New York Times, The (Newspaper) - August 31, 1909, New York, New York News That Fit to THE WEATHER Fair to-day cloudy slightly er wind variable NEW YORK TUESDAY AUGUST 31 PAGES In Greater New York J Sereer City and James R Keene's Colt Romps in First with His Stable Mate Third CANDLEBERRY RUNS SECOND COUNSELLOR TO BE HENRY HOYT LOSES RACE WITH DEATH Special Trolley Brought Doctor but Pastor Rescued from Sea Oled L I Aug ley W Roberts 25 years old of the port Baptist Church was drowned while swimming off point Lookout Beach this Secretary and President Agree on tTn Tim at I General for Im- portant New Post afternoon He was boarding at the beach with the family of H C Meyers With young Mr Meyers he went in bathing this afternoon Mr Roberts when out some distance called for aid Meyers went to the rescue and the two nearly were drowned before others from the beach could get to them and haul them into shallow water Mr Roberts was almost dead when Ire wag brought ashore and Mr Meyers was un- BALLINGER HURRYING ON Crowd of Witnesses the Fifth Were Triumph for Keene Colors In Big Stakes at Sheepshead Bay Twenty-second Futurity Rna at Value Six Sweep 120 9 to 10 and 110 4 to 8 to 10 110 25 to 1 5 CPase 15 to 1 and 6 Armstrong 118 100 to 1 and 40 to 1 7 122 8 to 1 3 60 to 1 and 114 20 to 130 20 60 to 1 and 117 Dugan 30 to jinrl to 1 reeD and Grasmere coupled J R 9 10 11 12 carried to Ellison's pavilion A special trolley car raced to the end of the line where in response to a tele- phone call Dr Carmah of Freeport tened and as soon as he was aboard tha trolley car went full speed back to tha beach The doctor was too late to save Mr Roberts but brought Mr Meyers around Mr had been pastor of the local church for three years He was not ried Expected to Clear Up Conservation Lease the Beverly tage Season The largest crowd of the racing year saw the stout-hearted and honest colt Sweep romp in winner by half a dozen lengths in the fifth triumph for James R Keene for the Futurity the richest the American turf at Sheepshead Bay yesterday The only real contest at the end was between Candleberry owned by the Montpelier Stable of ard T Wilson Jr and the Keene stable s second starter Grasmere with Candle berry closing stoutly from far back in the crowd and In the run down the stretch beating Grasmere a neck for ond money Even as the place was de- Mr Keene won new honors for both the winner and the second horse are by his Bramble stallion Ben Brush the winner being of Mr Keene's own breeding at his Castleton Stud while Candleberry is the fruit of a gift season to Ben Brush the second horses ers beins William Lakeland formerly Sdr Mr William L thirteen horses ran for the big event but from the head of stretch to the winning post Sweep left his competitors m easy style and was going further away at every jump when he finished first fo worth gross BOAT UPSETS GRLS DROWN Two Lost Craft Cap- sizes in Egg Harbor OCEAN CITY N J Aug Boisnot 15 years old and Marie Mueller 16 daughters of Philadelphia cottagers nere were drowned to-night while in Great Egg Harbor Two boys were with them In a small sailboat which drifted against a trolley bridge that crosses the bay from Sommers Point to i Ocean City A car passing over the bridge hit the mast of the boat and it to capsize The two boys became and saved themselves by climbing to the bridge Two passengers on the trolley car jumped from the car and Into the boat which had righted itself after the girls had been thrown Into the water They made every effort to reach the girls who were carried toward the inlet by tho swift current but were STOPS RUNAWAY DAUGHTER But Mr Horn Drove So Rapidly That Horse's Owner Demands Special to The New York Times GLENS FALLS N Y Aug quel to an elopement came to-day when J of Brooklyn paic to cover the damage to a horse which he drove at breakneck speed from the Village of Chester to Warrensburg Saturday night in order to intercept his Miss Hattle Horn Mr and Mrs Horn and their daughter were Summer guests at a cottage four miles from Chester Adjoining this -re sort lives The young couple decided to be married They drove to Saturday from which place they had planned to take the trolley to Glens Falls While they were waiting for the Mr Horn was on his way to Warrensburg He telephoned a Deputy Sheriff to ar- The ment ot The Times win tie published next Sunday Sept 5 It will contain executed pictures ot stage stars plans of managers and latest stage news it FIRE mm po CHipp Two of Six Orphan Asylum ings at Rockaway Destroyed Out Safely LOST JUST HISSES DEATH BEVERLY Mass Aug Taft disposed of important State ment matters Secretary Knox and closed an exceptionally busy after- noon with the announcement that he has decided to make Beverly the Summer cap- tal again next year President Taft has aken another season's lease of the tage