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ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, JUNE 1,
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Senate and House Are Beginning
to Take Some Stock in His Re-
Admonitions to Be Pre-
John D, Rockefeller
Getting Real Poor
Tax Returns of Cleveland Show
That He Is $2,905 Worse Off
Than Last Year.
CLEVELAND, May 31.—John l>.
Rockefeller is rapidly losing his
wealth and is becoming practically a
poor man. according to the report of
John T. Fisher, tax assessor for
Cleveland Heights, in which place the
Forest Hill estate of the oil king is
situated.
The figures show that a year ago
JYIr. Rockefeller returned his personal
property as worth *7.190. This year
he is poorer by $2,905. his return of
personal property being $4,285.
Last year Mr. Rockefeller’s farm
superintendent included some grain
peated Admonitions to Be Pre- in the returns. John D. objected to
oared for “Yellow Peril” War lhat °" the Kroun<1 ,hat thP K,ain
pdfoU lOi I eilOW reni ""dr. ^ was to be used on his estate and that
it was not returnable as personal
New Dangers Are Pointed Out in property ami should not be taxed.
This year the grain was missing from
Some of the Situations Con- I the tax duplicate.
_ .nr The fl * ur< “ s show that John D. has
fronting This Country in Refer-
ence to Hawaii and Alaska.
WASHINGTON. May 31.—The an
nual war scare that Richmond Pear-1
son Hobson. Representative from
Alabarpa in Congress. usually stirs up
over the “yellow peril,” thereby mean
ing Japanese, seems to be a thing
hovering In the air at this time.
Hobson, the hero of Santiago,
know® what he is talking about. He
was a naval constructor before he
had a desire to represent his district
in Congress and anything nautical
appeals strongly to him.
Aside from the technical parts of
nine horses worth $55 each. ten
head of cattle worth $40 each and
furniture worth $3,300. He has no
automobiles here at the time of the
year that the assessment' were made,
so none is returned for taxation.
Dies Shut in Vault
As He Clips Coupons
Henry W. Hubbard. Missionary
Society Treasurer for 35 Years,
Succumbs in Bank.
NEW YORK. May 31.—Henry W.
Hubbard, treasurer of the American
Missionary Association for 35 years,
his profession. Hobson is keenly alive j died of heart failure yesterday after-
to the conditions that confront the ! noon in a vault of the Saf^ Deposit
Company of New York. In the Singer
American nation. Ever since ha c
been in Congress 1 he has harped con
tinually on the question of the “yel
low peril.” In effect he says tha:
Japan has covetous eyes not only on ,
the Philippines but on Alaska.
Given Much Warning.
He does not think Japan will make
a move to capture the Hawaiian Is
lands. although he predicts that if
they prove successful in a war with
the United States they will denude
this nation of its possessions in the
East.
He has given this country much
warning on a -ub.iect that is nearest
to his heart. Not territorial ag
grandizement. but conservation, per
haps preparedness. That’s what Hob
son wants. He knows as i navy man
that the United States is deficient in
the protection of its great coast lines.
aUo understands the problems that j
confiont a nation that has any idea i
of invading the United States.
Rut his main contention Is “Is the
honor of the United States involved
lr. affording protection to the Philip
pines and Alaska?”
The Philippines*a re material to the
Japanese. Alaska has been a bon** of
contention between the two Govern
ments for the last ten years—the ?eal
industry furnishing employment to
thousand 0 of Japanese being one ot
the reasons why the Japanese would
like to obtain sovereignly there.
Conditions in Far East.
In Hawaii, the balance of power,
should Japanese have the right to
vote, would be held by th<- Orientals.
In the Philippines army officers be
lieve that discontented natives would
flock to Japanese standards should
war be declared between Japan and
the United States. What the result
would be is hard t° determine.
In tlie Philippines, the army,
through dint of perseverance, has;
succeeded in getting from Congress , . -nyr*, ,
cnly such appropriations as will pro- LCWlS (jQlS MltteilS
vide for the armament of the most
Important harbors. There are many
places along the coast where hostile
fleets from Japan could And harbor,
and from which r-xpeditions could be
sent through the island, and finally to
Manila.
In Hawaii it Is different. At Pear.
