THK CTTEBKN, FXUDAT, DBOHMBER 18, 1(W.'
INSURANCE CLASH
President Sheldon of the
Phenix Is Forced Out.
ACTION BY STATE 0FFIGIAL
Charges That Company Has Hade
False Eeports and Lost $1,000,000
Through Mismanagement, Spec
ulation and Bad Loans.
New York, Dec. 7. The directors ,of
the Phenix Insurance company, a $1,
600,000 Ore Insurance concern, have
femoved from office at the Instance of
the Insurance department George P.
Sheldon, who has been president of
the company for twenty-two years.
The department believes that the
company has lost $1,000,000 of Its $13,
000,000 surplus under Mr. Sheldon's
mismanagement and accuses him of
speculating with the funds of the com
pany, maintaining a speculative mar
gin account on its name, putting up its
assets as collateral, drawing on the ac
count in the brokerage office and con
verting the proceeds of the draft to his
own use.
The company Is accused of making
false reports to the department for the
last ten years and of lending its mon
ey in violation of law to President
Sheldon and Secretary Charles F. Kos
ter. Superintendent W. H. Hotchklss
of the Insurance department has called
District Attorney Jerome's attention
to the case.
The directors have chosen as presi
dent in place of Mr. Sheldon, E. W. T.
Gray, who has been auditor of the
Continental Insurance company, and
elected Henry Evans, president of the
Continental, a director of the Phenix
and chairman of the executive com
mittee of the board.
The directors who permitted Mr.
Sheldon to run the company are held
by the department to be equally re
sponsible to the public. The- present
directors are George Ingraham, vice
president; Charles P. Koster, secre
tary, who is accused of borrowing
money from the company; John Curt
ledge, E. C. Converse, 1$. J. Greenhut,
George H. Hard, Frank J. Logan and
William J. Logan.
It also appears that the company
used to lend money to insurance olli
clals. Superintendent James F. Pierce
borrowed $39,500, some of which was
not repaid until after Ills death; Chief
Examiner Isaac Vauderpoel borrowed
$100,000, Deputy Superintendent Kob
ert II. Hunter $00,000 and Third Dep
uty Superintendent William II. Huck
ley $01,000. The loan to Hunter still
shows $18,000 loss, Mr. Hotchklss Te
rnaries that for twenty-two years and
in all the time these men were in of
fice the company was not examined by
the department.
Mr. Hotchklss gave out a statement
saying that the examination of the
company by his department "Inn
shown the existence of such condi
tions as seem to require action by the
criminal authorities."
"If the law of this state," he adds,
"provides no punishment for transac
tions of this character between an In
surance company and the members of
its supervising insurance department
that law should be promptly amended.
If it does provide for punishment and
the same now be impossible owing to
death In one case and the running of
the statue of limitations in the others
the people of the state will, I am sure,
pass such a verdict upon- such trans
actions ns to make them unlikely or
impossible in the future."
Mr. Sheldon is reported to be at the
loInt of death at The Maples, Green
wich, Conn., where he and bis family
have been passing the summer. He
has been 111 for a month, with three
nurses attending him, and has been
delirious for a week. His illness be
gan with ptomaine poisoning from eat
ing scallops, and dropsy developed.
Mr. Sheldon is sixty-two years old
and a Yale graduate of the class of "07.
His family, consisting of his wife, two
daughters and a son, all live in Green
wich. The son, who bears the fa
ther's name, was middle states tennis
champion in 1807, and in 1007 he mar
ried Mary Rowland, sister of Henry
Rowland, the novelist, and also of
Mrs. George Lauder, Jr., who Is a
niece by marriage of Andrew Carne
gie. PLYING MACHINE IN A TREE
Boland Starts as an Aviator by Land
ing In the Branches.
Iselin, N. J Dec. 7. Frank E. Bo
land made three short flights here in
Dr. William Greene's aeroplane. In
making the third flight Mr. Boland
flow into the lower branches of a tree
The pliable limbs acted as a cush
ion, and by shutting off the engine the
machine landed with slight damage.
Several ribs and braces were broken.
It took about twenty men to drag It
from the underbrush.
The machine, which was donated to
Wilbur It. Kimball by Dr. Greene In
the Interest of experimental work, will
be kept here during the winter. Mr.
Boland also has a monoplane which
he expects to try out this week.
