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SHORT §2,000,00 BiG FOUR OFFICIALS ADMIT WAR RINER DEFALCATION I 8 - ENORMOUS. MYSTERY WHERE ALL WENT Aflened Blackmail and Speculative Losses Do Not Account Fully for the Large Amount—First Esti mates Too Conservative. . f‘érzdx;sux‘:f, Nov., 10 Wih rumors Bsnotig men G touch with rallresd st taira in this city thal the shoriags In the Braniisl depurttient of the | g Foor railtvad eeckuse of the delales tion of Charies 1. Warriner, tormerly loeg] trenauter of e rosd. may be ay high ne 32080 000 examiination of War piner Ly Bis stperters and others was resumed An ofictal staiement con firmmed the romors that the shoviagse probably would reach $B6O 000 That the tolal may g 0 167 above thit higare i Cononded - Mystery Where It All Went, Ofciais of the g Four admit that thevy are astonished at the revelstions by Warriner and they - are prossing Eim for sddivions! details of how he sient the money, Ihe sums alleged to bave beon naid in Blackmall and: lost bs unprolitsble specplation leaving a jarge mmount for which there Is no ac counling. . : Wartiner sssoris that he bas not a dollur left the teansler 1o the ralk road company of his home and socks & various corporations fn which he was inferosted having made hlm pen The pearch for the man and wWom at whom Warriner has pamed In con pection sith the alleged blackmaiiing of Eim out ol mane thousands of dol bars, 11 I 8 stated, is being concluded here, in Chicago, In Portsmonth, O, the farmier home of the woman men tioned, and in other eities but zo far no oadditional arrests have been made snd confliicting statementis are made Ly those In chiarge of the case a 8 to the probabiifty of uther arresis soon. No Qther Arrests Contemplated, Attorney Goldsmith, law partner of Gov. Harmon and one of the counsel for the Big Four, I 8 authority for the statemwment that no other arrosts are contemplated At presont e Mr. Goldsmith also gave out a statement saving that the g Pour would prozecute Warriner to the Hmit and that in this the read would have the vigofous support of the bonding company, which has pald-in 350000 on the Warriner alleged shortage. Warriner, who was releated Satur. day on & §20,.0600 bond, is sald to be doing everyihinog possible to identify and locate those who, he asserts, extorted money from him to prevent exposure, Ratlroad omicials Bave heard from Warriner o circpmstantinl story of the alleged f*xmniun‘and' those implicated, including & man and & won an, are sald to be walched day and ight by detectives. The rallroad, it i oaswertod will canse arrests ds soon ax convineed that the facts will jus Uly prosecution. ¢ : Loss Wil Reach $500.000. New York, Nov. 10.--The loss to the Hig Four ratlrosd through the alleged deialeations of O 1. Warriner, its o cal treasurer at Cincinnatl u!:‘.,imau‘?!_\'. will amount 1o aboul $560000, accordfog to & statement lssued in . New York by Albert M. Harris, vice president of the Now York Central lines, ncivaing the Big Four : “The amouni of the defaleation,” says the statement. “has been ascertained to be §643,000. Warriner has turned over to the company property Amounting to more than $100,600, ahd there will be received from the surety company on {la bond $50,000, leaving the net amount of the shortage something lexs than 500,004 e “The method which Warriner adopt¢d was to cover his defaleations in the item of ‘cash in Cransit.' At the end of each month there are considerable sums of money on their way to the local treasurer from station agents and others which have not been re ceived by him. It was by including in this item thé moneys he had stolen that he was enabled to conceal his defaleations.” :

STEEL MEN'S PAY RAISED

Wages to Be Restored to Rate Exist ing Before the Cut in 1907, :

Bethlehem, Pa, Nov. 10—The wages of several thousand emploves of the Hethlehem Steel Company will be restored to the scale in vogue before the 1907 depression, according to an announcement made by Charles M. Schwab, president of the company. In general the inerease will amount to ten per cent. and will affect employes in the wachine shops, foundries, blast furnace department and labor depart. ment. it Bank Cashier Is Accused. Columbus, 0., Nov. 10.—George H. Osborne, for 35 years cashier of the Huntington bank, was arrested on the charge of being short in his accounts. The amount involved is unknown. : Militia Company Dismissed. Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 10.—All of company A, Second infantry, West Virginia National Guard, has been mustered out of service for refusing to protect two negroes from a mob. Three Injured in Fire in Indiana. . Terre Haute, Ind,, Nov. 10—Three men were severely injured in a fire which destroyed the Coliseum theater and June Harlan's livery. :

