BY THE CAR LOAD. Belief Supplies are Being Sent to Cuba. Central Committee at New York Report* Wonderful Success In tlie Collection of Food, Clothing mid Medl clneM for Destitute Keg dents of the Inland. Washington, March 4, —Secretary o the Navy Long said last evening that no word had been received from the court of inquiry and that no orders had been or would be given as to the move ments of the court from Key West, as the court was fully authorized to shape its own movements. The original or ders to the court were issued by Ad miral Sicard as commander of the fleet to which the Maine belonged, and it has the technical status of an admiral's •ourt, reporting directly to him. both is to its movements and as to its final report on the cause of the disaster, rile understanding here is that the .•ourt has not concluded its work, but will return to Havana to take testi mony which has been delayed by the difficulties in the way of the divers. Arrangements are being made for the trip of the cruiser Montgomery and gunboat Nashville to Cuban ports with relief supplies. The navy department was advised yesterday that the Mal lory line steamer leaving New York next Saturday would carry free of •harge 75 tons of supplies to be trans ferred to the Montgomery anil Nash ville at Key West. The Mallory steamer is expected to take about four days in the run down the coast, so that the transfer to the warships their start to Cuba cannot be made before next Thursday. The two warships are poorly adapted for carrying supplies, having scant quarters for their own supplies. It is only because they can make the run in daylight that any at tempt is made to carry the 75 tons ol supplies. The relief measures are proving un expectedly successful, the supplies run ning into the carloads and hundreds ol tons. The state department has had notice from the Cuban relief committee at New York that there were shipped on March 1 from New York to Santiago 100,000 pounds of relief supplies: on tlit 2d to Havana "5,000 pounds; yesterday to Matanzas 100.000 pounds, and tc Sagua la Grande 100,000 pounds. In these shipments are #OO,OOO grains ol quinine consigned to each of the ports except Havana. Chairman Harton, of the central Cu ban relief committee, has advised the state department that "donations art coming forward in great abundance, not only in money, but more particu larly in the form of provisions from al directions. The Oregon committee promises ten car loads and possibly 20 and Omaha, Minneapolis and othei western committees arc offering ship ments by the car load.'' The Maine relief fund under Mrs. Long's management has reached a tota of 83,131. The only telegram relating to the disaster that came to the navy depart ment yesterday was the following froti Commander Forsythe at Key West "liache arrived. Brought one body unidentified, and Paul Loftus, marine Jeremiah Shea, coal passer: John Heff ner, ordinary seaman; Thomas .1 Waters, ordinary seaman, wounded, from Tortugas. The wounded will b< sent to the army hospital." In the course of the inquiry into the naval resources of the United States an order has been issued to make a tes" of the machinery of the old war mon itors at the League Island navy yard These are single-turreted crafts armei with big smooth bore guns, in turrets that could likely be pierced by the modern high powered ritles on th< battleships, but they would still be o: service in an emergency. There are eight of these monitors at League Islanel and the government owns sev eral others that are loaned to the nava militia. FROZEN ON THE TRAIL. Klondiker* l>ie While Returning to Civi lization with WIOO.OOO. Victoria, 15. C., March 4. *"eporl has been brought by the steam • Isl ander, from Alaska, that s. days ago two Canadian mounted police marched into Skaguay with two sleds in tow, over which were strapped twe dead men. The attention of the mounted police at Taguish was at tracted by the howls of a dog. A few moments' search on the trail anil thej found the bodies of two men who had been frozen. It is said they were returning Klon tlikers, and they are reporteel to have had in their possession 8100,000 in papei and gold dust, one $1(0,000 and the other $70,000. Their names are not known. The death rate at Skaguay averages 15 daily, one of the latest victims bet ing the postmaster. It is stated by passengers on the Isl antler that the I)yea trail is strewn with deail mules. Kiot Follows a Strike. Muskegon, Mich.. March 4.—One hun dred stevedores employed on the Orand Rapids & Indiana steamer Osceoln struck yesterday. They have been re ceiving 15 cents per hour and demand ed 20 cents. When a new force of men was put to work a brief riot occurred in which one of the latter was severely injured. The new employes are now working under police protection. Campaign Managers Named. Washington, March 4. —The execu tive committee of the republican con gressional committee was named yester day, as follows: Representatives Hull, of Iowa; McCleary, of Minnesota; Can non, of Illinois; Louilenslager, of New- Jersey; Pearson, of North Carolina: Murcer. of Nebraska: Senators Proctor, of Vermont; (iallinger, of New Hamp shire, and Wilson, of Washington. Rep resentative McCleary, of Minnesota, will have charge; o.' the literary de partment of the committee. This is an important post, as a large amount of republican literature will be circulated throughout the country. LONG'S REMARK. Secretary Alger Tlilnk* nn Injustice In Done Ilia Colleague. Washington, March 3.