State Library JolilfM tit Seml-Wcekly Founded i Wayne County Organ of the 1908 Weekly Founded, 1844 REPUBLICAN PARTY 66th YEAR. HONESDALB, WAYNE CO., PA, "WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27, 1909. NO. 8 BLAME ON FLORIDA Republic's Captain Says Italian Steered Wrong. iPRAISE FOR WOMEN PASSENGERS They Never Lost Their Heads Is the Most Trying Situations and Acted Like Heroines, He Declares. New York. Jan. 20. Captain Sealby of the White Star steamer Republic, who was rescued from drowning after be bad leaped from bis sinking sblp south of Nantucket, declared today that the Itnllin Lloyd liner Florida was to blame for the loss of the Re public and her cargo and for the loss of the baggage of her passengers. "The Itnlian steered wrong." said Captain Sealby, "and struck the Re public amidships. Something went wrong with the Florida's steering wheel. A quartermaster had the wheel when the commander yelled for it to be jammed to starboard. He put it to port instead, and the Florida crashed into us." Another version of the story Is that the man dropped his wheel In a panic when danger Impended. Both versions agree in saying that the commander felled the quartermaster with an Iron spike following what he must have considered the seaman's recreancy. Possibly the verdict of a murine court will be needed to determine the blame. Captain Sealby gave the warmest praise to the conduct of the women passengers. He said they never lost their heads even in the most trying situations and "acted like heroines." "It was a mighty line sensation when I felt a strong hand seize me by the hair when I came up the second time," said Mrs. Alice Morse Earle, the author, who fell .from the dory as she was being transferred from the Florida to the Baltic. "I bad about given up hope, and in the brief time that I fancied was al lowed me before I became unconscious I was trying to resign myself to my fate. I cannot swim, and I knew I could never save myself, but I felt myself rising through those horrible sreen depths, and theu I felt a man's hand seize me by the hair. It pulled my hair terribly I think I lost a lot of it but I prayed that it wouldn't let go, and when it pulled me to the edge of the boat that brown face of the Italian sailor, the first thing I saw, was the most welcome sight in the world. He was a brave and a strong man, and he pulled me Into the dory unaided." Mrs. Herbert I.. Griggs, who had a narrow escape, said that she occupied stateroom 30, next to the two rooms occupied respectively by Mr. Mooney jind Mrs. Lynch, who were killed. "Coming on near daylight," she said, "I had fallen into a nap when there was a terrific crash which sounded like a report of a cannon. All I re member oft was that I was covered with debris. "Everything was In absolute dark ness. I was pinned down by wreckage and could not move. I think I lost consciousness. I remember that 1 knocked repeatedly on a piece of wood that lay over my head. Then I cried out as loudly as I could. "About that time I heard the voice of my bedroom steward, who said: " 'There's a woman In there. I know there's a lady In that berth. Let us get her out.' "They pushed their way in by ham mering down some of the debris, and Roberts, with a cabin boy, brought me out and carried me through the wreck ed Murphy aib'ln, then through an other wrecked cabin and Into an alley way, where I was revived." Mrs. E. McCrcady and her daughter, Miss Grace McCready, were in state room No. 28. one of the five to receive the brunt of the collision. They es caped without a scratch by what Mrs. McCready referred reverently to as an act of divine Providence. "It was only the will of God that saved our lives," she declared, "for we were thrown from our berths and piled with wreckage. A great piece of iron became wedged over us, but did not touch u, and we managed to crawl out unscathed. "We saved only our dressing gowns and fur wraps. All my Jewelry and other clothing Is at the bottom of the sea, but for that I care nothing. That we escaped with ojr lives was a mir acle." narry Savage Landor, the African explorer, a passenger on the Baltic, was emphatic in his praise of the pluck and bravery of the American women aboard tbo Republic. "Never in my life," said the ex plorer, "have I seen such splendid nerve exhibited by human beings as that displayed by the American wom en after the terrible ordeal through which the passengers