MME. STEINHEIL BEGS Woman on Trial for Murder Cries Out - Parie, Nov 16— “Have pliy on me! | am sn enhappy woduan who shewid uot be tortured.” cried Mme Steinhedl 8t her trial for ihe murder of her hosband and stegenother. The appeal cate during the testimony of jeweiors with relrones o the charges of jos. elry ronfided to them by the prisoncr, but whish she originally fusisted Nad boin stolon by the sesassine L The proseeuting fudge resposded that acoused persoss Blways repenied that cry when embarrassed for an aswor. : : Mme Steinhell sdmifiod anew thal she had cagsed cortaln Jewels, the iof ber admirers, to be meited, ! that this was donie to keep facis of Ber lfe wecret {rom her daugbter From this polot Mme. Btembell as pumed s appresgise attitode, which fesuited In tiits between her and didge de Valles When reproached for Baving convesind from the authorities the fact that she posseased lmitation Buplicates of ber jewels the woman defended her secrecy on the ground that she wished 10 hide from her friends the real financial condition of the family : s ; When the journslists testificd that Mo, Bieinhell was In a siate of #reat deprission when she confessed to them that she bad placed the pear! kl{("svuﬁ!@!‘d‘x pocketbook mm then ac cusid Wolf, the joisoner deciared that the newspaper men had tortured her o speaking, one having twisted her wrizts to make her talk = x 5 CANADA'S CROP BIGGEST EVER $100.000,000 Surplus Is Going Into - Pockets of Farmers and Grain Growers. ; Ottawn, Ont. . Nov. 10.—An official statement of the graln harvest of Canada has been iskued by the statistics department of the dominion gavernment. It gives the estimates of production, computed from the reporta of & large stafl of eorrespondents, and although the totals are less than those of a month ago for wheat and barley, they show that Canada has reaped an fmmense harvest, . The wheat erop ix put down at 168 388,000 bushels, giving an average o 22 bushels an acre, and barley at 57, 060000 bushels, ar 31 bushels an acre. The yield of pats Is given at 255,000, 000 bushels, or 3% Lushels an acre. One thing is assured, that Canadians have veaped the biggest and most profitable grain crop the country ever has produced and, with the prices pow obtaining, they will have. an enormous sum of money added to their spending powers, It is estimated. that & f-:urph_';:s of apward of $lOO,OOO - 600 will go into the pockets of the farmiers and grain growers.

ENGLAND SHUNS U. S. BEEF Consul Genera!l Says the South Amer. ican Market Takes Meat - Trade. ' Washington, Nov, 10-—Britons are ceasing to look to America tor their supply of beef and are turning to Argentina for meats and cattle R M, Bartleman. consul general’ at Boenos Afres, Informed the depart ment of commerce and labor of this fact and also reported thar promi nent English ship owners and Argen tine eattle raisers have organized "a vennpany which will undertake (o ship supplies of chilked ment to Loudon and Manchester each week. L This trade, i 1 I 8 expected, will eventually’ cut heavily into this cou try's meat exports unless the matter is mmediately taken up by the interests conecerned. o ; WAGES OF MILLION REDUCED Consul General Reports Hard Times for Working Class in Great ‘ ' Britain. Washington, Nov. 10.-—Labor condt Gouns in Great Hritain are going from ‘bad to worse, judging from the report of John L. Griffiths, consul general at London, to’ the department of commbree and labor. Wages are being lowered and the hours of work are decreasing, while an alarmingly large increase in the number of those who are registered as unemployed is giving grave concern. . : Last year during the entire 12 months the wages of 464,000 persons was reduced because of the bad times. In the six months of 1909, from January to June, or just half the time, 1,081,273 were compelled to submit to reductions in their earnings.

