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37th YEAR.
HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1910.
NO 64
GET GIPSY TIF
T A TAG DAY GAYNOR NOW CLOSE TO A WRECK1 MECHANICS' CAMP
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WAYNE COUNTY OFFICER AND
LANDLORD CHASE ROVING
BAND TO CAMP TWO MILES
FHOM CARBONDALE AX1) HE-
OOVEK $U7 IX REAL MOXKY,
along with Tin: costs.
The band of gypsies that Invaded
Wayne county Monday, driving four
wagons up from Hawley to Hones'
dale and then up the valley to Car-
bondnle, got Into trouble before
they made their exit from Wayne.
They were rounded up in their
camp between Pond No. 4 and
Wight's station Wednesday morn
ing at 4.30 by County Detective
Nick Spencer, who had Justice
Ham's warrant to take the crowd
for stealing ?27 from David Potter
of the Halfway house.
The strollers called on Mr. Potter
Monday, along toward dusk. They
had driven from Hawley that day
and had been delayed in the woods
between White Mills and Indian Or
chard because one of the wagons
lost a couple of nuts somewhere on
the road and the whole outfit
started in search of the nuts, which
it took three-quarters of an hour
to find. They didn't stop at the
Indian Orchard house, but at the
Halfway they pulled up and one
of the women trotted into the bar
room. As usual, she wanted to tell
fortunes. Mr. Potter, who was be
hind the bar counting a roll of bills,
said there wasn't anything doing in
the fortune telling business at his
place that day and the woman went
out.
Just at that moment, Mr. Pot
ter says, he was called into the
room that opens off his bar and the
money, which lay on top of a book,
ho left right where It was. He
wasn't gone more than a minute,
but when he got back the bills
had left the bar.
He suspected the gypsy woman at
once and he drove to Honesdale and
got out a warrant, which Detective
Spencer took. Mr. Potter went
along and after driving all night
Spencer and Potter overhauled the
lour wagonloads of gypsies, camp
ed near a farmhouse Just beyond
the pond. The whole crew turned
out, jabbering Incoherently. Eight
horses woke up snorting and paw
ing. Seven dogs began barking.
Five or six babies commenced to
cry.
The head of the gypsy band pro
tested that he couldn't talk Eng-j
lish. He mumbled something about j
being a Brazilian and wanted to
know if either of his visitors could
talk Spanish. They admitted they
couldn't. Then a woman asked If '
there was anybody around that was
well up in German. Nick and Dave
owned up their scholarship didn't
go that far.
"All I know In those languages,"
Bald Dave, "is, 'What will you
have?' "
Finally a man was found who
could be Induced to talk United
States.
"Line up your crowd," said De
tective Spencer, "and let's see your
women."
At the first lineup the "woman
they wanted wasn't on the job and
Potter was about to give up the
Identification when a comely girl
with glistening white teeth and two
long braids down her back sneaked
up Into the light of the campflre.
"That's her!" he said, and then
Detective Spencer told the leader
of the band that he had a warrant
to take men, women, children,
horses, dogs, the whole shooting
match back to Honesdale and put
everything except the horses and
dogs in jail.
"Me settle ?10," said the chief.
Ho was told that wouldn't answer.
After a little further parley, he
allowed he could raise more than
$10 in the wagons, and then lie
paid Mr. Potter the J27 swiped off
the bar at the Halfway house, as
well as the officers' fees and the
price of the rig that had chased thei
gypsy outfit from Honesdale.
"Me don't want no trouble," ho
explained."
Detective Spencer ana Mr. Potter
got to Honesdale at 10 o'clock Wed
nesday morning. The latter was
glad to get his money back. He
was hot so anxious to punish the
thief as to get his $27. (.
notice. ;
On and after Aug. ID, 1910, the
Auto Transportation dompanys car
will run on the following schedule:
First trip, leave Hawley for Hones
dale at 10 a. m.; leave Honesdale
for Seelyvllle at 1 p. m.; leave HoneB
dalo for Hawley at 1.30 p. m.
Second trip: Leave Hawley for
Honesdale at 3 p. m.; leavo Hones
dalo for Seelyvllle at 4.40 p. m.;
leave Honesdale for Hawley at 5,10
p. m. Saturday and Sunday sched
ule without change except first trip
from Honesdale to Hawley .eliminat
ed Saturday morning.