Harbor the United States has spent
nearly $13,000,000 in arming what is
considered to be the Gibraltar of the
Pacific. Yet adverse criticism has
been heard, even in army and nav\
circles, that the naval base there is
r.ni of the strength that it is supposed
to be.' Engineers employed in erect
ing the fortifications, it is said, have
discovered that a grave mistake was
made in Selecting Pearl Harbor as the
American base in the islands.
Alaska Not Fortified.
In Ala.-ka there is no formidable
fortification that would aid the
“home guard" in staving off a Japan
ese invading force. Little money has
b*en spent b' the Government in for
tifying the principal harbors of the
territory; It is closest to Jordan, also,
of any of the insular possession* ol
the United State®, and, perhaps, is
• one of the most logical places for a
Japane* fj fleet to attack.
Turning from the meager land de
fenses that the United States has in
rhe Paciflr Representative Hobson
points to the navy equipment. The
Asiatic squadron is composed ot
thirty-five- vessels of all types-'•cat-
tere r1 be:ween Manila and China it
Blue, Striped, Fancy
Best Dressed United States Senator
May Set New Style in Washing
ton by Donning Them.
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Senat jr
James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois,
the best dressed man in the Senate,
may take to wearing woolen mit
tens next winter. He has them, at
any rate; a dozen pairs—black, blue,
brown, striped, fancy and plain
weaves. They arrived to-day from
a knitting mill company in Chicag ».
accompanied by a brief to show that
the Underwood bill will prove
costly to the industry. The brief
sets forth that labor abroad gets*
only $3 to $6 a week, while in th s
country, it gets $8 to $15 a week..
ONE WOMAN BUYS ENTIRE
GROUP OF COLORADO MINES
IDA H 1
. One of
I deals ir
) SPRINGS. COL.. May 31.
the most important mining
two years in Clear Creek
■ID RESCUE
FIS F
Town Pump Mislaid
And Doctor Needs It
Boy Balls Boat With Instrument—
One of the Stomach Variety—as
“Dad" Takes Horse Medicine.
Winifred James, Authoress, Says
World Is Kinder to Cats and
Dogs Than to Unhappily Wed.
MARRIAGE NEEDS REFORM
Building. He had gone to the vaul
to deposit securities for the associa
tion and to cut coupons that were
due.
He seemed in excellent health at 3
o’clock in the afternoon, when he said
to the Rev. Charles J Ryder, secre
tary of the association, as he was
leaving his office at 287 Fourth Ave-
nut: "Well. I’m going downtown and
clip coupons. I’m awfully late this
month.”
Head Clerk Mitchell of the Safe De
posit Company, wondered why Mr.
Hubbard was staying in the vault so
long At ( losing time the dpor was
opened with a passkey. Mr. Hubbard
s’at with his head renting on a tabU.
He had been dead about an hour, a
surgeon from the Hudson Street Hos
pital said.
“Three Kates Club"
Has Cupid's Charter
Trio of Washington Society Girls,
Including Kate Elkins. Agree to
Marry Only for Love.
WASHINGTON, May 31 -The
Three Kates Club" is the fnost ex
clusive social organization in Wasn-
ington. Its three members are Masses
Katherine Elkins. Katherine Jennings
and Katherine Britton. The strictest
rule of this club is that no member
shall marry except for love.
Miss Jennings and Mias Elkins have
a common tie in the fact that th Ir
immense inheritances .make them
the target for fortune hunters. Miss
Katherine Britton comes into a
charmed circle, perhaps, because
the devotion she is receiving from
young “Dick” Elkina.
County was closed to-day when Mrs.
p]tta H. Minter took over the entire
i holdings of the I’ommodore group “f
mines situated on Red Elephant
Mountain. The properties included
are known as the Commodore and
Tabor tunnel, the White. Boulder
Nes:. Free America and Young Amer
ica lode mining claims, three mill-
Continuecf c 1 * 5, Column 5.
Utes and power buildings standing
on the line of th® <' r d<>rauo & South
ern tracks at Lawson.
Divorce Can Only Break Up
Wretched Home, Not Happy
Ones, She Declares.
NEW YORK. May 31.—“We rail it
morality to tie two comparative
strangers together so inextricably
that they efrther have to remain |
hideously bound, or else wade into
the mud to get free."
