The Hermiston herald., May 13, 1921, Image 2

Prayer in Gaelic at the Funeral of Sinn Feinen
500 Idle Ships
in James River
Problem of Disposal Probably
Will Reach Congress Early
in the Session.
HAVE VALUABLE MACHINERY
Marino Men Say Engine* Could Be
Taken Out and Installed in Other
Vessel*— Skeleton Crew*
Have L ittle to Do.
Norfolk, Va?—What to do with
about 500 wooden and steel ships ly­
ing Idle in James river is a question
A p ray er In Gaelic a t th e grave of three prom inent Sinn Fetners who w ere shot dead in th eir homes. The funeral
that will probably reach the floor of
Is In the “R epublican P lo t" in Lim erick. T he dead were M ayor Clancy of L im erick, ex-M ayor O 'Callaghan and Joseph
congress within a short time.
O’D onaghue.
The wooden ships are mostly an­
chored In the vicinity of Claremont.
There are as many as six moored to­
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gether, side by side, so close that It
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Is possible to step from the deck of
Blind Ox Dies in
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t
one ship to another without any dan­
Pining for Gander 4 4 ger
t
of falling overboard. Skeleton
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Greensboro, Ala.—The blind 4 crews are employed and the only work
t
they are required to do Is to keep the
» ox, fum ous as (he protege and 4
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decks
and fixtures clean and stand
w
ard
of
a
stately
gander
on
the
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watches. They are called upon some­
t J. A. H olcroft p lantation, ten 4
bought
the
concern
and
th
e
profits
of
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Coming Marriage of Young
times to daub a little palut on the
the “big four” were estim ated to have » t miles w est of th is city, is dead, 4 4 sides of the ships, but five hours out
and
those
on
the
H
olcroft
farm
Leecls to Princess Solves Fi­
been close to $40,000,000.
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of the day they have nothing to do
Mr. Leeds and his associates In­ »t believe his death wns due di­ 4 4 but play checkers, cards or Indulge
nances of Royal family.
rectly
to
separation
from
the
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vested th eir profits In th e Chicago, t
In any other pastime they see fit.
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Rock Island & Pacific railroad. Those t t gander.
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There Is valuable machinery In the
Since last fall, when th e ox 4
w ere the good old days of w atered t
ships that marine men suy could be
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lost
its
sight,
the
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an
d
er
had
stocks and
th e
Leeds-Reid-Moore t
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taken out and put to use in other ves­
combine soon had th e Rock Island a t acted as personal guardian of 4 sels. Most of the ships are equipped
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fur different Institution th an In the t Its huge, helpless friend. They 4 with the best of engines, and the gov­
G reat F ortune Built Up by One-Time
calm days of R. It. C able’s control. 4 » w ere in constnnt association— 4 ernment, It Is claimed, could realize
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Indiana Florist, Then Tin Plate
Leeds w as made p resid en t of th e road 4 th e gander alw ays p resen t to 4 considerable money out of their sale
fight
aw
ay
other
cnttle,
on
the
King and Railroad P yram ider
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In 1002, hut a fte r tw o y ears he q u a r­
Shipbuilders say the engines could be
• spot when the ox needed a drink
to Go to G reek Nobility.
reled w ith his p a rtn e rs und w as oust
t
installed In barges that could be used
ed from office.
H owever, he bad t t nt th e nearby p astu re creek, and
to transport freight between Balti­
New York.—R oyalty, ra th e r b at­ "cleaned up” nnd bis fo rtu n e had » a le rt to every chunce to give
more and Philadelphia and Norfolk
t service.
tered now by fortunes and m isfor­ grown apace.
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via the Inland waterway, or in freight
R ecently It becam e necessary
tunes of E uropean w ars, seem s in a
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Divorced From F irst Wifa.
carriers operating between New York,
» to tra n sfe r the ox to unother
fair w ay to get p ractically every pen­
M eanwhile Leeds had been divorced t field. The gander w as unable to
Providence, Boston and Norfolk.
Royalty Gets Grip
on Leeds Millions
YOUNG GIRL IS TRUMP GARD
ny of the “tin plute" m illions of the
A m erican Leeds fam ily.
Good old
America
The g reat fortu n e built up by the
lute W illiam B. Leeds, once Indiana
florist, humble railro ad w orker, then
m an u factu rer of tin plate, then rail-
read pyram ider, Is going for the bene­
fit of im poverished titles o f Greece.