MIL NIELSEN HAS SAMPLE THAT
APPEALS TO HIM FA VOHS
A TAG TO COST A DIME, NOT
ONE SELLING FOR A QUAR-
TElt COMMITTEES TO HE
POUT. The Friday night meeting of the
Greater Honesdale Board of Trado
in town hall will be public. Presi
dent C. J. Smith will call It to or
der at exactly S o'clock, and he and
his brother officers want a full
house, both members and others,
to be on hand" to hear the commit
tee on membership report and also
to talk further about the proposi
tion to have Tag day during the
Wayne county fair in October.
Speaking about the tags, J. B.
Nielsen, who acted for Secretary E.
B. Callaway, wrote to the Scranton
branch office of the Whitehead &
Hoag button business for samples
and got some. Wednesday Mr.
Nielsen, than whom there is no
Board member more Interested and
wideawake, showed ,the secretary
and the secretary's brother news
papermen a button that Mr. Nielsen
seemed to think was just what the
doctor ordered. It was a button
large enough to carry the words,
"Greater Honesdale; All Work,"
and he will advocate this button,
to retail at a dime, not at a quarter,
the figure favored by Chairman
Leopold Blumeuthal of the press
committee, who Is the father of Tag
day In Honesdale.
The resolution asking the Board
to affix its O. K. to the suggestion
that a big hotel on Irving cliff
would be a tiptop thing for the
growth of Honesdale was tabled at
the last meeting. If Its author, a
widely known Honesdale man, is at
Friday night's meeting, this resolu
tion Is likely to be taken from the
table and threshed over.
TOM ETSEL IX COUNTY JAIL.
Charged With Stealing Chickens In
Manchester Judge ltemember
ed Hlin.
Tom Etsel 'of Damascus was
brought to jail today by Deputy
Constable Tom Caffrey and Matt
Mogridge, charged with stealing
chickens from Grant Caffrey and A.
Cole of Manchester township. Ten
of the stolen birds have been re
covered. Justice A. F. Lawson, before whom
Etsel was brought in Manchester
township Wednesday, at once recog
nized the prisoner.
"Once I missed a harness," said
the Judge, "and I was told to look
for it at Tom Etsel's."
He held Etsel in $300 ball for the
county court. Etsel couldn't get a
bondsman.
ERIE OFFICERS ASK QUESTIONS.
Want to Know If Foremen Belong
to Any Union.
A Turner, N. Y., news Item says
there continues to be considerable
speculation along the valley as to
the precise reason for the trip tak
en by several of the heads of the
Erie railroad in a special train a
few days ago. The train went along
the Erie and Jersey to Otisville and
Port Jervis.
Quite a number of. stops were
made and nearly all the track fore
men along the line were questioned.
Among the questions the foremen
were asked was whether they belong
to any union; whether they intend
ed to belong to any union, and what
action they would take If n propo
sition to belong to a union were
made them.
It is impossible to Bay what an
swers the men made, as the ques
tions, In some cases, actually took
away their breaths.
Those men who kept their wits
about them gave the soft answer
that turneth away wrath aud they
will bo "looked after," so the say
ing goes.
The feeling among the men in re
gard to the matter is one of mixed
amusement and anxiety. They are
puzzled to know what the object of
the investigation was. It is said
quite a number of them were told
they would bo given an Increase but
that they would not know what the
amount was until first payday.
PLEASANT MOUNT.
Prof, and "airs Kennedy and fam
ily are camping at Starlight.
Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay of Hones
dale are visiting Mr. and Mrs. E.
Wright.
J. E. Tiffany nnd family are board
ing at Starlight.
Miss Anna Barr and friend of
Susquehanna are visiting . Mrs.
Lampko.
Sunday school at Presbyterian
church Sunday at 11.45 a. m. but
no preaching Bervlce, as the pastor
Is away on his vacation.
ON THE MEND
Sleeps Well9 Eats a Little, Shows
Improvement in Temperature,
and Says "I Feel Fine"Broth
er Goes To Baltimore.
New York, Aug. 11. Mayor
Gaynor Is expected to recover. At
2 o'clock the doctors In attendance
on the mayor at St. Mary's hosnl-
tfll ti-ntwi.l n n,n, t -. ... 1. ( .. 1. . 1.
lui laoUEU u OlUlCiUCUl, lit LUC
said the patient's temperature was
lower, that he passed an excellent
night, that he had taken a small
but sufficient amount of nourishment,
and that after eating he turned to
the' nurse and said:
"I feel fine."
He Is stronger this afternoon than
at any time since he was shot. His
brother, Thomas Gaynor, left this
afternoon for Baltimore, to he gone
three days.
"My brother Isn't going to die,
they tell me," he said to the report
ers at the Pennsylvania station in
Jersey City. "If I thought William
couldn't live I certainly should stay
here."
