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10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1902. - CAUDUSdE COUNCIL Members- Meet; to Discuss . Important-Matters. SIDEWALK ORDINANCE FAVORED Franchise of Oregon Water Power &. Railway Company Will Meet Opposition UnleK CltyRe '. celvcs Remuneration Eight members of the Common Council held an Informal meeting yesterday after noon and considered a number of import ant .matters -which. tv111 come up at the regular session tomorrow. Among these were Councilman Rumelln'e sidewalk ordinance, and a similar ordinance for th East Side which will be proposed by Councilman Sharkey, tho opening of the last .span, of the. reconstructed portion of ihe Madteon-streer bridge as a city street, and" the application of the' Oregon "Water Power & Railway Company for a fran chise on East "Water street, from Haw thorne avenue to East Burnside street. All tho matters received indorsement ex cept the franchise which some of the Cbuncllmen said they would not vote for or against until they had an opportunity to study its provisions. The Councilman present were President Zimmerman and Jdtssrs. Albee, Rentier, Cardwell, Flcgelr Rumelin, Sharkey and Sigler. All had attended the usual meet ings' of their committees, and, after ad journment, they gathered in tho main committee room of the City Hall and talked over matters which are pending before the Council. ?lr, Rumelin brought up his sidewalk ordinance. "When" I propose3"lt,?- ho said, "I thought it would be. opposed by practical ly all tho district that It covers. However, nearly every citizen I have met says It Is "just what he wanted. I .Intend to amend it so that the names of Intersecting streets will be placed In the concrete at each corner." "You might amend it by making it ap plicable to the East Side also," suggested 3Ir. Sharkey. -Mr. Rumelin said that one or two per sons were opposed to the ordinance. A man asked him the other day when it would take effect, and he eaid Thursday morning. "Well," replied the man, T11 have 200 feet of board walk started be fore that time." Mr. Sharkey said that on the East Side a man was laying 100 feet of plank walk on a lot of old and decaying stringers. Cement and brick walks, as provided by Mr. Rumelln's ordinance, would be ac ceptable to a majority of the people on the East Side, and Mr. Bentley suggested that he prepare a similar measure. "I shall look over the territory tomor row, 'and see where the walks are needed, and I shall have the ordinance ready by Wednesday," he replied. "Go ahead," said Mr. Rumelin; "I'll support yours just as I will my own." Mr; Sharkey will frame an ordinance similar to Mr. Rumelin's in that he will select the greater portion of the business and residence districts and exempt prop erty where a filling of more than two feet may be required. Wnnt City Street Extended. The advantage to the county which would result from the conversion of the last eastern span of the Madison-street bridge into a city street was spoken of toy Mr. Bentley, in behalf of Burpee & O'Reilly, who own property on the water front north of the bridge. The burned spans had been replaced by a temporary structure, and the new wharf line runs to the second span. The new truss stands six feet within the property line, and tbr employes of the docks to be erected will have to drive around It. The matter was very important, as the. Oregon Water Power & Railway Company Intend to build extensive shops. Neither the com pany nor Burpee & O'Reilly wanted the truss in the middle of the street, and he r suggested that a resolution be adopted by - the Council and forwarded to the County Court. In the opinion of the Councllmen the county had nothing to lose and everything to gain by placing the span six feet or more from the property line. At present the county must pay for the improvement of the roadway up to Water street, and if it were made a street the abutting prcptrty-owners would ha'e to pay the costs. Water Street Franchise. The application of the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company for a' fran chiseon Water .street,' from Hawthorns avenue to Ea.vt Burnside street, was ir.ci dentally mentioned, and Mr. Flegel said he would, like to see a copy of the docu ment. He "did not Intend to vote .for the granting of a franchise of which he knew nothing. There, was an intimation, that the com-, pany- might hold the franchise until it became valuable, and. Mr. .igicrt 'said h was not in favor of granting it. "But the property-owners want it," remonstrated Mr. Sharkey. "Don't care if they do," -was the reply. 