Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 362, 13 February 1907 — Page 1

RIG MOM) AJDIIJMe VOL. XXXI. NO. 3G2. Richmond. Indiana. Wednesday Morning, February 13, 1907. Single Copy, One Cent.

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Indianapolis, Ind., Feb., 12, .Spnr7 As a result of the examination into the affairs of the State Life Insurance company, during which the policy of its president and vice president and the alleged accepting by them of bribe of $50,000 for their vote in the purchase of the Stephenson block, which is now the home of the company, A. M. Sweeney, president and Samuel Quinn, vice president and general agent tendered their resignations tonight. rThe resignations were at once accepted by the directors of the company and it was announced that their successors would be selected at a meeting tomorrow. It was also decided to increase the directorate of the company from five to nine members and the following new directors were elected: James I. Dissette, president of the Indianapolis Forging and Foundry company. W. C. Bobbs, president of the BobbsMerrill company. Albert Sahm, county auditor elect. Henry W. Bennett, post master of the city of Indianapolis. Charles F. Coffin, was ro-elected. It is announced that the remaining directors will be selected at the meeting tomorrow and that one of them will be Albert E. Metzger, president of the German American Trust comThe Official Resignation. The communication through which Messrs Sweeney and Quinn officially made known their intention to resign was as follows: "To the board of directors -of the State Life Insurance company: Gentlemen : We the uudersigned hereby tender our resignation as president and e president respectively of the State Life Insurance company, the same to take effect immediately. This step is taken because of the fact that during the Investigation of the business and management of the company now in progress evidence was introduced tending to show that rnmm'ssions of considerable sums were paid to each of us at the time j of the purchase by the company of , the Stevenson building. We respectfully request that tne Doaru oi uirec tors cause action to be brought to j recover the money that is said to have been paid to us. In order that the charge may be investigated by a judicial tribunal before which witnesses may be brought by compulsion and the depositions of abseut witnesses taken, and the ordinary rules of the Administration of justice observed. 1'ending the insult of such action we wish to relieve the policy holders and management of any embarrassment which might Vesult on account of our relations with the company. ANDREW M. SWEENEY. SAMUEL QUINN. Investigation to Continue. James W. Noel, who has been conducting the investigation for the state was Informed by the Palladium representative last night of the action of the State Life officials and decision to Increase the number of directors and was ''asked .hat efftct tU changes v ould have on the exaralna tion now r.adcr nay by the state. 115 said: "The investigation will continue as we have much evidence which it ie Intended to introduce. -The resignation of the presides? and vice president was tho only thing thcr could !o ! the face of developments and the -Uft that they Lave asked that .: action brought against them is la my estimation, sLarly a bUff- - - r ' The decision to teert ase the number of directors is cue cf tbe wisest moves ever made by tae comply vither Mr. Quinn or Mr. bweeney rr,uld discuss their action olaer th?.n to say that they afmply uid what tnty thOUKtlt UCOt. i" hopd that thco -ho tav been .endeavoring to destroy cue oi the State litest ta.tItu!on- through a d,, rr f in lure them would he satisfy tnSneTctrcIei thr fact th.t the . , tr,r . tr.ft CUiill'auji mn who had been Urgfjjy re.ponI 'dingi i1 Llf? two 0 lami tests Sjii:pany ha? been siBjf tr. " fro si two ruen wc the manageSpellrcan Better. The CIS? very for .w

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THEY JUST CANT AGREE President Unable to Accomplish Anything in Conference With Mayor Schmitz and Associates on the Japanese School Question. Publishers Press. Washington, , Feb. 12. The presi dent and Secretary of State Root have exhausted their present resour ces in an unsuccessful effort to bring Major Schmitz and the San FrancisIco school board to time in the matter of the exclusion of Japanese students from the schools of that city. The ladministration and the visitors are in a hard and a fast deadlock, and the president will now turn to the Japanese government to aid In solving a problem that has grown more and I more perplexing. Ambassador Aokki returned to this city tonight after an absence of several days. He will confer tomorrow with Secretary of State Root when an effort will be made to come to Ian agreement on something that can be used to persuade the obdurate Californians to rescind the offensive regulation wnicn Keeps Japanese uui of the San Francisco schools. In the meantime, the president has called off the conference with Mayor SchmiUz and the Iatters associates, and it is likely that they will not get together again until Friday. BLIND TIGER BILL IS E Saloon Keepers Have Long Wanted Such a Law and Druggists Don't Care. EFFECT ON SMALL TOWNS RICHMOND DRUGGISTS HAVE, GENERALLY SPEAKING, CONDUCTED A LEGITIMATE BUSINESS, BUT ELSEWHERE The action of the general assembly in passing the "blind tiger" bill seems to meet with the unqualified approval of the people of Richmond generally. There was a fear among many of the warm advocates of the measure that the amendment made by the house might encompass its defeat when it went to the upper body for its concurrence, and while there was some opposition to it in the senate on this account, the demand for legislation of this character was too strong to be ignored. Local saloon men are naturally, well pleased over the passage of the bill, th h , insisting that such upon the statute They say that while " ' " there may be no "blind tigers," strictly, speaking, within the confines of Richmond, small neighboring towns that are supposed to be in the "ry" class simply because through the medium of the remonstrance they have put the licensed saloons out of business, are over run with them, and indirectly, they militate against the business of the legitimate liquor dealer in the city. Richmond druggists, as a rule, declare that they have nothing to say in opposition to the new law. They as- '; sert that it will-have no effect on their profits, claiming that they have never engaged in the illicit sale of whisky anyhow. AWARD BRIDGE COHTRACT ONE COMPANY GETS ALL Pan Arrericar. cf New Castle, to Cors-S ' struct Nin ondnas m County at aj crs In Session, At their session yesterday the comity coniTuissioiters awarded he con tract for tbe buildup of eight bridges . the Vork or repairing one strect- . are to Fac. ,-rcan Bridr,e cornpany of Xcw C--' Theie were twn other lu-li-T iu- '.'eitfl States o txi-.tlacc!'). at'-v " Andersen FridiT - C n. :-y oC Ac'crsoa, Ini. 't?:u fut r?ffi;! . 'jrsy niaie a bid ot all of the bridges rr aeroft to r- u!d the !ruc i" c i tit ' ' tires: Srrick!er I rit'i e New Garden ri'".j.e . . C ray hii dr'Q .-----lXxlirh!.ce l;i ig'1 .: .'-. .Tesv.p F'ard lnlfc.e Hunt bi1dg " Allt-n hrl i.ee - ,- Prame bilJf Tar frrour.is I'Tila rsslrs . - : a in jit fis - , J ,5.4 00;? Tr. bid of the Casual r-rl3 coe:nauy vis nzxt lotveet fo that ct th?