he has occupied this Summer on Woodberry Point one of the prettiest on Beverly Cove The town Is rejoicing to-night announcements made to-day was the choice of tor General as Counsellor of the State Department This is a newly created of- fice and Secretary Knox expressed self as delighted that he was ablo to ob- tain the services of Mr Hoyt to give the new office a proper dignity from the first The Counsellor of the department will deal with all the large legal questions and will have especial supervision over the negotiations of treaties The important Japanese treaty is to be entered into within the next two years and Mr Hoyt will devote himself largely to the ing of this measure Mr feels that a long existing want In the department has been happily filled Secretary Knox also took up with President the organization of the new Far Eastern Bureau of the State ment and announced an additional pointment to that service Ransford vens Miller Jr Japanese Secretary and interpreter of the American Legation at Tokio will return to the United States to enter the new department While no head of the bureau has decided upon as yet it is said the honor will fall either to Mr Williams who has been advanced from Consul General at to this bureau or Mrl Miller The Far Eastern Bureau will have for its purpose the fostering of American trade relations in the Orient President Taft is especially interested in this tion Mr Knox in choosing members of the bureau has sought men who are thoroughly familiar people and customs of the Orient Fall of His Alpenstock In ness Warns Him He is on Edge of Precipice WENT INTO TO HUNT Wanders Before Search Party After Night Was Gome Three minutes before tho third two horses for Mr Keene being and for Clarence H Mackay breeder and nominator of Grasmere At Fall Opening The race for the for the Futurity renewed the twenty-second time yesterday and the of a turf holiday every year since the event was won m Itsi first running by Proctor marked the opening of the Autumn turf season on the metropolitan tracks and the h ning of the Coney Island Jockey Club s Fall meeting and the general public and especially the patrons of racing ed in such numbers as to cause the gest surprise of the day when the crowd was assembled fully and the three tiers of the grand stand the clubhouse ba awaited car arrived Mr Horn came ing down the street having the trip from Chester with two- relays of horses He took the girl back to the cottage in the mountains with her name unchanged To-day the man from whom the horse for the last half of the trip to burg was hired swore out a warrant for st of Mr Horn alleging iad been seriously Injured in the The whom the given went to the cottage conies an nd the lawn were crowded with cones a the biggest and most brilliant patronage of the year Official estimates of the crowd placed the attendance at with a singularly strong representation Tf the fashionable element in the boxes and clubhouse and an impressive array of automobiles parked behind the grand stand and streaming along the road in a seemingly endless parade on the coming The weather was delightfully ctear pleasantly cool and the tions were so favorable that the display of gowns and millinery and the proportion of women In the crowd of spectators were tt the best traditions of fashionable and popular Sheepshead Bay Mr Keene The track was like velvet and in winning the Futurity m Tanked with the best for the race as Sweep with his corrected 126 pounds instead of 130 as appeared On the official gramme carried the highest we ght that has been carried by a winner of the since His Highness won in 1801 and the distance changed to fud six furlongs straight as strong public favorite was immensely popular as there was not a question best horse was first Mr Keene witnessed the race from the balcony surrounded by friends and lead- ing and congratulations were showered on him when with Sweep he achieved the singular triumph of winning the Futurity three times with horses of his own breeding Sweeps as Futurity winners from in 1007 and Mas in Mr Keene's earlier win ners were Domino in 1893 and race was run as the fourth Sof the card and changes made when official starters were -an wnen LIJO i took out three horses Bis Stick miking 7 the field numbe the horses were the track after the running of the tmrc race the rails of the were line with eager spectators of the canters of the Futurity colts and fillies and the paddock swarmed with f most of these partisans of tho stable W represented in the race Mr him self was in the largest group about Swee and Grasmere the public favorites bu great crowds also collected about Mr Wilson's Candleberry Mr and Mrs Wil son watching the saddling and abou James E Gaffney's colt bought at i with the one hope of winning tho 1 ty There were tips out on every hors in the