f AGE 3
PLANS TO SCALE
ML M'KINLEY
MEW STATUE FOUND OF
The Delaware
THE EMPEROR CLAUDIUS., HILAIUrtll 1
IS NOW FREE
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 0, 1011.
Miss Keen, of Philadelphia, Will
Attempt the Feat,
PERILOUS PEAK TO ASCEND.
Many Explorers Have Been Baffled by
the Climb to Be Undertaken by Wo
man Said to Have Found New
Route to the Summit
Miss Dora Keen, daughter of Dr. W.
W. Keen of Philadelphia, 'Who boa
,won the reputation of being ono of
the greatest women mountain climbers
of the world, Is preparing an expedi
tion for tho attempt at the scaling of
Mount McKlnley, Alaska, which la
universally recognized as one of the
hardest peaks in the world to climb.
If Miss Keen accomplishes this feat
sho will have greatly added to her rep
utation as a mountain climber and
will be probably rated as tho equal of
Miss Anna Peck, now regarded as the
premier woman mountain scaler.
Many Attempts Made.
Mount McKlnley is the peak which
Dr. Cook declared he had surmounted,
but whoso claims were disallowed.
Tho attempt to climb it has been made
many scores of times by the best of
mountaineers, but so far only one
party has been credited with having
reached the top.
A party of tho most expert climbers
that made the attempt last year climb
ed more than 1.200 feet with tho great
est difficulty, and then found above
them still 1,000 feet of the peak ex
tending upward In what they describ
ed as an almost perpendicular wall of
Ice.
All of this, however, offers no dis
couragement to Miss Keen, but makes
her the more determined to accomplish
tho feat. She will have to carry a
large amount of supplies of all kinds
with which to establish stations along
the route which can be used as safe
retreats in case of necessity. She
is said to have in her party three of
the most reliable and expert of the
Swiss guides whom sho brought to
America with her to assist in this ex
pedition and also a number of Alas
kans who have taken part in previous
attempts to climb this peak and know
much of Its surface and character
istics. Friends of Miss Keen say that the
young woman has so thoroughly mas
tered the art of mountain climbing
and goes at her tasks in such a mas
terly manner that she will scale Mount
McKlnley, If the feat Is possible of
accomplishment.
Has a Reputation.
For many summers past Miss Keen
has made her headquarters in Switzer
land, attacking and conquering tho
most lofty and dangerous peaks of the
Swiss ranges. She has scaled Mont
Blanc a number of times and has suc
ceeded in ascending the Matterhorn
from practically every side, a feat
rarely accomplished by one climber.
Sho has become such an expert in her
work, and Is so well known In Switzer
land that the very best and most ex
perienced of the guides invariably
make her ono of their party when
there are strange slopes to explore or
new paths to bo discovered. She has
the reputation of being most quick of
perception in discovering a possible
passage, and has several times found
an available climbing route when tho
professional guides were about to de
clare further search and effort useless.
Sho climbs for the sheer love of It,
which possibly accounts largely for
her great success.
If sho succeeds In reaching the top
of Mount McKlnley it will be a feat
of mountain climbing which probably
has never been surpassed and will at
onco attract the attention of the entire
world. It is said that In her prelimi
nary explorations of the peak she and
her companions havo discovered a new
route apparently leading to the sum
mit which has never yet been tried,
and that it Is by this new and un
known route tho effort to reach tho
top of tho world will be made.
PECK'S WIDOW GETS $100,000
Carpenter Eloped With Waitress Fifty
six Years His Junior.
Burr S. Peck of New Haven, Conn.,
who came into prominence recently
by bis elopement with Miss May
Bryne, who was fifty-six years young
er than he, is dead. Mr. Peck was
eighty years old. His father was a
carpenter, and his frugality enabled
him to accumulate a small fortune.
Burr Peck followed the occupation of
his father. Through shrewd business
methods Mr. Pock accumulated n
large amount of property. IIo had
been a widower several years, and
whllo making his homo with . j eith
er, who wns nlnety-elx ycaribf ago
then, Mr. Peck took Miss Bryno for
his second wife.
Pock arid his young wife lived to
gether for n short ttmo, when they
had a disagreement and separated.
Divorce proceedings were Instituted
by Peck, but tho suit was afterward
withdrawn. After his second mar
riage Pock transfered a portion of his
property to his young wifo, but this
was returned to Pock about tho too
the coupla had their dllQculUes.
Peck leayk an. estate of $10Cy)00,
nnd tolTSWU ,SwTh his widow, who
was a 4Ttres3',ta a Yale student
Unearthed In Recsnt Excavations and
Is Seven Feet High.
For three ycrrs Vlttorio Splnazzola,
director of the Museum of Naples, has
been conducting a scientific excavation
among the temples of l'esto and from
time to time has brought to light many
objects of bronze and of marble and
has uncovered several of the old walks
around the temples.
