THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1913.
PAGE THREE
COL Q. W. GOETHALS CIVIL
GOVERNOR OF CANAL ZONE.
President Appoint! Chief Engineer to
High Poet and Urges Reward.
President Tnft hns tendered to Colo
' nel G. TV. Goethals, U. S. A., chlof en
gineer of tho rnnnina canal and tho
colonel has acceptod the post of civil
governor of the canal xone.
Tho change of government on the
Isthmus will take place probably In
the spring. Colonel Goethals will serve
as civil governor until tho canal Is for
mally opened on Jan. 1, 1015.
Tho first vessol will bo sent through
tho canal, barring tho unforeseen, Sept
2C, 1013, on the fpur hundredth anni
versary of the discovery of tho Taclflc.
From then until tho formal opening
the canal will bo operated as a "sam
ple" for tho training of the operating
force, tho getting of everything In final
shlpshapo, etc.
Tho canal, according to Colonel Goe
thals, Is now moro than 75 per cent
completed, and July 1 next will seo It
ready for the turning In of tho water.
It Is apprehended that the entrance
and presonce of the water may cause
1 some further slide of the treacherous
bnnbit, particularly at the Culebra cut,
but the expectation Is that the dredges
can take care by July 1 of tho material
thus doposltcd In the big ditch.
As Indicated some time ago, Colonel
Goethals Intends, when the canal Is
going, to retire from the government
service and settle In New York as a
consulting engineer, with the Idea of
making some money for his family.
Mcantlmo President Taft has askod
congress to reward tho colonel's work
on tho Isthmus by promoting him to bo
a major general In tho army.
SPENDS $1,000,000 ON FUN.
Woman Who Hat "Lucky" Baldwin'o
Money Proves Prodigal Spender.
After having spent 51,000,000 within
six months Mrs. Clura Baldwin Stock
er, who has already received 51.500,000
from tho "Lucky" Baldwin estate and
will soon get 510,000,0000 more, has ar
rived In Los Angeles from Chicago In
her prlvato car, for which sho paid
$40,000.
Sho carried with hor tho first install
ment of hor purchases, Including $150,
000 worth of diamonds In a variety of
settings and $20,000 worth of gold and
silver ware. She also has n wardrobe
which cost her about $100,000.
Following by express are prized arti
cles of furniture, unique lamps and
other treasures. Another Item In her
expenditures Is a ?200,000 yacht. Her
now automobiles cost $20,000.
"I am going to have the very best
sort of a good time," sho said. "What
Is money for If it is not to glvo ono ac
cess to real enjoyment of life? I have
already started to have my good time.
I'm having It, nnd I'm going to have
still moro of it. I'm going to have all
tho good time that money will buy.
Lavish in my purchases? Of course.
( But lavish as it seems I'm going to be
still moro so, for I'm going to have n
really good time."
Her car, which was built to her order,
was delivered to her Sunday, and Mon
day sho left Chicago for Los Angeles,
Cal, accompanied by her husband, Har
ry Randolph Stockcr, nnd Mr. nnd Mrs.
L. Wilson of Chicago, intimate friends.
MISS SEARS' $100,000 PEARLS
Doting Grandfather Gives Qrand Neok
lace to Young Heiress.
Miss Phyllis Sears, who is soon to
make her debut, will receive a $100,
000 necklace from her grandfather,
Francis Bartlett of Boston.
Miss Sears is the daughter of Her
bert M. Sears. She and hor sister,
Miss Lilly, who is to bo married to
Bayard Warren, are tho favorites of
their wealthy grandfather,
j It is understood that Miss Phyllis
will not wear the necklace until the
night of her coming out party. Her
grandfather is in feeble health. It Is
his ambition that his granddaughter's
shall be the most elaborate debut in
Boston's social history, and the gift of
pearls is his first step.
Miss Phyllis, who is ono of the best
girl tennis players in tho country, is
the coosln of Miss Eleonora Sears.
HANGS HERSELF IN A CELL.
Woman Held on Theft Charge Cannot
Bear Disgraoe.
Mrs. Lillian Scott, awaiting trial In
New York on n chargo of grand lar
ceny, committed sulcido by hanglDg
herself in her cell. Sho had used a
bod sheet tied to a water pipe near the
ceiling of tho cell.
Mrs. Scott had been nccusod by Mrs.
Olive Searles of Brooklyn of stealing
a fur coat valued at $1,800, a seal muff
worth $200 and a diamond brooch
while lifcharge of Mrs. Scarlo's house
during the lntter's absence in Europe.