New York, Aug. 11. Mayor Win
J. Gaynor today lies In St. Mary's
hospital, Hoboken. whero the bullet of
Jnmes J. Gallagher, his would be as
sassin, sent him, with his chances for
life about evenly balanced. No good
and definite word except that of hope
can come from the physicians who are
at his bedside until the pnssago of
hours brings before their eyes evidence
of the struggle between their patient's
Vitality and the inroads of septicemia.
The mayor is not suffering greatly
at present lie has not lost conscious-
Photo by American Press Association.
MAYOU WILLIAM J. GAVNOlt.
ness since Gallagher's revolver waa
discharged into the back of his neck
on the proraeuade deck of the Kttlser
Wilholin dor Grosse. He Is keenly
alive to the nature of tho trial that be
faces. Insisting that tho physicians
should tell him just how the score
between himself and death stood, May
or Gaynor heard their reiKirt and seem
ed satisfied. Ho knows that ho must
match his strength against that of
death and that tho Issue grows tenser
with the pnsslng of the hours.
The wound he received from the re
volver of tho frenzied political hanger
on is Berlous. The missile entered Mayor
GaynorB neck below the line of the
ear, ranged downwurd and forward
nnd lodged In n position near the base
of the tongue, which could not bo def
initely determined until an X ray pho
tograph revealed the lodgment of tho
bullet
As for Gallagher, the faded little
man with the shoulders of a bull and
all tid Insolence of post years of ex
perience on the fringe of political
swamps tn his , eyes, be bumps his
shoulders and sneers when told, that
the mayor of Now York ta, not doad
aa tho result of his deed. Ho puffs
on his pipe In his coll at the Hudson
county Jail ta Jersey City, where bo Is
Immured without ball to await tho
action of the grand jury, and be Bays:
"Well, I'm sorry I didnt kill him
right off. I hope be croaks. I bad to
get him. and if I-dldn't really get him
that's not my fault"
Tho shooting of Mayor Gaynor came
with terrible suddenness. lie was
standing on tho, dock of a 8 hip wbjcb
1
was to take him to Europe and a
month's rest nnd vacation. About him
were 'many members of his official
family, there to bid him godspeed.
President Pedro Montt of Chile, who
was.to be a fellow passenger, had. not
a half minute before gripped the may
or's hund In friendly salutation, nnd
the distinguished South American ex
ecutive was where the smoke cloud
from Gallagher's revolver swept ncross
bis face.
Mayor Gaynor was just In the mid
dle of a little passage at repartee with
Dr. Ernst Q. Lederle, head of tho de
partment of health. He had extended
his hand to poke the commissioner
playfully in the ribs then the shot.
A hnnd to hand struggle between
Borne of the mayor's subordinates and
the assassin followed on the deck of
the steamer.
Then more shots sounded above the
noise of half choken oaths and the
trample of fet, shrieks from the pas
sengers that crowded tho rails at the
business of wuvlug farewells, tho bel
lowing1 of orders In raucous German
by deck officers of the liner.
All of that within a compass of n
half minute. Then there was the
mayor of New York, still standing on
his feet but grievously wounded, the
victim of a man who tried to do mur
der., And there on the deck at his feet
this Gallagher, writhing in the grip of
manacles thnt clasped his wrists and
snapping his jaws at the feet and
hands of tho men who sat on him.
The mayor left his home In St Jnmes
on, Monday afternoon, nfter he had
bidden farewell to all of his family
save one, nnd with this one, his son
Itufus, he came into New York nnd
stopped for the night at tho Hotel
Manhattan until he went to the steam
ship. Gallagher attempted the assassina
tion just as Mayor Gaynor pointed n
Joke by poking Dr. Lederle gently in
the ribs.
Just nt that instant a hand reached
ap from behind Mayor Gaynor's back,
and the muzzle of a short bulldog re
volver was placed against his neck.
There was n click, the sound made by
tho dropping of a hammer upon a dead
percussion cap, then n report
"You've stolen my bread and butter,
damn you!"
Those were the words that were
bawled over the mayor's shoulder In
the Instant between the clicking of the
revolver hammer on the dead cap nnd
the explosion of the shell.
For Just a hair's breadth of time
there was silence. One of the photog
raphers wlio had leveled his annum
before the shot to catch the mayor's
farewell smile clicked his shutter by
the very Involuntary reaction that
tugged his finger.
Then a cry from Adamson, "Oh God.
he's shot tho mayor!"