—The Wash ington Post prints the following inter view with Secretary of War Alger: "The statement of Secretary LOIIK that Spain's 'olfleial participation in the dis aster' to the Maine had been 'practically eliminated' was merely an expression of personal opinion on his part. It Is an injus tice to him. as well as to the administration, to Kive an official signilicance to his »x --pression when ho was particular at the time to emphasize the fact that he was speaking simply as an individual. In the absence of official facts —and I can repeat what has been said heretofore, that th» public is equally oi well informed as the government—no member of the administra tion can, of course, make official declara tion touching Spain's responsibility, moral or otherwise. There is not an lota of in formation as to the cause or origin of the explosion upon which the government can at this time form a conclusion or base a de cision. The verdict of the court of inquiry on that point must patiently be awaited." Beyond this Secretary Alger would not be quoted, but he authorized the l'ost to state most positively that no official information was being withheld from the public; that the administra tion was adhering strictly to the policy adopted by Secretary Long with the approval of the president, at the start, to give the fullest possible publicity to all facts coming officially to thedepart- UNITED STATES CRUISER MONTGOMERY—SELECTED TO CARRY PROVI SIGNS TO STARVING CUBANS AT MATANZAS. ments bearing upon the loss of the Maine and the 250 brave seamen. A commander for the monitor Mian tononiah, which was ordereil into com mission Tuesday, was selected Wednes day in the person of Capt. Mortimer Johnson, who is at present on waiting jrders. Secretary Long says that the Miantonomah with the ram Katnhdin w-ill remain in the Delaware for tlie present at least. With the commission ing of these two vessels there remain only the cruisers Columbia anil Minne apolis on the Atlantic coast for immedi ate service in case the department should decide to commission more ships. The Atlanta at New York could be made ready in the course of three or four months and the Chicago in six months in case emergency orders for their re pairs were issued. There are a num ber of good ships on the Pacific coast, however, whose repair is under way, such as the Charleston, the Philadel phia, the Yorktown and others, and the pay rolls of the construction bureau at the Mare Island navy yard have now UNITED STATES CRUISER NASHVILLE SELECTED TO CARRY PROVI SIONS TO STARVING CUBANS AT SAG LI A L.A GRANDE. amounted to the large total of SOO,OOO per niontii for wages alone. It is said in the navigation bureau that there is a pressing need of able ma chinists for the navy, caused by the heretofore unnoted fact that every one of the machinists on the Maine lost his life in that explosion. Moreover, all the firemen but one were killed. The bureau has invited enlistments from men who have had naval service before in the engine rooms and, as it is said that a number of these men are now en joying the three months' period of time between enlistments, during which they may come again into the naval ser vice without loss of service record, it is hoped that some of them will come forward to fill the place vacated by the Maine disaster. There is no unusual stir of activity about the bureaus of the quartermaster general or the commissary general of the army, where more than anywhere else the preparations for a warlike emergency will be apparent. The offi cers of these bureaus say no extraordi nary accumulation of supplies is taking place and that no contracts for extra supplies are in contemplation. Havana, March 3.—The city is quiet, but the public and private greetings to the Spanish cruiser Vizcaya, which ar rived here Tuesday night, have not lessened in fervor. VICTORY FOR STRIKERS. MlclilK»n S»nt« Hoard of Arliitrnlloli IJeclileH Dlviiute nt llio City. Detroit, Mich., March 3.—The state board of arbitration met here Wednes day and reviewed the testimony taken in the matter of the strike of the rivet ers employed in Wheeler & Company's ship yard at Day City. The board's ver dict is that the t!-.97 rate be paid to all employes, and the riveters'and setters' w:i ,r es to be $2.50 for a ten-hour day. The rate offered by the company was $2.2.1, but both sides had agreed to stand by the result of the arbitration. CAMERON COUNTY I RESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 189S. ON AN ERRAND OF MERCY. Cruiser Montgomery Selected to C«r« ry rrovUloiiN to Culm. Washington, March 3.