New York Times, The (Newspaper) - August 21, 1909, New York, New York SO THE WEATHER Fair cooler to-day fair Sunday moderate to brisk winds MA 48837 YORK 21 Greater New York Jersey City Fine Test Flights Made at Aviators in Slight Accidents CURTISS GETS AN OVATION He Is Hopeful of Winning Denies the Wright Patents Are in- fringed by His Machine REIMS Aug flying in straight lines or making wide turns or wheeling abruptly traveling slow and INVENTED HiS OWN MURDER Ned Marshall Played Grim Jest on Nice Hospital Special Cable to THE NEW TIMES NICE Aug Ned Marshall has gone to the trouble of reporting his own murder in order to furnish the newspapers of two continents some in- news in a dull season will not object if the less exciting yet still not commonplace of his recent exploits hereabout be told Mr Marshall's endeavors to provide a bizarre entertainment for the public last Spring were so successful that the unappreciative authorities suspected his mental condition and sequestered him in the lunatic asylum In the environs of Nice Mr Marshall grew weary of the ex- however and a fortnight ago requested his discharge This was un- feelingly refused except on condition that his friends promised to see him fast and low and high was the out of the country Mr Marshall could Ing offered persons on the not dream of allowing his friends to field of to-day Two slight a so repugnant alike occurred M driving them tQ and continued to an Antoinette machine came to ground sideways and broke one of the languish in the retreat What induced the authorities to re- im last Monday RUNS BUMING BOAT ASHORE SAVES 40 Captain of Illinois River Steamer Put Out Gangplanks and Rowboats Came ONE PLANK BURNED AWAY Women and Children Thrown Into Men Swim with dren on Their Backs bright red tails had accomplished a flight i morning is unknown but they did n of a kilometer when the machine struck lease him The first vis a Its propeller it was to an house of a a hedge demolishing Its propeller require two days to repair this latter injury This was the second last practice day before the commencement of the prize flights of Week which begins Sunday and many of the aviators took the beautiful weather to try out their craft Glenn H Curtiss the only American who is to compete in the races got on ovation after a successful practice flight of seven minutes Although the motor his machine was a bit erratic the biplane sped straight on its course and without swaying Mr Curtiss was greatly pleased swaying with the performance and declared that he was ready for the races and hau no intention of further risking his machine in useless preliminary flights I will be contented with a few short flutters and practice in starting and ing in order to get acquainted with he said fn Hubert Latham also was applauded for a spectacular flight of ten minutes The crowd broke into cheering as M Bleriot driving a small forty horse power mono- plane made a series of manoeuvres ing which he demonstrated his masterful hand at aviation Sommer Visits n Village M Sommer who recently though beat Wilbur Wright's record for duration of flight speeded across the teau during the afternoon and was lost to sight in the haze It was thought by the spectators that he had descended but after a lapse of time PEORIA 111 Aug steamer Fr-ed Swain commanded by Capt Verne Swain of the Peoria La Salle Packet Company which carried twenty-five engers and fifteen sailors burned to the water to-day after the flaming craft had been piloted into four feet of water and the passengers and crew had escaped to the banks the Illinois River up which the was bound when it caught No lives were lost but Joseph sit i the engineer was burned about the face In order to make sure of ob- a copy pf Times notable features of which are advertised where place your order with your newsdealer early to-day SUN BAM AND REST FOR MR HARRIMAN He Must Eat Every Two Hours and Take Champagne Baths Says Vienna Specialist DOCTORS HERE INTERESTED was to an acquaintance's house where he left a note saying I have escaped from the But measures are ful to Mr Marshall His next visit was to the telegraph office There he sat down and sent a brief businesslike press dispatch telling of his der to which subsequent versions ed the particulars that he was shot by his own revolver trying to As he later visited the police station at Monticello and shook hands with the Brigadier on duty that official was able to an inquiring world that the humorist was safe and sound of body Your correspondent to-day en- countered him at Monticello and he made no reference to the killing he had recently undergone Dr Charles R Hancock Approves the Treatment Save the Use of pagne Preferring Alcohol Baths When he landed he announced that he had made a voyage to the village of Vinny and During the there was some wind but Da Lambert and M Lefebvre both piloting Wright biplanes braved the breeze and simultaneously made evolutions which demonstrated