THE MORNING OREGONIATT. 3IONDAY, JULY 23, 1906.
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BRYAN
HAS SCARED
SOUND MONEY
Free, Silver Talk in London
Puts a Damper on His
Presidential Boom.
CONSERVATIVES ARE DUMB
Delphic Utterances of the New York
Sun Are Generally looked Upon
as Pointing to Hearst as
the Democratic Leader.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, July 22. "The next Governor of
New York will be a Democrat.
"The next Governor of New York will
be the next President of the United
States."
Thus spoke the oracle of the New York
Sun, Republican.
"No Democrat will be elected Governor
of New York this year.
"No Democrat will be elected President
in 1908."
Thus replied the oracle of the New
York World, Democratic.
Eastern politicians have been guessing
for a week as to what the Sun meant
by Its prediction, and no one has a satis
factory answer. Indeed, political observ
ers, with few exceptions, believe that the
World Is right, at least so far as the
Governorship Is concerned, for it Is a
foregone conclusion that there will be two
Democratic tickets in the field in New
York this Fall and only one Republican.
Division Among the Democrats.
William R. Hearst has announced that
he will run for Governor as an Inde
pendent Democrat; the regular Demo
cratic organisation says it will put its
own ticket in the field. But while this
conflict Is brewing in the Democratic)
camp. ex-Governor Odell and Tom Piatt
are endeavoring once more to get to
gether, at least until the close of the
Fall campaign. As all signs point to a
Democratic split, and a serious split, so
they point to a united Republican party
in the Empire State this Fall.
The New York Sun apparently looks
for the election of Hearst as Governor.
It likewise looks for the defeat of Wil
liam J. Bryan at the next Democratic
National convention. Therefore, It is
reasoned, the Sun looks forward to the
election of Hearst as President in 1908.
The New York World, on the other hand,
which Is advocating a reuniting of the
Democratic party on sound principles,
can see nothing on the political horizon
to Indicate that Hearst will be elected
Governor or President.
When the Bryan boom was revived the
World took Interest and was Inclined to
believe that the party would do well to
nominate this man for a third time. But
hardly had the World delivered itself of
these opinions before Bryan began to talk
In London, and his utterances sent a cold
shiver up and down the spine of many
good sound-money Democrats, the World
among them.
Wonders Where Bryan Stands.
Blnce Bryan gave out his famous lion-"
don interview the World has ceased to
enthuse over his boom, and now ex
presses Its willingness to wait and see
just what Bryan stands for before com
mitting Itself. If he will repudiate free
silver and the Chicago platform and will
run on sound, latter-day issues the World
may support him, but If Bryan, as is now
believed, continues his confidence in free
silver and the other "isms'" for which
he stood in 18 he will have no support
from the World.
Evidently the World believes Bryan is
harboring the same ideas today that made
him famous ten years ago. and if that
be true, and he be made the party nomi
nee in 1903, the World cannot figure out
how he can be elected.
It Is Interesting to note, in this same
connection, that the Sun does not regard
the Bryan boom seriously. That paper
points out, and sensibly, that Bryan mads
a tactical error in permitting his boom
to be sprung two years in advance of
the convention.
Two years Is a long time; It affords
his enemies adequate opportunity to pick
out the weak spots in his record and in
his beliefs, and a man who is a con
spicuous target for two years must neces
sarily suffer from the assaults that are
sure to be made. ,
Free Silver Man at Heart.
It Is commonly understood that at heart
Bryan Is as much a free silver man as
ever and that if elected he would If op
portunity arose use his Influence to secure
the enactment of a free coinage law,
just as he would have done had he been
elected In 1SS6. It is true that Congress
might not agree with Bryan on that
question and might refuse to pass such
a law, but the probabilities are that if
Bryan should be elected by voters who
knew him to be a free sliver man, that
the Congress elected by these same voters
would stand by Bryan, and that a free
silver law would go down on the statute
books.