News cam e from A thens th e other
day which. It Is now disclosed here,
m eans th at royalty us represented by
King C onstantine of Greece and his
relatives, liuve won th e lone chance of
gelling the Leeds fortune.
t
from the wife of his earlier y ears— i follow. It w as unused to the
whose money wns th e nest egg of his » 4 new environs und a separation
huge fortune. She received n fiat sum 4 resulted. It wns too much for
o f $1,000,000. They hod a son, R u­ It th e ox. He pined the first a fte r­
dolph G aar Leeds of Richm ond—who 4 noon nnd drooped and gloomed
by the way received $1,000.000 by his 4 4 the following day and flnull.v
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fa th e r’s will.
lay down and died. And thus
Mrs. Leeds No. 2, th e present P rin ­ 44 ended one of the strungesi
cess A nastasia, wns Miss Nunnle 4 friendships on record.
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May S tew art, d au g h ter of a w ealthy 4
Ohio bunker. She w as regarded as + '
one of the p rettiest girls In Cleveland
when she w as m arried to George E. she got the title “the Dollar Prin­
W orthington. It wns not long before cess.”
th e W orthington m arital bark struck
f,
Bringing Up Golden Child.
rough w aters. Mrs. W orthington se­
W
hile
Mrs. Leeds w as carrying on
cured the divorce.’
It w as Hbout this tim e th at Mr. h e r conquest of royulty a t th eir home
Leeds met her nnd becam e In fatu ated towns, young Leeds was being kepi
with her. It was oidy th ree days under the cure of a sm all crew of serv­
a fte r the Leeds divorce w as g ran ted an ts, Instructors, and o thers afforded
th at Mrs. W orthington hecume th e only by mean millions. H ere Is an
second Mrs, Leeds.
As a wedding account of how the youth “grew u p ":
’Young Leeds had every Imaginable
present Mr. Leeds gave Ills new bride
Jewelry valued nt m ore th an a mil­ safeguard placed ubout him to prevent
lion dollars, n mansion on F ifth ave­ Ids being kidnaped and to shield Idin
H is m other In­
nue estim ated to he w orth $2,000,000. from o th er harm .
and nn ocean-going steam yacht. It stalled him In her form er home In
wns on one of th eir visits to P aris M ontclair, N. J. When he stepped
th a t Leeds bought Mrs. Leeds No. 2 from th e cu rrlag e or autom obile each
morning nt th e M ontclair academ y, he
a $340,000 pearl necklace.
About th at time a son wns born to seemed to b reath e freely. For most
the happy pnlr— the p resen t W. B. of the tim e he uttended school there
Leeds. Jr. Tills youth gained the title his m other w as In E urope and he lived
"poor richest boy" because of the ’alone’ with the serv an ts to nilnlsrer
g reat care his m other nnd fa th e r pro­ to Ills w unts and detectiv es to protect
vided nnd the fortu n e spent on g u ard ­ him—but all to keep him from enjoy­
ing the pleasures of o th er boys of
ing Ids footsteps.
Ids age.”
A R o y al B rin g in g -U p .
Ills m other, while abroad, got dally
When this child w as two und one- cabled rep o rts on his health. Then,
h alf years old he went w ith his fath e r Inter, she took Idm to E ngland to com­
and m other to London. And here. In plete his education, giving as the ex­
p art, Is a cabled new spaper dispatch cuse th a t “he might not become dis­
of how th e once hum ble llorlst and sipated like so m any rich Atnerlcau
railroad w orker provided for his heir boys.”
by second m nrrliige:
R ecently in America.
“Not even nil lielr to royalty could
Young Leeds, around whom the
have more elab o rate care nor more
Leeds m illions really center, was In
luxurious service th an tills little
this country only a few weeks ago.
A m erican Is now receiving. It Is the
He arriv ed In Los Angeles late in
w onder of the whole hotel (th e ex ­
F ebruary on his re tu rn from an ad­
clusive Cla ridge),
venturous trip Into the w ilds of the
“Two nurses are in constant a tte n d ­
¡Sumatra Jungles, w here he burned
ance mid a maid, valet, and ex tra tig« rs. He hud lieen b itten In the arm
serv an ts a re devoted to chasing aw ay by u poisonous insect. He went to a
dull care."
san itariu m In Shanghai, but did not
torlc stream, like the James, empties
Into Hampton Roads, and during tn*
last six weeks at least 100 vessels
that came Into Hampton Hoads did
not go out again. Instead they steamed
slowly up York river and anchored at
a point a few miles beyond Hampton.
