MII mm.
Carnegie Offers $.">.200,090
to New York City.
rOIi P»li AXt II LI Hit A HIES
TIH> City Must Furnish Sites
and Maintenance.
MAGNIFICENT TROPOSITION.
I'lic Steel Kiiiif 1" \1 mini: to Doliatn
SMO,OOI> to Faeli One of 05 Libraries
An Interi-Nting Lettrr to tlic Direc
tor of tin- t'ity'n Libraries
New York. March 16.—Andrew Car
negie, who, since retiring as an active
figure from the steel world, has been
able to devote his time exclusively to
his other passion, the founding of
libraries, has made his departure for
15 u rope memorable by the largest of
fer of that kind ever advanced. If
Tv'ew York will provide the sites and
the maintenance he has promised to
g'ive $.>,200,000 to establish 65 branch
libraries in this city.
The offer was made in a letter to
Dr. John S. Billings, director of the
New York public library, last Tues
day. The correspondence in connec
't ion with the offer was made public
last night, as follows:
"New York, March 12.—1)r. John S.
Hillings: Our conference upon the
needs of Greater New York for
branch libraries to reach the masses
of the people in every district has
convinced me of the wisdom of your
pin ns.
"Sixty-five branches strike one at
first as a very large order, but as
other cities have found one necessary
•for over 60,000 or 70,000 of population,
the number is not excessive.
"You estimate the average cost of
these libraries at SBO,OOO each, being
$5,200,000 for ail. If New York will
furnish sites for these branches for
the special benefit of the masses of
the people, as it has done for the Cen
tral library, and also agrees in satis
factory form to provide for their
maintenance when built. I should
esteem it a rare privilege to be |ier
mitted to furnish t! ymey as need
ed for the building . say $5,200,000.
Sixty-five libraries at one stroke
probably breaks the record, but this
•is the day of biy operations and New
York is soon to be the biggest of
cities. ANDREW CAIBNKOI 15."
Dr. Billings said yesterday: "Mr.
Carnegie's offer to provide library
buildings for (Jreater New ork at a
cost of over $5,000,000 is made with
ihis usual conditions.
"If accepted it will result in the
greatest free public library system in
the world. We may fairly infer that
Mr. Carnegie's idea is that the whole
should be under one management,
that of the trustees of the New York
public library, but this is not made
one of the conditions.
"As to the question of sites, it is
not improbable that a considerable
number could be obtained without
cost to the municipality, through,
gifts of public spirited citizens.
"It is of the greatest importance
that the system of public schools in
the city should be supplemented by a
system of libraries as is proposed,
and the sooner that work can be
commenced the better it will be for
the people and for the municipality.
"My estimate that it will take five
years to prepare and equip all the
buildings necessary is probably a
reasonable one, but if the matter is
taken up promptly by the municipal
authorities it would seem that this
time could be shortened. No doubt
there are a number of difficult de
tails to be settled, but there are a
number of competent men to s_*ttle
them."
nuny lloi rllonn,
London, March 16. The Daily Mail
reports an enormous increase in the
number of desertions at Aldersliot,
especially from the cavalry. It at
tributes this condition of things to
the inadequate pay and to resent
ment in view of the fact that the
yeomanry get five shillings per day
and the cavalry only one shilling.
by tlie ISritlye Trust.
Toledo, March 16. —The Toledo
bridge works has passed into the
hands of the American Bridge Co.
The deal was consummated in New
York and the price paid was $750,000.
With the acquisition of the local
plant tli" American Bridge Co. con
trols 00 per cent, of the plants of
the country.
(iov. Oilell'* tlesxajje.
Albany, N. Y.. March 16. —Tn a mes
sage to the legislature Gov. Odell
recommends a continuation of the
work begun several -years ago of
deepening the state canals to nine
feet, and lengthening the locks. The
cost of continuing this work to its
completion is estimated at $25,000,000.
Oiler* a llillion to St, Louis.