More will be known about Bryan's po
sition on the sliver and other questions
when he returns to this country, but If
it develops, as has been indicated in his
London Interview, that he is still a silver
man, the Bryan boom will arouse less
enthusiasm in the future than it has In
the days immediately passed.
Bryan, a silver man, would be a less
formidable candidate in 1908 than Bryan,
a conservative with silver left out, and
it may be that the boom which swept
the country like a cyclone may wear itself
out before the next convention meets.
It all depends upon Bryan-s attitude to
wards silver.
APPEAL MADE TO THE VOTERS
Republicans Asked to Give $1 Apiece
to National Fuist.
NEW YORK. July 22. Representative
James S. Sherman and his associates on
the National Republican Congressional
Committee, have decided to appeal to
Republicans to contribute $1 each to Its
campaign fund. In pursuance with this
policy the committee will begin mailing
letters to Republicans in all sections of
the country, asking them to contribute
(1 each.
When asked if the appeal to individual
Republicans had ever been sent out be
fore. Representative Sherman said he had
never known of its being done before.
"I don't think it has ever been neces
sary to do so." he said.
In addition to the mailing of notices
to Republican leaders In all sections, to
be posted where Individuals may see
them, the notice will be sent to all Re
publican papers, with a request that it be
published for several days, so that all
voters favoring the return of a Repub
lican majority may forward their contri
butions to the headquarters in this city.
The appeal says:
"The Congressional campaign Is based
on the administrative and executive rec
ord of the party, and, that being so, The
odore Roosevelt's popularity must be a
EVENTS OF COMING WEEK
CrUia la BomIs-
The' attention of the world wlU
probably be centered this week in tl
political situation In St. Petersburg,
which appears to have reached a cri
sis. The dissolution of Parliament by
Imperial ukase, resulting In Goremy
kln surrendering the Premiership, and
the succession of Stolypln. Minister of
the Interior, to the post, tBe maaelng
of troops of the capital city and the
general belief tiat a dictatorship la
Inevitable make It appear that an
armed conflict Is Impending.
The effect of the address to tbe
country to be issued by tbe Socialists
and the Group of Toll will be awaited
with interest. Tbe temper in which
the masses of tbe Russian people will
take the summary dismissal of tbe
nation's elected representatives will
be one of the most Important devel
opments of the week.
The views of those who support tbe
autocracy are shown in an Interview
given to the Associated Press corre
spondent on Saturday by a Cabinet
Minister,, who said: "The government,
must hold on until a stable regime is
assured or anarchy will be supreme."
" Pan-American Congress at Bio.
The Pan-American Congress, which
will begin its sittings today (Monday)
in Rio Janeiro may be expected to
have Important results, particularly
In establishing the relations of the
South and Central American repub
lics upon a basis of comity, which will
tend to lessen the danger of war be
tween those countries, delegates from
most of the governments on the
American continent, including Mex
ico and the United States, being pres
ent. Venezuela is the notable excep
tion. "
Interparliamentary Union.
The conference of the Interparlia
mentary ualon will convene in Lon
don to pass upon the reports filed In
June by the two committees appointed
at the Brussels convention in August
lost. The most important subject for
discussion will be the proposal for the
conversion of tbe second Hague con
ference into a permanent body. Next
in importance is tbe report of the
commission on a model arbitration
treaty, which commission is under
the presidency of Ernst von Flener,
ex-Commerce Minister of Austria
The American delegation is beaded
by Congressman Richard Bartholdt.
Institutes of Mining Engineers.
, A joint meeting of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers and of
the British Iron and Steel Institute
will be held at the Institution of Civil
Engineers July 24 to 24, Inclusive.
Addresses are to be delivered by R.
A. Hadfleld and Robert W. Hunt, re
spectively presidents of the British
and American Institutes. The week
following the London conference Is to
be devoted to a tour for tbe American
visitors to Yerkes. Edinburgh.
Campaign Conference at Oyster Bay.
An Important meeting to discuss
plans for the coming Congressional
campaign will be held at Oyster Bay.