TAKE RULER’S BODY TO TOMB Chinese Honor Memory of Dowager Empress When Coffin Leaves ‘Forbidden City. Peking, Nov. 10.—The cortege accompanying the body of the dowager empress on its $O-mile journey to the eastern tombs left the Forbidden city early yesterday. The route along which it traveled was thronged with people. A holiday in memory of the dowager empress was observed. / The heads of the imperial clan accompanied the coffin in state regalia. Pythian Record Keeper Named. ‘ Clerburne, Tex., Nov. 10.—To fill the vacancy caused by the death of R. L. C. White, Fred R. Wheaton of Minneapolis, Minn., has ,Jbeen appointed grand keeper of records and seals by Chancellor H. €. Brown. .

KING EDWARD SPREADS - FEAST ON BIRTHDAY British Monarch Recives Message of Congratulation from All Parta Londan, Fopland Nov. 18 - Kisg BSward ooiehrated his wixipeighth pirthday st Rasdringham o palaes, pirrounded by mowt of the mem bers of Bix family and a fow intitiate frionde. Tolegrams of congrataiatios waore teeeived by bis majosty Drom sl parte of the world His bealth b conphirraldy improved oo early morning the tessmtry of Basdringhan wore feasted by (he king and Quesn Alexandra, who made a peint of sersosally looking after the wands of thelr gpudsia, Admdral Bir John Arbutbnot Flsher, ford rommisdoner of the admirally atd first and principal ald<decamp 1o the king, was today slevated in the pestnge in econnection with King Bdward's birthday. o Sir John Fisher was borm in 1841 and entered the British naval service when 12 years of age, working his way up through all the grades to the rank of adniiral of the fleed which be altained In 1998 When the channel firet was reorganized in 1807 Admiral Pleher had a seriois differsnce with Lord Charies Beresford over s com: position. Both the public and mwembers of parliament took sides in the aottroversy and [t {8 reported that as a reanlt of the trouble Lord Charles Beresford was forced out of the chanuel floet In March last through the ac tivlty of the Flsher faction. THREE KILLED IN COLLISION L. & N. Train Bound for Cincinnatl Hits a Freight Train in Tennessee. , Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 10 —Three trainmen are reported killed and 38 persong infured In a wreek at Kleinarts gtation, 20 miles north of here. ‘The porth bound Loulsville & Nashville passenger train to Clincinpaty, which left Knoxvilie at 11 p. m. struck a south-bound freight. The wreck de stroyed wire commpiunication and blocked the tracks, but a relief tram was sent over the Southern raflway and arrived here at daybreak with the dead and the injured. Engineer Plerce of the passenger traln and Firemen Lemimons and Bowman were killed. Bjornson 11, Going to Paris. Christlania, Norway, Nov. 10— Biornstjerne Bjornson; Norwegian noyslixt, who has been seriously {ll for five months, passed through Christl ania last night in a special hospital ear. which is convexing him to Paris, where the elﬁctro-xhc»fapi;uuc cure will be tried. ‘