race and even the maidens run ning had admirers and partisans for tn general view of the race was that it wa on 2 morning only to find that Mr Horn ad gone to Riverside to take the train or New York Upon arriving at Riverside the con- table found that the train had lett He telephoned to Thurman ng the local constable to make the ar- est The constable got his man Tele- honing to the owner of the horse Mr lorn found that damages were de- manded Mr Horn paid the next rain for New York Mrs Horn and her aughter remain at the pottage DEAD he Won Notoriety by Releasing the Biddle Brothers from Jail Special to The Times PITTSBURG Penn Aug Cate the liberator of the Biddle from the Allegheny County Jail on Jan 30 1902 died at the West sylvania Hospital to-day of typhoid fever Her daughter Margaret is a nurse In he institution Edward and Jack Biddle and Frank Dorman after committing a number of burglaries in shot and killed Kahney a grocer and in the capture of Edward Detective Fitzgerald lost his life The Biddle brothers were sentenced to be hanged and Dorman is serving a life sentence t Mrs Soffel was the of Warden and she carried on a tion with Edward Biddle through the bars oE his cell from her rooms She became infatuated with him and carried him re- and files in her stockings while her father Conrad H Dietrich acted as guard At A M on Jan 30 the Biddies broke through their cells and shot a guard named Reynolds and locked up George Costello and James McGeary guards in cells Mrs Soffel was waiting for them and took them out through the Warden's residence to the street Two days later they were overtaken at Chestnut Ridge Butler County and a took place In the snow The dies were mortally wounded and died twenty-four hours later and Mrs was struck by a bullet side She was sentenced to two years in the ern Penitentiary After her release she made an attempt to star in a drama A Desperate which was enjoined by the Fayette County Court and later took up dressmaking Secretary an- tHat Charles St: and M H Davis special agents De- of Commerce and Labor hac to the new Bureau of Trade Relations on the Tariff in the State Department This bureau is in no way connected with the new tariff commission authorized in the Payne but will have special Junctions of its own in trade relations between various foreign countries and advising the de- on commercial questions aris ing out of foreign Intercourse Mr per and Mr Davis are both investigators Mr Pepper has traveled the whole over Mr Davis has jus returned from a bleached flour gating expedition In announcing to-day his decision to re turn to Beverly next Summer Presiden Tart took occasion to pay a high compli ment to his Summer neighbors and fel He declared that they hac made his stay in Beverly exceedingly agreeable had been as considerate a possible in every way and that he and Mrs Taft could not express too strongly their appreciation of these facts Th President has been delighted with hi stay here He is well pleased with th cottage he is occupying likes the loca tion and the fine automobile roads anc says he wants to come again next yea for a much longer stay The Presiden said some time ago that his idea at ideal vacation was to do the same over und over again day after day he declares he wants to come back to Slace he knows something about Befor President Mr Taft went t Murray every Summer fo sixteen years Secretary Knox discussed briefly wit the President to-day the details of h meeting with President Diaz of Mexic LIWER COLLIDES WITH WHALE Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Impales Sleeping Monster on Her Bows PLYMOUTH Aug steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse arrived here to-day from New York While off ttu Banks of Newfoundland she collided With FIRE HOSE WAS DEFECTIVE Children Were Huddled on the Sand tor a Time and Then Cared for by Cottagers and In Hotels Special to York Tints VICTORIA B Grey General of Canada who re- from by the to-day had narrow escape death when he as lost in the Jervls Inlet British Columbia for five and oh Saturday He was on a expedition with nly a for company He of early a In tha rescued by a searching arty headed Major Clark his erly and Second Officer Johnston of he Quadra search parties had eeri sent into the fires were along the shore line to attract tention Governor General j He when nd his clothing was badly torn He Quadra at P M and went the woods where Lord elles previous day had killed a two After some distance into woods he ost his way and night came on When e failed to return for dinner there was excitement on the Quadra he steamship's whistle was kept on ng constantly fires caca and search parties wete sent Into he Meanwhile the Governor General ered over fallen trees fought hla way hrough undergrowth and rocks n tearing his clothing to Two of the five buildings