the ONE CAR TO HOLD FRANCHISE Stands with Horse Driver and Con- ductor on Church St but Never Moves A weather-beaten old of the vintage of 71 been standing night ana day in exactly the same spot on Church Street near Chambers for more than a week Inside of it the conductor and driver sit leaning comfortably against the carpet-covered seats discussing the joys of the simple life The car never moves and the horse as if he couldn't if he was urged Every once ln a while some one comes along with and hitches It up in place of the one been lazily in the traces for eight hours or so The horse whose shift has ended goes back to a stable to keep on resting and in its turn takes up its life of calm In the same manner the conductor and driver are relieved of their round of boilers to guard against an explosion body and Charles of Peoria had a broken arm The loss is of the passengers their belongings The escapes from the burning vessel the passengers most of whom were men and children were exciting and at one time flames were discovered coming from a stateroom on the second deck there was a panic Fears were ly calmed as the burning steamer drew nearer shore and scores of rowboats were seen hurriedly putting out to the rescue The gangplank was lowered to the wa- edge when the steamer had been grounded and one rowboat after another took off a load of passengers and sailors After two boats had loaded and started for shore the gangplank caught fire and fell away from the steamer dropping teen persons and children the water Thomas Powers of and E A Caron of Worcester Mass who were on the when it fell each saved the lives of two children half carrying and half ming with them on their backs and shoulders to old tree stumps to wait for rescuers The others who were thrown into The water by the collapse of the gangplank were taken In boats to safety Those still aboard the steamer managed to get out another gangplank at a place ther from the flames which were idly creeping over the boat fire was discovered in a stateroom by Mrs Eugene Furbish a cabin girl She gave the alarm but all efforts to subdue the flames failed Capt Swain realizing that the was doomed ordered Pilot Martin Houston to the boat and instructed his crew to give out life preservers Engineer after attending to the Physicians in the city discussed with much interest the treatment said to have been ordered E HJ man by Prof Struempel the Viennese specialist to consult whom Mr Harriman went abroad The report of the treatment ordered by SENATORS IGNORED BY VIENNA EMBASSY Or Else Nobody Is There to An- swer Messages Sent from lin by Waterways Board VISIT TO AUSTRIA DELAYED Embassy Quarters Are Now In a Hotei Department Officers Amazed Over the Incident Special Cable to NEW YORK BERLIN Aug Barton of Ohio Gallinger 01 New Hampshire and Simmons of South Carolina and other members of the American Con- gressional Waterways Commission now in Berlin are wondering what has come of the United States diplomatic representation in Austria Hungary Their attempts to reach the embassy at Vienna by letter telegraph and tele- phone have all proved fruitless The commission is forced to the conclusion that Emperor Francis Joseph for some strange reason has broken off diplo- matic relations with his great and good friend President Taft The commission proceed to with a view to con- its investigations In order to Prof Struempel has it that Mr Harriman ouj jf jt wm haye the must cease active participation mi American diplomatic officials mlete h- of the business affairs or suffer a complete phy Collapse Three courses ol ment are outlined First comes the rest cure several hours rest each day in bed Then Prof Insists that Mr man must partake of nourishing food specially selected every two hours This he says for the purpose of ing the effect of years of underfeeding and improper food and building ap the wasted tissue of tlie financier The sun named as the third expedient and are recommended to strengthen Mr Harriman'a nerves These are to be taken by the financier lying unclothed in the sunshine When there is no sunshine champagne baths to be substituted Prof Struempel is reported as saying that Mr has been restored to comparative health which he should maintain provided he lives carefully in j commission Is to include i requesting one Secretaries at duty lase and facility with which machines of NQ ever gets the car i the the Wright model may be sailed I to the pumps remaining there until flames Severely febvre was particularly skillful in ling his craft Once he wheeled abruptly over the heads of the spectators causing several womer 10 scream with fright George B the Britisher and Henry Farman and M Fournier all brought out their machines during the afternoon but made no flight concerning themselves with practicing starts At one time three machines were sailing over the plain at the same moment ing straight as arrows or turning or circling with astonishing ease and the sight