THE MARKEIS ' Grain, Provisions, Etec. Chicags. Nov. & FLOU'--¥Firm., Winter wheat, patent, St oo s steslghl, Jote BRGOGO clear, hte . $4 900 3 spring wWhist, specisi bramis, wosad $ 15 Minnesota hard wosin. patent Rate, K 30 Minnesota Bard spring. strafght. export bags ¥ A first clears, S4B second Clears, 8: wayt s aw grades. B UHLE - Byew White per LU, SUREFING. durk, per bbb, Jate, SEdgEEE : WHEAT Strong. December, SLESO Ladg s May, SaONAEL RN : CORN-Decemmber, S5O May, 8% COATE - Qulet December, Bhietiyc; Moy, SIBBUKe, : : BUTTER-ACrenmery, sxira, 3. prie o redwill deslers, 30, prints KR extra tirsis. 2. firsts, D peconda e dalFles; - RAIYa, e fiesta, Do seionda S ladies, No, 1,3% i pEcking stock, 25 Fajas cMimcllansous, fine, cdases e furmad, BUG T ec: cases included, G efdiamry, e Brsts, 270 prime Srsis, B, exirax. W Na 1 divtiex, ¥ chagks, $ TN s POTATOES - Rewsipw, 8 apre. Cholee 1 faney, e falr o pood BTa Baawl Polalies-Jergy, i YVie gindas, §IOOSL 0 per bu, : # LIVE POULTRY -Turkeys, per iv, 1 vhickens, fowis 1% roosters, 3¢ springs 3% geese, Mt ducks, I i - New York, Nov. 8 WHEAT - Fyports, 182 bn. o Bpot easy. Noo I red, 5104, domestic, nominal, elevator: No. ¥ red. $1.21, nominsl (o arrive o b oafloat; No 2 hard winter, LIS wagninal £ 4 b aßoal. ecemher, FULION &L, closed BLEAL. Mauy, $l.OB 330000 oy, closed $1094. : CORN--Exports, LE®3 bu. Spat casy. No, 2 W slevator domestie, % deHversd, amdd 70c £ o b sfleat: No 2 yellow, Tiwe, all nominal, December, closed @¢c: May, closed, B¢, : OATS -Exports, 838 bu, Bpot, quiet; mixed, 5657 Ibs . nominal: natural white, HHAL Ihe., Wilieee; clipped white, GO ihe., Ee4Bisc. . e : Live Stock. : : : Chicago, Nov. 9. CATTLE~Good to prime steers, 00§ $l6; fair to good steers, SISGSMO; common to falr beeves, SS.OOGATS; good to fancy vearlings, SSIOGRZS; inferior killers, $.2545.00; good to cholce bewf cows, SLUMS 5. medium 1o good beef cows, BR4, common to good cutters, $2.706 330; inferior 1o good canners, ELMGINO; goed to cholce heifers, $600E6 0 common 1o fair heifers, R.06F150; butcher bulls, $.5G5.10; bologna bulls, $3.006G3.58, good ;Oﬁ.mm calves, SLTB@NH; calves, 5@ HOGS--Good to prime heavy, $8.00§5.15; good to cholce Mfght, $7.76§8.00; common to lght grades, $1.55§G7.75; light mixed, $.60G7.%0; butcher weights, $1.56G310; medium welght mixed, $1.806755; rough packing. $1.5G7.50: pigs, $.0G75. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 9. " CATTLE-Steady to strong. Native steers, H.OMIS.OO, cows and heifers, 8.25@ Rl5. western steers, $3.50696.35; Texas steers, R 0093.10; cows and heifers, 255 G 450; canners, [email protected], stockers and feeders, $3.0065.25; calves, 5.50G7.00; bulls, stags, otc, RGN oo HOGS—Market 10 cents higher. Heavy, FHALS, mixed, FLHELI lght, .60 ;g pigs, $6.50G7.25: bulk of sales, $.709 _ SHEEP-Market 10G20 mm Feeders higher. Fed muttons, $4.855.40; wethers, SLOOGLT: ewes, $.55g440; lamds W-'& S e e R e S e

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- : - - . - - & The Man # . - - : . % . - - Wiiose Death : .= : - £ . * . Shook Europe : - R WA E RS A e r HE execution o Barcelwmna re centiy . of Professor Franclson Feérrer, the anarchist teacher : &4 ivader, for alieged complic. ity In the DBarcelota riots, §s said to bave bwen one of Spain's greatest binnders and Las aroused protests throughs ont BEurope aid (o some parts of Amer fen. In fact. the extraondinary out burstas of fesling following the afMair have beéen lkened to the revolutionary roavements of (S 8 whose oWedts were felt o every country of the worid, It fs deciared by nny prominest men of Earope that Spals by this blunder, following the Blunders of the war with Morooeo, his undone In 8 fow mwanths the effect of yeurs of firogross Maobs, exclied hy Ferrer's execution, have detie moch damage In a pumber of European coitles, and hundreds of arrests have been made in France, Haly snd Austrisa. Bombs have been thrown in several parts of Eurape and churches afttacked. In Plsa the great cathedra!l and leasing tower, one of the architectural wonders of the world, wns sel on fire by the mobs but extingulshed hefore much damage was done, . A number of great writers of Europe and America have written wnch cob cerning Verver sinee the exedntion, and one of them =avs of his work and enreer: : : “Tintil about eight years ago the pe cullar Rpanish system of educationpeculiar eetuse, pithough i was once general, Spain Is the only country where It lingers bpow-was -unchal tepged. FPraosciseo Perrer had foupht it 'in a way by establishing snail classes where his anthstate antichurch Yiews were tsught to ehikdren. But Ferrer was unkuown and uuregarded. “Ferrer, inwever, bad a rich wife rich for Spaln Bhe died and left ber fortune to ki With what she had