comprising St Roman Catholic Orphan at Rockaway Park and housing over 600 boys and girls were destroyed by fire which started shortly before 8 o'clock last night Within three minutes from the sounding or Hie asylum fire gong all the children wore safely tered on the beach which faces the home There was not the slightest blance of panic the being marched out In an orderly manner by the sisters Near by are the Hebrew Sanitarium for Children In which were 500 children and the St George's Children's Home ing 300 children Fearing that the flames might spread to these places the of both also turned their charges out on tho so that at one time there were over children ranging all the way from 2 to 14 years on the beach Many of them were In their nightgowns having been hustled out in such quick time that dressing was out of the question However there were plenty of blankets on hand and all seemed to enjoy their unexpected night's out- Ing St Malachi's Asylum fronts on Triton Avenue with Beach Street and Firs Avenue bounding it on either side Th fire in the four-story building The first floor is used as the laundry while above that Is the sewing room The other two floors are dormitories All the younger children were in bed a the time while the others were in- th chapel foi evening prayer just before re tiring Father the head of the asylum first saw the flames from his office Hi assistant wag conducting prayers an about the same time saw the flame through chapel windows He bad the children remain quiet and then moment later as the big fire gon clanged ordered all to march quietly fron the church to the beach This they in double column With them went a few ot the twenty-five sisters agis caine age to the: n alpenstock which ho carried as well as a rifle The alpenstock supped from iis hand and clattered a considerable ance below Then he i what a narrow from death he had His dog was missing and he feared ict had fallen precipice but it returned afterward He turned failing in the darkness to find his way finally after struggles sank down exhausted He lad spent five and a half hours in un- availing effort He was so hungry and exhausted that he leaned against what he thought was a log but It proved to be a shadow and he tumbled into the undergrowth Then down on a flat rock to daylight Soon afterward he saw the reflection of a fire It was an Indian encampment He fired his rifle and the shot was heard by a search party They hurried him to the shore where the waiting boat took hint quickly to the Quadra on which he was received with joy His daughter Lady Sybil Grey and other members of the party had been anxious TAFT'S SUNDAY HAIRCUT Massachusetts Law and Made a Good Impression on the Barber Special to York Times BEVERLY pass Aug Tha law forbids all worts except or necessity or charity on Sunday but resident Taft had Ilia hair cut on ay Both the barber who did the work 3 and tHo President would ave been subject to a fine of 55 each f the Beverly police could have heard of lie dark secret goings-on at the Taft lome Mr Taft Is a very fine said inos to-day He smiled and joked and Hiked with his family while I cut his teir and was very genial Indeed MOON TO ECLIPSE Will Be Visible In This Country on Sept 1 TRIP E GENEVA N T Aug ng eclipse of Mars by the visible the United States will occur m Wednesday evening Sept 1 according o a bulletin issued by Prof William K Brooks at Smith Observatory to-day will last about an hour in the longitude of Washington at P M and ending at At places west of Washington the ion will occur earlier and at places east of Washington later The eclipse will be visible to the naked eye but the use of a small field glass which will bring it clearly within tion Is advised by Prof Brooks HUDSON STEAMBOAT BURNED The Norwich Was to Have Taken Part In Celebration KINGSTON N T Aug wich have been the oldest boat in active use was burned to the water line at her dock here The old sidewheeler had for many decades Mauretania's Passengers ing Here Wednesday Dine in English Capital Monday ROUTE IS USED Atlantic Record Lowered Nearly Traveling Tima Daya 9 Hours and 22 Minutes been used to break up the in Hudson River every Spring at the be- ginning of the towing season which was seventy Special Cable to THB NEW LONDON Aug fastest sit from New York to Ing from the pier on the Hudson to the station platform reduced to 5 clays 9 hours and 22 utes by the latest achievement of toe big Cunarder Mauretania on her first voyage by the Fishguard route Mauretania dropped anchor at tie port on the coast of South at P M to-day her four took off passengers and mails special train on the Great Western Railway which made the run Miles in 4 hours and 30 minutes posited the passengers in London this evening On the voyage over the surpassed the best previous record either eastward or westward