Each of the men standing nbout the
mayor wheeled and saw Gallagher
standing there with his arm just lift
ing with the movement of cocking his
revolver again. Adamson Jumped
squarely at him nnd threw up tho re
volver hand. Just ns ho did so the
weapon exploded and the bullet went
whistling over tho roof of the steamer
alu'd
JOHN rURUOYMlTanELJi.
Btreot Commissioner Edwards launch
ed his toemendous hulk at the stunted
figure wrestling with Adamson. Ho
caught Gallagher about the waist and
bore him crushing to tho dock boards.
There the two men rolled, Gallagher
making furious efforts to turn bis Dis
tal band, which Adamson still held,
around Into tho faco of his antagonist,
Edwards gradually bending- the as
sassin's loft arm down where he could
put one knee on it and with bis free
hand Jamming swift blows down npoo
the upturned face beneath bis.
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ENGINE OF I). & II. PASSENGER
TRAIN ENCOUNTERS THREE
SPIKES LYING LOOSE ON" KAILS
ON WEDNEaDAY MORNING
TRIP FROM CARHOXDALE TO
IIOXESDALE GYPSY THEORY
SCOUTED.
It is possible that some nvlllv dis
posed person, or mayhap more than
one, attempted to wreck Mm n. jc-
H. passenger train due in Hones-
aaie at y.ou as it passed No. 4 pond,
near Farvlew, Wednesday morning.
Three spikes left lying on the rail
might have made serious trouble.
The engine, with Engineer Ar
nold at the throttle, Jumped, but It
did not leave the rails. A little
further on two more spikes were ly
ing loose on the track. The for
ward truck of the engine went over
them. The first spike struck the
wheels of the tender, not the en
gine. The gypsy band that was caught
that morning near the pond aud
forced to disgorge the $27 taken by
one of the women from the bar of
the Halfway house were suspected
by some of the farmers in that
neighborhood as having had some
thing to do With It. but rnHrnnd
men do not take much stock In the
gypsy story. The road's detectives
have been on this division ever since
an attempt, as they believe, was
maae to aerau a tram just out of
Carbondale one day last week.
Notices have been posted all
along the Delaware and Hudson of
fering a reward of $ 1,000 for the
arrest of the person or persons who
caused the derailment at the Lafltn
station. The company offers the
same reward for the arrest of the
person or persons that caused the
wreck of the Central "flyer" at
Plttston July 29, or for the arrest In
the future of any person or persons
tampering with the rolling stock of
the company.
Shoemakers' Picnic Very Hnppy
Outing.
Railroad and lake employes agree
that the Shoemakers' excursion,
which took upwards of 700 people
from Honesdale to Lake Lodore
Tuesday, was the most orderly and
prosperous-appearing big party that
has visited the resort this summer.
The roads about the lake were some
what muddy in the morning, but the
hot sun of the afternoon dried them
considerably and mud didn't curtail
the fun of the young folks.
The merry-go-round carried 3,
000 that day. The chutes were
ridden by 1,000. The figure S rail
road sold 4,000 tickets. There was
only one accident all day, and that
one did not amount to much. Mrs.
Martin Moran fell while walking to
the boat that lands near the merry-go-round
and landed on her face,
getting a slight bruise.
The Honesdale hand, leader Wag
ner, discoursed Its customary sweet
music and the Maple City drum
corps, which rode to the lake in
the smoker of tho 1 o'clock special,
was the life of the outing. During
the afternoon the corps marched to
brigade headquarters of the Junior
O. U. A. M. camp and serenaded
Gen. RIskel and his staff, who ex
pressed themselves as delighted
with the fine work of Major Car
mlchael's boys. The special traiu
of 11 cars brought back to Hones
dale a happy and contented crowd,
every member of which will aim to
be on hand when Local 377 goes on
Its 1911 outing.
REED'S HEALTH IS GOOD.
And So Is His Courage, Says Coun
sel For Prisoner.
Attorney Charles A. McCarty, Sau
Reed's lawyer, said today that he
would see his client at the jail be
fore night. He talked with Reed
Monday, when the latter sent for
and retained Mr. McCarty, and he
has not seen him bln:e. Mr. McCarty
notified Sheriff Braman this morn
ing thnt he would bo at the jail to
confer with Sam before the day was
out.
Reed, his counsel said, was anxi
ous to be tried at the October term,
and Mr. McCarty will insist on his
client's going to trial in October.