Like their sister ships In the James,
they will remain until old Fathei
Time, the tides, fishes and crabs punc
fate of seven monitors that the govern­
ture holes In their bottoms.
ment decided to discard 25 years ago.
Among these monitors were the Cat-
skill, Mahopac, Ajax and Caconlcus. JOAN OF ARCS ARMOR
In their da? they were looked upon
with the same respect as the present
day dreadnaught. They were the back­
bone «of the American navy.
There came a day, however, when
the government found It a burden to
keep these ships In active service, so
they were sent up to the Janies river.
For seven years they lay nt anchor
off City Point. Then they were sent
further up the James river to a point
about five miles below Richmond.
There they almost rotted to pieces, and
when they began to leak the govern­
ment ordered them to Norfolk to be
thrown on the Junk pile.
The newest place for “laying up”
Idle ships Is the York river. This hls-
Constructive Plan Offered.
Fake Fire Alarm Brought
44,000-W ord Sentence
For turning in a false fire
alarm, a fourteen-year old boy
of Houston, Tex., was sentenced
In juvenile court to write 1,000
times before April 21 the follow­
ing:
“I realize that It is against the
law to turn in a false alarm and
understand why. It costs the
city a large sum every time fire
engines respond to a call. More­
over, every time there is danger
that some one may be hurt.”
His accomplice got o similar
task. Each must write 44,000
words as his punishment.
Joan of Arc’s breastplate and sword,
from the collection of M. Regnler d*
Bourbon of Merton, Surrey, England,
which are to be sent to America tot
exhibition. The relics of Saint Joan
were exhibited In Westminster Abbey
last year where they were kissed by
fifteen thousand people.
Justice Swift
in New Jersey
One shipbuilder makes this sugges­
tion:
‘Strip the machinery from the
wooden ships, then organize a cor­
poration, or several corporations to
build steel hulls or barges on a com­
paratively Inexpensive plan and In­ Trials of Bandits and Major
stall the engines In them. These
Criminals Rushed on the Day
barges would be Invaluable for coast­
of Arrest.
wise trade or even for trade with Cuba
and could be operated at a cost much
less than the present steamships.
“Of course It will take money to put
such a plan in operation, but It does
not require a large financial outlay.
The steel hulls can be built in any W heel* of Court Move -.Quickly—
one of a half dozen shipyards on
Famed Not Only for Accuracy and
Hampton Roads and with the pros­
Relentlessneea, but for Fair­
pective reduction In the cost of labor
ness and Efficiency.
and the decrease In the cost of ma­
terial, competition would be keen for
Trenton, N. . . —.interesting light has
the building of these craft.”
There Is little chance of any of the been thrown on the operation and
wooden ships ever being of any ma­ speed “of Jersey Justice,” as a result
terial service again, because only a of recent convictions for murder and
While misdemeanors
few of them would be worth the ex­ other crimes.
pense of repairing of sea trade. A and felonies have Increased in New
good many of the ships are already Jersey, as elsewhere In the country In
beginning to show decay and it would the last year or so, state records show
not be surprising If several of them that there have been few disagree­
were abandoned altogether within a ments of Juries, and prison sentences
year or so. It Is the opinion of have been extended to maximum lim­
marine men that when the govern­ its In order to discourage violations of
ment begins to discard the wooden the law.
One feature of New Jersey law that
ships completely they will be blown
up with dynamite, as If they were a few, if any, of the other states have,
and which is said to have been a
menace to navigation.
The people of Claremont are divided prime factor In giving the state its tra­
on the benefit the town has derived ditional reputation for lightninglike
by the location of the fleet near that court procedure, is a provision that a
towm. The anchorage occupied by the Jury in a first degree murder trial may
ships Is referred to as the “boneyard.” designate life Imprisonment instead of
"Many go In but none come out’’ is the death penalty for the convicted
This has resulted In many
the way Robert Minter, a veteran river person.
man who has resided near Claremont quick convictions for life Imprison­
since a few dnys after the Civil war, ment where, otherwise, there might
have been jury disagreements.
refers to the “boneyard.”
IS FOUNDED ON GALVANISM
King Plays T rum p Card.
Ami u seventeen-year-old girl was
the “trum p card" of the king of
Greece In the gam e of royalty vs.
A m erican millions. The girl Is P rin ­
cess X enia Georgievna, second (laugh­
te r of G rand D uchess M arie and niece
of King C onstantine. She is to m arry
W illiam B. Leeds, J r„ elghteen-year-
old son of the late W. B. Leeds and
Sirs. Leeds, who is iow I’rlneess
A nastasia of Greece.