was one of absorbing interest It 1 was a matter of comment that was in the air at the same time as Bleriot and Sommer the two French champions As the three aeroplanes swept back and forth over the plains at varying heights I and manoeuvred at the will of their pi- lots in enthusiastic French spectator cried These three men are the winners Airships Dip in a There was a great outburst of when Bleriot and Sommer Ing each other's course in the air each politely dipped his salute The It would be of no use The car is not burned and almost blind he turned to there to make trips but to hold a escape only to a rowboat which chise It belongs to the Metropolitan nad been left for him had caught fire system and the Receivers think that some cay it may be wise to resume the tion of service over the line now Should there be a halt in the franchise might be forfeited and that the Metropolitan does not want Seemingly the Receivers think having a car there keeps the franchise alive SUFFRAGETTES HURL BRICKS Invade Roofs and Disturb Meetings Addressed by Cabinet Ministers LONDON Aug There were fragette disturbances at several political meetings in the British isles to-night The women made determined efforts to invade St Andrew's Hall Glasgow and a crowd of their sympathizers into violent conflict with the police which re- In riotous scenes Several of the suffragettes were arrested for throwing stones through the windows of the hall and committing other breaches of the peace Secretary for War Haldane while a meeting at Liverpool this exhibition of control witnessed when the evening was greatly disturbed by a after another easily left ber of suffragettes who took up a position on the roof of an adjacent building ana aviators one the ground and swept out over the plain remarkable thrilling bricks through the windows of The spectators were so eager to get a close view of the flying machines that it required much urging on the part of the gendarmes to get them to make waj the were brought out There is now a total of twenty-eight not all of contests machines on but co under ordinary circum- stances a quiet and sleepy city is taking on an unwonted show of activity Visitors are pouring in day and night The hotels are full but the aviation committee has It its disposal to rent for and a day a total of 4.000 rooms located in committee is working over- time making arrangements for the mental show but they have absolute con- trol of the trying situation They insist that the fabulous prices being asked for accommodations outside those they have reserved should not obtain The committee has requested that visitors ing aviation week have patience He got into the boat however ing the flames from him and rowing hard reached shore He was taken to a seriously thinking of of Hill's Berlin or the United States Consul at Prague Joseph I Brittain who happens to be here to proceed to Vienna and look for the American Embassy Ambassador la on Letters com- mission has addressed to the embassy and the Consulate General in Vienna leaving America have remained unanswered In the case of the Con- this lack of attention is to the illness of Consul Genera Rublee who only recently left a pital In the case of the embassy aver profound mystery prevails Charles S Francis Is to be indulging in one of his In discussing the treatment Dr Charles j ations and iast heard of in R Hancock of 128 East Thirty-fourth where secretary JohnV of and Second Secretary York Academy of Medicine while the Nelson O'Shaughnessy are ter is out of town told a TIMES reporter nobody is able to discover yesterday that it was precisely the same The on sighting the flames shrieked gangplank was lowered after the bow wus sent into the willow trees and stumps near the bank all scrambled on it and all were plunged into the water when the cables were parted by tlie flames I my boy and for a while thought that surely we would both be but I managed to cling Io a small willow tree with the bov until we were rescued D M of Stillwater Minn owner burned steamer was in the have a passion for golfing and motoring with Austrian aristocrats and when ah application was recently made at the embassy for his address no information was obtainable Since Ambassador sublet the beautiful embassy house he had to Japan a year ago Uncle Sam's diplomatic establishment in Vienna in a hotel room State Department Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON Aug tion of the apparent absence of the whole staff from the American Embassy at enna contained in the special cable dis- patch to THE NSW YORK TIMES caused nei the greatest surprise and bewilderment The the waste of tissue brought about by tne gtate officials this Hancock said Is evening It course known here Charles S Francis was as would be any experienced American physician with the exception of the champagne baths Dr Hancock confessed he could not see the efficacy the champagne baths and thought alcohol a far better tute The external