St. I.ouis, March 16. —Andrew Car
negie has offered to donate $1,000,000
for the building of a new public li
brary in St. Louis. Mr. Carneg'<»
tasks that the city furnish an uni-j ■
cumbered site for the library ui>»-
that a maintenance fund of $150,000
per year be assured.
Hue 11 ItfNijfiia.
Washington, March 16.—The com
missioner of patents, Charles 11.
Duel], has tendered to the president
his resignation, to take effect upon
the appointment and qualification of
his successor. There are several
candidates for the office.
Alls* Morrison fiilvi-s a 5*5,000 lloml.
hldorado, Kan., March 16.—Jessie
Morrison, who killed Clara Wiley
Castle, has furnished a $5,000 bond,
signed by reputable business men, for
the continuance of her case. The
bond was accepted and .Miss Morrison
will be released.
EXTENSIVE FORGERIES.
Tbey Are Said |<> Have Siren Fount!
ill (lie A<•<•<>lilll* of Bauli Oiliciul* at
Mlro, Ulrli., and I'ri'i'port, Pa.
Xilc.s. Mich., March li. C. A. .John
son, cashier of the First national
bunk, is still missing. Business is at
a standstill here. Director Stevens
has returned from Chicago, hut
could not find .Johnson. President
J.acev admits the directors do not
know Johnson's whereabouts. The
statement that .Johnson is short
SIOO,OOO was repeated to President
I.acey last night and he would not
deny it. When asked if there was a
shortage he hesitated. He finally
said he would not talk about it.
Johnson's physician says when the
latter's nephew disappeared 'mm
Plankinton, S. I)., a year ago, that
Johnson was bordering on insanity
for several days, as he feared Kim
inel had embezzled a large sum for
which he (Johnson) would be held
responsible.
Freeport, Pa.. March I'i. The mud
dle in the affairs of the Freeport
bank, which has kept the town in a
state of excitement for a week, will
probably be cleared to-day when the
directors say the.v will make a pub
lic statement of affairs.
A reliable authority said last night
that the shortage had been definitely
placed at $25,052. When young C. 1).
T.nd wig, the bookkeeper, disappeared
last week it was thought he was re
sponsible for the defalcation, but
v hen the father. Cyrus, who was
cashier, disappeared on Monday and
was found late at night at a desert
ed fishing camp, the first belief was
changed and the allegation now is
that the father is to blame, if .any
one is, for the shortage. The elder
Ludwig has made o\er to the bank
directors all of his property.
Niles, Mich., March 14.—The direc
tors of the suspended First national
bank yesterday filed a declaration
against Charles A. Johnson, the miss
ing cashier of the bank, alleging that
forgeries amounting to SIOO,OOO
against leading citizens of this coun
ty have been committed by him. It
was found that there was a great
quantity of forged paper held by the
institution. Bank Examiner Selden
filed papers with the county clerk at
St. Joseph attaching all of Johnson's
property, but it will not cover the
shortage toy many thousands. No
trace of Johnson was discovered.
Of the forged paper found $20,000
was against 1,. W. Wilkinson, of St.
Joseph, a member of the abstract
firm of Dixon & Wilkinson, which did
a large business with the bank. A
petition will be sent to the comptrol
ler of the treasury asking him to ap
point some local business man receiv
er of the bank. So many local man
ufactories and business firms are em
barrassed by thi' suspension that it is
vital to the town that the bank'-; af
fairs be settled with all possible
speed. The funds of both the city
and county are tied up in the bank
and all muriTcipal business is prac
tically at a standstill.
A CHECKERED CAREER.
Si ItntlM Willi tli<* Death of Caesar Mo
reno, in Washington.
Washington, March 13.—Caesar Mo
reno, for years a familiar character
on the streets and at the Capitol,
died here Tuesday from a stroke of
paralysis. Jle had a picturesque
and adventurous career, lie had vis
ited nearly every civilized portion of
the globe and claimed several rulers
as his friends. For the past few
years he had led rather a precarious
existence in this city. He was a
native of Italy, saw service in the
Crimean war and while in Sumatra
was instrumental in a movement for
inciting the natives to revolt against
Holland. Later he was sent to Ton
quin by the French government in
some ollicial capacity and thence
drifted to China, where he organized
the first steamship company under
the Chinese flag.