of the Republic were forced to go. "Transferred from one sinking ship to another and finally to the decks of the Baltic, they showed marvelous fortitude and nerve. It was enough to bring the tears to one's eyes. Imagine those women, In wet night attire, with hair hanging dishevelled and wet from the ocean spray not one complaining or protesting. They had lost their be longings, and their lives had been thrice endangered, but they were ac tually cheery. It was a spirit that cheered us all. "One of the noblest spirits of that noble band of shipwrecked hnmans was the Countess Pasollnl, an Ameri can girl, the wife of an Italian noble man. When she came aboard the sblp, wet and bedraggled, she went at once to the steerage and began to minister to the unfortunate women of the Bteeragc. She forgot her own miseries to lessen those of others. It was a magnificent sight." General Brayton Ives, one of the Republic's passengers, spoke with much bitterness of his treatment on the Republic after the collision. II?! said: "From the time of the collision I saw no oflicer of the ship for hours. There were stewards around, smoking black pipes in the faces of the women passengers, but not one oflicer to di rect them, to encourage the women and children, to give Information or to quell panic. "I own a yacht and know enough about seafaring matters to know pret ty well when such an emergency Is being handled properly. I say that the handling of the Republic after the wreck was conspicuously ineflieient and conspicuous by Its absence. "The first and only time I saw the 1 captain was when he appeared on the bridge and said that It was consider ed necessary to move us to the other ship, the Florida. She was lying n quarter of a mile away. He said that , all the women and children would be i taken first. The women and children were separated from the men, and the loading into the boats was speedily done. But I saw no oflicer supervis ing this work. 'No officers of the Republic aceoui panied us to the Florida. There was no officer of the Republic there to , cart! for us. We were left to the will bo done by i)r. unapman, ana jir. courtesy of the Italian" captain. He ! Alexander will be In charge of the mu did the best he could. We had some sical side of the work, potato soup and umccaronl. The ship , 15 r. Chapman is ihe executive secre was dirty and In disorder. It was as tary of the Presbyterian general as uncomfortable as an Italian emigrant , scmbly'a committee on evangelistic ship could be. We were kept on deck w,'k- Mr- Alexander Is the author of In the rain all the time, with no seats famous gospel hymns. He has pvt,n conducted religious song services in "There was a long, unnecessary de- ,n!,1' American and British cities lu lay in making rcadv for the transfer mnettlon with the Rev. Reuben A. to the Baltic, during which the sea Torrey and others. and wind were constantly rising. I was told they were haggling about the Desperado Was Russian Anarchist, terms of salvage. London, Jan. 20. One of the Russian "My whole criticism of the affair Is desperadoes who was killed In the des summed up lu the neglect of the Re- perate attempt at highway robbery in public's ollicers In not accompanying London has been identified as Jacob their passengers and looking out for Lapidus. an anarchist, brother of the them and the way the captain left Lelser Lapidus who was blown to everybody to shift for himself. What 1 Pieces In the bomb explosion in the else did be have to do, once he saw forest of Vlncennes, near Paris. bow badly his ship was damaged, ex cept to take care of his passengers? He never came near us." 29 DAYS IN MESSINA RUINS. Eighty-year-old Man Rescued From I Debris by Soldiers. Messina, Jan. 20. Gaetano Mllitello, an octogenarian, lias been rescued alive from the earthquake ruins. , Mllitello managed to escape from un der the walls of a house a few days after the earthquake, fleeing in terror to .the outskirts of the town. For a me be sustained life with herbs, but , , ., ,, , . , . , , at length fell exhausted under a pile and Wently divorced I. ... in Chi of wreckage, where he was found by , a l""" " the soldiers. Within the last three days 200 per mits have been issued to individuals to excavate on their own premises. A large number of people are now en gaged In this task, and hundreds of .lead bodies are being removed. TEN MINERS ENTOMBED. Rescue Parties Trying to Reach Men In