use champagne so far as Dr Hancock knew had only recommended in cases of psychic trouble and there is no suggestion or in Mr Harriman's indisposition The remaining details of the treatment The remaining details of te prescribed for Mr Harriman that is the n One of these Secretaries is known to POPE GIVES AWAY AUTO Finds He Cannot Use American Gift in Vatican Gardens HOME Aug that the can Gardens were not extensive enough o permit of els motoring through them ope Pius has presented his motor car to Cardinal Merry del the Papal ary of State The car is one with fittings and was presented to the ope by wealthy Americans KING LOSES HiS WHISKERS Queen Victoria Told Alfonso He Looked Like an Butler Special Cable io THB NBW YORK TIMES LONDON Aug is an epi- to the story of the whiskers of King Alfonso of Spain which was cabled yesterday to TUB NEW YORK TIMES His Majesty when he arrived at San Sebastian from Madrid was wearing side whiskers and had had Ms hair cut very short The King thought that this change gave him the appearance of an Ad- miral of the British Navy Queen Victoria Eugenia quickly remarked that ha looked more like an English butler and urged him to shave the whiskers off This his Majesty did for when he returned to Madrid he was whiskerless once more and looked younger than ever LAWYER AMD GIRL Virginia Jeffreys of more Perm Was Trying to Save W Brook Lessig CAME TOO LATE Both Were Expert Swimmers but ting Beyond the Breakers Were ried Under Calling for Help WOULD UNiTE W K Vanderbilt Said to Have Inter- vened in Daughter's Trouble to The New York Times NEWPORT Aug was asserted to-day by friends of W K Vanderbilt who Is now in France that he is working to bring about a reconciliation between the Duke of and ess Mr Vanderbilt's daughter who have now been separated for three years The Duchess Is at present at stairs Kent in England with her dren including Lord Ivor who has been suffering since last Fall with what Is be- to be lung trouble AMERICAN LINE FOR TURKEY Deputies Conditionally Approve a Con- cession for a Railroad CONSTANTINOPLE Aug Chamber of Deputies to-day discussed the question of granting a concession to an American syndicate which seeks to con- i was seen to throw his arms Into tho air Special to Tlic New York Times N J Aug sight of many people on the beach at Wildwood Crest Miss Virginia Jeffreys of Swarthmore Penn tho young daughter of Clarence Jeffreys a Pennsylvania railroad official and W Brook Lessig a lawyer of Philadelphia were drowned this afternoon Miss Jeffreys sacrificed her own life in a futile attempt to save that of the lawyer for none of her friends doubt that had she abandoned Lessig and made an attempt shore herself she would have been She was known as an expert swimmer and could hold her own la surf with almost any man The couple entered the water this noon at a point wall below the bathing beach and at a time when life guards who usually patrol the beach were off duty had the reputation of being an expert swimmer and he and Miss Jeffreys breasted the ers which run Into a fairly surf here swimming through them comparatively calm water beyond To reach quiet expanse in they could enjoy the pleasantest ming tho couple had to go quite a from shore and they were well out the water before either noticed strong current was sweeping thorn ther and further from the shore r In the shoaler water stood a group friends of the girl and the lawyer youngs people who are spending the Summer They watched their more daring ions as they swam side by out the ocean at first with pride in tho nerve and ability of their friends then with a certain nervousness which place to genuine terror when of a sudden struct a railroad from Sivas Asiatic Turkey to Lake Van near the Persian frontier a distance of miles The Ministers of Public Works and Finance warmly supported the scheme and the Chamber substantially approved it on the condition that no more ad- proposal Is made within the sixteen months the company asks to study regular strokes was seen to turn the route It is proposed that the line subsequently shall be extended across Persia to India sun baths are well known fire and he aided songers and crew in rescuing the Hls tain the vessel was the last to leave the burning steamer Futile efforts were by the Peoria and fire departments to save the hull of the boat The steamer was built at Clearwater WIs nine years ago and was one of the finest packets plying Illinois River The cause oC the fire is not known The the hall In which the meeting was being held Seven of tho women were arrested GLASGOW Aug rain-soaked and benumbed but still valiant gettes were this afternoon dislodged from the roof of St Andrew's Hall where the Earl of Crewe Secretary of State for the Colonies is booked to speak to-night Strict orders been issued to ex- Finds a Husband for Her Mother and cabin maid who discovered it said she was cleaning a stateroom when the whole room began to blaze The fire might have