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THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTOIUA, OREGON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1908. Fancy Rogue, River Apples. Pineapples 35c apiece. Just received a fresh shipment of Dates 10c the pounds A. V. ALLEN, A. J. CASSET IS DEAD President of Pennsylvania Road Dies from Heart Trouble. WAS A1UNU FOR SOME TIME Caught Whooping Cough from Grand Childr.iv Which Loft Him Wk and Fooblo End Cornea Suddenly. FHIIJLDELPHIA, Dec IS. Prest aertt Alaxander J. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died suddenly this afternoon. Tl an nouncement of hl deata was made trom Ms office shuttv before J, O'clock In the following bulletin: "Mr. A- J. Cassatt. prelder.t of the Penrsylvanla Rat'-faC v'ompuny, d'ed suddenly of heart failure at 1 p. m. today. The symNwe were known to the profession s St kts-Adair.i syn eope, and. as Is o r the case. unJer the circumstances, dath was Inn an taneous." Mr. Cassatt dle1 in hi city rtsldence surrounded by th- members of the family. He had be-in ailing ever Mnoe he returned, last 8:-:mn-r fr.m Ys summer home, at Bar Harbor, where he contracted whj.;.i cough from his grandchildren. This attack left him weakened anl he 'II J not go to ht office for several wjsk hut ri'mainivl at his country borne at Haverford. Early In October Mr. Casxat; f. U much better and carr.e regularly to hU office for several weeks, when he was again attacked by 11'neas. this time with a heavy cold. His exact condi tion was not publiclr known :ind t hit gave rise to man rumors f sciour Illness and sudi dfath'. , He recov ered sufficiently, hww, to resume his duties and wn at Rr-jsd ctrect station regularly until ?)ecen'ber S, his birthday. That whs thn laat dny he was at his of! . Sine that time he spent much of his t'me driving and at his home, tra I'-u.'tltig "tily ike most Important I .nines brought to his attention. He was uut driving as late as last Mon-lw. Vhl1. n foi l ing as well as he had been, Mr.. Cas satt rose from his b .1 ttlay, but did not leave his room. Thp family was not alarmed as be scmel to ': in good spirits, and no ore hn-J the slightest thought his le.-tth. About 1 o'clock, while sitting n a chair, the final a,-4-k came. Ha wa instantly rendered unconscious1 and when his attend' a physician -urived, he found him h'M.I President Cassatt was one of the most active financiers of the country. Aside from being the head of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Cassatt was president of six other companies and a director ht IS concerns, principally transportation companies, banks and trust companies. His wealth la esti mated to be between fifty and seventy five million dollars. BURGLAR TAKES VALUABLES. Enters Housa While Family are Out at Police Court ' NEW YORK, 1 Dec. S3. A thief forced an entrance Into the house of Dr. Alexander Trautman, yesterday, while the Doctor, his wife, and maid were in court and stole Jewelry and silverware valued at several hundred dollars. Mrs. Trautman had gone to court to answer charges brought by Peter 3. Hogan," a stenographer that the woman had robbed him In a doorway after a chance meeting on the street Mrs. Trautman was honorably dis charged and returned to her home with her husband to find that the thief had robbed their home. GRAND JURY REPORTS. Do You Realize That you need shoes for the rainy eosoa that has now made its ap pearance. Just Arrived for MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN .FALL STYLES, 8MART DESIGNS. That please the eye, lend comfort to the feet and give perfect durability. Findings in New York Life Case Given To Recorder. NEW YORK, Dec 28. Great inter est attaches to the report of the Dec ember grand Jury which win be made to Recorder Goff today on Its findings In the testimony that has been given regarding the conduct of the affairs of the New York Life Insurance Com pany, several years ago, and which de veloped at the Insurance Investigation made by a committee of the New York State Legislature In which Governor Hughes, as counsel, for the committee took a prominent part Whether or not Indictments have been found will then be definitely lenown. The Investigation has had to 'do with alleged concealment of the Jcompany's stock transactions by false tbook entries in which former offi cials of the company are onjd to be Involved. - SEARCH FOR MAMMOTH. American Museum of Natural Histo I ry Sends, Professor to Egypt. ' NEW YORK, Dec 28. Professor Henry Falrchild Osborne, of the Amer ican Museum of Natural History, will will for Egypt on January 6, to look for the prehistoric ancestors of the el ephant In the