Her examination had been set in the
Harlem court.
Mrs. KonrlpB an Ipnmfni nt Hin trap.
. - ? - - - n v. r
edy, was prostrated. Sho said sho
would gladly have sacrificed tho stolen
goods rather than have tho woman kill
herself.
Flying to India.
The English aviator Cody is making
plans to take part in the llight from
London to India. This event has lately
keen organized and Is likely to bo of
great Interest on account of tho unusu
al length of tho trip. Several impor
tant prizes aro to be awarded for tho
flights. However, the organizers are
likely to postpone the event for somo
time owing to tho fact that tho original
nath lies across the Balkans.
CRIEITY IN PERU
THAT FOUND
American Investigator Has
Shocking Report of the
Rubber Atrocities,
REMARKABLE stories of Peru
were brought to this country
recently by two expeditions
which had gone on different
missions into tho fastnesses of the
South American country. Tho heads
of theoo expeditions wero Stuart Fuller,
formerly American consul at Gotoborg,
Sweden, who was detached to make an
Investigation of the alleged cruelties
practiced upon tho Indians in tho Pu
tumayo rubber district, and Professor
Hiram Bingham of Yale, who searched
for pre-Inca remains.
Both these gentlemen told of horri
ble conditions in the southern cllmo.
Mr. Fuller declined to tell tho nature
of ui:i report, which ho sent to Wash
ington, but ho said that the Investiga
tion revealed n greater barbarism in
tho treatment of tho Peruvian Indians
thun that practiced In the Kongo.
Mr. Fuller iutlmnted that the Monroe
doctrine might be invoked in the Putu
mayo situation, no was unablo to say
what .the procedure might bo, as the
United States never had faced a situa
tion like It. In the case of tho Kongo
outrages this country was concerned
because of the autlslavery treaties.
District Along Amazon.
The Putumayo district is a remote
region at tho headwaters of tho Ama
zon to tho east of tho Andes moun
tains, which separate It from Lima,
Pom. Tho region can only bo reach
ed from that city by traveling north
via Panama and thence to the moutli
of the Amazon, continuing to Iqultos,
tho most important inland city of the
entire section, and thou still farther in
land. In 1S0O the rubber possibilities of
tho region were first discovered, and
the concession for collecting the sap
was given by the Peruvian govern
ment to tho Arana Bros. The district
was inhabited by a harmless,' peaceful
race of Indians, who were employed
In tapping the trees and collecting the
milk.
A campaign of most wasteful ex
ploitation of tho rubber possibilities
followed, in which tho Indians were
reduced to n state of slavery by tho
most shockingly barbaric methods.
Results only wore asked without re
gard to tho future development of the
rubber possibilities.
Not only men, but women and chil
dren, wero expected to furnish their
share of tho supply or suffer tho most
horrlblo torture.
In 1005 thlrty-Blx Barbadian negroes,
British subjects, wero imported as dep
uties, and the cruelty increased.
About this timo the rubber conces
sion was sold to the Peruvian Amazon
company, a British trading concern of
good standing. It is not known wheth
er it had any knowledgo of tho means
employed to produce results, but tho
Bystem continued.
' Unbelievable Tortures.
Tho list of tortures and methods of
cruelty used is too long for publica
tion. Indians who couldnt or didn't
produce rubber wero suspended with
their arms twisted and bound over
their heads and their feet swinging
while they were flogged. Two hun
dred lashes a day constituted no un
usual flogging.
Pouring kerosene over tho bodies of
JUST LOOK AT
OF QUR FRISKY
Now York, Jan. 4. Dan Beard, artist
and boy scout, on opening a package
received by parcel post-at his homo, in
Flushing, found the carcass of a sleek,
fat opossum ready for roasting.
Tho possum was a gift to Artist
Beard from his friend, Ernest Thomp
son Seton, and was sent by Mr. Soton
from his country place, "Windy Gould,"
nt Cos Cob, Conn. Mr. Beard intends
holding a foast, to which a select num
ber will be invited.
Gary, Ind., Dec. 30. Parcel post trou
bles at tho Gary postofilco began today.
W. II. F. Parry, a brick dealer, sent
two big wagonloads of heavy paving
bricks to be mailed out tho first thing
Wednesday morning. Thoro wero 1,000
bricks, each wrapped separately. Their
total weight was 0,000 pounds. The
bricks aro being mailed out as samples.
When tho wagons arrived Postmaster
John W. Call and Chief Clerk Joseph
Tracoy began to carry in tho bricks,
but they gave out after two hours' la
bor and other clerks had to be put at
the job.