Winifred James, the well-known
English—or rather Australian—
authoress, is among us and yesterday
afternoon made the above remark
and expressed in her customary, easy
me. ner. other of her views on mat- j
rimony. She recently returned from j
a trip to the West Indies.
“The marriage ceremony in Jamaica
is not followed very rigorously.” said
Miss James, "but in all the months
I was there I only once saw a negro
woman treated harshly or unkindly.”
“Marriage Needs Adjusting.”
"Now please do not misunderstand !
me.” she continued. "I don’t argue
against marriage. It must have been |
a necessary thing for the race, other- \
wise it would not have survived so
many centuries. But it needs a great
deal of adjusting for present uses if
there is to be any decent and true
morality in it. *
“It cannot be right in this age of
enlightenment, when even lost dogs
and stray cats have champions and
when every care is taken to prolong
the life of the epileptic and the im
becile. that there should be no hope
for two fools who at a period when
their intelligence was limited or may
be temporarily dimmed. put their
arms around each other and jumped
without any conception of the depth
of the water.
“Oh. yes. 1 know all about the ar
guments against divorce. ‘It will
break up the home lifer* Surely it
would. It would break up the un
happy home life, that is what it is
for. and the sooner the better.
"Teach Divine Usury.”
“We are too much given to portray
natural inclinations as sins. It is
natural to mate, but a boy can be
taught that fastidiousness is no more
an eccentricity than brushing his
teeth is just as necessary for his
health; that to deny himself sordid
tilings for the love of something un-
sordid is going to return him a hun
dred-fold that which he has denied
himself. Teach him that divine usury,
and teach the girl that it is just as
unholy to sell her body in the church
as in a street, and you will diminish
your divorce list very considerably.”
Winifred James has recently be
come Mrs. Henri de .Ian Her hus
band is an official of the United Fruit
Company. She is going to live in
Central America.
Curtiss Carries Four
In New Flying Boat
Aviator Makes 60 Miles an Hour in
the Air and 50 Miles While
Skimming the Water.
HAMMONDSPORT, May 31.—The
distinction of making a record fiighi
with four persons in the first four-
passenger fixing boat made in Amer
ica belongs to-day to Glen H. Cur
tiss.
The boat proved unexpectedly fast,
averaging more than 60 miles an hour
when flying and 50 miles an hour
on the water. The, machine is of
the tractor type, with the propeller
in front. The boat is unusually heavy,
weighing when loaded more than a
ton.
It is designed for rough water use.
with a freeboard of about four feet,
and eight watertight compartments.
A? an extra precaution each of the
compartments is provided with an au
tomatic boiler.
Bob Taft Collecting
Harvard’s Old Clothes
Son of Ex-President Calls on Senior
Law Class to Help Out
Charity.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. May 31.—
Robert A. Taft, son of the formef
President, has finished his task as a
| collector of old clothes at Harvard,
where he is a student at the law
school. He turned over to the com
mittee of the Phillips Brooks House
last night one of the largest collec
tions of the week.
Each year a group of Harvard stu
dents make a canvass of the univer
sity foF cast-off clothing, old shoes
and the like. These are packed and
sent to mis* ions and sailors’ homes
in Boston and New York.
Taft was assigned to the task of
i olleeting old « lothes from tht 150
; member* of th® senior class of the
’ . v v boo! and ki .■ had the busiest
‘ «even days of his life.
BROWNVILLE, MINN.. May 31.—
James P. Colleran. a Union Veteran,
who had been suffering from rheuma
tism. swallowed a big dose of h*ns®
medicine by mistake to-dav. Dr.
Francis Duff\ hurried to Colleran’s
house, followed by hulf the men in
town. The doctor took a look .it Col
leran and the horse medicine bottle
and told ”Cv” Jenkins to run over
and tell Mrs. Duffy to send the stom
ach pump.
Jenkins came back out of breath in
a few minutes and said Mrs. Duffy
pouldn’t And the pump. Dr. Duffy
sprinted to his* house and hunted hig;i
and low for the pump—the only one in
town—while Colleran was doubled up
in bed deeply regretting that he
wasn't a horse. Finally some one
thought that "Jimmy” Duffy, the doc
tor’s 10-year-old son. might know-
something about the instrument.
