THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1912.
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Howard Palmer Scales Ice Peak,
11,634 Feet High.
HIGHEST IN THE SELKIRKS,
STUART FULLER IS ON
JOURNEY TO PUTUMAYO.
Nearly a Hundred Attempts Have
Been Made In the Last Few Years.
All lee and Snow Work, With Great
Danger From High Temperature.
nownnl Palmer, secretary of tho
American Alpine club, hns succeeded In
cllinbitig.Mount Sir Sandford, tho high
est polut lu the SclUirks. Mr. Palmer
made the ascent of the mountain,
which Is 11,034 feet high, and la prac
tically ono continuous wall of Ice, on
June 24, lu company with T. V, D.
Ilolway.
No less than eight separate attempts
to scale the icy fastnosaes of Sir Sand
ford have been mudo during the last
half dozen years, not counting tho suc
cessful expedition. No other peak In
the Canadian Rockies has such a rec
ord. Only Ave of tho expeditions ovuu
reached the base of tho mountain, and,
aside from the present expedition, only
one, that of Mr. Culver of Winnipeg,
In 1011, actually set foot on tho peak
Itself.
Although It Is among tho highest of
the world's mountains, It Is tho glaclor
covering Its surface which makes
climbing dltllcult, and In the present
Instance the dangor was Increased ten
fold by tho high temperature, which
melted tho snow and produced slush.
As a matter of comparison. It may bo
stated that Mount Washington, In the
White mountains, la (X203 feet, and
Pike's peak, 14,147 foot. Of courso
there aro points In tho Himalayas nnd
the Andes which nearly double thoso
figures.
Like Ascent of tho Alps.
With his friend. Mr. Ilolway, two
men as packers and canoe rs and Edou
ard Feuz, Jr., and Rudolph Ac-minor,
Swiss guides, Mr. Palmer left Golden,
B. C, on June 17, proceeding down tho
Columbia river by canoe, as on his
previous trip last sofiaon. when ho
made extensive explorations In tho dis
trict nnd published a monograph on
the subject They reached the baso of
the Sir Sandford glacier on Juno 23
after three hard days on Gold river
and Palmer creek. The tempernturo
was unusually high for the region 84
degrees F. In the shado and 144 in tho
sun.
Tho weather otherwlso was lino. Sir
Sanford was unusually bare of snow,
disclosing tho Ice everywhero below
10,000 feet. This made the previously
tried routes Inaccessible and forced tho
expedition Into n path beneath hang
ing glaciers on the westerly side of tho
peak, which so far has been the only
side offering the slightest chanco of an
ascent
Mr. Palmer wrltos that the ascent
was much llko that of tho Grand Cour
baln In the Alps. Tho climb consisted
entirely of snow and Ico work. The
party, leaving behind tho two pack
ers, left camp, 5,700 feet high and two
miles from tho bnao of tbo mountain,
at 1 a. m., and reached the summit at
11 a. m. As the snow was now In a
dangerously wntery condition, owing
to tho bright sunlight, the descent had
to be made at once. A long traverso of
a cornice which hung on tho summit
ridge, fully exposed to tho bright rays
of the sun, had to bo made. Besides
the danger of crerassoa, the chief dif
ficulty was presented by tho cornices
overhanging tho cliff ridge on all sldoa
and the slushy stato of tho enow.
Tho camp was regained nt 4:30
o'clock the samo afternoon. Only a
limited amount of scientific work could
bo accomplished, unfortunately. Tho
Sir Sandford glacier's surface motion
was again determined, in tho hopo of
showing a different rato under hot
weather conditions, but after tho marks
iwere set It turned cold, even moro bo
than at tho time of the first determi
nation, and tho rato was Blower. Tho
forefoot had retreated about forty feet
since 1011. Many photograph- wero
taken, however.
Climbed Mount Adamant Too.
Two days later tho expedition climb
ed Mount Adamant, 11,000 foet high,
northwest of Sir Sandford. Tho nBcent
of this mountain consisted entirely of
rock work, but thoro wero ten hours of
continuous climbing before tlio summit
was reached, on account of extremely
bad weather. After fifteen minutes at
tho top tho part' returned nnd reached
camp eighteen nnd one-half hours aft
er the tlmo they had started. Mr. Pal
mer Is writing a" long account of iesa
two expeditions for an early bul. -tin
of tho Amerlcnn Geographical society.
tlho territory surrounding these two
mountains had romalned almost unex
plored by scientists until recently, al
though It Is entirely surrounded by
well defined routes "of travel, with the
Canadian Pacific rallwny on tho south
nnd tho Columbus river sweeping
through its Big Bond on tho northwest
and west
In area tho, Big Bond region covers
2,400 squaro miles, which is entirely
covered by an exceedingly complicated
labyrinth of mountainous Hpurs nnd
ridges that may bo considered as form
ing tho northorly termination of the
Selkirk rango. Tho greater number of
theso rise to botwoon 7,500 nnd 0,000
foot in altitude, but there nro mnny
Bummlts ranging, between tho latter
limit and 11,034 foot, Uio hlghoat meas
ured point.