Harrington, Del., Jan. 3. While solv
ing for poultrymen the vexatious prob
lem of how to batch chickens in winter
Joslah Hopkins, who lives near here,
presonted n now puzzlo for postal offi
cials to solve.
As Now Year'a gift to a favorite
WORSE THAN
ALONG TOE KONGO
Another Expedition, Brings
Back Fifty Pre-lncan
Skulls and Bones.
men and women and setting them
afire was a pastime. Many were burn
ed at the stake.
Professor Hiram Bingham, who had
been on an exploring expedition for six
months in Peru, searching for pro-Iuca
remains in the region of the Andes, re
turned, accompanied by Professor Her
bert T. Gregory and Dr. George F.
Eaton, both also of Yale. The expedi
tion originally had eleven members,
and all but two have now returned.
Professor Bingham, who looked as
palo as a yellow fever immuno, said
that the interior of southern Peru was
being desolated by a succession of
plagues, including smallpox and ty
phus fever, and that the government
was taking few steps to check tho
ravages of the scourges. Dr. Eaton
was 111 with camp fever, nnd Profes
sor Gregory was also incapacitated
from work for several weeks.
Professor Bingham brought back
with him fifty human skulls of a pre
lncan period and many skeletons, as
well as thirty enses of curiously
wrought bronze tablets nnd pieces of
pottery, nnd Dr. Eaton collected fifty
cases of bones to be sent on later, nnd
the fossilized skeleton of a prehistoric
horse. Professor Bingham nearly lost
his life on one occasion when his mules
stampeded nnd the Indians forsook
him. He was for two days and nights
roaming about on tho slopes of the
snow clad mountain, Pnlcoi, with bare
ly any food and the chauco of being
dovoured by wild animals If he lay
down and went to sleep.
Was Third Expedition.
This was Professor Bingham's third
expedition to Peru, nnd Its object, ho
said, was to intensify tho work that
had been left incomplete. This time
ho was able to devote considerable
tlmo to tho examination of tho remains
of the 150 one story stone dwellings,
temples nnd city walls of the ancient
city of the Peruvian tribesmen, known
as Machu Picchu, constructed of carved
white stone, and $2,000 was expended
in excavating parts of the ruins of tho
city which had become covered with
heavy undergrowth.
At Machu Picchu were found the fos
silized bones of prehistoric man, skulls
and skeletons worn down to dust and
hardly distinguishable from the gravel
in which they were found. Professor
Bingham has brought back with him
several bronze tablets to seo whether
tho quality nnd shape of them and tho
characters on them may lead to more
being learned nbout the original in
habitants of this continent.
Opposition by tho government of
Peru was so continuous nnd bo severe
nnd uncalled for, Professor Bingham
said, that it was improbable that tho
scientific work they had begun would
bo continued.
"We hnd great difficulty," tho pro
fessor said, "In getting our cases of
specimens out of the country and were
delayed seven weeks by tho tedious ob
jections of tho Peruvian government.
At first the officials would not nllow
us to take anything nt all; then they
snld that wo could take half of what
we had; then they permitted us to
tako what they did not want. At last
they wero persuaded to let us tako all
tho bones and fossils which we had
collected, but tho decreo of tho gov
ernment was as insulting as it possibly
could be."
THESE CAPERS
NEW PARCEL POST
granddaughter In a down state town
Hopkins packiid two dozen eggs In a
flreloss cooker and mailed them by par
cel post on Wednesday. When tho
package nrrlved twenty fluffy chickens
appeared, very much allve together
with four dead ones.
The postmaster at the receiving office
did not believe baby chickens were
mailable under the new law, but he
delivered them to tho addressee rather
than disappoint her.
Downlngtown, Pa., Jan. 8. Upon
opening a bag of mail this morning
Postmaster Joslah Philips found that in
transit tho lid of a can of sauerkraut
sont by parcel post had been knocked
off and the contents spilled through tho
mass of mall matter.
Needless to aay there was no scram
ble on tho part of tho ofllco force for
tho privilege of sorting tho mail in this
particular pouch.
Washington, Jan. 3. Senator Atlee
Pomercne of Ohio is seeking for a sen
ate ofllco building employee who left a
smeary package of scrambled eggs on
his mahogany desk yesterciy. They
were not cooked, and they spread them
selves over tho adjacent territory.
Tho egg3 wero youthful, fresh qd in
tact when they stnrtcd out from Alas
stlloa, O., by way of parcel pvtS to
gladden the heart of tho senator.