He told the newspapermen today
that Reed's health holds good, and
that his courage is better. ,
Diamonds Undar Watar. v
An Imitation diamond Is never so
brilliant as a genuine stone: If your
eye la not experienced, enough to de
tect the difference, a very simple teat
is to place tho stone tinder water. Too
Imitation atone Is practically extin
guished, while a genuine diamond
sparkles eren tinder water and is dte
tlnctly visible. When possible, place a
feeaaiae eieae b aside- the possible Iml
tattos finder water, and the contrast
will be apparent to the least experi
enced eyes.
SOLDIER BOYS FROM LACKA
WANNA AND LUZERNE WELL
DRILLED, FINELY DISCIPLIN
ED BODY DAYS FULL OF IN
TEREST WHILE THEY REMAIN"
AT LAKE LODORE -TO BREAK
CAMP SUNDAY.
When the special correspondent
of The Citizen, drnwn to Lake Lo
dore Tuesday by the proximity of
the big Shoemakers' picnic and the
American Mechanics' camp from
Lackawanna and Luzerne, dropped
over to see Gen. Rlskei and his offi
cers and men under canvas, he was
struck most forcibly by two things.
In the first place, he noticed that
the camp under the general's com
mand was the equal in cleanliness,
order and practical arrangement of
any camp It ever has been his for
tune to visit and this correspond
ent, by the way, has seen 18 years
of soldier life, Including six In the
regular army. And he soon discov
ered that these uniformed boys from
Lackawanna and Luzerne are many
of them fellows connected by for
mer residence or marriage or blood
with the good folk of Wayne coun
ty, and that the visitor properly ac
credited to any town or hamlet In
Wayne is going to get a warm, rous
ing welcome the moment he lets
them know who he Is and where
he halls from.
For instance, there is Major A.
E. Hagar, the very vigilant and at
the same time very affable and com
panionable surgeon of the camp.
Major Hagar gets his mall at Tay
lor now and his shingle has for
some time hung in that town, but
he was not always a Taylor citi
zen. The major's folks all came
from Wayne county from Goulds
boro, to be real explicit about It.
And the heart of Major Hagar he
Is quite willing to be quoted in this
matter Is just as much in Goulds
boro, the scene of early days and
young friendships, as It is in Tay
lor, for all Taylor turns him In his
bread and butter now. Candidly,
as soon as the major found he was
being interviewed by a Honesdale
man for a Honesdale paper he
couldn't do too much though
Gouldsboro, to which he time and
again alluded, Is 3S miles from
Honesdale, away down In Lehigh
township, smack up against the
Lackawanna line, and Gouldsboro
folks go Into Scranton to do their
trading. He admitted he had not
been to Honesdale much of late
years, but he Is coming this way
between now aud Sunday, the day
the Mechanics break camp.
"Just tell them I'll he over," he
said. "I want to see how the beau
tiful town looks in her full August
attire. Of course, you understand
that It can't beat Gouldsboro. That's
to be taken for granted all the time.
But Honesdale Is a beautiful place
and I'm going to run down and look
'em over."
The major Is Immensely popular
with the boys. He Is aggressive,
jovial, democratic. They say the
camp wouldn't be a real camp with
out Major Hagar, and he admits it
is the finest vacation in the world
to him to pass 10 days under can
vas with such completely congenial
spirits. The major's father, as
everybody almost will remember,
was Hon. S. S. Hagar. member of the
legislature from Wayne county from
1SSS to 1S92. The elder Hagar
was also Republican county chnlr
man for some years. The major liv
ed in Gouldsboro with his people
from 1S72 to 1S92, when he went
to Philadelphia to take up the
study of medicine at Jefferson.
Then there Is Gen. RIskel. The
general Is a remarkable man. This
Mechanic camp is his particular joy
and pride. He gives time and mon
ey to the preparations for It, and
the sacrifice of both Is, no doubt,
considerable; but he Is willing to
make It. Ho speaks of his "army"
just about as tenderly, just about
as enthusiastically, as Col. Roose
velt talks about his Rough Riders
tho gritty boys that rode up San
Juan hill with him. He won't talk
much about himself, but he will
talk about his army. Ho has been
a worker for It for years, and noth
ing makes Gen. RIskel feel better
than to know his boys appreciate the
Interest that Is more brotherly than
fatherly and that the undisputed
credit for the present fine condition
of the army Is laid at his door.
Col. Hall Is another excellent of
ficer clever, soldierly nnd attentive
to the duties of hs post. He wants
no higher encomium than the slmplo
observation that "Col. Hall knows
his business." And of the correct
ness of that observation there can
be no question. A quiet but firm
disciplinarian, who has the knack
of getting things done without fuss
or friction, Col. Hall Is a valuable
auxiliary to Gen. RIskel.
Both the general and the colonel
bnvo been In Wayne county and
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