Shortly after the civil war he land
ed at San Francisco and was success
ful in securing the enactment of laws
for the protection of coast fisheries.
In 1572 he organized a trans-Pacilic
cable company in which Hon. I.eland
Stanford was interested and finally
a charter was obtained from congress
for constructing a cable estimated to
cost $10,000,000. He again went to
the Orient and subsequently came to
the Sandwich Islands, where he
gained the confidence of King Kala
kana.
The king, angered at the refusal of
the cabinet to approve a loan of sl.-
000,000 by the Hawaiian government
for the building of the proposed
cable, dismissed the members and
selected! lour new counsellors, More
no being designated as prime min
ister. Moreno carried things with a
high hand and after five days of pow
er was forced to give up the position,
lie was still a favorite with the king,
however, and the latter secretly
commissioned him as minister to the
United States and every court in Eu
rope, but his commission was soon
revoked. He had lived in Washing
ton since 1 ss:J and was about. 70 years
old.
Trial Trip of the Illinois.
Washington .March 11. .Judge Ad
vocate (ieneral f.enily has received
the following telegram from Capt.
Converse, the future commander of
the battleship Illinois, touching the
builders' trial of that ship: "New
port News. March 12r—The Illinois
has returned from its fmilders* trial.
Weather conditions favorable. Be
havior of ship and performance of
engines and boilers under natural
and forced draught most satisfac
tory. Condition of vessel's bottom
prevented a record for speed."
A Doubly Fatal Accident.
Bluffton, Ind., March IX—A 4-vear
old girl caused a gas explosion here
Tuesday that wrecked a house and
cost the life of the child and that of
her 2-year-old sister, and the fatal in
jury of her mother, Mrs. William
Huffman, the wife of an employe of
the Standard Oil Co. Mrs. Huffman
was at work in the kitchen while her
two young daughters were playing in
an adjoining room. The elder pulled
the gas connection from the stove
and the gas tilled the room, igniting
from the heat of the stove, which
caused an explosion.,
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1901
DIED AMIDST FIDE.
Three Lives Lost in a Mev.s
impcr Building.
A DISASTER AT UOSTOX.
The Daily Advertiser Ollice Is
l»a<Uy Scorched.
15 EG AX IN THE PRESS ROOM.
Haini'* Shot I |i Through flu- Eleva
tor Shall to tlie Top Sturien and the
Three Victim*, All ot Whom ui re
Proof Headers, Were Sulfurult'il.
Boston, March iO. — Three lives sac
rificed, nearly a dozen men more or
less injured and many thousands of
dollars' damage were the results of a
fierce fire in the Daily Advertiser and
llecord seven-story granite front
building' in Newspaper Bow last
night. The dead are:
James Richardson, proof reader, of
Boston.
Judson Craft, proof reader, of
Gambrfdge. •
Walter Luscomb, proof reader, of
Sa lent.
I low the fire started is not known,
but it was first seen' in the press
room and it spread to the elevator
well and darted to the top so rapidly
that before the occupants of the two
upper floors were aware that the
building was on fire, their rooms
were filled with flames and smoke.
In the editorial room on the sixth
floor there were but five men. All
had to run for their lives. On the
upper floor, occupied by the compos
ing room, were IS compositors and
proof readers, whose situation was
most critical. l'anie-stricken, they
rushed for the windows leading to
the fire escapes and all but three of
them succeeded in gaining the roof
of an adjoining building'.
I.ong ladders were raised as quick
ly as-the network of electric wires
over the street would permit, but
before a ladder could be placed in
position the men had dropped
through a skylight in the building
roof and reached places of safety.
Except in the press room in the base
ment there was practically no fire in
the building below the fifth story.
Xo one was in the press room at the
time the tire started except "t he fire
man. who has not been seen tip to a
late hour.