President Roosevelt has Invited Speak
er Cannon. Chairman Sherman, of the
Republican Congressional campaign
committee, and Secretary Louden
slsger and Treasurer McKinley, of
that committee, to luncheon at Saga
more Hill Mondsy. The campaign
will be outlined thoroughly at this
meeting, the list of available speak
ers will be taken up and the argu
ments .to be put forward most prom
inently will be decided upon.
Good Templars Meet at Boston. .
The National convention of the Or
der of Good Templars will begin Its
sessions in Boston Thursday, and Sat
urday the delegates to the National
convention of the American Federa
tion of Catholic Societies will assem
ble at Buffalo.
central figure and his achievements a
central thought in the campaign."
SENATOR DUBOIS' BUGABOO.
Declares Mormons Are Gaining Do
minance in Western States.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, July 23. Senator Dubois, of Idaho,
the recognized leader of the fight on Sen
ator Reed Smoot, sees a Mormon bugaboo
rising In every Western State. He says
that Idaho and Wyoming, like Utah, are
now dominated by the Mormons, and pre
dicts that the Mormons will soon control
14 votes in the United States Senate. He
figures that the Mormons will ultimately
elect Senators from Utah, Idaho, Wyo
ming, Oregon, Montana, Nevada and
from the new State of Arizona, if the
present territory of Arizona shall accept
joint statehood with, New Mexico.
Dubois reckons that Senator Sutherland,
of Utah, is under Mormon domination;
he openly charges that Heyburn, his col
league, accepts dictation from the Mor
mons, and says that his own successor
will be a Mormon sympathizer, inasmuch
as, in his opinion, the Mormons over
whelmingly dominate the Republican
party of Idaho.
Just how Dubois can figure out Mormon
domination in Oregon, Montana, Wyo
ming and Nevada is hard to' say. Each
of these states have their Mormon citi
zens, but the Mormons as a sect have
never Injected themselves or their religion
into politics, and no one but Dubois has
found the slightest indication that the
Mormons are struggling for control. They
certainly do not control either of the
Oregon Senators, though both Fulton and
Geaiin stood ready in the recent session
to vote to seat Senator Smooth, believing
that he was in every way qualified for
the office. Nor is it easy to figure out
how Senators Warren and Clark, of Wyo
ming; Carter and Clark, of Montana, and
Newlands and Nixon, are going suddenly
to bow down to the Mormon Church in
order to hold their jobs.
It is believed, in fact known, that Sena
tor Newlands will have a hard fight for
re-election, and the probabilities favor a
Republican Senator from Nevada, but no
one except Dubois has heard that the
Mormons are after that job or are trying
to name a successor to Newlands. The
same thing Is true of Senator Clark, of
Montana. The probabilities are that a
Republican will succeed him, unless Clark
dumps a lot of money into the Legislature
to secure another term. But there is no
thought of electing a Mormon Senator to
succeed Clark.
The whole effect of Dubois' statement is
to convey the impression that the Repub
lican party of the West is dominated by
the Mormon Church, and the logical in
ference to be drawn is that the Demo
cratic ticket in each of these states
must be elected if the people hope to
throw off the imaginary Mormon yoke.
Senator Dubois may be perfectly sincere
In all he says about the Mormons, but
he certainly has visions. True, he has
made Mormonism the leading issue in
Idaho this year, and he has driven the
Mormon voters out of the Democratic
party. But Dubois is not running for re
election as a Democrat; he is running as
an anti-Mormon. With five Democrats in
the Legislature, he realized the futility of
making a race on a strict party issue, so
he raised a new and an effective issue
that seems to have caught hold in Idaho.
This fear of Mormon domination does
catch on in neighboring states. The agi
tation is now confined entirely to Idaho
and Utah, and nine-tenths of the talk on
the subject right now emanates from Du
bois' own state.
COST OF SOULS IS
CHICAGO
Salvation by the Mormon Mis
sionary Method Comes to
$1500 Per Head. '
VOLUNTEERS AT $5 EACH
Twenty-Five-Cent Converts in At
lanta, Ga,, Look Cheap Beside .
New TTniversali6t Members
at Expense of $ 1 50.