—Secretary Lonsr has decided to send two naval vessels to Cuba at once with 40 or 50 tons of provisions for the relief of the suffering reconcentradoes. The vessels will goto Matanzas and Sagua La Grande. It is said an emergency exists that makes it necessary to dispatch pro visions at once in order to succor the starving. The vessels to he sent will be the Montgomery to Matanzas and the Nashville to Sagua La Grande. The decision of the navy department to send two ships to Cuba with supplies for the suffering reconcentrudoscaused some commotion in official circles until the real purport of the visit of the ships came out. It is explained at the navy department that this action was taken at the instance of the Cuban Relief as sociation, organized through the efforts ov the state department for the relief of the destitute noneombatants in Cuba. It was represented to the de partment that great distress prevails among the people in the vicinity of Sagua La Grande and Matanzas on the northern coast of the island and that considerable difficulty is experienced in sending supplies there because of the infrequent visits of the merchant ships, On this account and because of the im- mediate demand for supplies at the points indicated, the officers of the as sociation requested the secretary of the navy to authorize the use of one or more of the war ships at Key West in the transportation there of food sup plies contributed by the charitable peo ple of the United States in response to the appeals of President McKinley and Secretary Sherman. Secretary Long conferred with the president on the subject and it was decided to comply with the request. The Montgomery and the Nashville were selected as most suitable for the service and the neces sary orders were dispatched to Admiral Sicard. The Montgomery will goto Matanzas and the Nashville to Sagua I.u Grande with the understanding that they will remain in those ports only long enough to deliver the supplies to the agents of the association for dis tribution where they will do the most good. Although the mission assigned to the war ships will take them both within u short distance of Havana, es timated at from two to four hours, it is stated that neither vessel will visit the Cuban capital. WAS A CUBAN VICTORY. SIIUIIIHII LDNI* 1,000 Killed and Wound ed ut 11 oln 11 i it. New York, March 3.—lieports of the recent battle ut Ilolguin, province of Santiago de Cuba, have been received in New York. Instead of the battle being a Spanish victory, as represented from Havana, it was a disastrous de feat, followed by a retreat 011 the part of the Spanish forces. This information comes through Cuban sources, and is the cause of a great amount of rejoic ing in Cuban circles, because the guns and ammunition shipped from l.ong Island less than a month ago were used in the light. Owing to the character of the coun try less than 2,000 of the Spanish troops could be brought into action when the Cubans opened fire, and the Cuban force of less than 1,000 men could not be dislodged. Gen. Garcia's command did not reach its full strength until the fifth day after the lighting began. On this day the Spanish columns retreated in contusion, carrying the wounded to Ilolguin and leaving 200 dead 011 the field. The Cubans' loss in the five days lighting was less than 50 killed. The real Spanish loss will never be known. Tlie \ew St. LliuU HrldKe. Washington, March 3.- —The board ol army officers appointed to pass 011 plans for a bridge across the Mississippi rivei ,at St. Louis has made its report to the war department. It does not approvt of some of the details of the plan sub mitted, but recommends changes in tin interest of navigation, mainly as to the height of the structure. The recommen -1 dations are concurred in by (Jen. Wil j son, chief engineer of the army, and ap | proved by the department. The com \ pany lias been notified to make the j changes in accordance with the recom mendations of the board. DROWNED LIKE RATS. Nine People I. OH#* Their MVCK During H on board. Among the victims were the three children of ('apt. Collier, aged 4, 0 anil S years, and the entire Nichols family—Bradley Nichols and his wife, their son an .l the latter's wife and two grandchildren. The family was from Bridgeport, Conn. Those saved are ('apt. Collier, Samuel C'ates arid Jesse Green, deck hands, and It. W. I Sates, of Myers, Fla., a passen ger. The Nichols family is said to have been well-to-do. All had been staying for a month or two at a small hotel kept by Capt. Collier at Marco, and they were on their way home. About 7 a. m. ( apt. Collier was at the wheel and the Nichols family and Col lier'schildren were in the cabin asleep. Suddenly a squall came howling up abeam. Cates and Green rushed to take in sail. As the jib flapped loose the squall caught the schooner and blew it over on the port side. Collier, the deck hands and Mr. Bates were swept into the sea, but caught the rigging just in time to save themselvs. The wind, rain and waves drowned the dying cries of the imprisoned Nichols family and the Collier children. The men lashed themselves to the rigging. After be ing there two hours the sea subsided. Then they got the dingy loose, baled it out with a hat, broke a thwart in two pieces and with these for oars, rowed toward Marquesa. After going three miles they were picked up exhausted by a fishing sloop and brought here about 4 o'clock last evening. AN INTERNATIONAL BANK. A HIR Project tliat Aims to Relieve Amer leans from Dependenee on Kuropean Caplt:ll i t ■*. Chicago, March 4.