Scouts went forth in search of
"Jimmv” and found him "bailing' out
hi* boat .ith the stomach pump.
Coll' jn’s life wap saved and "Jim
my" went to bed supperless and sting
ing with remorse.
N, Y, Millionaire on
De Luxe Whale Trip
John Borden Tires of Big Game
and Goes After Monsters of
the Sea.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 31.—John
Borden, a young New York million
aire left San Francisco to-day on a
private whaling expedition on his new
whaler de luxe, the Adventuress. The
boat is finished in yacht style ana
was built especially for this cruise.
Borden was accompanied by Ro\
C. Andrews, a member of the Na
tional History Museum an Ameri
can expert on whales. The main
quest of ihe expedition is- to secure
a specimen of the rare bow head whale
the least known of the whale family
and which has the longest whalebones
of any of the species.
Borden, an enthusiastic hunter, tir
ed of pursuing the usual wild game
in Africa and elsewhere and so built
bis $50,090 yacht to see if he couldn't
find a new thrill hunting the whale.
Professor Edward T. Reichert
Announces the Discovery of a
Method of Distinguishing.
UPSETS ANIMAL CLASSES
Investigator Finds It Impossible
to Mistake the Crystals of
One for Another.
u.s.
Mrs. Luke Lea Now Being Treated
+•+ •!••+
Senator Kern Tells of His Recovery
Mrs. Luke Lea, wife of the Senator from Tennessee, who is
receiving latest lung treatment.
Starving Man Chokes
On Meal Provided Him
Abundance of Kindness Causes
Death of Street Corner Loafer
in Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, May 31.—An abun
dance of kindness cost Frank Leop
ard. 36. a homeless man. his life la;e
yesterday afternoon. Leopard lounged
around Knowlton's corner and was
a well-known figure.
August Prate met the man during
the later afternoon and asked him
if he would have a bite of lunch.
Leopard accepted gratefully. A
bountiful lunch was spread before
the man. While he was dining a
morsel of food stuck in his throat,
and before it could be dislodged he
had strangled to death.
The body was removed to the
morgue. Coroner Foertmeyer is try
ing to find relatives of the dead man.
He learned that Leopard ds from
Milldale, Ky.
Jno, Hays Hammond's
Pay Cut to $1,50 Day
Famous Mine Expert Forced to
Waste Much Valuable Time
as Witness.
NEW YORK. May 31.—John Hays
Hammond ha® made his appearance
before Judge J. Mack in the United
States Court on the average of four
days each week or three weeks, ready
to testify in a $200,000 damage suit
involving the title to certain oil lands
in the District of Ozulurna. Vera
Cruz, Mex.
The frequent postponement of the
suit is apparently costing Mr. Ham
mond money, as he is allowed only
$1.50 a day in witness fees, whereas
his daily fees as an expert mining
engineer are $1,000 a day and up
wards.
TESTIFIES HE’S FARMER. BUT
CAN SELL COFFINS IN PINCH
ST. PAUL. May 31. After naming
farming as his sole occupation. T. O.
Thompson, of Leonard. N. D.. testify
ing at the hearing of the Govern
ment's anti-Trust suit against the
International Harvester Company,
admitted on cross-examination that
he is an aeent for the International,
handles other lines, is a bank di
rector. is associated with an elevator
company and has 'sex-ora! side lines
Aren't j ou an undertaker, too?'
acked Government counsel.
"Well, not exactly but I can sell a
man a coffin if he wants it," the wit
ness replied.
PHILADELPHIA. May 31.—Prof
Fdward T. Reichert of the University
of Pennsylvania, in a report just
made to the Carnegie Institution at
Washington on his researches to dis
cover if possible a method of produc
ing life artificially, has announced the
discovery of the blood < haracteristics
of various human races.
Dr. Reichert declares that as soon
as he has completed his experiments
he will be able to differentiate be
tween the blood of a Chinaman. In
dian. negio and other races »n as to
make his discovery of absolute value
In a diagnostic way for medico-legai
wo 9k.
Blood Crystals Differ.