COST PER CONVERT.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Say Saints. - ..... ..-...$1300
. Universalist .................... 150
Baptist SO
English Lutheran . . . .- 'CO
Chicago Avenue (Moody's)
Church . 24
Methodist 20
Salvation Army . 6
Pacific Garden Mission. ......... 6
Volunteers of America.......-. 6
CHICAGO, 111., July 22. That the cost of
salvation in Chicago is higher than in
Atlanta, Ga., has been revealed in figures
given out by ministers and evangelists
of nine different denominations. The Rev.
B. H. Peacock, of the Tabernacle Baptist
Church, in Atlanta, who said that It costs
SI to save a soul in Chicago. While in At.
lartta the expense is only 25 cents, fell far
short of the mark as far as Chicago is
concerned.
Instead of $1, the average cost of con
verting Chlcagoans amounts to more than
GENIUS OF THE JAPANESE ARMY.
9
The Late General Baron Kodama.
TOKIO, July 23. General Baron
Kodama died here this morning.
General Kodama was educated at
Rutgers College, and has been called
the genius of the Japanese army. Be
was Field Marshal Oyama's Chlef-of-Staif
during the Japanese-Russian
War, and later was appointed Gov
ernor of Formosa. 'After the retire
ment of Field Marshal Oyama, Gen
eral Kodama was made Chief of the
General Staff of the Japanese army.
209 for each convert. The most expensive
bouIs are those saved by the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mor
mons). It costs the Mormons $1500 for
every Chlcagoan brought into the fold.
The "Volunteers of America come near
est to following the biblical injunction
that salvation shall be without money and
without price, because its converts cost
the general treasury of the organization
only 15 apiece.
Twenty-Five-Centers Do Not Stick.
Elder German E. Ellsworth, in charge
of the Chicago Mormon mission, said he
had no faith in converts who cost only 25
cents.
"My experience has been that those 25
cent converts that the Rev. Mr. Peacock
spoke of don't stick," said he. "We have
to pay an average price of $1500 for every
convert we make, and they are the kind
that stay with us. Cheap converts, like
everything else, are too expensive in the
end."
The Rev. Johnston Myers, pastor of Im
manuel Baptist Church, declared that Mr.
Peacock's figure of $1 for each Chicago
convert was too low.
"We have at least 2000 baptisms every
year In Chicago," said he. "I should say
that it costs our church at least $50 for
every new member who comes in and is
baptized."
"Our converts cost the church nearly
$160 each," said the Rev. Frederick C.
Priest, pastor of the Universalist Church
of the Redeemer.
Sinners Tough In Chicago.
"The reason for the high price we have
to pay for converts is that we have no
such evangelistic methods, revivals and
public confessions of religion as have our
orthodox brethren. The average expense
of a Universalist church in Chicago is
from $4000 to $6000 a year, and we average
from 30 to 60 new members annually."
Another reason for the high price of
salvation in Chicago was given by the
Rev. W. B. Leach, pastor of the Fulton
street Methodist Church, who declared
that "Chicago sinners are much tougher
than elsewhere."
The Chicago synod of the English Lu
theran Church keeps statistics on the cost
of salvation and other items of expense
to the church. Every converted Lutheran
has cost that church $50, according to the
figures given by the Rev. Austin D. Crile,
pastor of the Wicker Park Lutheran
Church.
Figures at Moody Church.
"I know Peocock," said A. P. Fitt, of
the Moody Bible Institute. "He was here
at the institute several months ago. He
is a good religious worker, but he evi
dently isn't much of an authority on the
cost of evangelistic work. Take the Moody
Church here as an example. Last year
about 250 people united with the church,
and this has been the average during Dr.
Torrey's pastorate. Our expenses for a
year are about $6000. There you have it."
The Salvation Army, which "battles for
souls" seven days in the week, cannot re
duce the cost of conversion below $6.50.
"Expense isn't a thing to be considered
when you are talking of saving souls,"
said Commissioner Kilbey, "and you can't
put into figures the good we do, but there
is no doubt that conversions in Chicago
cost more than a dollar apiece."