'The city must jjet something out of the franchise, or I won't yote for it.7 Mr.Bentley said the company would fill In a portion of the roadway over which the franchise is asked, and the officers had said they would haul 100,000 yards of dirt and sell it to the city at 12 cents per yard forOuse ln'-filling streets in other sections. S "jTow," said Mr. Rumelin, who had been listening to the conversation, "I want to tell you that years ago the city of East Portland granted .a franchise" to the Gen eral Electric Company "to operate a rail way,, on that street!'" "We might .revoke lhat franchise," said Mr. Flegei. There did not appear to be any doubt in the minds of the Councllmen that the franchise could be revoked, .as the rail way had never "been built. Mr. Bentley. said the operation of even one car did not constitute a railway, and other Council men 'said the City & Suburban had not given service on Its Second-street line for nearly a year. Mr. Flegel changed the subject by stat ing that the time for the Southern Pacific to. begin the improvement of Its portion of Fourth street had nearly expired, and no- work had been done. The company was to lay flanged rails and repair the pavement between Ana outside the tracks. An extension of six months had been granted it by the preceding Council and the tlmo was nearing an end. The matter will probably ba taken up at the meeting of the Council. PATIENT'S NARROW ESCAPE Philip Roerti Becomes Insensible and Undertaker Is Culled. Philip Roerti, an Italian who was re cently seriously" injured by an explosion in a quarry In the State of Washington June -22, had a-narrow escape last night at St. Vincent's-Hospital sanitarium from being handed over to an undertaker for burial. Yesterday was one of Roertl's bad days, and his brother -was with him. Suddenly the 'patient became afflicted with a bad case of lockjaw, and ultimately became Insensible. For some time the physicians could not arouse him, although they tried every means to do so. At one period he appeared to have passed away, and the sick man's brother gave up all hope, and, believing that Philip Roerti -was dead and gone, he telephoned to an undertaker to take away the body. Some little time after this, when .the .physicians; .were .still working with the patient, the telephone bell rang, and the undertaker's voice asked: "Ig that body ready yet? I'm coming up with the wagon. "What body?" asked the hospital at tendant. , "Philip Roertl's." "Why. he Is not dead yet. We have hopes of saving him." "What's that?" gasped the undertaker through the phone. "Somebody told me .that my services were wanted. Never mind. I'm glad he's going to live." In the meantime the sick man was brought to his senses, and wag placed back to bed, little dreaming, how nearly he had escaped being placed In an under taker's wagon. DANGER OF ERUPTIONS. So Cities Should A sain Be Bill It on Xortheaxt Martinique. FORT DE FRANCE. Island of Marti nique. July 10. (Correspondence of the Associated Presa)-In an Interview to day with a representative of the Asso ciated Press, James A. Jaggar, Jr., as sistant geologist to the United States Geological Survey, who has been inves tigating volcanic conditions in the West Indies), said: "I have been fortunate in seeing a real eruption before I go, and the eruption of last night, July 9, seems to have been a very characteristic one. Mount Pelee has Impressed me as being much more venomous looking than the Souffriere of St. Vincent. The question has been con stantly asked me, 'Do you not think it Is finished now? Now, is not the danger over?' "I have always answered: 'The moun tain at thlo moment appears calm and the dust columns that one sees from time to time are largely due to landslides from the crater into the head of Riviere Blanche. The eruption of last night -was to be expected. We may expect many more before so hot and vigorous a steam engine as Mount Pelee comes to rest.' "A diagnosis of the real dlmlnishment In activity can be made after the moun tain has been watched a year and all its movements recorded. After watching events here since May 21 I do not think a single habitation northwest of the line from Bcllefontalne to Vive is safe to live In at present. I do not think that Carbet, Fonds-St. Denis, Morne-Rouge or Basse-Point are safe at present. Not that there is any immediate danger, but I believe that the action of Mount Pelee Is too uncertain for us to be assured that a future eruption may not occur to "wind ward. "The greater .part of destruction wrought by the Souffriere In St. Vincent was on the windward or eastern side, and Mount Pelee is In many respects a twin sister to the St. Vincent volcano. I gave the same advice without hesitation at St. Vincent, although the Souffriere there was much quieter than at Mount Pelee. I know well that causing people to movo from all these villages and habitations will produce great inconvenience, but the alternative Is a risk of human life. When the mountain is entirely cold and tho people are protected by a properly equipped experiment station, with devices to signal danger, they may, with certain restrictions, return to the volcanic lands. No city should ever again, however, be built on the northeast end of the island. "I do not think that Fort de France Is In any danger from the volcano. Most of the towns In the West Indies are equally in danger from tidal waves. It would take an explosion from Mount Pelee of enormously greater dimensions than anything