It took three hours of work to
drown out the fire. The three vic
tims, all proof readers, were suffo
cated before they had time to reach
the fire escapes. Those who found
the bodies were oblig'ed to jump sev
eral feet, to the roof of the adjoining
building, and in this way quite a
number of them sustained injuries.
.loltil Sinaalirrs are Fined,
Kansas City, March 10.- Mrs. Pru
dence Smith and Mrs. Jane MeXutt,
who Monday night last raided
Eaton's joint in Armourdale, were
yesterday fined by Police Judge Mc-
Camish $23 each. The judge offered
to'grant a stay of execution if the
women would promise to desist from
joint smashing, but their answers did
not suit him and he let the fines
stand. Xora MeXutt, daughter of
Mrs. MeXutt, was discharged, the
court holding that she was irrespon
sible, having been guided by her eld
ers. Judge McCamish declared there
was no law in Kansas that sancilmed
the destruction of private property
by a citizen. An appeal was taken.
I.ee I'raiwen American Soldiers,
London, March 10- During the de
bate on the army estimates in the
house of commons Friday Lieut. Col.
Arthur Hamilton Lee, who was Brit
ish military attache with the United
States army during the Spanish-
American war and subsequently was
military attache with the I'ritish em
bassy in Washington, said the Amer
ican recruits in physique and intelli
genee were superior to any other
troops in the world. He also empha
sized the high pay of the American
soldier and the fact that the rate
was increased 20 per cent, in time af
war, or when 011 service abroad.
A Crisis Approaching.
Cedar Rapids, la., March 10. —
Everything points to a crisis in the
situation in tlie Burling'ton, Cedar
Ilapids it. Northern shops, where 400
men have been out for nearly two
weeks. 011 Monday Vice President
Williams asked for a statement of
the men's grievances, which was
made through a committee of the
commercial club. Mr. Williams an
nounced yesterday that he would
make 110 concessions, so it must be
piece work or nothing at the shops,
and the men state that the line will
be tied up within 48 hours.
A Corpjto lit a Cake of Ire,
New York, March 10. The Journal
and Advertiser «iys that the body of
a ruan discovered in a cake of ice
in the llackeripack river at Jersey
City, on Friday, in many particulars
resembles the description of John
Armstrong Clmnler, a descendant
of John Ja 1 Astor. John Arm
strong Chanter mysteriously disap
peared from Dloomingdale asylum
last Thanksgiving' and has not been
seen since.
The Veto Stand*.
Salt Lake, I'tah, March 10.—Tn the
state senate Friday the governor's
veto of the Evans bill was called up
and 011 motion as to whether the bill
should pass notwithstanding the
veto, the bill was nine to nine. The
bill originally passed by a vote of It
to 5 and 12 votes were required to
pass the bill over the governor's
▼eto.
A Congressman IN Stricken.
Lancaster, Pa., .March 10.—Con
gressman Marriott llrosius le.st even
ing had a stroke of apoplexy which
in expected to result in his death.
PROPAGATING ROSES.
A Synteiii of 1111 ilili 11 Khy Which Karlj
and I,ale Varieties Are Grown
oa the Same llusli.
One of the easiest and best ways to
propagate roses is by budding. The
process is the same as with the peach,
pear, apple, et *.. but I will give a short
description with an illustration to
make it a little plainer. Select a bud
from the rose you wish to propagate,
and cut about one-fourth above and be
low the bud, taking out an elliptical
piece with a little wood beneath it, as
shown in Fig. 1.
For the stalk take any hardy or wild
if
y iL/
« 1
FIRST THING TO BE DONE.
rose, cut a T-shaped incision through
the bark near the roots (Fig. 2), care
fully raise the ends or bark of the in
cision ami insert the bud; wrap firmly
above and b«low the bud with a strip
of cloth about one-fourth of an inch
wide, commencing at the bottom and
passing above the bud, returning again
and tying just below, covering all above
the bud. In about ten days after bud
ding, if in spring or early summer, un
wrap it, and if the operation has been
successful, which it is most sure to be
if properly done, cut the old stalk off
HOW TO MAKE THE INSERTION.
about two inches ibove the bud; and
when it has made a new shoot tie it to
this old stump to make it grow
straight. Buds of different roses,
crimson, white, red, etc., may be insert
ed in a single stalk, threby producing a
rose tree of many colors, it is not nec
essary to bud on the wild rose only, but
if you have some other single rose you
wish to improve, insert a bud or buds of
some nice variety, and I think you will
be pleased with the result.