| N A @ \ . - % ’ﬁ.ﬂ\ ’&- Y A A C I - ,’,, = Rl : . - /' fi 3 ¥ }5 4 &%"2 e = aan i i $ s{e e e 3 : » e ML SRR = e & » Y . ~ﬁ gi, ’ -Y g» -y & t S L ‘% -oy B SR TR N . o ’ o B .!j“ 5 3 | oy x | ! L——~——— H LEANING TOWER OF PISA, ATTACKED BY MOBS, AND PROFESSOR FEHRER. given him before it amounted to $500.00— not great as fortunes are reckoned in most countries, but very great as Spain understands such things. Ferrer spent it all on his theories and became a menace, When he died only $4,000 of it was left. Every real of the rest was spent in advancing the cduse of the Escuoela Moderna (the modern school). : ; 3 “With a free hand and the money his wife left him Ferrer was able to embark on the career of reconstruction he had hoped for all his life. He was then forty-one years old—a born Catalonian, who spoke Castilian Spanish with disdainful difficulty, but wrote it with purity. He was a man of medium height. sturdily built, with a high, intellectual forehead. : “Ferrer's success was amazing for a time. His preaching of anarchistic doctrines could po more be stopped than Kropotkin's could. Besides, his main concern was with his schools. He traveled widely, planting new schools everywhere. He went beyond

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e et e s e the lwinders of Spoin, apousing intereass erarywhere and collecting rzz%'tﬁé)»;’aé? ways with the sssistance f the welms tists In every land o which be whar™ Whett Ferrer was on irial for his Hfe In 100 it was Renor Lerrout a Republican deputy, who gave him (he certificates of charscier wWlkh saved himm. This was that Ferrer taught no aparchy —only “iniernationsiism.™ Ferrer kept 1o hiding after the Rar celona riots i protest agaiost the -Spanish war ln Morseve. it was learn: od by the poiice that al bis couniry bome fo Mongat be bad dug & cave-usn: derneath Lis house, Inte whish he re tired when searchers arrived. - Aecting en this information, The sellde Bnalb ruccenled in arresting bim on Bepr. 12 Hin triat this time wag hy a 8 secrst court wartial. That vo examination of withesses was inade le g polnt orged ia;:nim‘ fts fairness snd legnilty. The process was fo tale ovidence by deps sition, after which documents were | prepared 1o be sulanitted to rhe trisd ecourt. Nobesdy knew the ositestte of ittw'z*ﬁmm_ wartial ustl it was wiis pered on Oct, 12 that Ferrer had beedt ton!wmxl to the fortress Montjgich The pows come soddeniy. . 1t gave ma ! time for demonsirations, but thereé - was e for the siogan “Ferrer's b E erty or the king's 11fe 1o go from end to end of the red canse. = : f The Chicagn Daliy Soclaiist. gives King Aifonss but two months more at the outside to survive the anger be has stirred in Spatn COOK VERSUS PEARY.

Brookiyn Expiorer Will MHead an Ex © pedition ts Mount McKinley. While the porth pole controversy has Contingl s fong LAI soe poeoie caryy a tlacki & sl threaten 10 us« it on the first person who mentions H to them agnin, there ars others wihs stiil sit ug ghts reading abont gum drops and Eskimos. Most of us, of course, are ansicus to have the mat ter settiedd so that we cafl go back to arguing about the coldest day, the political situation, who hit Billy Pat terson, ef but it promises to be a jong drawn out affair . The recent statement of Edward N. Barriil, the gulde, that Dr. Cook never got within foarteen miles of Mount McKinley added more fuel to the flames, and the Peary supporters be . O g N | ;/ v g 9 5. Ry ST P o} S { if THE MOUNT M KINLEY PHOTO CALLED A FAKE BY BARRILL. . came jubilant. Followers of Cook, bhowever, say that this will be explained In due time and are confident that they have the best of the controversy. Barrill claims that Cook’s photo purporting to show him waving an Amerfcan flag on top of Mount McKinley is a fake and was taken at such an angle that the real peak in the distance does pot show, Iu regard te this matter the Brookiyn explorer says that he will abandon his lecture tour as soon as possible and himself head an expedition to ascend Mount McKinley to obtain, if possible, the records which be says he left there in 1908. In announcing his decision Dr. Cook said: “] am fully determined to break off my lecture tour, complete my arctic data for Copenhagen and then head an expedition immediately to Mount McKinley to recover the records which 1 left there. My decisfon has been ; - » W"‘“’\\\ 's.-k‘ COOK AND PEARY'S BIGNATURES. reached owing to the acuteness of the controversy.” s -