Not to Be Censured.
Oh. do not chide the foolish man!
It is his lack of art
Which lets you prosper If you can
Br showta that you're smart.
Waahtaston Star.
AXED DENOUNCES WATSOW.
Calls Post's Attack on Asqulths That
of "a Malignant Cad."
New York, Dec. 7. Poet William
Watson's attack upon Tremler Herbert
Asqulth and the lattcr's wife and
daughter has called down upon him
scathing criticism here, and the Itev.
Dr. Charles F. Aked of the Fifth Ave
nue Baptist church denounces blm as
a malignant cad."
"I shall have a very poor opinion of
those Americans who suffer Watson
to darken their doors," continued the
clergyman, who has for years been a
'great admirer of Watson's poetry. "I
regret that the poet has turned from
his hitherto noble attitude of mind to
voice such sentiments as those ex
pressed in the poem 'The Woman With
the Serpent's Tongue.
"From every point of view I deplore
Mr. Watson's attack on Herbert As
qulth and on the tatter's wife and
laughter. I know a great deal of
them, and I hnve never heard n whis
per that they were not loyal to their
principles and their country. The man
ner of Watson's attack on them and
the spirit in which it was made were
entirely unjustifiable and inexcusable.
"In great national controversies in
England I have often been on the
same side as Watson, but now only n
belief that he Is Insane can restrain
expressions of boundless contempt for
him.
"Mrs. Asqulth has done nothing
which a refined and gracious woman
of the world might not do. There Is
no reason for the attack on her and
Just as little reason for the attack on
Miss Asqulth.
"I would rather think of Watson as
dead, with glorious achievements to
his record and his honor unstained,
than to know him as he appears to
day." CALHOUN MINISTER TO CHINA
Chicago Lawyer Accepts Post Twice
Tendered by President Taft.
Chicago, Dec 7. Wiiliam J. Cal
houn, lawyer and publicist, admitted
today that he had accepted the ap
pointment as minister to China twice
tendered to him by President Taft.
Born in Pittsburg in 1848, Mr. Cal
houn has long been a commanding
figure in 'Illinois and the nation. In
1890 he took up the cause of the late
WILLIAM J. CALHOUN.
President McKlnley and did much to
swing the Illinois delegation to the Mc
Klnley column in the national conven
tion. In 1900 Mr. Calhoun could have
received the Republican nomination for
governor if he would have permitted
his friends to enter him in the race.
In 1898 Mr. Calhoun was named a
member of the Interstate commerce
commission, serving until 1900. In
1905 he was selected ns a special com
missioner to Venezuela when an Inter
national crisis was Impending. His re
port, made then, has formed the basis
for American action ever since in
maintaining the principles of the Mon
roe doctrine.
CUMMINS AND TAFT DISAGREE
Iowa Senator Opposed to President's
Plan For Interstate Commerce Court.
Washington, Dec. 7. Senator Cum
mins of Iowa, who was invited by the
president to join in the Informal con
ferences at the White House to con
sider amendments to the interstate
commerce act, has expressed his dis
sent from the program of the presi
dent Senator Cummins is opposed to the
president's plan for an interstate com
merce court. He believes that the
present commission should be strength
ened In the matter of powers and will
introduce a bill conferring on the com
mission power to make and publish
freight rates which shall be binding
on all Interstate carriers.
GRANT G0MPERS PETITION.
U. 8. Suprme Court Will Review Evi
dence In Contempt Case.
Washington, Dec. 7. The supreme
court of the United States has granted
the petition for a writ of certiorari in
thtj contempt cases of Samuel Gom
pers, Frank Morrison and John Mitch
ell, officers of the American Federa
tion of Labor.
The effect will be to bring the entire
record In the Buck's Stove and Range
case against these men to the highest
court for review.
All three of the defendants were
present when Chief Justice Fuller in
dicated the willingness of the court to
review their case.
. JaaHBassB
AST0RSECRET0U1
Corespondent In Divorce
Gase Was Roberta Hill.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor Retained
Private Detectives to Get Evi
dence of Her Husband's
Infidelity.
New York, Dec. 7. Despite the seal
ing of the supremo court records In
the divorce suit of Mrs. Alva Willing
Astor against her husband, John Ja
cob Astor, the secret as to the name
of the corespondent Is revealed.
