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BISHOP-ELECT
OF CUBA
CONSECRATED THIS WEEK.
THE CEHEMOXY IJf ST. LCKE'S
CATHEDRAL WEDNESDAY.
Bishopii to Be Present from All
Parts of the Country—Bishop Sea
sums of Louisiana to Preach the
Consecration Sermon Bishop
Knight to Leave at Once for
Havana.
Atlanta, Dec. 18.—Elaborate prepara
tions are being? made for the consecra
tion of Rev. Albion W. Knight, rector
of the Cathedral, as Bishop of Cuba,
to which post he was elected at the
recent Episcopal Convention In Bos
ton.
The consecration will take place
next Wednesday morning, Dec. 21, at
10:30 o'clock, in the cathedral.
There will be an unusually large
number of bishops present to take
part in these services, and arrange
ments have been made for entertain
ing them at the homes of various
prominent Atlantans. Among those
who have stated they expected to at
tend the consecration of Bishop Knight
are: Bishop D. S. Tuttle, of Missouri,
presiding bishop of the Episcopal
Church in the United States; Bishop
Edwin G. Weed, of Florida; Bishop
William H. Moreland, of Sacramento,
Cal.; Bishop Davis Sessums, of Louisi
ana; Bishop Theodore Bratton of
Mississippi; Bishop C. M. Beckwith, of
Alabama; Bishop Ellison Capers, of
South Carolina; Bishop Reginald H.
Weller, Jr., of Wisconsin; Bishop Lo
gan H. Roots, of Hankow, China;
Bishop O. W. Whitaker, of Pennsyl
vania; Bishop J. B. Chesire, of North
Carolina, and Bishop W. C. Gray of
Southern Florida.
The consecration sermon will be
preached by Bishop David Sessums, of
Louisiana. Bishop Knight will leave
within a few days for his new post
of duty. He has for years been rector
of the cathedral here, having come to
Atlanta from Jacksonville, Fla.
IN HONOR OFDEL BUFALO.
St. Peter’s Was the Scene of a Pon
tifical Ceremony.
Rome, Dec. 18.—St. Peter’s was es
pecially decorated for the formal an
nouncement this morning of the beat
ification of Gaspare Del Bufalo, found
er of the Congregation of the Precious
Blood and Canon of San Marco under
Pius Y XI. The function was perform
ed at the altar of the chair, so called,
because It contains the sacred wooden
episcopal chair of St. Peter.
This afternoon Pope Pius X, accom
panied by the cardinals of the court,
and all the bishops and dignitaries of
the church at present in Rome, went
to venerate the blessed Del Bufalo.
The ceremony had the added object of
the demonstration of loyalty. Over
30,000 people crowded the basilica.
It was much remarked that Pope
Pius, instead of walking to St. Peter’s,
as had been arranged, went in the se
dia gestatoria, although that mode of
travel invariably causes him nausea.
He was unable to-day to walk, be
cause of gout, with which he has suf
fered so much the last few days that
he was obliged to sit during the audi
ences.
WHAT HE SAID TO GIRL
Iteftnltcd in Smithson's Being Killed
by Potter.
Nashville, Tenn.. Dec. IS.—At Wood
bury, Cannon county, tc-day Thomas
Potter, a prominent merchant, shot
and instantly killed A. J. Smithson,
an attorney.
The tragedy grew out of a sensa
tional law suit, in which Potter’s tes
timony on the witness stand was ad
verse to Smithson’s interest. This
morning a young lady, who was ac
companied by Potter, was accosted on
the street by Smithson, who is said
to have remarked she should not keen
company with a man who would swe>ar
falsely. The men met later, a quarrel
ensued and Smithson was killed. Pot
himself and was ad
mitted to bail.
three br °thers and his son
are tteid to be greatly wrought up over
the tragedy, and the town to-night is
in a state of uneasy expectancy.
enough foreign officers.
The Porte Tells Austria and Russia
It Wants no More.