PHILOSOPHICAL NOVEL
BY FERRER0 IS UNIQUE.
Contrasts Old and New World In Clev
er D'ologuo Based on Tour,
The literary sensation In Paris is tho
publication of a philosophical novel on
America by Guglielmo Ferrero, tho
first installment of which appears in
the Revue des Deux Mondes. The
work, which is entitled "Entre Les
Deux Mondes." In the first of Its kind
ever attempted by Slgnor Ferrero,
whose literary activities have hitherto
been confined to historical writings.
Interest in the new book therefore is
extremely keen, especially as it is writ
ten throughout in dialogue form, ad
mittedly the most difficult style to
adopt for a work of such scope. The
idea first occurred to Signor Ferrero
when he returned from Buenos Aires
after a lecturing tour In 1000. At din
ner on thu boat the discussion turned
on thi? civilization df the new world ns
rominred with that of the old. Slgnor
Feriein'a wife, who is very conserva
tive, took up the cudgels on behalf of
tho civilization of the old world, and
the conversation became keen and ani
mated. Slgnor Ferrero was struck with the
possibilities of n book In which would
bo oupo.jed the two conceptions of life,
that which until tho French revolution
dominated the world and that which
for tho pant century had tended to tako
Its place and which finds tho highest
expression In the United States. He
also folt that the best manner of Illus
trating the two conceptions would bo
in the form of an after dinner dlajogue
on shipboard.
One of the characters In the book Is
drawn from real life. He is an engi
neer who after making a fortune in
Argsntlna returned to Europe at the
ago of forty-five to devote himself to
the refinements of the old world.
"Ha was a well balanced, refined
character, independent, .noble and sa
gacious," gays Slgnor Ferrero. "His
Influence on me was very groat I've
made him the center of tho discussion
on board hlp, and he it is who sums
up at the end."
Slgnor Ferrero began the work on his
return from the United States In 1000,
when he paid a visit at President
Roosevelt's Invitation, but tho difficul
ties he found In representing living per
sona in philosophical form and In keep
ing the discussion vivacious retarded
its completion.
"AUTOMOBILE FOOT" ARRIVES.
New Ailment Due to Too Much Rid
ing and Not Enough Walking.
The "automobile foot" has developed
In St. Louis. The cause is the opposite
of that of tho policeman's fiat foot,
which In caused by too much walking.
Thecnuse of the automobile foot is
too' little walking. But tho effect Is
the same. Like the policeman's ail
ment, lately described and discussed
by specialists, It causes pains which
may be mistaken for those of rheu
matism. Dr. Alexander Block, who Is a foot
specialist, told a reporter that the mo
torcar is playing havoc with the hu
man foot.
"When one becomes the owner of an
automobile." he said, "tho Infatuation
for it Is so great that the autolst does
not walk enough to support the natural
weight of the body. Then, through
In.ck of exercise, surplus weight of the
body is taken on, and this extra weight
Increases while the strength of the foot
decreases."
PARACHUTE FOR AEROPLANES
Device Is Testod on Machine Drepped
From Eiffel Tower.
An ingenious automatic parachute
for aeroplanes was demonstrated from
tho Eiffel tower. The contrivance,
which consists of a vast umbrella forty
feet in diameter, is spread by a system
of springs operating instantaneously
and automatically directly tho fall be
gins. The parachute was dropped from tho
first platform of tho tower with a sand
bag to represent an aviator. The appa
ratus opened fully beforo it had fallen
sixty foot. It landed gently, taking six
teen seconds to drop 100 feet.
Survives Ten Story Fall.
A fall through tho elevator shaft
from tho tenth floor to tho basement
at 100 Seventh avenue, New York city,
failed to kill Max Hoffman of 548 West
Ono Hundred and Elgtby-fourth street,
of L. Ha ram el & Co., leather goods,
but physicians In St. Vincent's hos
pital, where he was taken unconscious,
say he cannot recover.
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Gold heels for women's shoes is the
Intest Paris fad.
A suffragette made n voiceless speech
fn Fifth avenue.
Grounds For Divorce. Pittsburgh
preacher wouldn't let hl&jjvifo take a
tiath on account of tho eJBpnse.
So realistic was the mjHng picture
of a dog at tho Grotto theilter In Iteids
vllle, N. C the other night that Post
master Joyce's thoroughbred hound
jumped up on tho stago and ran round
barking after the picture dog. Before
bo could be restrained he had demolish'
k1 tho screen.
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