between New York and Queenstown cutting two hours and fifty-four minutes from the quickest time before and making the passage in 4 days hours and 27 minutes She was at town at A M Irish mails and passengers and at Qn ti m wus un -i across St years ago was to have taken a prominent t th passage to part in the Celebration pa this Fall The loss to her owners Cornell Steamboat Company is about at El Paso Texas Oct 16 The ments for the extraordinary exchange o are being made through th State Department by direction of Secre ary Knox and the completed programm will be presented to the President late on for approval When he receives Pres lent Diaz at El Paso the President wi accompanied by four Cabinet officers Secretary of State Knox Secretary War Dickinson Postmaster Hitchcock and Secretary of detachment of United States troop also be drawn up at attention Ait receiving President Diaz on America President Taft will cross tl bridge over Grant and return the visit at Ciudad Juare When the formalities o this call -are ended President Taft wil return to the United States for rest ana ater in the evening will go again across the line to Juarez to attend a banquet tendered by the Mexican Government TO SEE TAFT SOON Is Expected to Clear Up the Trouble Over Conservation BEVERLY Mass Aug of the Interior Ballinger who Is now on his way to Washington from Seattle coming to Beverly the next ten days to sea the President He notified Mr by telegraph to-day that he was en route to Washington to attend to some Important matters of business As soon as conditions then permit Mr Ballinger will hurry on to Beverly to see the President before the for the West on Sept 15 President Taft said to-day that BO far as he was concerned there was nothing in particular that he desired to take up with Mr He has enjoyed thoroughly the visits of his different inet officers in the last three weeks He feels somewhat isolated here on the north shore and the calls of the Cabinet of- Keep him in touch witli affairs at Washington He refrains from discussing or In any way taking public cognizance of the con- which has been waged between Chief and Secretary linger over conservation plans of the a seventy-foot whale evidently asleep on present Administration Subordinates in the surface of the water i e Government service have been quoted The whale was impaled oh the pretty freely from Washington of late in the controversy here bows and all its efforts to free itself were their Mews on futile Finally the steamer had to go full i and there Is little dou speed astern in order to get clear of the but that Mr Ballinger is on his way dying i there to taKe a hand in and to straighten things out so far as he is PRIEST DYING MAN Newark Police Step Aside to Let Him Worker Dies of Fall Speeding through the business section of Newark N J on a bicycle at a pace that brought policemen to the middle of the streets in haste to halt him until they saw who he was the Rev John A nan of St Patrick's Cathedral that city succeeded In reaching he excavation for the new Prudential Building In Newark yesterday just in time to administer the last rites to John Hartlett who had fallen into the deepest part of the hole Hartlett died a few moments after er reached him Hartlett was endeavoring to pull self to street level when a Joist he was clinging to gave way and he fell forty feet below Two that the fail had meant death j ran without hesitation five blocks to tho cathedral to summon the priest The atter arrived before the bulance and finding that no one had been dawn to the man made the perilous descent alone to administer extreme unction Following the accident the workmen expressed themselves as too greatly moved to continue their labors and ing further was done on the building during the day This is the second death within ten days on the work which also has been seriously troubled with strikes NEVER HEARD OF LINCOLN Applicant for Citizenship Papers Asks If He Lived In Hoboken In Jersey City yesterday Matteo lone an Italian who is a tailor living at 407 Paterson Plank Road West Hoboken appeared before Judge Carey and made application for citizenship He told the Judge lie had been in this country two years Do you know who Abraham Lincoln asked Judge Carey No I don't know who he was You don't know who Abraham Lincoln repeated the Judge No does he live in West asked the applicant He is said Judge Garey Well I never Heard of continued the Italian Was he a The Judge advised him to go home and study up on history and geography and No man who does not know who Abraham Lincoln was Is fit to enjoy the privilege of American citizenship i When asked to name six of the United and the others V then to the other buildings where the -In incredibly short all were arid taken to the beasin A last search revealed one little fellow Edward Tolan curled up In