Mine at Boswell, Pa. Pittsburg, Jan. 20. Ten miners are entombed in the Merchants' Coal com pany mine at Boswell, Pa., where a gas explosion occurred. Three men, badly injured, escaped after the explosion, and Superintend ent Logan was carried out uncon scious. Rescue parties are trying to reach the imprisoned men. Some of the miners had not been permitted to en ter the mine because of anticipated trouble which the superintendent and party were Investigating. Root to Decide Rudowitz Case. Washington, Jan. 20. Secretary Boot announced that tys expected to act on the extradition case of Christian Ru dowitz tomorrow. Rudowitz is want ed by the Russian government on a criminal charge, but his extradition is being vigorously resisted on the ground that bis alleged offense was in furtherance of a political iBOYtmant. CANNOT RAISE REPUBLIC. 8unken Liner Lie at Depth of at Least 200 Fathoms. Boston, Jan. 20. Captain Alfred So renson, one of the best known wreck ers on the coast, was asked what were the chances of raising the Republic. He said: "They will never raise the Republic. She lies at least 200 fathoms deep. Now, a diver cannot work In water over 100 feet, and he cannot perform laborious tasks in water much over sixty feet. "If the Republic lay in ten fathoms it might be possible to pump her out. provided there was a period of good weather lasting for several weeks. Where the ship lies Is open ocean and exposed to the gales from every point of the compass. She is a total loss. They won't even be able to get any cargo out of her." TRYING TO SAVE THE HUB. Famous Evangelists BeBin Great Re- ligious Meetings There Today Boston, Jan. 20. Two of America's most famous religious workers, the Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman and Charles REV. J. W. CHAPMAN. M. Alexander, will begin here today a series of simultaneous evangelistic meetings that are expected to reap a large harvest of souls. The preaching EX-WIFE SUES GUGGENHEIM. ! Declares That Her Divorce From Mine Owner Was Invalid. New York, Jan. 2G. Justice Gerard In the supreme court lias appointed a referee to hear testimony on the appli : cation of Grace B. Guggenhein.-Wnhl for alimony and counsel fees pending , her action for absolute divorce from ! William Guggenheim, the multimillion aire financier and mine owner. It is alleged that in November, 1000, the plaintiff, then Mrs. Herbert, mar ried William Guggenheim lu Hobokeu she married Jules Roger Wahl in New York city. Wahl's father, 11 Is said, se cured an annulment of this marriage in France on the ground that his son had not obtained his consent to get married. Guggenheim, believing his wife's divorce In Chicago to be legal, married Miss Almce Lillian Steinber ger in New York on Oct. 10, 1004. Mrs. Guggenhetai-Wnhl now declares that the divorce she obtained was not valid. BOGUS PASTOR A FUGITIVE. Took a Minister's Name and Preached For Four Months. St. Louis, Jan. 20. That a young man who for four months preached from the pulpit of the Congregational church in this city was an impostor, using the name of a Chicago clergy man, is the allegation made in a let ter received from the Moody Bible In stitute, Chicago, by the Rev. Herman Swartz, pastor of the Webster Grove Congregational church. The "clergyman" called himself "Rev. Ivan M. Gray," and Just before leaving Greenwood he paid accounts with bank checks, receiving several hundred dollars In change. The checks were returned as worthless. As the man had said that bo was a graduate of tho Moody Bible Institute Inquiry was made there. The answer states that Mr. Gray Is pastor of a Chicago church and baa ntrer been In St. Louis. -I JEFF DAVIS FLATS WALL ST. Senator Attacks Alleged "Evils of the Money Power." Washington, Jan. 20. The alleged evils attending gambling in the prod ucts of the soil by the sale of futures on the exchanges was the subject of a passionate speech delivered by Sen ator Jeff Davis in the senate. Mr. Da vis denounced what he declared to be evils of the "money power" and refer red to the acts of Caesar in securing laws to suppress usury and in obtain ing legislation for the benefit of the poor of Rome, followed by his tragic death when, "surrounded by the treachery of the money power, twenty three knife wouuds pierced hl body, illustrating the terrible fate that lies lu the path of any man who seeks to shake loose from the throat of any government these parasites of