Constantinople, Dec. 18.—The Porte
has replied to notes from Austria and
Russia that it objects to the suggest
ed Increase in the number of foreign
officers in the Macedonian gendarmes,
?L ,he .. lrround that disturb
the native populations.
New Cotton Company.
Montreal, Dec. 18.-A new cotton
company with a capital of 110,000,000,
nus been formed here. The new com
pany will take over the mills of four
ik. th lar S e *t Canadian companies—
l? *?. ominlon ’ the Merchants, the
Mont Morenci and the Colonial Bleach-
! n ® Companies. Senator Forget will
oe the first president, with A. It.
I?,®*® the Dominion and W. T.
'itehead of the Mont Morenci Com
pany, as joint managers.
Payne Acquitted.
Lawton, O. T.. Dec. 18.—Judge E.
M. Payne of Chickasha, United States
commissioner, has been acquitted In
tile federal court at this place of the
cnarge of drunkenness, and permlt
xs.. the Bale of Hiuor in the Indian
Terr tory. The charges were made
public some time ago. The Attorney
General of the United States was ask-
L” to call for an Investigation, and the
matter was referred to Judge Town
send of the federal court.
ninliop rhelan'a Condition.
PlUnhurj, Pa., Dec. 18.—At midnight
Bishop Phelan's condition is extreme
ly critical. His physicians think he
nia > r not live longer than a few hours.
Aylmer Inspector General.
London, Dec. 18.—Col. Lord Aylmer
“PPplnted Inspector general
the Canadian forces.
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Off
Overcoats
For
Boys andChildren
This reduction begins this
morning and will lust during
the week, enabling mothers to
get at low prices useful presents
for tlier hoys. Every Boys’ and
Children’s Overcoat In this store
is touched by this reduction.
VOTED FOR ARBITRATION.
Textile Union Makes Recommenda
tion to the Unions.
Fall River, Mass., Dec. 18.—The tex
tile council voted to-day to submit an
arbitration propostion for the settle
ment of the strike in the cotton mills
to the individual unions, and in case
of their approval by a vote on Tues
day to ask the Civic Federation to
choose a board of arbitration.
The arbitration proposition was
agreed upon by the textile council at
a three-hour session, when the follow
ing resolution, to be submitted to the
textile unions for their action, was
adoDted:
“Whereas, believing in the justice of
our cause and always favoring the
grand principles of fair arbitration,
and, whereas, realizing that a contin
uance of the long and protracted strug
gle is detrimental to the best inter
ests of our city, be it
"Resolved, that we submit the whole
proposition to the members of our
respective unions, it being identical
with the one submitted to the executive
council of the Cotton Manufacturers'
Association. All efforts having failed
to effect a satisfactory settlement of
the strike existing in our city, we
agree to submit the whole subject mat
ter in dispute to a board of arbitra
tion to be chosen by the National
Civic Federation from its executive
board, and agree to accept their decis
ion as final.”
The individual unions will meet to
act on the proposition at 10:30 o'clock
Tuesday morning. A two-thirds vote
of the unions will be necessary to
adopt the resolution, but the labor
leaders say that it is hardly possible
that the members will reject it.
The leaders take the stand that they
are satisfied to submit the settlement
of the strike to arbitration and believe
that it will hurt the course of the man
ufacturers materially if they refuse to
accept the plan.
President Borden of the Manufactur
ers' Association was seen to-night and
said he did not know how the manu
facturers would consider the proposi
tion, and he did not know when the
manufacturers would meet.
The textile council will meet again
on Tuesday afternoon after the unions
have voted.
The strike, which is now entering
upon its twenty-second week, *-as call
ed when the manufacturers announced
anew wage scale reducing the in
come of operatives 12V6 per cent. Thir
ty-seven mills and nearly 26,000 em
ployes were involved.
POWERS ARE WATCHING.
They Note the Disorders That Oc
cur in Macedonia.