Young Leeds Is sole heir to the mil­
lions Ids fath e r left from his exploits
m m ldw estern and Chicana finances.
Mrs. Leeds, now Princess A nastasia,
of course, has the use of the estate,
variously estim ated $110,000,000 to $40,-
Oon.000. hut on her death, under the
lerni.i of the Leeds will, the whole es­
ta te goes to young Leeds or Ills heirs.
In oilier words, Greek royalty didn't
stand much chance of keeping the
Leeds millions unless they got the son
of M rs. Leeds (P rin cess A nastasia)
Into the royal fam ily some wuy or
ol her.
I'r.ucess A nastasia has been 111 of
late. loo. In fact, she lias been so III
In Alliens dial young Leeds recently
rushed from New York to Prance,
then by airp lan e to Athens, to be nt
the bedside of his mother.
Q uick B andit T rials.
Last Day* or the Monitor*.
Il Is Inierestlng to note Hint Athens
press dispatches say that young
Cases like that of the Union county
Minter’s opinion Is shared by oth­
Leeds proposed to Princess X enia the
ers, because all the old inhabitants bandits, Charles and John Krebs and
day a fte r he arrived in A thens to see
of Claremont, City Point and other Martin Shannon, who were sentenced
his sick m other, lie wns prom ptly
James river landings remember the to serve from 56 to 75 years each, and
accepted.
And X enia’s acceptance
m eans the b attered and unlucky roy­
alty can struggle along a few cen­
D e a th of M r. Leeds,
turies more with the new riches, un­
recover wholly from the Infection and
less polities or wliluis of subjects
Il w as Julie 23. 1908, in France, th a t hurried to th is country to undergo an
change things from royalty to democ­ the “Un p late king" died. T he will operation In New York.
racy.
was tiled at Mineola, L. I., S eptem ­
W hile lie w as cr, sslng th e continent
ber 3, 1908.
Ids m other, believed to be dangerous­
B u ild in g the Fortune.
Stripped of legal phraseology, here ly 111, w as p rep arin g / o r an operation
And now die d etails of how the
Is the pariigriipli th at gives to royalty In A thens fo r an in testin al trouble.
Leeds fortune was started and built
of Greece (by m arriage) th e bulk of He went to th e Ritz-Carlton. Intending
up a re being recalled and uncovered.
tile "tin p late’’ m illions:
to a rran g e for Ids own surgical tre a t­
l ew persons o f g reat w ealth had a
"If the son. William B. Leeds, Jr., ment, but new s of his m o th er’s con­
hum bler s ta rt In life than W illiam It. or Issue of his shall suryive th e widow
Leeds o f Richmond, Ind.
It is u (Mrs. Leeds No. 2. now P rincess An- dition led him to abandon th a t project
and sail for Europe.
strange contrast to the life of (he nstnsln) three-fourths of the residuary
king, princesses and o thers of Greek
estate is to be ret aside for W illiam
Stork Spoil* Feast.
royally who now sh are Its benellts. B. Leeds, Jr., or Ills Issue.”
Smith C enter, K an.—It w as butcher­
Leeds started In Richmond as a flor­
In oth er words. If P rincess A n asta­
ist, and by his m arriage In 1883 to a sia dies, her husband. Pi Ince C hris­ ing day at th e C. A. G arrison home the
relative of H arry Miller, then gen­ topher. bro th er of King C onstantine, o th er day. Help had been summoned
eral superintendent of the P ennsyl­ gets about $10.000,000. nnd young the knives sharpened, w ater heated
vania railroad, he got work In the Leeds about $.’(0,000.000. T hen when the d errick raised and the scalding
railroad field. At length he was d i­
, dies,
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Then
young , Leeds
his royal widow or , i barrel
.. . tilted
.. . to
. the correct
___ angle.
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the boss and help ad journed to a sm alt
vision superintendent of the Richmond ' th eir
children, f any, will get th e
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i shed
to dispatch
the Intended
victim.
division of the Pennsylvania and hla .....
$3P 000.(100 or more of good American
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1 a large sow. But, Io! they found hei
w 'fe Inherited a large sum of money. money.
surrounded by six frisky young pigs
Then w ith Daniel G. Held ns a
A fter th e death of Mr. l-ceds and
p artn er Leeds went Into the m aking tn the y ears before Ills widow was horn only a few hours before. Mr
of tin plate.