Qtate Department's Investigator Be
gins Long Trip Up the Amaion.
Stuart Fuller, the stato deiHirtincnt's
agent sent to Investigate tlio atroci
ties In the Ptitumayo rubber country
of Peru, recently started with tlio Brit
ish consul at Io,ultod for tho headwa
ters of tlio Amazon, where ho will es
tablish u base for his operations.
Mr, Fuller will proceed by a light
draft stem wheel steamer aa fnr up
tlio Amuzon perhaps as tlio mouth of
Its tributary, tho Putumayo, and at
that point tlio party will bo obliged to
tako siunll powor launches. l)vcn
thoso must lyj abandoned In tho upper
reaches of tlio Putumayo, nnd tlio party
must traverse long distance afoot In.
tlio jungle. Altogether, tlie voyage up
tlio river will oxtend about 2,000 mllos.
Mr. Fuller will not bo long out of
touch with tlio outfldo world. Tho
Peruvian government has erected eonio
powerful wlrolosH telegraph stations lu
tlio rubber country, which nro capablo
of oHtnWishlug communication over
the Andoa to Lima.
It has boon Miggostod tlmt a quo
lion as to tlio ownership of tho terri
tory In which tho riibbor Holds arc lo
cated may offer soma dltllcultlos to
tlio nogotlntkma for the suppression of
the ntrocltlttfl. Brazil, Chile and Poru
oneo disputed port of tlw tract, but
thnt lias Ivocn adjusted. Colombia,
however, la wild to fool that slio ha
an anciont title to tlw property, bas
ing It on tho contention that nndor
tho nam of Jnv Granada her titta
ran to all the ptwont territory of
Ecuador, Vonoauola and Peru.
Tlw state dojHirtment howovor, Is
concerned only with tl allocations of
tortiiK of tlio natives.
NEW SENATE CHAIRMEN.
La FoJktto Head Commit too of Inter
state Commerce.
Three Pacific ooost eenatore dnw
irnportnut oonunittoo chairmanships In
a rearrangement of assignments caused
by recent vucandos, and So tin tor La
Follctto of Wisconsin woa made a
member of tho Important ooinmUtoo
on interstate oommcroo.
Senator Joooa of Washington waa
npiolntod chairman of tho oonunittoo
on Irrigation. Senator Worts of Cali
fornia waa Boloctod to bo tho hood of
tho coininttteo on flshovioa, and Sen
ator Polndextor W119 named clmlraian
of tho oouimlttoo ot tho Pacific Is
lands. Senator Oliver of Ponnfiytvnaia wtia
made Junior moniboc of tho appropri
ations commlttoo.
Senator La FoHottes appointment to
tho interstate oommcroo commlttoo
was regarded as n mark of recognition
of his knowledgo of railway problems
and transiwtatlon questions.
Senator Clapp of Minnesota, another
progresilve, It chairman of the com
mittee, and Senator Oummlns oi Iowa
Is n member.
GHENT TREATY JUBILEE.
Plan to Celebrate One Hundred Years
of Peace Is Opposed In Senate
Senator Burton's bill foe tho appoint
ment of a commission of savtm mem
bers to oooHldor plana for tho colob ra
tion of Uio 000 hundredth anniversary
of tbo treaty with Groat Britain made
at Ghent In 1814 wna favorably report
ed to the senate by Bona tor Root from
tho commlttoo on foreign rolationa.
Accompanying it was a minority re
port preeontod by Senator Hitchcock
on bohalf of himself, Senators Bacon
and Shlvoiy, declaring that It la of
no moro Importance to have an official
odobrattoa of a hundred yoars of peace
with Groot Britain than It la to celo
brate a hundred yearn of poaco with
Germany, Russia or Franca Tho mi
nority decided H to bo an Invidious dis
tinction moro calculated to arouse feel
ings of resentment, criticism nnd an
tagonlrtin than' anything clea.
Tho Bontimont In favor of poaco be
tween tho two nations existing umong
tho iKHjplo," tho minority report aver
red. Is a gnar&ntoo of poaco, in our
opinion, and thoro la no reason to be
lieve that tills Bontlmcnt would be
strengthened or promoted by tlw p re
potted oommlselon."
Reform Politician of Philadel
phia Gonlosses,
IS A MODERN JEAN VALJEAN.
STOCKINGS OH NO BATHING.
Atlantic City. Slnco stockings
wero added to tho things they had
to look out for tho bathing beach
lifo guards wero recent objects of
suspicion to every woman bather.