London, Dec. 19.—There is reason to
believe, according to the correspondent
at Sofia of the Times that the marked
aggravation in the situation in Mace
donia is seriously occupying the at
tention of the powers. The warfare
of Bulgarian and Greek bands, the
correspondent reports, continues, and
there have been several fights re
cently, while the Porte has done noth
ing in the direction of the repatria
tion of Bulgarian refugees in the
Adrlanople vilayets.
ganders Was Asphyxiated.
New York, Dec. 18.—James P. San
ders, aged 86, believed to be the oldest
past master of the order of Odd Fel
lows in this country, was found as
phyxiated by gas in his home in Yonk
ers to-day.
OBITUARY.
Mrs. Mury A. Clark, I.s Angeles. Cal.
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 18.—Mrs.
Mary Andrews Clark, mother of Unit
ed States Senator William A. Clark,
is dead at her home in this city aft
er an Illness of but seven days, aged
92 years. Senator Clark, unaware of
the serious Illness of his mother, sailed
from New York for Europe Saturday.
Mrs. Clark was born near Connells
vllle, Pa. She has been a resident of
this city since 1882.
Mnrcu. D. Urorefy it. Paul. Minn.
St. Paul. Minn., Dec. 18. —Marcus D.
Grover, general counsel of the Gregt
Northern Railway, died here to-day,
aged 62. He drew up the articles of
incorporation of the Northern Securi
ties Company and since the Institution
of the anti-merger lltlgntlon had given
hia entire attention to that case.
Conrad Weasellinelt. Massaebasetfa.
Boston, Dec. li.—Conrad Wasael
hoeft, a homeopathic physician of na
tional reputation, died last night at
Newton Center. He was formerly pres
ident of the American Institute of
Homeopathy. He was born In Get -
many In I*l4 and practiced for forty
seven years 111 the United Ml it tee,
1 1 , M. 'l'renlirUer, lie troll.
Los Angeles, l'al, Dec. 18—Itev !
Luther 11. Trowbridge of Detroit, for
thirty-two years editor and proprietor
of ffee < Viiklen Herald of that ‘fly,
died hero to-day He * eme to Loe
Angelas • mouth ago for hid baalth.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1904.
SOUTHERN SOCIETY AND ITS LEADERS
Social Conditions in Savannah and Atlanta as
Seen by Annulet Andrews.
Annulet Andrews has an article on
Southern Society and Its Leaders" in
the January Eeverybody's Magazine
in which she reviews the society of the
South and the elements that go to
make it up. This is what she says
about Savannah and Atlanta:
Atlanta and Savannah are, from a
social standpoint, as diametrically op
posite as Jack Sprat and his wife. Let
the stranger within the gates of Savan
nah come with a broad smile, a full
purse, and a genial desire to amuse
and be amused, yet if he bring not
with him a family-tree upon which the
Savannah aristocrats can hang their
faith, he might just as well give his
dollars over for paving-stones. Birth
is everything, and with it all things
are accepted. You may work for a
living and wear a five-year-old bon
net, if only you have blue blood.
Nothing else counts. There are, more
over, certain rules one must hearken
to before being allowed the freedom of
the city—strange rules, indeed, are
these to the untrammelled girl of At
lanta; for whereas there she is free
to regard the denizens of the Capital
City Club reading their newspapers on
the colonnade, and even to eat and
drink in proximity to their retreat, she
may not even lift her modest eyes to
the balcony of Savannah's Oglethorpe
Club, which overhangs one of the
broad thoroughfares of the down-town
section. This is manifestly quite un
fair, since the men from their lofty
perch may look down upon feminine
shoppers without even a haughty
"How dare you. sir!" from the eyes
of the oppressed. If it be a breach of
social decorum to gaze at the club por
tico, it is social anarchy and high
treason for any woman of position to
be seen walking, in the light of day
and the upholding consciousness of
her own honesty, upon any street
along "The Bay,” the cotton dis
trict of the city. It is dirty
and smells of oyster-shells down
there, so no woman would wilfully seek
it as a promenade, but the more pro
gressive and free women of broader en
vironment rather resent the fact that
they cannot with decorum walk on any
street they choose.