originated from sparks from the engine room she thought IS BETTER Secretary Millar Declares the Cure Will Be Completed at Home Alexander Millar of the Union Pacific Railroad Company re- i turned from Europe yesterday on the Cunard Mauretania and expressed great surprise when the latest dispatches regarding the health of E H Harriman with whom he went abroad were shown him When I last saw Mr Harriman two weeks said Mr Millar he had very Improved since taking the cure at Bad After his return from a trip Pacific Coast last cember attended three ners here and was attacked by ptomaine DAUGHTER A MATCHMAKER elude all women from the meeting so he suffragettes decided to break in through the trapdoor on the roof In the middle of the thren women secured a ladder and climbed the roof where they hid behind a chimney waiting to put their plan into operation When they were discovered they were nearly ing from cold and wet but they declined to come down and much difficulty was experienced in them from their perilous position ng aviation week nave patience TUC TACT nl that while the big show is ready they I I Ht rUM I Al I annot always be expected to carry out cannot Say President Could Jump 20 Feet In Air on That Planet LAKE GENEVA Wis Aug astronomers had their day jokes at the expense of Mars at a luncheon given by Mrs E B Frost this afternoon at which the decorations were of moon Numbers of Americans are arriving for the races Among Mr visitors to-day was James Means of thor of the Aeronautical Annual who In- tends to make a technical study of Mr Curtiss is of the opinion that he has a good chance in the competitions for speed but he thinks that Bleriot is his most dangerous adversary An expert in aviation said that Mr motor held out he had a capital chance of winning the big International event and the general opinion Is that this race lies between the Farman biplanes Curtiss and Bleriot Denies Wright Claim Mr was not greatly surprised when informed that the Wright brothers had brought suit against the Aeronautic Society of New York alleging that the Curtiss machine certain of their patents He said he had known for some time that something of this nature was Two Fall in Love Mrs Morton Weidmer acted as match maker own mother poisoning due to It something he had one of the reporters asked a twinkle in his eye replied Mr Millar with After disposing of kind of days she will have the pleasure and he was in excellent spiri coming both her and her newly acquired stepfather at her home in Imperial Cal They arrived tare on the ican liner Cincinnati and were discharged yesterday by the immigration officials on ElKs Island and started west When Franz Hauer who was born in Hungary and lived here half a century wanted a wife he could not find a woman suitable among the many in the town of Imperial He sighed for a from his own land and decided to cross the ocean in his search It was then that Mrs ton Weldmer a Hungarian who had tled with her husband in California many years ago and is now the mother of two vines and sun flowers star sandwiches longing for a Icings and crescent mints Speaking of Mars the said that planet had lake and It is on ice That is one part or tile beer Is on the ice and the snow of Mars poles artd other Is connected with the supposed leading over the continents They also said that Mars is the fat man's joy weighs jo much less wife You might like Hauer She still lives In Hungary and he met some other were suffering from so far as I know in excellent spirits hat he is in any dispatches report Millar added that when Mr man arrives next Tuesday he go to Arden Towers to complete his health went abroad to get treatment for his own rheumatism and said that the baths had done a great deal of good but he was not quite cured aa his left arm was still affected Mr Millar said It was his opinion that there would be a move to open up new lines in the States next year after he had paid court Mrs Emmerich agreed to become Mrs ami go can six inches on earth j to California to live out her remaining not approve of poets writing of the ncar her daughter and planets especially in alluding to Th think the snowy poles of moonless Mars That I The not necessary is rot they said tor Mars has two moons i to become married abroad Mrs Em- PASTOR IN LIFE ROLE The Rev M H Jumps In Lake and Rescues Woman Parishioner Special io Tin Times NEW BRUNSWICK Aug Hev Is Mrs Elizabeth Emmerich So M H Qual pastor of the German Re- journey to Hungary with a definite formed Church here who has just re- ject in view He met the soon turned from a1 trip to Europe yesterday after his arrival there It was a case i afternoon rescued Mrs Louisa Rupp apparently of mutual liking for soon member of his congregation weighing contemplated but he failed to sec how it IV n I flights in America long before the Wrights this evening with a discussion and charge did This shows that there could not have been an imitation of their machine by us All