that has happened as yet to make a wave which would harm Fort de France. No evidence exists of augmenting violence In the eruptions hitherto which would lead to the supposition that a Kraktoa explo sion Is coming here. In comparison Mount Pelee is rather a small volcano. This is all I can say about danger." GREENE AND GAYNOR. Discreditable Acts Are Many in the Captain Carter Affair. Minneapolis Tribune. News comes from Washington that tho case of Greene and Gaynor, whose extra dition from Canada is sought by the United States Government, Is to be made the occasion of diplomatic correspondence with the British Government. This Intro duces a new phase of a long and remark able conflict between the justice of the nation and the power of money stolen from It. Greene and Gaynor are contract ors who conspired with Captain Carter, now serving a term In Leavenworth mili tary prison, to defraud the Government in river and harbor work at Savannah. They got more than .52.000,000 among them, which they have been spending liberally for the last three years In employing high priced counsel, trying to corrupt the courts and subsidizing newspapers to poison pub lic opinion. Carter's trial attracted a deal of pub lic attention, as much from the rarity of corruption in the engineer corps as from the powerful efforts made to clear him by the use of money and social Influence. It is probable that he could not be convicted In any civil court, but the military court brushed aside technicalities and took a straight cut to Justice, and the Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal. After ahe criminal prosecution, the Government began civil suit to recover the stolen money, and this led to a remarkably Im pudent attempt on the part of Carter's relatives and friends, who are understood to be custodians of It, to compound for his release on the return of part of it. The whole case has afforded the most amazing example of the arrogance of rich criminals ever seen in the history of American trials. This gang of thieves seem to have thought that nobody, from the Secretary of War down to the mean est process server, could resist their stolen money and the social pull of their Army tool, and they had success enough outside of the Army to confirm their error. Their most remarkable success has been In Canada, where courts and government seem to be built on a different plan. Crim inal suits were brought against the con tractors, in civil courts of course, for embezzlement of public funds, arid Greene and Gaynor took refuge In Canada. There was a fierce legal battle over their extra dition, which Included an exciting chase of the American officers in custody of the embezzlers by Canadian officers with a writ of habeas -corpus from Quebec to Montreal. The subsequent proceedings at the latter place has escaped attention in this country till the Attorney-General at' Washington asked the Secretary of State to take the matter up with the Imperial government, upon a most remarkable statement of the attitude of high Canad ian officials. It appears that the boodlers have been spending their money as generously In Canada as they did In the United States. They have employed as counsel fit mo of lawyers to which belong the highest offi cials of the provincial and Dominion gov ernments; and the officers of our Depart ment of Justice say frankly that the powerful political influence of these offi cials has obstructed proceedings for extra dition at every turn of the case. This Is an extraordinary accusation for the law officers of one government to bring against those of another, and It could hardly be made without strong provocation. The charge Is repeated by the Attorney-General In his communication to thn nonro tary of State, in terms wiilch would beJ considered Insulting, were they used with reference to Morocco or Bulgaria. It may be imagined that the communi cation will cause some irritation In Can ada. But the Imperial government cannot refuso to take the matter up and. If it should find the statements jvell founded, to direct the extradition of Greene and Gaynor. Our extradition treaty is with Great Britain, not with Canada, and Great Britain must enforce it upon her colony. This is another Instance, like so many in our reciprocity negotiations and 'boundary disputes, of the difficulty of doing business with a semi-Independent dependency. CUBAN CONGRESS' WORK PRESIDENT AUTHORIZED TO BOR ROW $35tO00,O0Q GOLD. Evident Purpose Is to Get It In Unit ed States Duty on Certain Ar ticles May Be Increased. NEW YORK. Aug. -L The first Import ant work of the Cuban Congress Is ap proaching a conclusion after a. sitting of a little more than two months. At Sat urday night's session of the Senate the way was prepared for circulating $35,000, 000 throughout the Island by substantially approving the House bill for the circula tion of this amount. The money. It Is believed, wlli have the effect of reliev ing considerably the present crisis. The Cuban Congress considers It advis able to aid the sugar planters pending