"These be some of Savannah's nar
rownesses and restrictions, more than
made up for by the beauty of the city,
the simple manners, the unpretentious
hospitality of the people in her smart
set to such newcomers as are admitted
to its circle. Like Philadelphia, Sa
vannah has Intermarried much. Every
body is more or less related to every
body else. The Elliots, the Schleys. the
Lawtons, the Cunninghams, the Gor
dons, the Habershams are all connect
ed with one another in some way. Mrs.
Willie Gordon may be mentioned as
one of the social leaders, and besides
her Southern affiliations she has the
distinction of having been the first
white child brrn in Chicago. Mrs.
Alexander R. Lawton Is another lead
ing woman of Savannah society: she
was the daughter of the late Bishop
Beckwith of the Episcopalian diocese
of Georgia. There is much riding and
driving in Savannah, the principal
drive being the great white shell road
shaded by live oaks that leads to the
clubhouse at Thunderbolt, where there
are famous fish dinners. Walking is
also, strange to say, a fad in this semi
tropical city. Bull street is the city’s
Mall, and along its walks and in its
statue-ornamented squares one may
see all the younger portion of society
between four and six in the afternoon,
for it is an outdoor city. In the sea
son there is of course the usual round
of formal dinners, but in the autumn
and spring the entertaining is contin
uous but informal. This easy, open
air life on the proper street perhaps
makes up to the Savannah girl for the
restrictions about the Bay and the
club. Savannah has always been more
in touch with foreign life and Its so
cial elements than most Southern cit
ies. Being a coast city it is brought
in contact with European countries
through its foreign trade, and a num
ber of Savannah women have made
brilliant foreign marriages.”
“Atlanta, by reason of Its growth, Its
progress, its newness, has been called
the Chicago of the South. It is dif
ferent from any other Southern city
in nearly all respects. It Is the city of
the New South, brilliant, independent.
Initiative. It is the biggest city of
its size in the universe; its scandals,
its enterprises, its entertainments are
ail on a colossal scale. It is always
to the fore, always In evidence. If
something sensational happens in an
other city, Atlanta is sure to go it
one better by producing a sensation
more startling. Just as society has
been dulled and contracted by the
selfishness and egotism of many other
cities, so has society expanded and
blossomed In Atlanta, through the un
selfishness and breadth of Its leaders.
Atlanta Is the Gate City of the South,
and the gates stand open. Streams
of new people pour In constantly and
are absorbed Into the city’s life. These
newcomers take their places according
to their individual merits and tastes.
The clubs, of course, have the accepted
standards for membership, and the
stranger to be admitted must bring
proper credentials, but social Atlanta
makes no great point of pedigrees.
This Is paradoxical, since the majority
of the founders of its social fabric are
men and women of most aristocratic
birth. The president of the Capital
City Club, MaJ. Livingston Mims, em
bodies In his personality those qualities
which made the Old South's reputation
for gallantry, picturesqueness and fine
lineage, and yet he is the most pro
gressive and democratic of men. He
has lived up to the times and taken
on the spirit of the New South.
“In the loyalty of Atlanta people to
Atlanta lies the city’s power for so
cial growth. They love their city and
live for it. work for it, entertain for
it. Society accepts newcomers on
their own merits, it Is true, but these
newcomers must have merits. Any
newcomer, no matter how much money
she has, how well she dresses or en
tertains, makes herself unpopular the
Instant she shows herself the least bit
of a snob. She then learns, to her
chagrin, that Atlanta’s generosity Is a
case of noblesse oblige; and If she
cannot be one In spirit with the well
bred, unpretentious leaders of the smart
set, If she wishes to close her doors
against other newcomers and form
un exclusive circle of her own, her so
cial position Is radically Injured.