Lifo for tho bathers was mndo In
teresting when Director of Public
Snfoty Bnrtlett ordered that bathing
suits must ho covered whilo women
were on their way to tho water.
Bartlctt followed this up with an
order that bare-logged bathers
would bo hnrred.
How many riles havo ou got?
MONEY LAUNDRY A SUCCESS.
$50000 Washed and Ironed to the
Crlepness of New,
Moro than half u million dollars of
old paper money, waslied and iroued to
tlio crispness of now In the federul gov
ernment's currency laundry, 1ms boon
placed In circulation. This lot ropro
Bente Cnclo Sam's first Job na a laun
dryman. For weeks tlw treasury department
lias boon' cleaning dirty old notes with
tlw washing machine ixrfoetcd in tho
bureau of engraving nnd printing. Sec
retary MncVeagh stamped tlw venture
a success, and tlio laundry will bo run
In full swing from now on. Unclean
bills which aro not wornout will bo
washed, Ironed nnd'rcdlstrlbuted.
Tlio treasury department lias ordered
three more washing machines. Within
a few months it Is expected that cvory
subtrcasury will bo oqulppod with a
laundry, and tho government oxpocts
to savo hundreds of thousands of dol
lars annually.
Fellow Convict Discovers Former Pal
and Levies Blackmail Reformed Man
Had Led a Convict's Lifo For Eight
Years Mayor Blankenburg Would
Give Him a New Chance.
Victor Hugo's .lean Valjcnn, tho ro-
mantlc and appealing refonned convict
of "Lcs Mlserables" has a counterpart
In real life. Confessing that he was n
former convict a burglar, a yeggraan
and n porch climber, William Burke, a
member of common councils of Phila
delphia, has tendered his resignation
nnd fled tho city. Burke wns elected
to councils last fall on the reform ticket
by a large majority.
Soon after taking his seat in coun
cils, Burko says, ho met a fellow convict
who had served a sentence In tho Mas
sachusetts state Jail while he was a
prisoner there nnd who had been Im
plicated with him In various robberies.
Burko says that tho ex-convlct, now
aged and penniless, recognized him and
since thnt time has been persistently
levying blackmail under threat of ex
posure. Tho fear that his past record
would bo eventually revealed led Burke
to give up his position In councils nnd
leave the city In order to make a new
start in Ufa
Startod as a "Gopher."
Burko said In his published story
that bo could not recall how ho started
In lifo. A street waif on tho enst side
of New York, bo began to eke out an
uncertain existence by selling newspa
pers. It was while ho was "hanging
around tho cornors" of tho east side
that bo began tho life of n crook.
"Gopher men," the species of crooks
who confine themselves to cracking and
robbing safes, were tho first of tho un
derworld he fell In with. They used
him, so his strange story runs, to visit
establishments where they thought a
safe might bo worth rifling. Ho "spot
ted" mnny such nn establishment for
them, his boyish plea that ho waa look
ing for work giving him the means to
find out the locntion of tho safe, no
received a share of the plunder.
Then ho drifted In with a gang of
"moll buzzers," that class of thieves
which bears a title bestowed upon it
by tbo parlance of crooks oven farther
back1 than tho Elizabethan days.
Burko goes on to tell how ho was
sent to Blackwell'a Island at different
times, of "yeggtng" in the west, of
gambling "Just ns all those fellows
who havo figured in the Rosenthal
case havo done" gambling, winning
and losing. From gambling he drifted
into sneak work and then Into bigger
"Joba," which ho "pulled off' mostly in
New Tork.
In tho Bocond chapter the reform
councilman says:
plQSfdw Karpe in.BQSton. for
- twmxrr ixjioto 1 pecan to "hit tho
dopo.' That was my finish. I used to
keep in touch with the crooks who
blew into town from New York or oth
er places. I used to drop in at the
places whoro they hung out I never
told them I was 'working.' I let them
think thnt I was living straight May
bo they thought I was going It alono,
but I never let thom get anything on
me, I was then stalling under the
name of McCarthy. Tho crooks knew
mo as "Now York Slim.'
"Ono of tho crooks I fell In with, n
New York 'con man,' waa a hop fiend.
Wo got pretty friendly, and ho started
mo smoking hop. That has put more
than ono crook down and out, and It
started mo to tho pen. Once you start
hitting tho hop you hnvo no nervo un
less youvo got It In you, and when
you'vo got It In you you havo no
brains."
Abandoned Crime,
His term in prison, ho said, destroy
ed his criminal Instinct, nnd upon be
ing released ho returned to Now York
and obtained employment In the
stores. In May, IDOl, discarding all
his old associates, ho went to Phila
delphia and took tlio name of Wil
liam Burko. no had loarned tho trade
of a hardwood finisher while in prison
nnd found employment in tho furni
ture factories. 'X-ntor, having saved
poino monoy, ho opened a cigar store.