The expenses of a Salvation Army corps
1A " ' Vss t& tf t -' j
include the salaries of two paid officers,
which vary from $11 to $16 for both, the
rental of a hall and incidentals, which
bring the total to something over $25 a
week. The various corps show an aver
age of four conversions each during the
month of June.
Reports by the Volunteers of America
show a slightly smaller cost. "One, from
a post paying $26 a week for salaries, re
ported eight conversions.
The annual report of the old racinc
Garden mission in Van Buren street,
which has a warmer place in the hearts
of Chicago's floating population than any
other institution of its kind, shows the
expenses for 1906 to have een $6059. One
who is familiar with the work estimated
the number of souls saved during the year
at 1000. In other words, every broken
man or fallen woman who asks for
prayers In the little old hall costs $6.
But Harry Monroe will tell you that
they are cheap at that, and that the price
was paid 2000 years ago. They don't
worry much about money at the Pacific
Garden mission.
AMERICANS - DRIVEN DUT
GENERAIi UPRISING IN MEXICO
PLANNED FOR SEPTEMBER 16.
Natives Declare That Foreigners
Shall Not Rule Their
Country.
EL PASO, Texas, July 22. (Special.)
That Americans are continuing to flee
from Cananea, and that Colonel w. C
Greene has been forced by the feeling of
Mexicans to replace many officials in
high positions with native Mexicans, is
a statement which was made by Senor Y.
de Martenas, confidential clerk of Es-
qularez & Martenz, the largest wholesale
house in Cananea.
He declares further that the revolution
promised for September 16, Independence
Day of Mexico, is a certainty, and that
while the Americans will be driven from
the republic, it will not be through blood
shed, but through other measures.
"My countrymen," said Senor Marte
nas, "are determined that they, and not
foreigners, shall rule their own country.
At the present time, there is reason for
comparatively tranquil conditions. The
very strong-headed Insist they will join
in an uprising September 16. However,
they allege that this shall be done In a
peaceful but forceful manner, without
any recourse to bloodshed.
Just what these measures are Senor
Martenas did not discuss, but there is
every reason to believe that it will be
worked by recourse to a great strike
system, and that there will be gigantic
walkouts on all railroads and great min
ing properties of the country, of such a
character that the demands of the work
men that they shall be ruled by Mexican
officers will have a great deal of force.
The position which the government will
take in the matter Is regarded as that of
active suppression of strikes, in the same
manner that it would meet a revolution
ary uprising of armed forces against the
government. Senor Martenas declared
that In the mining camps tbe greatest un
easiness prevails, and that it was inter
fering with the smooth progress of busi
ness. I EXPORTS
JAPAN USED LARGE QUANTITY
DURING WAR WITH RUSSIA.
England Is Greatest Purchaser of
Beef, hut Sales Fell
Off in June.
WASHINGTON, July 22. Complete fig
ures of the exports of American canned
meats for the past fiscal year are shown
today in a statement Issued by the De
partment of Commerce and Labor. The
value of canned meats exported from the
United States in June, 1906, was $461,100,
against $797,127 in June, 1905, and in the
fiscal year 1906, $9,233,410, against $9,977,045
in 1905.
The figures for the fiscal year 1906 in
cluded: Canned beef, $6,430,446; canned
pork. $1,215,857; and other canned meats,
$1,587',107. The quantity of canned beef
exported in the fiscal year was 64,623,350
pounds, as against 66,688,568 pounds In 1905.
The reduction in exports- occurred al
most exclusively In the shipments to
Japan, which country took large amounts
of American beef during the war, but
greatly decreased her imports on the dls
bandment of the army. The exports to
Japan during the fiscal year 1906 were
2.306,583 pounds, against 14,687,166 pounds
in 1905, and in the month of June, 1906,
were 34,412 pounds, against 3,611,388 pounds
in June, 1905.
The United Kingdom was the greatest
buyer of canned beef, exports to that
country increasing 4.758.185 pounds for the
fiscal year, but decreasing for the month
of June, 1906.