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s HE conptry's g T great equine = ' event, the obaS tlonal borse show, e which ' will be beid RN i Madisoti- Square : i, . Ganden, New York, 3 & during the week of ] Nov, 813 wifi te = S " exbibitiou . Bathaea is scupe an well as v \ { io pame. For the : - frst tmoe In the his 1D HAIE TO BE tory of (his affair A NVLE THESE (he farmers will be « BAYS as much interested a 8 the men who own thoroughbreds of & mire orndmentsl and less useful type thas the draft animals, special prizes amounting 1o over 10000 having bwen offervd for the work horses ™ This will bring to the show a wiillon dolisr display of Beiglans, Cirdesdsion, Perche rops and other famous drafiers, and the great animals in the ring with dainty saddie and silm haroess beaoties. will make a novel exhibit, In the past this eshibil of equines bhas mostly bewn New York's show, bat bereafier other cities are 1o take an important part ln {4 and anfmals of &il breeds from all over the country will be cutered. The judges this year will be the bes! known and imost eficient te be wlitaloed o the United Bistes atid Cansds Haeroess,. saddie and Jumplug herses of the highest trpes are to Bave gulte ax important a pisce of the prograis sx t'_'i;"f. bt the draft horses mre o be featured as the plck of the couniry's breeding farms Edward Morris of Chicago, whose minssive siyx horse team was a big feature of the London international show, bas entered these champions and also terz of the best Clydesdales ever Dbrotght from Great Britatn, among them the champlon of the anpual highiland show In Scotland of draft horses. The Mclaoghlins of Kansas City bave entered thelr recent imporfations of Percherons, the pick of the Nogent, in the heart of the Perch country in France, and the Crouches of Lafasette, Ind, have brought over

-2 ."é,*.&' _leaff“ﬂ NS LT ‘:,fil iT R e | W, T /. =wN 4N | " - :‘1 > . e :io: ‘ . ! 3 . . > K 3 : R 2 ; 2 " ‘ o ~»§‘§_ LAT BhE e T eit A JUDGING MATED PATRS the champion Percherons of the last Paris ghow. Champlou Belgians are 10 be the exhibit of Alexander Gailbraith of Japesville, Wis, and the Truemans will show the prize Shires from the Royal Agricultursl soclety's show in England. Many other well Kpowa horsewen will exhibit Probably ne other event held in this country - brings together so many people of great fortunes and promlnence as the national horse show, wealth and fashion having set their stamp of approval oo the affair from the very first. The development of the show to fts present proportions aud sigonificance means that it has far outgrown the ideas and even the anticipations of its founders. The exhibit not only interests and excites the social and sporting world, but is of the greatest moment to the hotels, restaurants, florists, liverymen and even boarding houses and transportation companies and to the raliroads centering in the metropolls. - It takes to New York an army of weaithy visitors and out from their homes many thousands of New Yorkers as weaithy, whose aggregaic e= penditures, Inspired incidentally by the show, in the matter of gowns and clothes, flowers, carriages and hotel and restaurant outlays mount into the milifons. This is no exaggerated statement, and it is safe to say that were the horse show te be abandoned or even to wane in popularity there would- be wailing and lamentation in the business as weil as in the social and sporting worids. - Women in the past have not only entered many equine prize winners, but aiso personally exhibited them in the ring. And last year, for the first time in the history of the show, a woman took part in the jumping contests and

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captured a ribbon. The rider was Mrs. Allen Potts, a noted southern bhorsewoman. Sheshowed wonderful cooclness and skill. James T. Hyde is called “the father of thenational horse show,” having conceived the idea of holding such an exhibition in 1882. Its development from its aimost crude be-

ginning in 1883 has been surprising and unceasing, and now that all the ‘most famous breeds are to have a part in the exhibition it will attract people from every state in the Union.