This testimony has been very care
fully guarded ever since Mrs. Astor
filed her suit before Justice Mills In
the supremo court at White Plains.
Mrs. Astor gave her testimony behind
closed doors before Referee Charles
H. Young, and a decree was granted
Mrs. Astor by Justice Mills on Nov. 8
last it took Just three minutes for
the justice to grant the divorce.
Mrs. Roberta Menges Corwln Hill,
once known as "the belle of Sharps
head Bay" and who has had a varied
matrimonial career since that time, Is
the woman named by Mrs. Astor.
In September, 1904, Mrs. Astor was
informed that her husband was pay
ing considerable attention to Mrs. HU1.
Her informant told her that Colonel
Astor had had Mrs. Hill as hto guest
on a trip up the Nile.
Mrs. Astor went to the Scottish
shooting lodge of Attorney John L.
uadwaiader ana consulted mm mere.
Soon after this conference Mr. Cad
walader came to New York and en
gaged a detective agency to watch
Colonel Astor, who bad returned to
the city from Egypt Mrs. Hill was
also here.
Colonel Astor admired Mrs. Hill very
much. Her social position was not
equal to his, and he was unable to
meet her at public functions. Never
theless they did meet frequently. The
detectives from the agency found out
where these meetings were held.
Here are the facts as testified to by
the detectives: .
They learned that a woman had se
cured a suit of rooms at a well known
New York hotel so that Colonel Astor
and Mrs. Hill could meet there and
that the pair did meet In this suit al
most dally.
With this Information in its posses
sion the detective agency stationed
two women detectives in the suit next
to that where Colonel Astor and Mrs.
Hill met. Que o these detectives was
Emma Holcombe, and the other was
her sister.
The two women watched the suit for
several days. They also learned that
Colonel Astor visited Mrs. Hill at her
apartments in Central Park West.
Colonel Astor was informed that he
was to be made the defendant in a
suit for absolute divorce to be brought
by his wife. He took the proceedings
as a matter of course. His lawyer met
Mrs. Astor's attorney, Sirs. Astor be
ing at that time in Europe. The com
plete details for a separation were
ngreed upon.
Mrs. Astor was to receive $10,000,
000 and the custody of their seven-year-old
daughter, Muriel, while Colo
nel Astor was to educate their son,
Vincent, seventeen years old. He was
to retain Rhlneciiffe.
All of these details were decided
upon before the suit was begun. Colo
nel Astor attended the conferences be
tween the lawyers, but his wife re
mained away, having left everything
to Mr. Cadwalader.
SUE PRINCE FOR $1,000,000.
Money Lenders Demand One-fifth of
Miss Stewart's Dowry.
Budapest, Dec. 7. Prince Miguel of
Braganza, who married Miss Anita
Stewart of New York only a few
weeks ago, has been sued for $1,000,
000 by a syndicate of money lenders.
The suit is based on a contract en
tered Into before Prince Miguel be
came engaged to the beautiful Ameri
can girl who Is now his wife. The
money lenders advanced the prince a
large sum of money when he saw a
fair prospect of winning the hand of
Miss Stewart and the wealth which
she inherited from her stepfather,
James Henry Smith. It is aver ml
that Prince Miguel agreed to give the
money lenders one-fifth of the dowry.
The dowry which Miss Stewart be
stowed upon her husband just before
their splendid wedding in Tulloch cas
tle, Scotland, on Sept 15 last was
$5,000,000.
Prince Miguel declines to pay the
fifth part of this $l,000,000-to the
money lenders. He etands ready to
return the sura he received, with In
terest, but no more.
AVIATOR KTTXED BY FALL.
Fernandez, at Antibes, Makes Mistake
In Steering and Is Crushed.
Nice, Dec. 7. M. Fernandez, the
aviator who took part recently In sev
eral English meetings, was killed at
the De la Brague aerodrome, near An
tibes. He was flying at an altitude of
about thirty feet when, owing to a
mistake in steering his machine, it fell
to the ground, and he was crushed to
death.
The apparatus in which Fernandez
was flying was of his own construc
tion. It was a biplane built on the
lines of the Wright machine, but Fer
nandez used wheels for starting
These were drawn up automatically
after the aeroplane left the earth anc
allowed of a descent being made or
tanners as with, the Wrleht machine
I UK
Not Utterly Cast Down by
Highest Court Decision.