BLUFF FAILED TO WORK
Laborer Threatens to Kill Employ
ment Agent and Is Arrested.
What promised to be a mere tragedy
simmered down to a mere bluff at the
Canadian Employment Agency on Burn
side street near Second last evening. Two
men, undoubtedly confederates, one of
whom had signed to go to Eastern Ore
gon, stepped into the agency and de
manded that the proprietor, H. J. Ben
nett, ship him to Riparia at once. Ben
nett explained that he could not ship on
Sunday nights and proffered the return
of the registration fees, which were re
jected. The stranger exhibited a pair of brass
knuckles and threatened to kill Bennett,
but the lattter telephoned for an officer,
and the two men were taken to police
headquarters, where they gave the names
of Frank Borden and Earl Keys. The
knuckles had been passed to a third con
federate and were not to be found. Ben
nett refused to file a cmplaint of raising
a public disturbance against the men and
they were dismissed.
BURIAL OF LADY CURZ0N
Great Simplicity Marks Removal
From Carlton House. -
LONDON, July 22. The body of Lady
Curzon was removed today to Kedleston
for burial, with the simplicity which her
relatives desire to mark the obsequies.
When the coffin was borne from Carlton
House and placed in the hearse, the blinas
in the neighborhood were drawn.
DEATH CAUSED BY HEAT
Slight Shower Brings Relief to St.
Louis in Evening.
-
ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 22. The hottest
day of the season was recorded here to
day, when the thermometer was 93 de
grees in the shade. One death and three
prostrations were reported. A brief
shower brought relief tonight
"LestYou Forget" We'd Remind You
This morning of that page fall of remarkable Monday
bargains, selected from a store full of extraordinary
values in today's Mid-Summer Sales told of in the
Sunday papers. We add an eyeful of supplementary
mentions crowded out yesterday.
If you can't come to the store, write or phmne; your orders will be filled promptly
All Summer lines in Women's
A Grand Clearance of Summer Stocks at prices
drastically reduced starts this morning.
The great sale of the Beck
Wear at Half -Price opens today!
WONDERFUL BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPART
At Wash Goods Counter
First Floor.
8000 YARDS DRESS LAWNS 5c YARD.
Handsomely figured Dress Lawns, cool, dainty, beau
tiful fabrics for the Summer frocks and pretty
dresses, all in new and charming patterns ; special
today at, yard ... 52
65c CUSHION TOPS 37c
Art Salons Annex, 2nd Floor.
White Cushion Tops and Scarfs, stamped in pretty
shadow work designs; regular 65c value; spe
cial at : 37
JEWELRY BARGAINS
25c Bead Neck Chains 19c Bead Neck Chains, in
white, garnet, amber and pink, with 'small alter
nating white crystal beads; regular value 25c;
special 19
WHO WANTS A BEAUTIFUL
DINNER SET?
Who Wants to Save $28.2S
Third Floor.
Come today or send and we'll sell you among
other great values, advertised yesterday a hand
some 117-piece dinner set worth (and sold at)
$183.75 in a regular way other stores might' say
even $200 at extra special price of.. $155.00
BOLT AT BALL GAME
Five Are Killed Outright by
Lightning Flash.
FIFTY STUNNED BY SHOCK
Electric Fluid Zigzags Along the
Wire Netting and Strikes Where
the Crowd of Spectators
Is Thickest.
-MANITOWOC, Wis., July 22. Just be
fore a ball game between a local team
and a Plymouth, Wis., nine, a fierce
electrical storm swept over the city this
afternoon and a bolt of lightning struck
the grandstand, where the spectators and
players had sought shelter. Five persons
were killed outright and 20 or more in
jured. At least 50 more were stunned by
the shock. The dead:
ALBERT BKUHRA, 28 years.
WALTER UANDL, 18 years.
IRVINE WOEIiLENT, 20 years.
ANTONE KARKE. 14 years.
WILLIAM KNAUTSEN. 18 years.