Sayoum desert. In 1902 members of a British survey ing party unearthed the bones, of a small animal which they were sure belonged to a prehistoric elephant of the plecene or the ollgocem age. Mor ris K. Jessup, president of the Ameri can museum heard about the find, be came Interested and organized the ex pedition which Professor Osborne Is to lead. ' The professor will dig in the Sayoum desert at a point about TO miles south west of Cairo. NOTED JUDGE RETIRES. THE BE8T MADE DR. A. REID'8 CUSHIONED 8HOE81 Foot don't ache or tire. .Investigate the quality and be convinced OUR 8PECIALTY LINE f Logger's Shoe. Guarantees Satia faction to tho Wearer None Bettor but a Leader of AIL NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Rufus S. Cowing, one of New York's famous criminal judges formally retired yes terday from the bench of the court of General Sessions, where he has pre sided for 28 years. The courtroom was crowded) with lawyers and friends, who came to honor h' formal leave taking. District Attorney Jerome and several noted lawyers delivered eu- 5. A. G1MRE 541 Boa4 Street, Opposite Fischer Bros. logistic speeches. J CONFER WITH UNION, NEW YORK,tec. 28. Conferences concerning the demands of 500 mem bers of the harbor boatmen's branch of the International Seamen's Union for advances lii wages will begin today between committees representing the boatmen and the companies owning ! the harbor craft' It Is stated that an amicable agreement will probably be reached. Are Part of Training of Wishing ton Society Debutantes. WOODEN MOUNT PRACTICE Automobile Has by No Means Dis placed the Four Footed Frl.nd of Man in the Qraees of the Pso pie of the Capital. WASHINGTON, Deo. 29. In the northwestern section of the National Capitol, beginning In tho vicinity of Dupont Circle, and extending accrues Rock Creek Bridge, past the Zoologic al Park, and on Into the beautiful sub urban country adjoining, there runs a bridle path. It la not distinctly known aa such. In fact, It Is a road used for other purposes aa well, but from the first of October until Febru ary the galloping hoofs of horses strike Ita surface with a resounding ring un til the city limits are reached and then beyond send the soft dirt of the coun try road scurrying Into white clouds. It Is popular at present to declare that the automobile has thrown the horse In the shade when It comes to traversing country roacM In search of exercise and pleasure. But this cannot be true If the suburbs of Wash ington tell a truthful atory. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt are not the only residents of the district ad dicted to the healthful sport of horse back riding, although their practice In this line la so well established that mnny persons' habitually gather near the Western High School, In George town, at 4'oclock on sunshiny days to see them take their mounts. Nearly all of the diplomats ride, and a large percentage of society women. Riding masters are kept busy from the beginning to the end of the season. "Teaching the art of equestrianism Is quite a different thing In Washing ton than In any other city, remarked & veteran of the profession, who for eight years has taught the elite of the Capitol the skill of keeping ones mount and of handling reins and whip when perched upon a lively horse. "There ia one peculiarity about Washington," he said. "Your people Insist upon riding horses with nvittle, even as beginners. It Is quite common to laugh at tho animals generally be longing to riding schools, but It will ! not take you long to realise that these j horses are not really sleepy creatures. ' Why? Because there Is a demand for j a different kind of a sadler. If It j were not so, there might bo greater profit In the profession of riding mas ter, for stamina In horse flosh come, high. But such your people must. have. And so thy have It. The President sets the pace and the others follow. He recently purchased two beautiful chestnuts at the cost of several hun dred dollars apiece, but one of these was too light In weight, and had to be exchanged making nn additional expense. The Washington debutante who de termines to become a horsewoman has an Intereslng experience before her for one could scarcely find more beau- I tlful country than that which sur rounds tho Capitol. But the Wash ington debutante generally has be come a horsewoman before she be comes a debutante. This was true of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, who had hre first riding lessons In Washington before her father had risen to fame, but was serving his country as Assist ant Secretary of the Navy. The school girls who will be the debutantes of tomorrow come to the riding academy In droves, and such fearful times as they do have. First seated upon divans, or the floor of the reception room artistically fitted up or In the hay loft over the stables they devour lettuce sandwiches and Eng lish breakfast tea in large quanti ties, for they aro full of eagerness, and eagerness in schoolgirls Is apt to create appetite. Then every girl is taken Into the sta bles, where she is shown a saddle se curely fastened to a. woodn horse, and asked to Jump upon It. She 'Is shown how to grip the two horns of the saddle with her knees; Instructed where to keep her eyea, between the Imaglnery horses two ears; told a!