gtates troops, but it ; g
in Washington that this
oharter could in any respect affect her
nationality. 8 he could, cease to be a
British ship and become entitled to
American registry only by act of con
gress.
It was stated at the war department
that the Tartar matter had been re
ferred to Ambassador Choate, which
makes an international question out of
it. The contention of the war depart
ment is that notwithstanding the Tar
tar flies the British flag,, being char
tered by the United States govern
ment, tne assumption of British au
thority over her is unauthorized.
STORM IN BERMUDA.
Great Damage To Property, But No
Loss of Life Resulted.
A cyclone swept over the island of
Bermuda Tuesday night, Houses
were blown down and others unroofed.
The storm raged the whole of the
night. No lives were lost, but heavy
damage, estimated at $500,000, was
done to public and private property,
fruit and cedar trees. The causeway
was badly injured and the government
house was damaged.
The storm was the worst known
since the hurricane of 1880. In fact,
many of the inhabitants say it exceed
ed the gale of 1880 in violence.
ENGLAND WILL NOT BOYCOTT.
Government Takes No Official Cogni
zance of Dreyfus Verdict.
A London special says: While the
papers are full of letters from individ
uals and several firms announcing their
withdrawal from the Paris exposition
and urging the goverumet to do like
wise, there is no intention upon the part
of the British government of taking any
suoh steps.
ROBBERS KILL THREE.
mother and Her Two Sons In Texas
Were the Victims.
Mrs. Joe Barber and her two sons,
Wiley and Levi, were murdered by
unknown robbers in a crossroads store
in Itastoke county, Texas, six miles
from Pleasanton and twenty-five miles
south of San Antonio. They were
killed with a hatchet, their heads hav
ing been smashed to a pulp.
A sack containing $100 in silver was
secured by the robbers. Footprints
iu the sand indicated that there were
three men implicated in the crime and
they left in the direction of San An
tonio.
HURRICANE WAS DISASTROUS.
Belated Advices Regarding the Storm
Which Swept Anguilla Island.
Belated advices received Thursday
from the Island of Anguilla, one of
the British West Indian islands. Lee
ward group, say that a hurricane dur
ing the night of September 8 th de
stroyed 200 houses and rendered 800
people homeless.
There was considerable loss of prop
erty and similar damage at St. Martin.