wealth that attempt to control the destinies of the government." He further said: "The money power of this govern ment is treading upon dangerous ground. They do not know or else they do not care that the people are already ground down with taxation and the weight of government until their backs are almost broken beneath its load. I would not be an alarmist, but I predict here and now that unless congress turns a listening ear to the lamentations of an outraged public within ten years the red broom of war may sweep this government as it has never been swept before, and when that day shall break in all its fury woe to the crowd working in the field of legislation that have laid these grievous burdens upon the backs of the crowd working in the field of hu man endeavor." BIG ATHLETIC CARNIVAL. Yale University Team Wins College Relay Two Mile Race. New York, Jan. 20 At the big In door athletic carnival of the Pastime Athletic club at Madison Square Gar den the following were tin principal events: SSO yards, handicap. Eugene Glllmore. Dominican Lyceum (50 yards), won; V. Jnrboc, Acorn Athletic association, Brook lyn (50 yards), second; II. Lee, Boston Athletic association (23 yards), third; time, 1 minute 53 4-5 seconds. GO yard run. handicap, G. W. Foster, Irish-American Athletic club (IS yards), won; It. T. Edwards. New York Athletic club (11 yards), second; B. E. Trerlse, West Side Y. M. C. A. (16 yards), third; time, 0 3-5 seconds. College relay, two miles, scratch, Yale university team, Balrd, Mann, Klrjasolt and Spltzer, won; Columbia university team. Buckfsch, Kennedy, ztnk and Ban ders. second; University of Pennsylvania team. Conn, Levering, Wilson and BecK, third; time, 8 minutes 9 2-5 seconds. Putting twelve pound shot, handicap. C. Pelllnger, Pastime Athletic club (7 feet), 45 feet 11 Inches, won; J. M. Ilosen berger, Irish-American Athletic club (10 feet). 41 feet 714 Inches, second; A. Drum mond. Pastime Athletic club (9 feet), 42 feet 7 Inches, third. I 440 yard run, novice, won by Hamilton Reeve. Inglewood High school; C. B. Cop plnger, Pastime Athletic club, second; Walter Hurst, unattached, third; time, 57 3-5 seconds. One mile run, handicap, won by W. S. Nobis, Mohawk Athletic club, New York (C3 yards); H. Jj. Trube, New York Atn letic club (scratch), second: I. B. McDow ell. Pastime Athletic club (75 yards), third; time, 4 minutes 2j 1-5 seconds. CATTLEMEN IN CONVENTION, Meet in Los Angeles Today to Discuss tho Grazing Industry. Los Angeles, Cai., Jan. 20. Ques tions of great importance to cattlemen throughout the country, especially in the west, will be discussed at the i twelfth annual convention of tho ' American National Live Stock associa tion, begin.. lug here today and lasting I three days. Hundreds of delegates, among whom are owners of some of the biggest of western ranches, throng the streets of the city. Among the important questions which will come before the convention will be the proposed revision of the tariff In Its relation to meat, hides, wool and other products of the live stock industry. It is expected that the association will adopt resolutions favoring the en actment of laws for adequate railroad service, the furnishing of plenty of freight cars and other problems of transportation. EGGS FOR CARRIE NATION. London Audience Pelts and Hisses Her at Lecture. London, Jan. 20. Mrs. Carrie Nation, who is attempting to deliver a series of lectures here, met with a very hos tile reception nt the Canterbury Music ball. She was pelted with egga, one of tbem striking her In the face. From the very beginning the au dience malntalnci a chorus of "boos" and hisses. Her manager vainly ap pealed for fair play, and Mrs. Nation was obliged to quit the bouse under police protection. Mrs. Nation has made tbo discovery that London Is the wickedest city In Great Britain that she has yet visited. She Is afraid she will have to bring her hatchet Into lay for the purpose of cleansing the Augean stable. She says; "Before the vices of London I stand appalled. Strong and Immediate action U necessary." When the Fog was Really Thick. Weather Bound Traveler Hears About Mart Kimble and the Spook Bear on the Log. by ed. MOTT. 