Last year ho was named ,as a candi
date for common council, receiving the
Keystone and Democratic nomina
tion, ne stumped with tho Blanken
burg party nnd appealed particularly
to tho labor vote. Ho was elected to
tho common council from, tho Thirty
third ward by a majority of 1,200
votes.
Mayor Blankenburg leads a move
ment to turn back Uio resignation of
Councilman Burke. Whilo stating
that tho ncceptnnco of tho resignation
is a matter for Uio consideration of
councils, tho mayor says that this is
tho time for tho application of Uio
Golden Kulo.
WHEN THERE
IS ILLNESS
in your family you of course call
a reliable physician. Don't stop
at that; havo his prescriptions
put tin nt a reliable pharmacy,
even if it is a little farther from
your home than some other store.
You can find no more reliable
store than ours. It would be im
possible for more care to be taken
in the selection of drugs, etc., or
in the compounding. Prescrip
tions brought here, either night
or day, will be promptly and
accurately compounded by a
competent registered pharmacist
and the prices will be most rea
sonable. O. T. CHAMBERS,
PHARMACIST,
Opp. D. & II. Station. Honesdale. Pa.
STOCK HOLD Kits' NOT I CIO.
At a meeting of tho directors of
tho Honcsdalo DImo Bank, hold on
July 25, 1912, tho following resolu
tion was unanimously adopted:
"Kesolved, Thnt wo recommend
tho stockholders of tho HoncBdalo
Dlmo Bank to Increaso tho capital
stock of tho said bank from 575,000
to ?100,000."
In accordance with tho abovo res
olution n meeting of tho stockholders
Is called to convene at tho bank on
Thursday, tho 10th day of October,
1912, between tho hours of 3 and
1 o'clock in tho afternoon of tho
said day, to tako action on tlio ap
proval or disapproval of tho propos
ed Increase
Note: In the event of the stock
holders approving tho Increaso ar
recommended, the Board of DIrec
tors will fix the prlco for which tho
said stock shall be sold at 5200 per
share.
BEN'J. F. HAINES,
Secretary.
Honcsdalo, Pa., Aug. 5, 1912.
C3w9.
Bead The Citizen.
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! THAT WAYNE COUNTY CELEBRATION
Honesdale, Pa. Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, Aug, 27, 28, 29
Three great big gala days. Stupendous reward is offered to
tho individual or organization or relatives of said person or
party, that can discover a dull moment during tho three days.
HERE'S HOW YOU'RE ENTERTAINED i
TUESDAY Aug. 27
CIVIC AND GRANGE PARADE
Prize of $10. cash is offered for the best decorated
Civic float.
Prizes of $15 cash and second prize of $10. cash
is offered by the Business Men's Association for the
best decorated Grange Float; in addition to the above
offer the VVasburn Crosby Co. through the Wayne Mill
ing Co. offers a .sack of Gold Medal Flour for every
Grange, that enters the parade with a float.
For the best decorated carriage driven by a lady in tho
parade, two prizes: The first a Cut Glass Candelabra; second,
Cut Glass Vase.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28
FIREMEN'S DAY: Eight visiting and all the local
companies with their bands in line.
Hose laying contest for visiting companies. Prizes offered:
Cut Glass Wine Set.
Best Drilled visiting company in lino of parade: Cut Glass
Vase.
THURSDAY, AUG. 29
AUTO PARADE. Over two hundred
autos in line.
Prize of silver loving cup for the most original trimmed auto.
Also cut glass vase for most artistically trimmed auto. Prize
of Cut Glass Tunkard Jug for best trimmed auto driven by a
lady.
Prize of $10 cash is offered by the executive committee for
tho best decorated building front.
Excursion rates on the D. & H. with midnight trains leaving
Honesdale.
Music during the three days by Honesdale band. Maple City
Fife and Drum Corps and Jenkins' Boy band. Friends, if you
miss It you are going to have a grouch for days to come.
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Apples Aro a Doautlfier.
"If women knew that eating npplos
will do moro to mnko their comploxlons
beautiful than all tho fnco remedies In
tho world tlioy would eat thom morn
ing, noon and night," said U, Grant
Border of Baltimore in addressing tlio
International Shippers' association In
Chicago.
Caught Shark by Tail.
A 400 pound shark that had been
Bearing bathers wns recently captured
by Frank Van Horn, n lifo guard on
tho beach at Belraar, N. J. Van nom
rushed out into tho shallow water,
grabbed tho shark by tlio tall nud,
with the aid of Tom Shepard, suc
ceeded in bringing it ashore. The
shark, which was of tho hammerhead
eiKxdea, measured povon feet in length.
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