•The Capital City club of Atlanta
stands out among Its genre as excep
tional. Eminently a man's club of
the conservative, heavyweight sort. It
has opened Its doors wider to women
than any other club of Its kind In
America. Th# clubhouse, standing at
the gateway of aristocratic
Peachtree, Is handsome arid
spacious Hevernl years ago there
was added s ballroom which Is ona
of the most beautiful In ths country
There Is a resiaurant for ladies to
which dub members may take their
women-folk. or where the
rted or single, may entertain other
women In any way 01 at any um tn-y 1
Odors of Perspiration \ Hoyal Foot Wash
Kom (YiaAkc, on#** lu-liliif Vvoilf fi. lire 4
desire. This example, as has been
demonstrated by experience, might
well be followed by many other men's
clubs at present less generous to the
fair sex. The restaurant is entered
by a winding, picturesque balcony at
the left of the clubhouse, and is a
thing apart from the main building.
The south veranda and restaurant be
long to the women, and not one of
them would think of intruding beyond,
into the holy of holies of masculine
clubdom.
"There is no fox hunting and little
riding in Atlanta's smart set, but a
great deal of driving and coaching.
The Horse Show, given in the
autumn, opens the season brilliantly,
and serves to usher in the months of
lavish entertaining for which Atlanta
is noted. It attracts society people
from all the Southern cities, and from
the view-point of dress and beauty is
one of the most notable of its kind
in America. During the Show the
quaintly picturesque Piedmont Driv
ing Club is very much the center of
things.
"In every respect Atlanta is pro
gressive. Many of its social leaders
take an active interest in .club life,
reforms, and the broader educational
movements with which progressive
women are everywhere identified these
days. Mrs. Joseph Thompson, whose
beauty and charming personality are
so well known in Southern society,
and whose country place, Brookwood,
is a social hub for Atlanta's smart
set, held the responsible office of pres
ident of the Women's Department of
the Cotton States at the International
Exposition of a few years ago. Mrs.
W. B. Lowe, another brilliant social
leader, held for two terms the office
of president of the Federation of
Women's Clubs of the United States.
Mrs. J. K. Ottley, prominent in those
educational movements which have for
their purpose the solution of some of
the South's most serious problems, is
another woman whose brain and time
are divided between smart society and
the serious side of woman's work.
Mrs. James Warren English, Jr.,
is eminently a social leader in the
younger set, a clever and chic
who makes a career, and a very bril
liant one, in society. In any list of
those who are recognized lead
ers in Atlanta's social life, es
spedal prominence would be
given Mrs. Clark Howell, wife of
the editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
Others socially prominent are Mrs.
Edward C. Peters, Mrs. William In
man, Mrs. John Grant, Mrs. Robert
Maddox, Mrs. W. H. Kiser. Mrs.
Wilmer Moore. Mrs. H. M. Atkinson,
and Mrs. Robert J. Lowry—or rather
Captain and Mrs. Lowry, for the two
are always associated in the minds of
Southern society; their coaching par
ties and their many delightful and lav
ish ways of entertaining, and above
all their personalities, have made them
among the most popular people in the
South. Mrs. Clark Howell, who as
Miss Comer, was a great belle in
Southern society, is one of the few
native Savannah women who have
assimilated with the social life of
Atlanta. She is a woman of strong
personality and great charm and
beauty, and her social position is a
dignified and distinguished one.”