'I was on a little jaunt through the hilly corner of northeast Pennsylvania," said John Gilbert, the traveling grocery man, "and was held captive one day at a little wayback tavern by a dense fog I that had settled down in that vicinity and made traveling the roads impossible for the time. "This is the thickest fog we've had,' said the landlord, 'since the one that was hovering the time Matt Mogridge started in to shingle his barn and the fog shut things in so solid that he had shingled one side of the roof and ten foot out on to the fog before he seen what he was doing.' "I had been using quite some lan guage against the weather conditions that had boused me up in that out of the way bailiwick, but now I began to be sorry I had done it. " 'But this fog is considerable heftier,' continued the landlord, 'than the one that set Mart Kimble, down Dyberry way, to thinking one time that a spook bear was playing it on to him, way low down and aggravating.' "The fog bank was looking to me now like a bright stretch of sunlight on the hill and in the hollows. " 'The fog dropped down that time,' said the landlord, 'and caught Mart on the ridge while he was out looking for deer. It came down so fast that in less than ten seconds or so Mart couldn't see more than twenty feet ahead of him, and he sat down to wait until it took a notion to lift. " 'Suddenly out of the fog what should loom up, dim and hazy, but not to be mistaken, but the form of a big bear. The bear had bis fore feet planted on a log that lay on the edge of that twenty foot line of vision and was peering through the thick mist. Mart looked twice to make sure his eyes wasn't de ceiving him and, seeing that they wasn't, he paused long enough to say : " ' Tain't exactly fair to take advan tage of that bear, sort o' blinded by the fog as be is, but be ought to stay to home till things get clear. So I'll have to get him." '"Then Mart socked a rifle bullet in the bear. The smoke from his gun deepened the fog so that for a spell the place where the bear had loomed up was shut out of sight, and when it clear ed away Mart was near knocked out with surprise to see the bear still peer ing out into the fog. Mart came to him self pretty quick, though, and sent an other couple ounces o'leadinto Bruin. '"Now Mart hadn't never been in the habit o' shooting more than once at a bear or anything else to bring it down, so when the stirred up fog and the smoke from his gun cleared up again and he seen the bear looming there on that log just the same as before and as if nothing had happened in then, woods to make it any different, Mart certainly was flabbergasted, and he could feel his hair beginning to stand up toward the crown of his hat, for he couldn't think anything else but what he had been wasting powder and lead on a spook bear. But skeery .as lie was the idee made him mad. "Cncli o'. I,,!,,,- c.-c Iw. I'll rlclr another whang at it, anyhow,' says he, "and if that don't tumble it, I ecoot out o' these woods as if the old boy himself was kicking me on end.' " 'So he pocked the third charge of powder and lead into that startly bear, and when things cleared up and the I critter wasn't on the log this time Mart felt good and concluded that the bear j wasn't a spook, but only tough. But I u'.wtcu In. u-na nltmit iln timet ncfiilimlwl man that ever shot a bear when he walk ed tip to that log and looking over it seen three big bears laying there dead instead of jest one. '"Yes sir. Them three bears, as Mart figured it out, had been coming through the woods in Injun file and as the first bear that stepped on the log fell dead, the one behind stepped into his place on the log, and when this one went down the third bear stepped up. Hut if there had been another bear to get up on that log after he had fired the third time, Mart would have scooted for home on the jump and would have be lieved to his dying day that he'd been shooting at a spook bear.' "I regretted to notice that the fog outside was lifting, for it was evident 1 that I would be able to go on my way before long and the 'way back tavern was getting interesting as the landlord thought of more and proceeded to tell it. " 'Hut that fog o Mart Kimble's, said he, was a good deal thinner than the fogs that drop down onto us in these parts. Now s'pose that one had been as hefty as the fog Fin Teeple run up against up Star Lake way once. " 'Fin Teeple knowed the ways of wild critters in the woods so complete and could handle his gun so unfailing that he didn't have to see his game at all to whang it over. All he wanted was to hear it holler or rustle or thump in the brush, no matter how thick the brush was and