bed He had slept through all the bustle and the noise 01 the fire alarm With him accounted for all were safe By this time the fire was burning fiercely in the Jaundry building and it seemed that the whole block was doomed Four alarms were turned in which brought apparatus from Far Rockaway Arverne Rockaway Beach and way Park Acting Chief Lenahan was in the of such poor quality and the water pressure so bad that their work was made hard Sparks fire to the chapel building which is four high the top three being used as dormitories However good work by the firemen confined the blaze to these two buildings which were ruined On the beach a large crowd numbering tens of thousands had assembled The cottages and hotels for a long way around were emptied by The first thought of the spectators was for the children Those from the Jewish home and St George's home were taken back to bed when it was seen that danger from fire to them was past But there still remained the 600 St children The smoke water outside the damage done by the flames precluded the use of the asylum The difficulty was got over by the cottagers and guests of the hotels in the neighborhood offering shelter to the children Some took as many as twenty-five while others offered to be responsible for a couple Two hun- dred and fifty found temporary Public School 42 mattresses for them having been salved from the asylum Among those taking children were iam Hirsch of the Lenox Stable fifth Street Manhattan Aldermar Sanu uel Marx who volunteered to look after fifty and Mrs Harry Strasbourger Hess a New York lawyer RUSH WORK ON Almost Ail Department Estimates Sub- mitted Weeks Ahead of Time WASHINGTON Aug mates for for the next fiscal year which have submitted by all of the departments of tration already have been carefully gone over and revised by the Treasury als and be further considered be- jre they are in the which they ill be finally submitted to Congress in ie heads of the Government departments submit their estimates Oct 15 DROUGHT IN PENNSYLVANIA rops In the Valley Are Badly Damaged READING Penn Aug in Schuylkill Valley are worse than at any period in fifty years ut one and a half inches of rain fell in Us vicinity since July 1 The corn in ome localities is drying up and has the of fodder Many wells and springs are dried up he potato crop will be a failure is scarce and many of the rs are now feeding hay and bran Tha heading Railway Company still has a upply of water for most of its collieries ut this too is becoming low TO HAVE SUFFRAGE OFFICE Mrs Belmont Will Be at 505 Fifth Avenue After Sept 20 Special to Tin New York Times NEWPORT R I Aug O H P Belmont was asked this afternoon as o the results of the woman held at her residence last week She said that they had been satisfactory that the financial outcome was pleasing as wil Headquarters will tbe opened at fifth Avenue New York on Sept 15 During that week Mrs Belmont will go here for a few days Mrs Belmont plans to close her port season and be at tho headquarters after Sept 20 States answered New Jersey a New York Boston West Hoboken Union Hill and Hoboken CHICAGO AND and David Hess Edward Clancy of Boston who Is staying at the Park Inn acted as manager in getting the children taken care of The re- maining children were distributed among the hotels and cottages near by Tlie origin of the fire which Is said to have done damage is not known WILL OPEN SUTTON'S GRAVE Mother of Late Naval Lieutenant Gets Permit from Department WASHINGTON Aug permit was to Mrs James N Sutton to have the body of her son Lieut James N Sutton which Is burled In Arlington National Cemetery and an autopsy performed The was received by her to-night from th War Department It was signed by the Secretary of War and had no long Us of restrictions and conditions to it such as appeared on the permit o Aug 24 which was withheld When Mrs Sutton is ready for the autopsy all tha will be necessary will be to give the War Department one day's notice in order to have the grave opened and the body transported to the Naval Hospital Mrs Sutton said to-night that she would do nothing in the matter until the return of her attorney Henry Davis abou Thursday He is now in New York Dr George Tully Vaughn of this city will look after the interests of Mrs But ton at the disinterment and at the exam at the hospital Mrs Sutton At torney Davis and a representative of th army and navy probably Surgeon Spear will also be present No crowd will b permitted to gather at the grave Mrs Sutton said that her plans for th future would be governed by the condi tions found to exist after the grave was and an made Latest Shipping News SS Aug 23 SS Wilmington Aug Reported by Teu incoming Southampton wa reported by Marconi wireless 805 mile east of Sandy Hook P M yes ced Passengers Are Thus the passengers who oard tho steamship