By a study of the different blood
cells Dr. Reichert says he has found
lhat it is absolutely impossible to
mistake the blood crystals of one an
imal for those of another, just as l r .
would be impossible to mistake the
animals themselves.
Dr. Reichert describes his discov
ery by enumerating some of the an
imal- that he has rec lassified. In the
old method of classifying animals ac
cording to their tribes the bear was
always placed in the same family as
the dog. the wolf and the fox
B\ the new method of comparing
the blood crystals of those animals
Dr. Reichert has proved lo his satis
faction that tne l.*ar is related close*
iy to the sea Hops and the seals, as
naturalists have contended, and is
not related to ihe deg. the wolf or
the fox.
In the bird world Dr. Reichert says
the guinea fowl has oeen classed a*
belonging to the same family as the
domestic fowl. He has proved also to
his satisfaction that the guinea fowl’s
Mood crystals are Mke the ostrich’s.
Studies Plant Life.
In his preliminary researches Di.
Reichert studied plant life to get at
the underlying methods of the forma
tion of tne protoplasm. H.- says that
starches from different plans vary in
their physical and physio-chemica!
properties, and that the differences
are distinctive of the plant and can
be plotted out ir. the form of reac
tion curves which show the specie
and the genera from which they
spring.
His laboratory tecords contain i
descriprhn of l,2ec starches obtained
from a large number of plants a id
p'ant | arts from ail over the world.
The scientist declares that the differ
ence ;r. the proper.ies of the *\i:t»pl®x
organic metabolic plants ard animals
efftrs a :ogica basis for the re lass;-
flcntior of animols according to the
form* of cell life with which the*
were born.
Dr. Reichert believes he lias arriv
ed at the very mechanisms which
give rise to the phenomena which in
the aggn gate constitute lile.
WORKS 16 HOURS A DAY
RUNNING 32,000-ACRE FARM
(VAL1.A WALLA. W ASH. May 31.
— Henry’ Vincent, the wheat grower
of Eureka Flat, who harvested 12.000
acres last year, has increased his
holdings until this season he will have
32.000 acres in spring and fall w heat.
This is believed to be the largest
wheat farm in one piece in th*» Un
ited States All the wheat is up and
the outlook for the crop is good
To manag® such * form requires
great executive ability. Vincent, w ho
stand? 6 feet 4 inches and is of sturdy
frame, work.- sixteen hour* ® v ®ry da>.
Bo rarely takes more than five hours'
sleep.
Surgeon General t<> Obtain Cultures and Make
Tests of Von Ruck Cure in Hospital.
WASHINGTON. May 29.— Interest
of Senators in the Von Ruck anti-
tuberculosis serum which cured Sen
ator Kern. Democratic leader of the
upper house, increased to-day when
It became known that the wife of
Senator Luke Lea, of Tennessee, is
now receiving the same treatment at
Dr. Von Ruck's sanitarium at Ashe
ville, N. C.
Mrs. Lea has been at several san
itariums. and only about two weeks
ago was removed to Dr. Von Ruck's,
and, although said to be in an ad
vanced stage of the disease, she Is re
ported to have been benefited by Dr,
Von Ruck's treatment.
All the Senators are deeply inter
ested in her recovery, because of the
heroic and prolonged fight she has
been making against the disease. Two
years ago her husband, a stalwart
athlete, underwent a transfusion op-
j eiation and permitted a full quart of
j his blood to flow into his wife's veins.'
j Temporarily strengthened, but still in
grave danger. Mrs. Lea a month later
| was ruehed in a special train to Den-
: ver. There she partly regained her
! health.
Surgeon General to Test It.
The resolution of Senator Overman
> of North Carolina, which passed the
upper house by unanimous vote on
I Monday, has already borne fruit. Sur
geon Genera! Rupert Blue, in change
| of the Public Health Bureau, and wno
was directed by the Senate to make
a thorough- investigation of the serum,
said to-day that no time would be lust
in obtaining cultures and distributing
them among Government hospitals for
tests. Dr. Von Ruck has already
placed his serum at the disposal of
the naval medical school and experi
ments are now being made there.
Senator Kern to-day talked freely
of his experience at the sanitarium.
The Democratic leader spoke of many
others who w'ere cured by Dr. Von
Ruck about the same time as himself.