On June 17 at the end of a broad
way his men came upon a great edifice
with twenty columns lying before its
facade, with a monumental entrance
and sala thirty meters In length and
eighteen in width.
The sala contained six niches In
which had originally stood as many
statues. Five of these had long since
been destroyed or carried away. There
was one niche, however, which had
been overlooked either through super
stition or carelessness, and before this
there lay where it had fallen the statue
which had once stood within.
It was a heroic size statue made of
Parian marble and showed n face like
that of the youthful Caesar Augustus,
grown old with the cares of state. But
instead of the toga it appeared to
wear the sacerdotal robe of a priest 'Of
Neptune.
At first glance Slgnor Splnazzola rec
ognized the type of the imperial fam
ily of Julia Claudia and more particu
larly one of the Drusl. It was perhaps
Nero or Drusus.
Now, however, all doubt is ended,
for Slgnor Splnazzola, who is very
learned In all matters pertaining to
political Rome of the early Christian
centuries, has identified the statue as
that of Claudius himself Claudius im
perator. He did this by comparing
the robe with others of known dates
and the features with those of others
on well Identified statues of the em
peror. The statue Is nearly seven feet In
height nnd shows Claudius in the robe
of Pontlfex llaxlmus in the act of sac
rificing with veiled head.
It is a wonderful piece of sculpture
both In design and creation, even to
the smallest details. It easily takes
Its place among the most notable
works belonging to the first century.
I 4", for It bears a striking resemblance
I to a mural portrait of that date pre
served In the Naples museum.
RILEY'S FIRST POEM.
Former Governor Henry A. Buchtel
Gives It to His Students.
Chancellor Henry A. Buchtel of tho
University of Denver, former governor
of Colorado, recently gave a Riley read
ing to his summer students and pre
sented to each a copy of what he said
was James Whltcomb Blloy's first
poem. At the time It. was written
(1876) Chancellor Buchtel was at
Knlghtstown and was asked to deliv
er a funeral sermon at the burial of
Hamilton J. Dunbar, a man universal
ly popular and Idolized by Illley. The
poet afterward said to Buchtel:
"When the service was over I went
home nnd wrote a poem on Ham Dun
bar and sent it to tho Indianapolis
Journal, and the literary people said,
'A poet has arrived.' And that was
tho first poem I ever wrote that gave
me the Idea that I could be something
else than a sign painter. So I always
associate you," Riley said to Buchtel,
"with the first poem I ever wrote."
That poem has never been published
in any of Riley's books because it is
so personal. Following is an accurate
copy made by Henry A. Buchtel for his
students:
Dead! Dead! Dead!
We thought him ours alone.
And none so proud to see him tread
The rounds of fame and lift his head
Where sunlight ever shone.
But now our aching eyes are dim
And look through tears in vain tor him.
Namel Name! Name!
It was his diadem.
Nor ever tarnish, taint of shame.
Could dim Its luster. I.Ike a flame
Reflected In a gem,
lie wears It blazing on his brow
Within the courts of heaven now.
Tears! Tears! Tears!
Like dews upon the leaf
That burst at last from out the years
Tho blossom of a trust appears,
The blossom above the grief.
And mother, brother, wife and child
Will see It and be reconciled,
J. W. -R.
TO MAKE AIR VISIBLE.
Magazine Writer Thinks We May See
the Atmosphere.
Even though wo can fly and send
telegrams without wires, there aro
things to which we may look forward.
At least, so thinks Augustus Post,
who says In the Columbian Magazine,
after recounting other possible won
ders: Wo may also be enabled to see air by
means of glasses which will polarize the
light and tell us whether It is disturbed
or quiet. Then we can ovoid tho Invisible
eddies and wind gusts which now we can
only realise the existence of by feeling
them when they strlbo tho wtngs of the
machine and which by qjricknoss of
thought we aro ablo to overcome after
long practice. Some scientists suggest
that birds may have powers of vision
which enable thorn to see air m motion as
they fly, making tt possible for them to
And rising currents which carry them up
without any expenditure of enemy, for
the currents of atr bkrw up and down
quite as frequently as they blow in a hor
izontal direction, as they aoem to do when
our knowledge and experience aro limited
to phenomena observed on the surface of
the earth. I would suggest that tn order
to study the action of the wtnd you watch
smoke as it comes out of a tall chimney
or clouds of dust or loose papers blown
about by the wind in the city streets.
Sometimes they are carried up far above
the roofs of tall buildings and suggest
how a skillful bird may be able to obtain
power from the wind's velocity which tt
I- -.l.l.l.lni, lla nmm flltrht.
Newspapers and Magazines
Print What They Like,
MADERO PROMISE REALIZED,
Some of the Comment Adverse to Ma
de ro, but This Makes No Difference
People Share In the Liberty Nt
Abuses Followed Change.