WILL MOVE FOR NEW TRIAL
Mrs. Morse Says She Expects Hus
band Will Be Home For Christ
mas Day In Spite of De
nial of Writ.
New York, Dec. 7. The United
Btates supreme court at Washington
has declined to review the Judgment
of the federal court here sentencing
Charles W. Morse to fifteen years' im
prisonment for misapplying the funds
of the National Bank of North Ameri
ca and of making false reports of the
bank's condition.
Unless the United States circuit
court in New York grants the motion
of Martin W. Littleton asking for a
new trial for Morse he must go to the
federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., within
ten days to serve the fifteen years'
sentence Imposed by Judge Hough.
The notice of motion for a new
trial Is returnable on Friday. The
ground on which It will be made la
the charge preferred by Mr. Littleton
that the jurors In the trial court were
not guarded properly and that some of
them Indulged too freely in Intoxicat
ing liquors.
The government's contention in oppo
sltion to the new trial will be that the
circuit court has no Jurisdiction In the
matter, now that the supreme court nt
Washington has refused to review the
case.
It Is said authoritatively that In case
the circuit court denies the motion for
a new trial and an appeal from the re
fusal Is taken to the circuit court of
appeals the government will at once
ask the higher tribunal to vacate alto
gether the stay which has been grant
ed and urge the Immediate removal of
Morse to Atlanta.
Morse was convicted of misapplying
the funds of the National Bank of
North America, of which he was for
merly vice president on Nov. 6, 1903,
after a trial lasting three weeks. He
was locked up lu the Tombs until last
June, when Mrs. Morse succeeded In
getting ball for him to the nmount of
$125,000, furnished by twenty of the
banker's friends and business associ
ates. The United States circuit court
of appeals affirmed the lower court's
verdict of conviction on Oct. 11 of this
year, and application was at onco mndc
to the supreme court at Washington
for a writ of certiorari, which is now
refused. The motion for a retrial Is
the only resource left to the convicted
man.
Morse refused to see reporters in the
Tombs today, but sent out word that
be still has hope. Mrs. Morse spent
part of the day at the prison and did
not seem to be worried by the adverse
decision.
"I hope to have my husband home
for Christmas day." she said.
SEEKING SOU'S RICHES
Capt Parker and Mr. Duff Spending
$4,000 a Week Excavating In Jeru
salem for Crown of David.
Jerusalem. In an effort to find
King Solomon's treasure and the
Crown of David, a syndicate of Eng
lishmen, led by -the Earl of Morley's
heir presumptive and a near relative
of the Duke of Fife, are excavating at
the Pool of Slloam on the eastern
slopo of Zlon near the spot where
the "stairs of the City of David" wind
up over the conduit that brought wa
ter to tho Temple.
Two members of the Turkish par
liament are continually present this
being one of the conditions laid down
by the authorities before permission
to begin the excavation was given,
and great interest is manifested In
the work.
Large sums of money have been
spent In obtaining the permit, In pur
chasing land and In carrying on the
work. At present more than sixty
men are engaged at a weekly expense
of more than $4,000.
Captain the Hon. Montagu B. Park
er of the Grenadier Guards, brother
of Lord Morley, and Mr. Duff, who are
the leading spirits of the enterprise,
say that their syndicate Is working on
its own account and Is not in any way
connected with either the Palestine
Exploration Fund or the various Ger
man and American archaeological ex
peditions at work In the Holy Land.
Most authorities believe that when
the Temple was destroyed King Solo
mon's treasure waa looted and carried
away, but this only adds mystery to
the present strange quest as neither
influence nor money Is lacking to the
enterprise, about which the greatest
secrecy waa observed until the work
was ready to begin.
Origin of "Bumper" Glass.
Whnn a el&ss Is as full as It DOesl-
bly can be of liquor the surface of
the liquor Is slightly convex ana tne
center lies higher than the brim. In
view of this fact, such a glassful it
called a bumper, because the liquor
bumps up, or protrudes in the middle.
In Five Acres of Land.
Five acres of land would contain
2,117,800 square feet One side of a
square containing five acres would be
466.74 feet long, or a tract 400 foet
by 544 1-2 feet would contain five
acres.
SATURDAY
NIGHT TALKS
By REV. F. E. DAVISON
Rutland, VL
PAUL'S LAST WORDS.