I hope every lady reader of this pa
per will try this method of propagat
ing, for it is very simple and easily
done, and you can have a rose ready
for bloom in the same length of time it
would take a cutting to form roots.
And by using early and late varieties
on the same bush'one can have a suc
cession of bloom on the same plant,
which is quite an item when one is
crowded for room.—Geneva March, in
Agricultural Epitomist.
HIGH-PRICED BUTTER.
Before It Reached the Consumer on
the Continent of Europe It \V*n
Worth $3 a I'ound.
Not many people would be willing
to pay three or four dollars a pound
for butter if they lived where fairly
good butter was plenty at a much
lower price. The editor of the Elgin
Dairy Keport tells of a gentleman
visiting the Darlington creamery,
which has or had a reputation of sell
ing its product at one dollar a pound.
While there he saw a 20-pound pack
age put into a large refrigerator case
and packed around with ice and
shipped to New York city. There it
would be re-iced and sent by the
steamer to an agent in London, who
would again repack it in ice and send
it to another party on the continent,
who would see that it was sent to the
consumer who had ordered it. The
expense of freight and packing would
scarcely be less than two or three
dollars per pound, besides the cost of
one dollar a pound at the creamery.
Such butter is only produced by good
cows, given good food and care, and
with also good care in regard to ab
solute cleanliness in stables, dairy
room and utensils and purity of the
air and water which comes in can
tact with it. Not every one can make
butter that will sell for 50 cents or
one dollar a ponud, but many could
improve greatly on their product and
on the price they obtain for it if
they would take a little more pains
in these respects. And when they do
so we may see dairy butter regular
ly quoted as-high or higher than that
from the'creamery.
The total value of the butter product
of Wisconsin as estimated £>3 Dairy and
Food Commissioner IL C. iVdanis to I
1800 ii about $16,000,000.
Hospitals in our great cities are sad places to visit.
Three-fourths of the patients lying on those snow-white
beds are women and girls.
Why should this be the case ?
Because they have neglected themselves.
Every one of these patients in the hospital beds had plenty
of warning in that bearing-down feeling, pain at the left or
right of the womb, nervous exhaustion, pain in the small of
the back. All of these things are indications of an unhealthy
condition of the ovaries or womb.
What a terrifying thought! these poor souls are lying
there on those hospital beds awaiting a fearful operation.
Do not drag along at home or in your place of employ
ment until you are obliged togo to the hospital and submit to
an examination and possible operation. Build up the female
system, cure the derangements which have signified them
selves by danger signals, and remember that jLydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has saved thousands
of women from the hospital. Read the letter here published
with the full consent of the writer, and see how she escaped
the knife by a faithful reliance on Mrs. Pinkham's advice
and the consistent treatment of her medicines.
Mrs. Knapp tells of her Great Gratitude.
•' DEAR MRS. PINKFIAM : —I have received much benefit from using your
Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. After my child was born, blood
poison set in, which left me with granulated in
"" ,-r "1 Summation of the womb and congested ovaries.
_ I had suffered from suppressed and painful
, - menstruation from a girl. The doctors told me
the ovaries would have to be removed. I took
IFTSr treatment two years to escape an operation,
jarr but still remained in miserable health in both
MwjijlßlTOy Q body and mind, expecting 1 to part with my
reason with each coming month. After using
W \\ one bottle of the Compound. I became entirely
kj)r J rid of the trouble in my head. I continued to
use . vour remedies until cured.
J " The last nine months have been passed in
perfect good health. This, I know, T owe en
tirely to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
. '"My gratitude is great indeed to the one to
MRS- F.M.KNAPP whom so many women owe their health and
happiness."— MßS. F. M. KNAPP, 1528 Kinnic
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