In writing of Southern society gen
erally, Miss Andrews stays:
“To me people—even well-bred peo
ple who wear frocks and bonnets
stamped with the same names, who
speak in modulated tones as all well
bred people do, who have good manners,
good educations, good bank accounts,
'and good blood, all the adjuncts neces
sary for social purposes—to me these
people all have the stamp somewhere
upon them of their upbringing and
the clime from which they came. It
would be extremely stupid if they did
not. Southern society in such circum
stances would resemble the Southern
plays wherein one type has done duty
for generations, though it may be
stated that the composite voice of the
best Southern people would not in the
least resemble the nasal drawl, with Its
illiterate pronunciation, which is ac
credited along with a slouch hat, a
broadcloth suit, and top-boots, to the
"down South” hero of the Southern
drama. There are dozens of different
dialects in the South, and by these
nfay one discover the native place of
the most cultivated people, with as
much ease as the French ear discerns
the best bred, dame du Midi by her
soft, long-drawn-out voice, and dif
ferentiates between the nasal notes
of Northern France and the blrd-iike
twitterings of the native Parlsfan. Ken
tucky and Tennessee take on a tinge
of the West in their r’s and o’s. The
Virginian and Bostonian of the best
class speak much alike, but by the
Virginian’s peculiar pronunciation of
"dar” is the native state revealed.
There is little difference in the accent
of the people of the different middle
Southern states save in the coast cities.
Charleston and Savannah people have
a pronunciation peculiarly their own.
They talk rapidly, and the patois in
the lower classes is almost unintelligi
ble.
"There are differences, too, In the
appearance of Southern women, due
to climate and locality; due also to
their upbringing. In New Orleans, for
instance, the Creole girl is almost as
restricted as her Parisian sister, and
can scarcely be accounted an American
at all.
“It is true that the new life of the
South is eliminating these differences
to some extent. In the old days South
ern women were refined and cultured,
but they were home-keeping people.
Asa rule the daughters of good fami
lies received their education from gov
ernesses, under the paternal roof. Now
adays many Southern girls are edu
cated In the North or abroad, though
in the matter of American finishing
schools the South Is still in a large
measure faithful to Baltimore, and the
majority of Southern girls of smart
society who are educated outside of
their own state are sent to one of the
famous schools In Maryland. This ex
cellent foundation is supplemented
usually by a year or more In Europe,
where the girl naturally assimilates the
chic appearance and the coquetry of
the French woman. Nevertheless, the
discerning tan usually find traits which
reveal a Southern woman’s naive state,
under all her foreign polish.” •
SOCIETY,
hOCIKTY EVENTS AND PERSON A US,
Mr, and Mr*. W. A. Anderton of
Alabama ar* expected In Savannah
Thursday to spend the holiday* with
Mr. and Mr*. Thomas John Davis,
Mr. J. J. Apple, who I* a student of
Ihe Teel), u expected Savannah
Thursday to spend the holidays with
hi# parents. Mr. and Mr*. 11. J. Ap
ple. He will be accompanied by Mr.
dtephen Dalgarn.
Mias Nannie <'oney, who has been
visiting In North Carolina for several
week*, baa returned to th* city.
Ml** Cadi* A. William* of Hard**-
CONFIDENTIAL!
December 19th, 1904.
MR. PUZZLED HUSBAND,
Every Street,
City.
DEAR SIR:
The most sensible new fashion in Christmas Gifts is the be
stowal of an adequate life insurance policy upon his wife by a
husband who otherwise might leave penniless the mother of his
children if he were taken away before the coming of another
Christmas Day.
The cost is no larger than that of any one of thousands of
seasonable trinkets or things worth while. But the value! So
great it is, in its certainty of preventing want and hardship, that if
is measureless as a widow's woe.
There's lust time enough for us to have made for you your
priceless Christmas Gift. Will you not call upon us or telephone us
(Nos. 232 Georgia or 1133 Bell) at once? and we will immediately
place ourselves at your service.
Yours for Her Protection,
HARTY & APPLE,
Managers for Georgia and South Carolina,
117 Bay Street, East.
INCORPORATED 1851.
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
ville, S. C., is a guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas John Davis.
Mr. E. Howard Kingman of Toronto,
Canada, will arrive this morning to
spend the holidays with his sister, Mrs.
Arthur M. Lucas, Jr., on Waldburg
street, east.