International Bible Lesson for
Dec 13 '09. 3 Tim. 4: 1-18.
The death of
the Apostle Paul
was like that of
his Lord and
Master a trag
edy; apparently a
catastrophe, an
unexplaln able
disaster. That
the plonoer of
Christendom, the
pathfinder of the
truo religion, tho
founder of more
churches than all
the anostolie col
lege combined, the leader to whom
converted Jew and Gentile looked for
counsel and direction, the man who
had come to the position where he
was considered indispensable, that
he, of all others, should be compelled
to lay his head upon the block and
give up his life with his work all un
finished was a calamity that shook the
infant church to its foundations.
No Complaints.
But the seasoned old warrior Panl,
did not look at it In that light When
he enlisted In the service of tho
Prince of Peace, he calmly counted
the cost He enrolled himself in the
army of the Lord with his eyes wide
open. He knew perfectly well what
he was doing and what It meant He
expected to Buffer affliction and en
dure hardness as a good soldier of
Jesus Christ He fully realized what
he was going up against for he had
come from the ranks of the enemy
himself, and he had the blood of bi
gotry In his own veins. He never an
ticipated ease and a comfortable posi
tion; the moment he laid down the
weapons of, his rebellion and was ac
cepted as a raw recruit for the side
he had persecuted he knew that the
battle was on. And he knew also that
that was an Irrepressible conflict, a
life-long warfare, and could only end
In one way. Hence, he never mur
mured at the long marches, the weary
sieges, the hand to hand conflicts, the
bonds and imprisonments, the sacrl
flees, the garments rolled In blood.
Knighted on the Field.
And aftervall, what more appropri
ate thing than for a soldier to die
upon the field of honor. Paul fell, as a
brave soldier should, in the thick of
tho fight with his face to the foe.
And he was content. When Christ
upon the cross knew that His hour
had come. He bowed His head and
said, "It Is finished!" And when, tho
greatest of His apostles, years after
wards, in far off Rome, under tho very
shawod of caesar's palace waB lead
out to execution, he, too, knew that
he had accomplished his mission, and
uttered his dying testimony, "I have
fought a good fight, I have finished
my course, I have kept the faith."
There was not a tremor In his voice,
there was not a pang In his heart
there was not a fear in his soul. He
knew that he was only about to be
knighted upon the field of battle.
Fearless Soldier.
Yes, Paul had been a fighter. He
had not been much of a dress-parade
soldier, but as Phil Sheridan said, he
had found "lovely fighting all along
the line." His conversion at Damas
cus was a bombshell dropped right In
the heart of the camp, his several ap
pearances In Jerusalem always turned
the city upside down. He had been
compelled to lick his own soldiers Into
shape at the first council ot the church,
again and again he had cut loose from
his base of supplies and like Sher
man hewed a path for himself clear
through to the sea, foraging on the
enemy on the way. Men misunder
stood him, criticised him, always got
him into trouble when they attempted
to improve on his plans, but they
were compelled to admit that he was
a peerless soldier. He knew not what
fear was. He faced kings as calmly as
he did howling mobs. And he was
never defeated. When he entered a
city, no matter what the opposition,
he ' held his ground long enough to
overthrow the powers of darkness.
As he moved on his conquering way
he established forts ot righteousness
all over Asia and Europe from Antl
och to Rome. What are Antloch and
Laodlcea, and Philadelphia, and Sar
dls, and Thyatira, and Pergamos, and
Smyrna, and Ephesus the seven
churches of Asia spoken of In Revela
tiontogether with Corinth and Thes
salonlca and Phlllppl, and Colosse, and
Rome, but a matchless line of forts,
garrisoned, armed and provisioned, to
hold the ground where many of nil
greatest campaigns were waged and
mightiest victories won.
Conquerer Always.
Oh, Paul's life was not a failure. He
was Immortal till his work was done.
He was a greater soldier than Alexan
der or Caesar, for while they are dead
and turned to dust and the mighty
empires they established have fallen
and crumbled into dust, until not a
trace remains, the kingdom Paul wai
Instrumental In Introducing has over
turned all others and Is more wide
spread and powerful this minute than
it was when Paul cried out "I have
fought a good fight I have finished my
course," and went In to the presenca
ot bis Lord to lay a conquered world
at his feet
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