The Mexican press Is "free." That
it should be was one of the many
things promised by Madero, and local
publishers did not wait for him to be
formally elected before beginning tc
exercise their newly acquired right.
Their assumption, however, was jus
tified. Emlllo Vnsqucz Gomez, minis
ter of the department of interior, was
not slow in publicly nssurlng the
newspaper owners that they could
publish whatever they liked.
"The government Is sure that the
liberty of the press Is the best way
to obtain the efficient help of all news
papers so as to realize completely the
Ideas of the present government," he
said In n public statement on the sub
ject. That this unrestricted expression is
stimulating has already been demon
strated. Whether It will prove intoxi
cating remains to be seen. Since the
advent of Madero a dozen new periodi
cals have been born, nnd as many
more aro said to be projected. Lack
of advertising doubtless will force
many of these youngsters into their
graves, for the only reason apparent
for their being in some instances is
that some one wishes a medium of
public expression.
No One Spared by Vriters.
Most of the now periodicals are
small magazines, the majority devoted
to tho publication of satirical verse
and prose, Illustrated with caricatures.
No one Is spared by the writers and
artists, but, as Is natural, tho most
stinging and sometimes vicious work
relates to those Individuals who were
connected with tho old regime. Among
the weekly periodicals Is El Ahulzote,
n publication resurrected. This maga
zine first appeared years ago, but be
cause of Its cartoons of Llmantour and
other public men was suppressed.
Tho dally newspapers give the most
lively evidence of this "freedom." El
Impartial, n paper which has always
been progovernment, has Inserted un
der its head the word "Diarlo Indepon
dlente," and independent It is. It pub
lishes news and comment regardless
of how It will be relished by Madero
and his friends, for whom it pretends
no love.
The public also has caught the spirit
of free speech, and almost all tho pa
pers publish columns of comment fur
nished by readers. Most of It is sign
ed by the writers' own names. In this
comment and In the editorial columns
the political questions are freely dis
cussed. Madero is criticised as well as
praised, and those who would like te
see nnother chosen, for tho presidency
do not hesitate to say so.
Capital Has "Yellow Press."
News which never would have been
reported during the days of Diaz Is
now published under seven column
heads nnd In ten point typo. The cap
ltnl now, too, has Its "yellow press."
"We're free," appears to be the un
spoken Idea in the minds of thousand!
of the poorer people of the capital and
perhaps furnishes the explanation oi
scores of curious sights to which the
old resident has not become accustom
ed. It is not uncommon to see hun
dreds of men, women nnd children
nnd not all of them peons wanderinf
nbout on the grass of tho Alameda
during a band concert. In the days oi
Diaz none over trod that grass witl
impunity.
Notwithstanding signs that warn tlx
public not to ascend the platform ol
tho famous monument to Jaurez, thi
snowy marble columns are not infre
quently black with hundreds of ragged
men and children gathered there t(
hear a band or to witness a parade it
tho street For a time taking a pris
oner away from a policoman was e
favorite amusement, but this dlversloi
has been chocked almost altogether
but not yet does an officer of the law
insist upon doing his duty without see
ing an expression of surprise on th
faces of the ragged populace. Thej
are "free" nnd to learn that there an
yet restrictions is disconcerting.
AN AEROPLANE HONEYMOON.
A New England Aviator Will Taki
Bride Aloft.
Tho most novel honeymoon evei
planned is to take place soon in New
England. It will be In an aeroplane,
out of reach of rice and old shoes. Mr.
and Mrs. noctor Louis Morenu ol
Cambridge, Mass., will bo tho first
couple to speed down tho love" lanes
of tho sky and spoon behind the fairy
shelter of the clouds. They are tc
mako their honeymoon trip through
NewEngVnnd in auto nnd aeroplane.
"It will bo great fun," soil tho bride.
"I have never been pp yet, but 1
don't care how far our very first trip
takes me in the air. If I am willing
to have my dear husband In the cloud!
alone, why should I be afraid to be
with hlmr
Moreau has been building flying ma
chines for three years. He has pre
pared a special aeroplane for the bridal
tnnr
EVERYBODY NEEDS A
VACATION
and there is
if than at
SARATOGA SPRINGS
and
LAKE GEORGE
Popular Low
ADULTS $5.75
CHILDREN $3.00
Tickets good returning on any regular
train to August 21 inclusive.
Good for stop-off at Albany or
any point thereof.
Special train leaves Wilkes Barre
7:00 A. M.; Scranton 7:45
M.; Carbondale 8.30 A.
For other trains and further particulars,
see ticket agents.
GEO. E. BATES,
Div. Pass. Agent Scranton, Pa.
Hudson Co
no
better place to spend
Excursion