competent persons who are familiar with the two machines and with whom I have discussed this matter agree they are unable to see how the charge on Pace S illustration of slides made at the inquiry concluded that the ase of he various observatories ATLANTIC CITY the Government CONG Excursions via Now St couple was a guarantee that they marry without the parental supervision lor Atlantic City Leave W Liberty St A REFRESHING Acid Phosphate quickly relieves that tired feeling due to Summer heat overwork or from drowning Mrs Rupp and her two daughters at- tended the annual outing of the school to Riverside Park She met some friends In the park sitting by the five-mile dam of the Raritan She Joined them and then went to the to dip her handkerchief when she had a dizzy spell and fell in head first Her friends screamed for help and at the attention of Dr Qual who rushed to the and awain to the drowning woman He finally brought her to the shore In a scious condition and she was soon re- vived leave coming to America but nothing had been heard from Vienna to that the rest of the staff was makes the more from the view point of the de- officials is the fact that even if the Secretary George B Hives and the Nelson were out of town at the same there would still be Consul MISS PARSONS LOSES PEARLS String of Seventy Dropped from Her Neck in the Berkshires Special fa The New York Times LENOX Mass Aug Gertrude Parsons daughter of John E Parsons lost a string of pearls yesterday between Cold Brook the country place of Capt John S Barnes and Stoneover the try residence of the Parsons Miss Parsons had been to the Cold Brook Gardens for tea and on reaching home missed her valuable pearls The string consisted of seventy pearls The Interval of a second required for the sound to pass from the swimmers to the group on shore brought the cry faintly heard on Wo ara being swept away by the tide At first call for help Miss freys who had been swimming strongly and make toward the lawyer Her over- hand strokes were still steady and lar and for a moment hoped that she might those ashoro able to bring herself and the lawyer back to shore The young woman neared the lawyer but the watchers could tell that her strength too was ebbing Then began a ten-minute struggle which ended only when and Miss Jeffreys from the gaze of the watchers on the beach The girl had reached the mar soon after she headed toward him and together they turned about a inshore Both were using strength as the rapid and headed all their Irregular strokes testified but they were not ing headway The throng ashore watched silently their eyes intent only on the two figures connected by a diamond clasp Miss ln water and when one young woman sons posted a notice of her loss and stand the strain no longer she offer of a reward in the Post Office uttered a cry and dashed Into the surf day apparently intent on out to help Miss Jeffreys and A huge wave washed her feet from under her and she disappeared in a froth of white foam Several of her friends sprang to GOV HUGHES CAMP tne dispatches received from him within the last day or two Mr Rublee is recovering from an operation and is thought not yet to be well enough to leave Vienna even ofthe State Department find It impossible to believe that under any pretext Mr Rives arid Mr for a day have absented themselves from their post in the absence of their chief Advices from the Vienna Embassy on routine matters within the week convince department that all there was running smoothly and the apartment is still inclined to think that bv some ludicrous error the traveling Senatore have failed to get the embassy by up after office hours and sent ti Returns to Upper Saranac to Consider Charges Against Haffen SARANAC INN N Y Aug Gov Hughes returned this morning to Rustic his Summer home on the Upper Saranac and will give the next few days to consideration of the papers n the Haffen case Counsel for Mr fen who has been recommended for dis- missal by the Commissioner who examined lis conduct of the affairs of the of the Bronx In New York City has been Iven until Aug 23 to file his answer To-morrow the Governor will attend the annual fair given by the women of the Upper Saranac for the benefit of tlie Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium Mrs Hughes Is s member of the Committee on Arrangements it New York were Instructions smaller to Vienna and the Consuls at smaller ts directing that all arrangements for stops ever the O tu v r be made in advance and that was a week ago those tions reached Vienna in a phase of the history of the American at Vienna into which the Department is loath to go About a year ago a Viennese newspaper started a RaiEn against the American Embassy then as low occupied by Mr Francis on the ground that the dignity of this ty was upheld nor due courtesy done to the Austro-Hungarian Empire The of the American the most exclusive cap- raised storm a yellow that for some hostile to Mr Francis