The inrlff law» were cap tu red by the Greeks, she broke Into G arrison is now ad v ertisin g for a hog
aim ed nt the development of home In­ E uropean society right and left—real nlready killed nnd dressed.
du stries and a tariff on tin p late p er­ ro y alty ’« p rivate grounds— been use of
m itted the growth of that business th e Leeds' nfil'lnns at h er command.
Filipinos -¿row Leprosy Tree.
down In Indiana
Manila. P. 1.—Seeds from the chaul
Many a dented title sought h er hand
M o or« B ro th e r* a * P a rtn e rs ,
In m arriage. H er m arriag e to P rince I moogra oil tre e of India have been jre
A cquiring the aid of W. II. and J. I C hristo p h er occurred at Geneva on calved here hy the bureau o f science,
It. M< mre of Chicago, Leeds and Retd Jan u a ry 31. 192(1, nnd made h er a and It Is hoped to produce th e plant
stands.
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ko < h i organized the business on a na- . cousin o f most of th e royalty o f Kn- In th e Philippine
The body of Lieutenant Langdon, who was killed by a Japanese sentry at
tlonnl scale under the nam e of the rope nnd gave her snch exalted rank j • The oil of th is tree forms the has«
Vladivostok, being removed froji ths U. S. A. transport Sherman at San Fran-
A m erican Tin Plate company. In -1898 as had not been held hy nn American l of a treatment which has been
sue cisca Ills death caused Perk us diplomatic exchanges between this country
th s U nited S tates Steel corporation ¡w om an In many yeurs. T h a t’s how I cessfully used In leprosy cases hers.
Lieut. Langdon’s Body Brought Home
and Japan.
who were tried, convicted and were
beginning to serve their sentence»
within 148 hours of their capture, are
occurring dally In New Jersey, the
present so-called "crime wave" appar­
ently furnishing an excellent test for
the efficiency of Its courts.
“Jersey Justice,” famed from Maine
to Florida, from the Atlantic to the Pa­
cific, and even overseas, not only be­
cause of Its speed, Its accuracy and its
relentlessness, but also because of its
fairness and efficiency, was not estab­
lished overnight. It is scarcely a tan­
gible thing. It may be be», described
as “a state of mind,” the people de­
manding that their law officers be effi­
cient above everything else. Thug
prosecutors, grand Juries, judges, petit
Juries and all other branches of the ad­
ministration of justice, which lead the
criminal to prison and the murderer to
the death chair, are Just so many
wheels and gears and belts in an al­
most perfectly working “machine”
whose motive power Is the people.
Tradition has had much to do with
making “Jersey Justice.” Beginning
with the enrly duys of the settlement
of the state, when many crimes were
punishable by death, the Calvinists
brought Into east Jersey distinctive
views of religious and civil matters
which probably were the roots of “Jer­
sey Justice.”
New Jersey differs In no great re­
spect from other states as to the gen­
eral legal procedure for the punish­
ment of crime. Lynchings and crime
against accused persons, however, are
rare. Officers of the law, from the
highest Judges down, are well paid, and
every effort is made to keep politics
out of the courts. At present there
are more than three-score life pris­
oners in the state prison here and
eight out of every ten convicts are In
for long terms.
Safeguard* for Innocent
While “Jersey Justice” is swift, the
innocent are safeguarded through a
system of appeals, reprieves and stays,
the latter sometimes operating to save
convicted persons from the death
chair. The case of Frank P. James
and Raymond W. Schuck, convicted of
killing David S. Paul, a Camden bank
messenger. Is an illustration. After
their arrest the trials of the murder­
ers were expedited and the same day
they were sentenced they were In the
deathhouse here “candidates” for the
chair.
In July, 1904, three young negroes,
Aaron Timbers, William Austin and
Jonas Simms, entered the Lome of a
farmer named Biddle, near Burlington,
bound Mrs. Biddle and attacked her.
Within a few days all three were cap­
tured, tried, convicted and had begun
sentences of 49 years each la state
prison.
_
“Bill” Fra uer, s Camden holdup
man, who terrorized women, was re­
cently captured and tried and con­
victed the next day. The evening of
that day he was on his way to prison
to begin a tong term.
Woman Kills Big Wolf.
Grotton, S. D.—Mrs. Bert Fetters, •
farmer's wife, armed with an ax, won
a fight with a large gray wolf hers
one Sunday, when she cornered the
animal In a hog house and killed IL
A dog pack had been fatigued when
the woman Joined the chase.