efforts to obtain reciprocity at the next session of the American Congress. The necessity is also recognized of paying the debts contracted by the Cuban Junta of New York, in aid of the last revolution. OREGON PHYSICIAN RECEIVES IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT. DR. CLAREXCE CRANE, FORMERLY OF SALEM. Dr. Clarence Crane, who was recently appointed to the Important position of superintendent of the Burrage hospital, situated on Bumkin Island, In Boston Harbor, was born In Salem. Or., in 1S72, and Is a grandson of the late Hon. A. A McCully. one of the early and st urdy pioneers of the Pacific Coast. Dr. Crane passed his boyhood days in Salem and San Francisco, and after completing his education In 16SS be came to FortI and. and was associated in business with A. B. Croasman, now Postmaster of the .city, for eight years. Six years ago he entered the Boston University School of Medicine, and he received bis diploma four years later. He practiced his profession in the hospitals, and the City of Boston until be was appointed to take, charge of the Burrage Hospital, where he will have supervision over a large corps of physicians. His appointment Is sldered a tribute to his standing as a physician, and the Boston papers speak highly of his qualifications for such an Important charge. and to pay tho liberating army. Authority has been granted for the appointment of a commission to fix and pay the amount duo tho army. Goncral Maximo Gomez probably wlli be the chairman. President Palma will be authorized to borrow 535,000,030 In American gold and lasuo national 30-year 5 per cent bonds within six months. Four million dollars will be applied to the aid of the cane growers and tho agricultural and cattle Industry generally. The money will be loaned at the rate of 50 cents for every 2500 pounds of sugar grown In the last crop. The money Is to be repaid in Feb ruary. March or April df next year, draw ing 6 per cent Interest. The bondholders will have the custom-house receipts as a guarantee for the repayment of the KO00.O00. President Palma will be authorized to increase tho tariff duties on certain arti cles accordingly. ( Tho rest of the 535.000,000 loan will be used for the payment of debts contracted by the New York Junta to support the revolution, amounting to about $3,000,000, also for payments of the services of the army, amounting to 523.000.000. To bring this loan within the terms of the Piatt amendment and other provisions of the Cuban Constitution, the present Congress, before adjourning, will provide a way to pay interest and will establish a sinking fund to redeem the principal. This prob ably will be done by means of a stamp tax. Any balance of the loan will be applied to agriculture at the discretion of Congresa The foregoing has been substantially approved by Congress, only the details remaining for discussion, which will begin Monday In public sessions. It Is believed such a loan can be negotiated and taken care of without great difficulty. It will be Cuba's only national debt. Business de pression in the towns and poverty In the country aro not decreasing. There have been 12S business failures In the last 12 months, against 23 the year before. Blc Loan Antliorlscd. WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. The State De partment has received the following cable gram from ' Minister Squlers, dated Ha vana, August 4: "The House has passed a bill authorizing a loan of 535.000,000; minimum rate of Is sue, 90 per cent. Maximum Interest 5 per cent, redeemable. In 40 years." Under the Piatt amendment the United States is bound to take cognizance of every action of the Cuban Government re lating to loans. Article 2 of that amend ment provides: "That said government shall not as sume or contract any public debt to pay the Interest upon which and to make rea sonable sinking fund provision for the ultimate discharge of which the ordinary revenues of the Island of Cuba, after de fraylngthe current expenses of the gov ernment, shall be Inadequate." No computation has been made t'o ascerr tain whether or not the loan provided for in the bill which Minister Squlers refers to trespasses upon this provision of the Piatt amendment, but it is presumed that the Cuban revenues can pay the Inter est and provide a sinking fund beside de fraying tho ordinary expenses of the government, as provided In the amend ment. At tho same time It will no doubt be found very difficult to Interject this particular provision, as the question of revenues may fluctuate according to the conditions in the Island. It is known that the Intention of article 2 was to pro vide against any extraordinary Issue of bonds for the purpose of redeeming the bonds of the so-called republic previous to tho Spanish-American War, and the pay ment of large bounties to those who had taken part in the insurrection against Spain. It was Intended as a check upon the Cuban Government In the matter of incurring Indebtedness, although it carries no provision indicating what would be the action of the United States should the Cuban Government exceed the indebted ness prohibited by the amendment. Neither Is there anything in the amend ment Indicating what steps the United States would take to determine whether the Indebtedness was beyond the proscrip tion or whether It would prevent the In curring of such Indebtedness. Spanish-Cubans Celebrate. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, lA.ug. 4. There was a great celebration by the Spanish colony here yesterday on the occasion of the opening of the Centenro Bencfico Hospital In the building formerly used as headquarters by the American officers. The ceremonies were conducted by the archbishop of Santiago de Cuba. This was the first demonstration of Spaniards here since the Spanish-American War. BEETLE JEWELRY. Ornaments Devised From the Shells of A'lcnraffuan Insects. New York Evening Post. There seems to be no connection be tween statesmanship and fashions, at least at first sight. As a matter of fact, nearly every move In the world's dlplo- macy is accompanied by novelties nnd changes in woman's attire. The entente between France and Russia revolutionized modes and replaced the corsage with the Russian blouse. Our growing Intercourse with Nicaragua has brought into the mar ket some of the odd beetle jewelry for which that country Is famous. Not alone Nicaragua, but all of the Central American republics are wonder fully rich In insect life. Both butterflies and beetles are marked by the most mag nificent colorings known to entomology. The aborigines utilized many of the beet les for decorative purposes and their Span ish conquesors adopted the beautiful or naments. The favorite beetles the writer has found to be of three classes. One Is about the same, shape and size as the Egyptian" scarab, though a trifle, flatter and very much stronger. It Is coated with a green enamel of metallic luster, which looks like a gem from some other planet. The Indians cure the beetle by drying and smoking, and mount It with golden legs.- This Is set upon a disk of white stone, carnellan, milk quartz, or even por celain, which. In turn. Is rimmed with gold. This Is employed as a brooch, cuff button or breastpin. Sometimes the beetle is mounted upon a thin plate of gold or silver, and Is used as an earring. The second class of beetles are of the same general outline as the tumble-bug, buVhelr wing cases are of- rich, change able purple, blue and green, with metallic luster. The tlntfc-varies with the angle at which the light strikes the surface. They are not as strong as the scarab, and are employed for making necklaces and brace lets". Three or four are fastened together so as to form a bead, and a number q( these beads arcstrung upon elastic cord or gold wire. When around a snowy neck or wrist they make a--wonderfully striking display of color and light. .Billy Smith Hits n Policeman. It leaked out yesterday that "Myste rious" Billy Smith, the prizefighter, black ened ono of tho eyes of Policeman Blg gers last Sunday at the Italian picnic held in the Canyon Gardens, but up to a late hour last night the "mysterious" one had not been arrested. Police Sergeant Church Is now pursuing an Investigation. There arc two sides to the story, the Smith crowd asserting that BIggers tried to as sault Smith with a pair of steelhandcuffs, while the BIggers crowd state that the assault by Smith was entirely unpro voked. It seems that Smith was suddenly smitten with an Intense desire to gaze upon the countenance of a young man named Houghton, and that he stopped BIggers and asked him if he had seen Houghton. BIggers replied that he had not. and the two men got Into a squab ble through a misunderstanding, and sud denly Smith smote the policeman In the eye. A detective who was standing near Immediately separated the two men and took Smith outside the picnic grounds. It is stated that the reason why Smith has not been arrested is because Biggers has not made a complaint against Jum. - Xnns .Lenvlnjj Frnnce. NEW YORK. Aug. 4. Eight Franciscan nuns who left France because of the re ligious associations law have arrived here. They are on their way to Canada. POUTLAXD-CUICAGO. Seventy hours and thirty minutes (70$) Is the time of the "Chicago-Portland Spe cial" from Portland to Chicago. Leaves Portland every day at 9 A. M. Ticket office Third and Washington. O. R. & N. Co. Prompt relief in sick headache, dizzi ness, nausea, constipation, pain In the side, guaranteed to those using Carter's Little Liver Pills. FROZEN THE YEAR AROUND TWO WONDERFUL LAKES DISCOV ERED IX BAKER COUNTY. Located !H"ear Baker, City in a Very Wild Portion of tie Granite Mountains. BAKER CITY. Or., Aug. L (Special.) Two lakes covered with Ice at all times of the year have just been discovered In Baker County. C. M. Sage, a business man of this city, on Sunday, July 27, crossed two good-sized lakes In the Gran ite Mountains, some miles northeast of Cornucopia, In Baker County, on' hard- frozen ice. Mr. Sage, with a party of friends, went on a hunting and. pleasure trip to the almost