SHAKESPERE CU B
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Shakeepere Club will not hold a
meeting this afternoon, and it has
also been decided not to hold one on
Monday, 26th.
CHRISTMAS DOLL SALE.
Circle No. 12, King’s Daughters, will
hold a sale of dressed dolls at the res
idence of Mrs. Beirne Gordon, No. 12
Oglethorpe avenue, west, to-morrow
afternoon. All Chrlstmaß shoppers are
Invited to attend.
SOCIETY EVENTS AND PERSONALS.
Mr. Armond V. Berg, who is taking
a course in architecture at Columbia
University, will return during the week
for the Christmas holidays.
smokedTm off
THE CONTESTED HILL
Hon the Japanese Droxe the Hui
staus Away.
Che Foo, Dec. 18.—Commander Mlz
zeneoff of the battleship Poltava, who
was wounded in the leg during the
battle of High Hill and who arrived
here from Port Arthur, Dec. 16, bear
ing dispatches which were turned
over to the Russian consul for trans
mission to St. Petersburg, said to the
Associated Press correspondent;
"Since the Japanese on Nov. 28, be
gan their attack on High Hill, which
they call 203 Metre Hill, the fighting
has been continuous. The steep and
sandy slopes of the hill were streak
ed and dotted with snow when the
Japanese began the battle, which waa
destined to furnish so many deeds of
heroism that they became common
place. There was so much slaughter
that even Port Arthur’s war-harden
ed veterans shuddered at the sight.
“Japanese were compelled to clam
ber up the slopes of the hill in many
cases without firing, in the face of
one of the most murderous deluges
ever poured from rifles and machine
guns.
“The enemy went down in squads
and companies, but there were al
ways others grimly coming forward.
Their bravery was beyond praise, as
was that of our own men. Worm
times, the fighting was hand to hand,
with the muzzles of the rifles at the
breasts of the contestants, the bay
onets being used as swords.
“The sides of the hill were strewn
with bodies, and the snow waa crim
soned with the biod of the wounded,
some of whom had crawled Into it,
seeking In its coldness relief from their
dying agony. Eventually In similar
Instances which were to follow, we
retired, leaving the work of driving
the enemy from the eummlt to the re
sistless guns of the neighboring forts,
notably those of Llsotl mountain.
“When the Japanese retired under an
artillery fire the Russians reoccupied
the summit.
"The second’and third assaults were
replicas of the first, although the sec
ond was the most ferocious, being near
ly all hand to hand fighting, In which
mercy waa neither asked nor glvan.
"The Japanese adopted a curious ex
pedient which assisted them greatly
In the third eaaault. They had pre
pared huge piles of wood, coal and
cornstalks which they Ignited, the wind
taring In the fa* ee of the Kuaelana. The
(aeultsnt fire was Immense and th*
flames and smoke > ompeiled the Rus
sians to retire
The red glare from this fire dis
closed a ghastly pint are mors Infernal
titan ever dreamed by {hints.’ 1
STILL EXPECTING
GARRISON TO HOLD.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 18.—Gen. Stoes
sel’s latest dispatches from Port Ar
thur were published to-day, but as
given out do not carry the story Of
the garrison's stubborn defense beyond
Dec. 10, thus leaving a gap of at least
five days between the official word of
the military commander and the un
official story of Commander Mlzzeneff,
which was given out at Che Foo. It
is not pretended that the dispatches
are published In full.
The story of the operations, as far
as it has been given out, is Intensely
Interesting, and shows that there has
been an almost uninterrupted assault
of the most desperate character from
Nov. 20 to Dec. 10, when the Japan
ese, after losing over 22,000 men. cap
tured 203 Metre Hill and were able
from that position to shell the squadron
In the Port Arthur roadstead. There
the official account ends; but It Is ex
plained that the Japanese do not oc
cupy the top of the hill, which is still
exposed to a deadly fire from the Rus
sian artillery. The Japanese are using
a plunging fire from very heavy guns
from behind the crest of the hill, but
that this fire is efficiently directed is
shown by the damage suffered by the
Russian squadron.