-. ways to keep her loft shoulder forward in order, that If, by any chance, she Is thrown from her mount she will light face downward, and thus be able to break her fall by her outstretched arms, and then the four reins are placed In her hands; Learning (0 ride horseback nowa days Is not the slmplo task of stick ing on and turning your horse's head to the tight or loft. It Is a much more for riding horseback today, means al ways to b in poise, whether your horse Is walking n slow gait or jump ing hedgns, nnd bxlng always in poise menus nvr t have your elbows thrust out wildly In the ntmosphxre but nestling neiitly ntulnst your waist while you hold your ruins daintily lit on. Imnd and daintily toy your whip with the othor. To do all this nnd yet be master of the rnglng steed that binra you along the road or necrose tha country requires the proper use of the four reins, the nm lines for mere guid ance, and the curb Hues to bring the nnlmul beneath you into Instant sub mission to your will. But, again, It Is not so much the use of the reins aa It is the perfect adjustment of rider to hum, In whinh condition the latter knows the wish of his mlstresa by the slightest swaying of her small body, that distinguishes the good from the poor horsewoman. All this Instruction, however, is not given while the pupil Is perched upon the saddle on the wooden horse In the stable. It comes out In the conversa tion of the Instructor, who rides by her side at a alow walk until the end of the city's asphalt pavement Is reached. For the first five or ten Ins. sons, according to th aptness of the pupil, every girl la glvn Individual In struction, the same aa If she were rid ing In a paddock. At Woolew Lane the horses are turned Into a vacant lot, that the les son may be learned of alwaya keep ing them 'conscious that they are be ing ridden and not roaming at will; for in a grassy plot a horse is quite Inclined to stop and refresh himself. On the way to historic Tenallytown, the first trot Is indulged in. to the musical tune of the Instructor's voice, which keeps calling. "Rise on my count one, two, thr, four. Rie on my count, you'l catch the motion after awhile." A course of rldng lessons Inuludxs taking hedges and possibly coming a cropper, but If the debutante Is able to grace the tan bark In the horse show arena or to ride to hounds accross country, the schoolgirl must have this Instruction. There Is very little riding astride In Washington. "It Is a mistake," said the rid ing master, 'to think there is greater safety In the cross than on the side saddle. On the contrary If a woman knows how to properly grip her saddle, she Is safer on It than she would be riding astride. "I will glv. you an Illustration. "A miss whose mime need not be men tioned had a great di-slre to rhtyj my favorite mare, nnd to ride her astride. Bho thought It would be great sport, and she had so much pluck that, finally, I consented. Well, we wore going out Into the country, and were going at allvely rale, nnd she kept rising higher and hiKher In the saddle, until, all of a sudden, she plunged over I he horse's head. ( "The trouble was that sho did not know how to grip her saddle. Women think that In riding astride they have only to'hnng to the stirrups, but, as a matter of course, this Is no pro tection to them at all. A man grips bis saddle with the Inner side of his thigh. It Is this that enables him to keep his mount. But a man's leg. are built so that he can do this. (it Is diff erent with a woman." RUEF DELAYS TRIAL. , SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28. When the conspiracy case In which Chief of Police Dlnan ami Abraham Rucf are charged with protecting a house of 111 fame came up for hearing in Judge Dunne's court todny, motions In be half of both defendants ware made to set aside the Indictments. This means a long technical flpht will pre cede the actual trial of the case on Its merits. CASTOR I A lor Infanti and Children. 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