—The Daily News says: "A financial corporation, to be known as the International American bank, with branches throughout this country. Cuba and South America, and with offices in London and possibly l'aris, will soon be doing business on a capital stock of s'-15,000,000. Advices from Washington to certain western organizers of the project indicate that the senate and house, committees on foreign relations will report favorably a bill introduced in the senate within a fortnight by Senator Foraker, to carry into effect a plan to create an as sociation to be known as the Interna tional American bank. The scheme is of international importance. "The passage of the bill will imply that the United States and the south ern American countries will no longer be dependent upon Europern banks for monetary transactions on the western hemisphere south of the Canadian line. The headquarters of the Inter national bank will be in Washington and New York. Simultaneously there will be foun' 1 * ,l uinrht Viranches in this country—to be located in Chica go, Baltimore, Pittsburg, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Denver, St. Louis and San Francisco, and one in each of the capitals of the South American coun tries." AN IMPORTANT ADMISSION. A Naval Oltlrer Says tlie Court of Inquiry liot'B Not l)«':mml Kntlrely I pon tin? Testi moiiy of Divers. Havana, March 4.—A naval officer here in reply to a suggestion yesterday that it was a pity such an important decision as the verdict of the court of inquiry into the Maine explosion should rest solely upon the testimony of the divers, who seemed men of only aver age intelligence, replied: "The court of inquiry has not had to depend upon divers' testimony alone." Then realiz ing that he had said more than he in tended. he resumed his reserve. It is believed that the testimony of Lieut. Wainwriglit was highly important, as bearing on the question of the exist ence of submarine mines. The government has employed an ex pert photographer who will send to the naval department in Washington photographs or armor plates and dif ferent portions of the wreck immedi ately upon recovery from the water. If the Spanish court of inqui'-v has a definite plan of action, wh eh seems doubtful, it has not been mane public. The Spanish divers will 1-3 port the re sults of their observations to the Span ish court of inquiry, but when or where has not been made known. CLOSER TO SALT WATER. Canadian* are Gradually Moving the lloiindar}' Lino of ALANKU Went ward. Seattle, Wash., March 4. —Five steam ers arrived yesterday from Alaska. The Queen brought the latest news, having left Skaguay last Sunday. The most important news was a confirma tion of previous reports that a Canadian official has raised the British flag on what is regarded as American soil, and trouble at Skaguay with longshoremen, who objected to Indians unloading freight from steamers. The presence of United States troops alone prevented serious trouble. It is feared that seri our trouble will grow out of the Cana dians' attempt to collect duty on the summit of the White I'ass and Chilkoot pass and the Americans will resist the payment on what they consider Amer ican ground. Lust summer the boundary line was at Lake Bennett, then at Linderman, and now at the summit, of the moun tains, which is only 12 miles from salt water. from Oillce. Springfield. <>.. March -1. —The circuit court yesterday issued a decree ousting Mayor .lohn M. Good from office. The proceedings were brought under the Garfield election law, which requires candidates after e left ion to tile sworn statements of all their expenditures. Judge Adams said the testimony showed that Mayor tlood spent $283.50 in the campaign which lie failed to in clude in his sworn statement of ex penses. and which included only $45. ( >-' the above amount S'.tl was spent for beer. Mayor Good also promised to appoint a union man on the board of public affairs, which is asniinst the law. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL —The late William Terriss left a for tune which is estimated at from S2O )l)0 to $;i0l>,000. —John Millais, a son of Sir John Mil lais, is at work upon a biography oj liis father. —The earl of Mansfield is the only man living who has sat in the house oi lords since the first parliament of Wil liam IV. lie is 91 years of age. Miss Kdith Pond, daughter of the well-known major, has established in New York an entertainment bureau for the purpose of supplying artists for so •ial functions. —Adelina I'atti's "farewell concert" is still an event of the impenetrable future. She is to appear in Stockholm early in April, giving a series of con certs. for which she will be paid at the beggarly rate of $2,780 for each per formance. —M. I'lanc, who founded the Ca sino in Monte Carlo, was a man of much eccentricity in dress and habits. It was said that he was never known to gamble except upon one occasion—an occasion which proved i costly experience. —Mrs. Gladstone has just celebrated her eighty-sixth birthday. The elder of the two daughters of Sir Stephen Glynne, she was married to Mr. Glad stone on July 25, lS.'it). Her sister. Miss Mary Glynne, on the same day became the wife of Lord Lyttleton. —Sir John Gilbert, the late presi lent of the Royal Water Color society, left a personal estate of $1,150,000. LOT*I Leighton left, $240,000, and Sir J. 1". Millais $4H5,000. Mr. H. Armitage, B. A., who died in 1890, left personal property valued at $1,000,000. THE CAMERA IN SURVEYS. Most Important I «e for rliotiiKrajihy That HHS lleen Vet DeviMCit. Something like 50,000 square miles of the mountainous country of western Canada has been surveyed with the camera. Nothing comparable to this in the way of photographic surveying has been accomplished on any such ■scale anywhere else in the world. The causes of failure on the part of many who have tried the method and discarded it in disgust are chiefly two. One of these is a defective knowledge in descriptive geometry and perspec tive, which are essentials of the plot ting of photographic surveying. The other difficulty lies in the manipulation of the photographic apparatus itself and the making of a proper negative. This is by no means the easy thing it seems, since photographs that would be highly acceptable to the average photographer, professional or amateur, might be useless for the purpose of the surveyor. For example, the surveyor's picture, in order to be of use, must be taken with the camera in precise ly the horizontal position, tilting never a hair's breadth in one direction or another; the lens he uses must be an anastigmat, and absolutely that the image may not De in the least distorted; and the plate must be of a special kind, and adjusted in the cam era with a degree of nicety of which the ordinary photographer has no con eeption. Mr. Deville, who had in charge the Canadian work, points out in a prac tical way how many of tlie worst dif ficulties may be easily overcome. Thus the simple device of having a net sus pended between the legs of the tripod, in which stones are placed to steady tlie camera, would save many a nega tive in windy weather that now is 10. t through the vibration of the instru ment. And the care which is counseled in determining the exact period of proper exposure for a given plate, lens and light, even if carried out with far less scientific precision than is here suggested, would enable many an ama teur who now wastes several plates for every good negative to reverse the pro portions of failure and successes. One curious feature of the photo graphic surveying, which the amateur would not care to follow ordinarily, hut a knowledge of which might prove of service on occasion, is that the atrial perspective, making the distance hazy, is practically eliminated by the use of orthoehromatic plates, which are little affected by the blue rays, combined with the use of an orange-colored s-creen in front of the lens. The result, of course, is a picture devoid of at mosphere, and hence defective from the artistic standpoint, but probably more valuable for the purposes of the surveyor, who very likely has taken the picture solely to show the exact loca tion, altitude and contour of a distant mountain. use of these methods of restrict ing me light necessitates very long ex pov *e, and this in turn makes requisite tli.j use of plates coated on the back witn a light-absorbing material (so c&ljed nonhalation plates), else the I'ljnt reflected from the back surface the plate would fog the film. Mr. D« ville is careful to point out that this ijoating must be in optical contact with "lie surface of the glass; in other words, actually painted upon it.the nit re plac ing of a black cloth or paper against the back of the plate being of no serv ice whatever. When all these technical difficulties of photographic surveying are made clear, it no longer seems so str:-»ge that the method has been but slowly adopted by surveyors, even in those districts where its advantages wouKI be most marked. The surveyors who tried it usually failed to get any available results, and they did not realize that the fault lay with themselves and not with the method. — X. Y. Sun. A Wonilerf::l Msin. T'rof. Snore, of the University of Tex as'. while writing a lir.-e in one of the b«\vs' copybooks, heard two of the boys wTiispering, so he said to student Tom ,\r. Jerry: "Thomas, you are very much mistak en if you think I don't know what's go ing on. T can write with one eye and I hear with the other."—X. Y. Wor'd. 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