The public reception of Gen. Stoes
sel’s dispatches as a whole Is not bad.
The Japanese so far have used every
device of engineering skill In making
approaches, but with enormous sacri
fices, have been able to take only the
outer line of defenses. It is declared
the garrison probably will be able to
hold out a considerable time yet.
REPORT THAT JAPS
SAILED FOR SINGAPORE.
London, Dec. 19.—A report from Che
Foo that a portion of the Japanese
fleet has left for Singapore and that a
number of Japanese merchantmen have
been lightly armed to maintain the
blockade of Port Arthur is published
to-day in a Che Foo dispatch to the
Daily Telegraph.
WARSHIPS ABANDONED
BY THE RUSSIANS.
Toklo, Dec. 19.—Official reports state
that the Russians at Port Arthur have
abandoned the battleships Peresvlet,
Poltava, Pobleda and Retvlzan and the
cruisers Palladia and Bayan.
IN THE LAND FRAUDS.
Oreaon Senator and Congressman
Are Alleged to Be Implicated.
Washington, Dec. 19.—The Post to
day says;
Henator Mitchell and Representative
Blnger Hermann of Oregon left Wash
ington last night for Portland to ap
pear before the federal grand Jury and
face chargee which, they have been
advised, have been made Implicating
them In Oregon land frauds.
Both Henator Mitchell and Mr. Her
maim declare In moat poeltlva terms
that they are absolutely innocent and
have nothing lo fear from returning
to Oregon. Roth aaeert with equal
poslttveneaa that the lime has come
when “this outrageous persecution
must stop.”
They will Insist upon their right to
go before the grand jury to make an
swer to all i hargaa thal may be made
against them, ronAdmit thal they will
be able to establish their Innocence.
They egpaet to have a I tearing on
Mat or day.
MYHTKRY MARKS STORY.
Career of a Virginian Who Had
Hern a Man of Prominence.
New York. Dec. 18.—Mystery marks
the story of Elwood W. Chapman, 78
years old, an Inmate of the Polyclinic
hospital in Westchester. Up to the
time of his admission to the institu
tion, Chapman lived as a recluse amid
valuable paintings of his own and a
quantity of antique furniture in an
old mansion owned by the city in a
remote section of Pelham, Bay Park.
Chapman was found 111 in the old man
sion.
After his removal to the hospital
a young man named Eugene McCiue
was arrested for taking pictures and
furniture from the house. This inci
dent brought to light the fact that
Chapman had been in his early days
a prominent marine and landscape ar
tist and that at one time he was a
member of a military staff of former
Gov. Wise of Virginia.
When McCiue was arraigned, Henry
Wise, a lawyer, appeared on behalf
of Chapman, as prosecutor, Wiiae
says that he is a grandson of the
former Virginia Governor upon whose
staff Chapman served. Many years
ago Chapman became estranged from
his wife and friends in Virginia and
dropped out of sight. Mr. Wise said
that hearing of the robbery of Mr.
Chapman he made an Investigation
and recognized the once prominent
Virginia artist in the old man at the
hospital.
FIREMEN FOUGHT HARD.
t&sploslons "Would Have Been Caused
Had Tliey Fallsd.
Chicago, Dec. 18.—The sash and door
factory of Philip Rinn & Cos., located
at Croaby and Halstead streets, was
destroyed to-day by fire that for a
time threatened to spread to two large
supply tanks of the People's Light and
Coke Company. Both of the tanks
were full of illuminating gas and it
was only by the hardest kind of work
that the firemen kept the flames from
overheating the gas tanks and causing
an explosion that would have brought
death to hundreds of persons and de
stroyed every building In the vicinity.
Three firemen were seriously Injured
by falling walls. The loss was 1100,-
000.
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