inaccessible mountain peaks .back of the town of Cornucopia, In the Panhandle district of Baker County. The mountains are high and rugged, and before " passing the timber line the ex plorer must find his way through a pri meval forest. A packhorse Is the only means of getting into this dlstirct, except to trudge along on foot, which, to say the least. Is uphill business. One part of the road is so encumbered by fallen trees that It Is almost Impossible to get through. In order to get supplies to their claims, two prospectors -were obliged to cut a trail through this tangle of fallen trees, and It was by means of this trail that Mr. Sage and his friends were enabled to as cend the mountains, until they finally dis covered the two frozen lakes referred to. The lakes are near the summit on tne north side of the mountain, nnd In order to reach them the party traveled over Ice and snow for a distance of live miles. The bodies of water are small. One Is about 150 feet across, and 700 feet in diam eter, and the other Is between 600 and 700 feet In diameter. They are well -defined lakes or pool3, however, covered With a thick coat ing of Ice, clear as crystal, and as smooth as glass, which Is so thick and strong that the exploring party did not hesitate to ride across on horseback and load their pack animals. Mr. Sage says so far as he Is able to judge the Ice on the lakes never melts, because they are so situated behind, two tall peaks that the sun's rays never strike them with sufficient power to make any Impression on the snow and ice. This land of perpetual snow and Ice is within a day's ride of Baker City by the present means of transportation, part way on a buckboard and the rest on horseback. It would scarcely be more than a ride of an hour and a half on an electric railroad, which Is entirely practical and among both the probabilities and possibilities of the future, xne scenery on the road to the summit Is attractive, alike to the tourist In search of pleasure, and the scientist In search of knowledge. There are a number of fine gold and copper prospects In the mountains, both below and above the frozen lakes, and In the course of time there will evidently be some very rich mines opened up in this unexplored re gion. Mr. Sage Is of the opinion that from the lay of the country other larger and more picturesque lakes with perpetual Ice will be discovered. HANNA GETS A CANE. And He Mnlces a. Speech Declaring High. Ambition. CLEVELAND, O.. Aug. 4. The 700 or S00 employes of the Cleveland City Rail way Company, of which Senator Hanna Is president, met in a down-town nan to night and presented to Senator Hanna a valuable cane. In acknowledging tne gift. Senator Hanna expressed his sincere thanks to his employes for their gut, ana spoke of the rela'tlons that he hopes soon to see exist between capital and labor. In part he said: "I cannot adequately express my feel ings on this occasion. It has been the one ambition of my life to merit the re spect. If not the affection, of the men In my employ. I have been with laboring men all my life, and have been their em ployer for many years, and this night means something to me, for It brings with it the satisfaction of knowing that so large a number of men In my employ have been satisfied with my career as an em ployer. "Your chairman has referred to the Civic Federation. I say to you that were It not for my olliclal position and my duties as a public servant, I would devote more time to the policies on which that organ ization is founded." Concerning the anthracite strlket Sen ator Hanna said: "When the great anthracite strike was threatening, our federation worked hard for weeks to avert It to bring men and employers together but failed. After It was on, we worked hard to settle It, but failed. However, In that matter It Is my personal satisfaction to know the state ment that I made at the time that the men would not go back on their word, has been kept, and that a sympa thetic strike has been averted. I told tho federation that there would be no sympathetic strike among the bitumin ous miners. "I believe in manhood. Labor organiza tions are not things which can be sued for breach of contract. They have no cor porate existence. But I would rather have the promise of a laboring man, backed only by his sense of honor and his man hood, than any agreement which might be enforced by law. "Manhood and Integrity are the same, whether they belong to a miner, a street railway man or a boss. For myself, I have no higher ambition than to work for the purpose of bringing .capital and la bor nearer together and live out my life In Cleveland, where I have lived for 52 years." Vanderbllt-Xcllacn Engagement. NEWPORT. R. I.. Aug. 4. The encace ment of Rccrlnaid Vanderbllt and Miss Cathleen Gebard Nel'son was formally announced this afternoon by cards sent out by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbllt. mother of the yountr man. and Mrs. Frederick Nellson. mother of the prospective bride. 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