Most seriously Injured Harvey Kono. 10
years old, limbs paralyxed; Frank Boehn. IT
years, splinter of wood forced Into breast;
Walter Boehn. 12 years, shocked, uncon
scious: Theodore Baumeister, 14 years old,
cripple partially, may die.
The bolt struck the roof and taking a
zigzag- course followed the wires to the
west end, where the crowd was thickest.
Here it followed the wire netting- in front
of the grandstand. Of the killed, only
Knautsen and Karke were sitting in the
grandstand, the others standing before
the stand watching, the teams practice on
the diamond. The5-shock was so strong
as to lift the players on the field from
the ground and several were slightly
stunned.
RUSSELL SAGE IS DEAD
(Continued from First Page.)
the decay into which the historic home
of Washington had fallen and the or
ganization of the Ladies' Mount Vernon
Association, and the purchase and
preservation of Washington's home fol
lowed. While in Congress Sage reck
oned among bis friends David Wilmot,
of Wilmot proviso fame; Galusha A.
Grow, Thaddeus Stevens, David Atchi
son, the border-ruffian Governor of
Kansas; Stephen A, Douglas, James
Buchanan and many others famous
then. When just rising to the zenith
of fame as a statesman. Sage deserted
the legislative halls for Wall street.
In 1857 he refused a renomination on
account of his business Interests. It
was the year of the great panic, and
only his individual attention to the mi
. I i w
Garments reduced.
Stock of Infants'
Taken from the best
lines of the best manu
factures. No matter
what price is paid, the t
shoe bought is the best
to be had at that price.
It's an "Oxford"
season never before
has the low-shoe busi
ness been so brisk. We
We say with all truth, we
show the most complete stock of
children's Shoes on the entire
Coast, from Alaska to Panama.
Last week eight absolutely new
models came in from the best
nutest details of business saved 'aim,
where his neighbors were ruined. In
ls6J while still a resident of Troy be
was a delegate to the Republican con
vention which nominated Lincoln.
In 1S63 Sage disposed of his grocery
business and removed to New York,
where he immediately became a figure
on Wall street. His first venture of
any moment was the reorganization of
the old Lacrosse Railroad into the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, of which
he became president in 1878. His ven
tures since then were for a long term
mostly in connection with the Goulds,
and It is said that he furnished the
ready cash with which Jay Gould
wrested the control of Western Union
from William H. Vanderbilt.
The only time Sage has ever been
badly pinched was when Grant and
Ward failed in 1S84. Be was credited on
that memorable day with losing $8,000,
000. So great was the demand on him
that he closed his office and called for
police protection. At this moment Jay
Gould came to his office and told htm
not to be a fool, but to open his office
and face the music, which he did. He
is now reckoned worth from J9 3,000,000
to $100,001,000, mostly in ready cash.
Sage has all his life been the target
for cranks, but his life was never at
tempted but once. On December 4, 1891,
Henry W. Norcross, a Boston crank,
tried to blow him up with dynamite be
cause he refused to loan him $1,250,300
to build an elevated railway in Boston.
Sage was uninjured, but the dynamiter
was blown to atoms, and Sage's office
at No. 71 Broadway wrecked.
Russell Sage was most bucolic in ap
pearance, wearing cheap "hand-me-down"
clothes and was readily taken for a farm
er. Time and again he has been "toted"
all over town by "bunco gents," dined
and treated handsomely under the im
pression that he was a "Jay." When
they learned who their Intended victim
was the "bunco steerers", would drop him
like a hot poker and quietly kick them
selves in private.
In benefactions to public or private
charities Russell Sage was never very
generous. He once gave $8000 toward
clearing Dr. Hepworth'e church of debt,
and tor a long time held the mortgage
on Talmage's church.
At the time of death Mr. Sage was an
officer and director in 25 great railroad
and telegraph corporations. In 1867 he
originated the present method of trad
ing in "puts," "calls" and "straddles,"
in which he dealt later on a colossal
scale. When he purchased a seat on
the New York Stock Exchange in 18.4
It provided that he never appear on the
floor of the exchange.