Among them were Mrs. J. M. Trotter,
wife of a wholesale grocer of Chat
tanooga, Tenn., and prominent in so
ciety there.
Kern Relates Experience.
"There were many others there at
the time, and l have since met and
corresponded with a number who said
they had not experieneed any recur
rent attack.” said the Senator. “This
sanitarium is filled all the time, and Dr.
Von Ruck has been so successful in the
treatment of tuberculosis patients that
his serum really ought to be care
fully investigated for the benefit of
suffeiing humanity. lam very grate
ful. and I could not praise him or nis
serum too much, although I regretted
that Senator Overman had divulged
my secret to my colleagues.”
Senator Overman said to-day: "I
know a lady and her two grandchil
dren who were cured by the Von
Ruck serum. Also many others, but
am not at liberty to mention any
names. The serum has been a boon
to North Oarolinans. and as Dr. Von
Ruck is willing, ought to be given to
the world.”
Influence of Statesmen From
Dixie at Washington Is More
Pronounced Than at Any Time
Since the Days of Civil War,
Wilson Himself Born Southerner
Has Treated South Liberally in
the Selection of His Cabinet
and in Filling Other Posts.
In Senate Also, Chairmanships of
Most of Big Committees Are in
Hands of Southern Men, but
There Is No Sectional Feeling,
WASHINGTON. May 31.—It la only
two or three years alnce Mr. Taft
a« President went through the South
urging Southerners to hasten the day
when they again would take an active
and important part in the conduct
of the Federal Government. Mr. Taft
was sincere In his desire to see the
South attain the influential place it
occupied at the national capital be
fore the Civil War. but he probably
did not an^ipate the fulfillment of
his wishes In Just the way it has
been brought about.
The South and Southern influences
are more strongly represented In the
Government at Washington than ar
any other time since the Civil War.
Political observer** are beginning to
realize this more and more as the
lists of appointments to the Federal
service come from the White House
and the new committee assignments
in Congress are studied.
In the first place the Presidency
itself is in the hand** of a man South
ern horn for the first time in nearly
half a century. Woodrow Wilson was
born in Virginia. w*as graduated from
the University of Virginia, founded
by Thomas Jefferson, and has re
tained strong Southern sentiments
from his early training and surround
ings.
Wilson Liberal to South.
In choosing his cabinet Mr. Wilson
has been very liberal to the South.
More Southerners are in charge of
the big executive departments of the
Government than since back in th®
’50s.
Grover Cleveland gave only two of
his cabinet posts to the South in his
first administration. He selected Lu
cius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, of
Mississippi, for his Secretary of In
terior and Augustus H. Garland, of
Arkansas for his Attorney General.
When Cleveland was elected in
1892, he gave only three of the eight
cabinet places to the South—select
ing John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
for Secretary of the Treasury. LJilary
A. Herbert, of Alabama, for Secre
tary of the Navy, and Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, for Secretary of the Interior.
Three of the ten men In President
Wilson’s cabinet are credited directly
to Southern States, two others w'ere
born and have lived most of their
live® in the South and one is from
a border State.
McAdoo a Southerner,
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy, comes from North Carolina.
James C. McReynolds. the Attorney
General, is from Tennessee, and Al
bert S. Burleson, the Postmaster Gen
eral, is a Texan.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Wil
liam G McAdoo, is credited to New
York State, but it requires only a
slight stretch of memory to recall
the time when he entered New York
City fresh from Georgia with noth
ing to build on save one big idea
and plenty of pluck.
David F. Houston. Secretary of Ag
riculture. not only comes from Mis
souri, a border Stat£. but is a South
erner by birth and training. He was
born in North Carolina, was grad
uated from the South Carolina Col
lege and was president of the Uni
versity before he became chancellor
of Washington University in St.
Louis.
As contrasted with this impressive
list of Southern Cabinet officers. Mr.
Tafts official family contained at
the close of his administration not a
single man who was credited to 3.
Southern State. The nearesr approach
to it was Charles Nagel, of St. Louis,
whrr was Secretary of Commerce and
Labor. He was a native of Texas,
At the beginning of his administra
tion. Pro ident Taft gave the War
portfolio to Jacob McG. Dickinson, a