bang 1 his old gun would go belching bullets or buckshot in the di rection of the hollering or the rustling and thumping in the bushes. Then the hollering and the rustling and the thump ing would quit mighty sudden and Fin would walk in and get his game. '"One day he was out when a fog dumped itself over everything the thick est be or any one else had ever knowed it to dump itself, and as Fin stood and cussed that fog for holding him up that way he heard a panther yell off to one side of him. ' 'Well, ' says Fin, 'I'll get that pan ther anyway and that'll be a little con solation.' " 'So when the panther yelled again Fin whanged way towardthe spot where the yell come from, but he could scarce ly believe his ears when he beard the panther tearing away unhit througli the woods, for nothing like that had ever happened to Fin before. ' 'I'm gettin' old, ' says he. '1 can't shoot no more. And I'll jest about die with shame when I go home and have to tell about it. It was loaded with 19 buckshot, too," says he. " 'But Fin didn't go home and have to tell about it. All he had to tell was as he sat there moaning over how he couldn't shoot any more, the fog began to clear, anil as it got thinner and thin ner he heard a sudden rattling made by something coming tumbling down like bail on the dead leaves. He went and looked to see what it was, and picked up them 11) buckshot he had fired at the panther's yell. " 'The fog had been too solid for 'em" paid Fin, "and they lodged in it 'afore they could go 20 feet. It let 'em go ag'in when it thinned out, of course," said he, "but all they could do then was to rattle down to the ground.' " 'So Mart Kimble was in great luck not to have such a fog as that one Fin Teeple struck,' said the landlord, 'for then he wonjdn't have got anv bear at all.' "I said that was so, and 1 W'shed that the fog outside had come down as hefty as Fin Teeple's for the day was young yet and the landlord's memory evidently just getting in good working order." . But the fog had cleared up. so that I had no excuse for tarrying longer. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Among good plays, "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch", which comes to the Lyric for matinee ard night Tuesday Jan. 20, seems to have the most super abundant vitality. From the first, dram atization of Mrs. Rice's two popular stories, "Mrs . Wiggs' ' and " Lo vey Mary" met with a degree of popular favor more enthusiastic, if anything, than that awarded those "bestselling" novels of low life in mean streets. In Mrs. Wiggs herself, Mrs. Hazy, Lovey Mary, and Mr. Stubbins, the play presents four types, each one of which remains firmly fixed in the most pleasant recollec tions of the playgoer. The character of Mrs. Wiggs, the optin.isti'nd philosopher of the Cabbage Patch, takes rank with many of the prominent comedy crea tions heretofore presented upon the American stage. A very close second for popularity is the character of Miss Hazy, the forlorn and lugubrious spin ster, in which the dramatist has evolved something new and likeable in the psy chology of the unmarried. Mies Hazy marries Mr. Stubbins: "the prominent citizen of Bagdad Junction" has been provided by a matrimonial agency, and in the various scenes between Miss Hazy and her inatrimjnial bargain, the humor is irresistible. Lovey Mary, in her tran sition from the pages of the. book to the stage has been made a very lovable char acter who at once wins the sympathy of the audience. The juvenile element in the stories of "Mrs. Wiggs' and"Lovey Mary" is decidedly happy in its humor ous appeal, and plays an equally de lightful part in the play. Asia, Euro pena and Australia and Billy Wiggs; Chris Hazy with his wooden leg; Pete and the other sons and daughters of the Patch make the scenes bright and merry witli the play and sunshine of childhood. And "Cuby" the "fit-horse" whose "lights wasriz" is not forgotten in this background of juvenile jollity and pic nicking. "A bummer Paradise." All hotel and boarding-house proprie tors on the line of the Delaware & Hud son Railroad desiring representation in the new edition of the Hotel Directory, should send full information at once to the General Passenger Agent, Albany, N. V. 6eoi3 DIl.C. It. BRADY, Dentist Honesdale. Pa. OrncE Hodrs-8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Any evening by appointment. Cltlsens'pbono, 33. Residence, No. Hi X.