For many years Mr. Sage occupied dur
ing the Winter an old-fashioned brown
stone mansion, at 506 Fifth avenue, from
which he was reluctantly compelled to
move about . four years ago, owlnS to
the invasion of commerce. His Sum
mers were spent at his country place at
Lawrence, where he died.
Mr Sage was married twice; m 1M1
to Miss May Wlnne, daughter of Moses
I Winne of Troy. His wife died in
New York City in 1867. and two years
later he married Margaret Olivia, daugh
ter of Joseph Slocum, of Syracuse, N. Y.
Thaw Does Not Attend Service.
NEW YORK, July 22. Harry K. Thaw
spent a quiet day in the Tombs today.
Contrary to his previous custom he did
not attend the religious service conducted
by Chaplain Wade In the morning, and
when asked by one of the keepers why
he did not refused to make any answer.
Great News From
The Shoe Store
HOSTS OF NEW ARRIVALS ARE "VISITING."
The new Shoes will soon find new owners and go
to a home of their own. Here the caller finds
"PICKED" SHOES
expected it planned for it, and are ready for it,
A WORD OF OUR
New Shoes for Children
makers of children's shoes in America, All leathers
are represented, both patent and dull finish. Lace
and button styles, regular or "Blucher" cut, hand
turned or welt soles. Styles full of "snap" and
"ginger." Sturdy shoes that will stand the strain
of vacation romps or quieter school wear. A plenty
of the natural "foot-form" lasts. Send the chil
dren 's feet trooping to this store and we '11 fit them
carefully, properly, with expert judgment and we'll
please the parents' purse. No matter whether it's
an "A-A" or "E-E" width, the feet shall be fitted
equally well.
We show over 2000 pairs of women's white Ox
fords to choose from today I
Where else can you find an assortment like that T
And the shoes are all new, dainty, cool; stylish to
the last degree.
6000 packages of White Shoe Cleaner.
A plenty here of- Summer Footwear and "fixm's"
at little prices to please all.
RUINED BYTHE FIRE
Home Fire & Marine Company
Will Wind Up Affairs.
ALLY OF FIREMEN'S FUND
Directors Will Endeavor to Reach
Terms With Creditors to Avoid
Being Thrown Into
Receiver's Hands.
BAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 22.
(Special.) The Home Fire & Marine
Insurance Compaay, a well-known lo
cal institution and companion of the
Firemen's Fund, finds Itself unable to
meet obligations and will go into liqui
dation. Tbe directors will endeavor to
come to some arrangement with the
creditors, to the end that the company
may not be thrown Into the hands of a
receiver.
All of the stock of the Home Fire &
Marine Company is owned by the Fire
men's Fund, also a local concern, which
has done an enormous business In Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington. A few
days after the fire the Firemen's Fund
made a loan to the Home of $603,000.
It was thought that this sum would be
sufficient to save the smaller concern,
but all the estimates were wide of the
mark. x
The assets of the Home Company, in
cluding the $600,000, will reach only
$1,400,000. Against this, the company
has a liability of $2,050,000, as a result
of the fire. In addition the company
has more than $1,000,000 in reinsur
ance, which it stands but small chance
of collecting.
What makes this failure so signifi
cant is the close association of the
concern with the Firemen's Fund. 6o
far the Firemen's Fund has not been
able to begin payment on any of its
policies. It is making every effort to
pay in full, but its losses will reach
such an enormous figure that even the
best friends of the company fear the
worst. '
The losses of the Firemen's Fund will
reach $7,000,000. In addition, there is
$2,500,003 in reinsurance, the collection
of which is problematical. It will be
seen, therefore, that over $12,000,000 is
involved in the movements of these two
companies. Henry J. Dutton is the
president of both companies.
Rockefeller Is Coming Home.
CLEVELAND, July 22. Unless his pres
ent plans are changed, John D. Rocke
feller Is coming to Cleveland to spend
the latter part of tbe- Summer, and will
arrive here Saturday, July 28, accom
panied by his physician. Dr. H. F. Big-gar.