af these however has never come to light and the department insists as It Latest Shipping Sabine 14 SS Aug li arc not living In the embassy proper but the department officials think that it is Inconceivable mall addressed to the embassy should fail to reach them when they go to their office in embassy quarters every morning In spite of their smiles however the State Department Is plainly worried The department is now anxiously waiting ad- vices but so far nothing has been heard either from the embassy at Vienna or from the commission In Berlin Senator Burton Chairman of the commission is an experienced traveler and the fact that the reported difficulties come a tion headed by him is what the State NEW DANISH ARMY CHIEF Gortz Succeeds Lutken Who Refused to Serve Under Christensen COPENHAGEN Aug J V O Gortz chief of staff of the Danish army has been appointed to succeed Lieut Gen C Lutken as generalissimo Lutken resigned last Tuesday as a protest against the appointment of J C Christensen as Minister of War and rine in the naw cabinet Christensen was Premier last year when charges of cor- ruption were laid against Minister of tice Albertl and by many persons ha was held responsible for that scandal STATE SENATOR A SUICIDE H C Old Rhode Island Drowns Himself COVENTRY R I Aug ator Henry Clay aged years and one of the oldest members of the Rhode Island General Assembly ted suicide by drowning in the brook on his farm here to-day Despondency to ill health was the cause CHARLEY TAFT'S DORY UPSET President's Son Clings to Craft Until Rescued by Boat from the Sylph SALEM Mass Aug became known to-day that Charley Taft the President's son and an engineer from the President's yacht Sylph over- in the lad's dory off Salem afternoon received a ducking and clung to the overturned craft until a boat from the Sylph put out to them Several people here saw the boat over- turn and they too put off to the rescue but the boat from the Sylph got there first The Taft dory Is SEEING NBW YORK STEAM YACHT f transportation from Seeing N Y Auto 5th Av only point W St N R 10 P M 3 hours fare SI the most and enjoyable in the world Tel her help and she was dragged back to the beach nearly exhausted Doomed For an instant the watchers ashore had been intent only oft the girl's rescue With her safe they turned their eyes again seaward There were the two heads the lawyer and the girl stiH bobbing up and down over the waves They were still swimming stroke for stroke but ready it could be seen that they would never make shore Hard as they swam their forms came rearer to the beach the tide sending them back strokes as far as they had gained by utmost exertions That it was only a question of time before both must sink was evident and some of the party too frightened beforo to think of other means of help than tlie impossible ono of swimming out selves suddenly recalled the United States Life Saving Station at Holly Beach Some one ran to a house where thero was a telephone and summoned Capt Frank P Downs and his men upon them the need for haste The Captain and his crew of four men had started for Wildwood Crest almost before the senger had finished but by tlie time reached the beach Lessis and Miss Jeffreys had disappeared But of all those on the beach thera were only one or two who saw the couple sink As their moving arms showed that weakness was overtaking them the men on the beach one after the other sank to the sand and buried their in their hands One or two still gazed out over the sea unable to turn away their gaze and these saw Lessig suddenly stop swimming Miss Jeffreys clung to him and struggled to keep him above the waves but suddenly she had to release her hold and the disappeared beneath the waves Only a minute or so later Miss Jeffreys faltered When a wave lifted her in the air could see friends some not daring to look others gazing directly at her and the young woman appeared make one last effort a big breaker lifted her to its crest tossed her a few feet near shore and then sped on the girl behind its towering height When it subsided the watchers ashore saw only a clear expanse There no sign of either Miss Jeffreys or the lawyer Come Too Then too late Capt Downs and his men arrived They put out through the breakers in their lifeboat for hours searched the waters in the hope of- ing the bodies of the victims They were unsuccessful Not compelled cease did they from their Lessig and Miss Jeffreys were guests at the cottage or i Paul a Philadelphia attorney who had leased the cottage of John Jackson on the ocean front here for the season Miss Jeffreys HI years old was a sister-in-law of Mr Paul who was a close friend or 3 Lessig 35 years old and was ol thl late George B the banker and ironmaster of Pottstown Penn Ha was a member of the firm of Ellis Lessig Young Lessig was unmarried Miss Jeffreys was best known in Swarthmore society where she was ular with the younger and college A Perfect and Str Albany Day second