last Wednesday ould all have dined at a seasonable our In London this evening In fact 03 put of 240 passengers anded at Fishguard Every ona ex- satisfaction with the new Business men especially over it V V Olcott and William W New York were enthusiastic in f the new arrangement Theodore the cotton roker left at once for Bremen before he arrival of passengers by Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse which left New Tori twenty-four hours earlier than he Mauretania He is hastening to he bedside of his sick father but aside rom the of the summons is of the distinction of making a quicker transfer from York to Bremen than any ono has ever dona Over all other ports of call it is held hat Fishguard saves to the traveler at east six hours between Queenstown and London The best record of the North German Lloyd to la 5 days S hours and 7 minutes made by he Kronprinzessin Cecilia which means approximately 5 days 12 and 37 minutes New York to don or three hours and a quarter than the transit by Mauretania to guard and by train Fishguard presents the advantage ot requiring fifty miles loss ocean transit COAL Dealers Announce High Price W Last Till April The coal dealers in this city It was an yesterday will Increase the re tail price of anthracite for domestic us to-morrow to a ton which will be it price and will continue unti April 11910 when the customary reduc 50 cents a ton will be made Th dealers said yesterday that so little de mand for domestic anthracite during the talk of a strike last year tha had been caught with large stock on hand In anticipation of a strike an as a result some ot the dealers sold an at lass than the schedule n order to use the money which was up in coal stocks GATES WEDDING FEE He Meets Old Pastor and Gives Him Check for to Tha New York Times SEATTLE Wash Aug Joh W Gates was stepping into his privat car Street Station here white-haired man stepped up and extend ed his hand Hello he said how are you Mr re piled Mr Gates as ha vigorously shoo the hand Forty years ago Mr Foster was minis ter of the little Methodist Church at S Charles 111 He married Mr Gates the living on a big farm south of Turne Junction 111 and Delia Baker whos father was Superintendent of the Sunda school When you married ma I only gav you a fee but I'll make u for it said Mr Gates as he wrot his check for handed it to the as minister and swung aboard h oar as tha train pulled out TO and a considerable distance less of transit than Holyhead with London aa the objective point Transfer lat Open When the great passenger steamer appeared on the sea horizon southwest of Strumble Head soon after day it that a large part of tha population of South Wales must have been gathered upon the neighboring heights and along the shores le harbor The day was cool and exhilarating tacle became fascinating as the tenders swarmed out to meet the The racer did not venture In beyond a line even with an unfinished break water the small steamers on which the mails and passengers were landed bobbed up and down beside her bulk like so many brightly daubed corks It was apparent In j weather even only slightly rough BilB j would have to go much further into the port it be bis to make the transfer of mail arid passengers at Fishguard It is expected that if the Cunard Company decides that this first experiment is successful the water alongside the new breakwater pier will be dredged to forty feet the steamships will be moored to stead of standing out in the open stead safety would be thus considerable Pritchard of the Mauretania when he was congratulated upon the success of his voyage expressed self as greatly gratified at the result The passengers on the Mauretania were aware that the voyage was ia race with the North German Lloyd steamship which left New York bound for Plymouth exactly twenty-four hours before them but they saw the latter during the whole the Mauretania overtook and passed her the ships must have been a distance apart The Mauretania's day's runs to Brow Head were as 590 578 475 total distance knots at average of 25.41 knots LONDON Aug intt papers make a big feature of the successful Inauguration of the Fishguard route which brings New York within five days of London It is heralded as a great triumph of organization on the part of the Cunard and railway com- panies Fishguard they takes rank with Liverpool Southampton and other great ocean ports and rapid Is anticipated The railway companies intend LS soon as sufficient passengers justify the step to run a special train to Dover for Con- traffic so as to avoid the de- lay of transference at London Thus the journey from Fishguard to Dover reduced to seven hours which will placa the Cunard Company on an equality with the German lines for Paris and traffic It is believed here that as soon superiority of the new real the will be