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VAS QUIET DAY III THE LEGISLATURE

Senate Passed a Bill for Relief of Township Trustees in Expenditures. A SAVINGS BANK MEASURE SENATE MENDS LONG COMMITTEE RECOMFOR PASSAGE A El LL NEEDED FOULKE AT INDIANAPOLIS. (By Demas S. Coe.) Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 12. The senate this afternoon passed a bill for the relief of township trustees who have expended funds for any legal purpose, in the way of providing supplies and who have technically violated the laws because of the fact that the expenditures were not formally ordered by the township advisory boards. The bill was amended so that with the permission of advisory boards the trustees may employ clerks and provide themselves with adequate offices and furnishings. There was considerable opposition to the measure offered by Senators Kimbrough, Strange, Tyndall and others, on the ground that the bill seeks to undo all that the county and township reform bill sought to do. The bill passed, however, by a vote of 32 to 10. JfThe senate committee on banks and banking toay recommended for passage a bill which will give Indiana an adequate and much needed savings bank law. It provides that banks shall be permited and it throws about such combination institutions proper safe guards in the way of reports and examinations to be authorized by the state auditor. The only objection that has been offered to the measure is the provision that such banks may, on the authority of the board of directors, tranfer the funds of one, department to the other in case such transfer shall be deemed advisable for any purpose. The claim was made by critics of the bill that this might permit of a juggling of the funds at a time when an examination was-on"f.ud would 'enable hcrirgtirt-4 ization to show that one department or the other was in good shape when in reality it was not. The fact that the bill provides for the simultaneous examination of both denartments. however, obviates such juggling, it is declared. The author of the bill. Sen-.! ator Farber, said the purpose for pro- : viding a transfer was to safeguard i the savings department in case there should be a run for any cause. The commercial department could in such an event go to the rescue of the savings bank. The senate took a shot at the Hawkins bill which was to provide that counties and townships could not-vote

subsidies to railroads, and killed it i school and yesterday afternoon after deader than the proverbial "tick" this ; adjournment, he, in company with afternoon. The majority of the sen- i Willie Holmes, Herbert Williams and ators felt that if any community want- I Dewey Wiggins, started for the pond ed to vote money to a railroad or in- to slide on the ice, neither one of the terurban line that it had the right to , boys having skates. Ice had but redo so. The claim that the non-tax- ! cently been harvested from the east payer usually was instrumental in car- : end of the pond and only a thin scum

rvins: such elections, was not resrarded as good argument for the abolition of the system. The house killed a similar bill a few days since. -Sf The members of the senate caucused tonight on the insurance bill and othe Important measures that are still hanging fire. This afternoon the Farber insurance bill, an exact counterpart of the Babcock bill in the house, was to have been a special order for business in the senate but the matter was postponed until Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The continuance was arranged so that the ina-jo.-itv abators might get together! aon (V '.de wn-u should be done. in - r suraace- legislation is demanded but th? question cf just what shall be cone is, much mooted. Fearing that the senate might be thrown into a tiKTiOi! if discussion we're to be perir.itted without a definite understandir as to what should be and what s-.ho'ihl not -he permitted, the repuhHcan dfided that a conference would nQt fcurt ard pei:hapa at lp 'lhe blipJ tiger bill tad nucther row-' the senate today. The house utnerdment which exempts licensed physicians and druggists from violations simply because they have liquors on hand, caused a rumpus. It was pointed out that the amendment imply exempted them to the extent, that l!qiors kept by them were not to be tcVen as prfma facie evidence that s-nch were kept for sale or barter. After a wrangle of almost an hoar the house amendment was concurred la ; anfl the matter is now up to the govl' - ' "' - - . eral : assemUr and President liryan j ui Indiana uiin-u-uj mouc ii ovi-uv-k, ( th Ho!is. There were hundreds

2,475 00 jof T;Sjtors present in addition to th 00 legislators. ' i 2,190 'CO f " 'lJt;Jat':'J)t'' 990 0, The Hon. WUliam Dudley Foulke cl 40 00 1 j-jchtoccd was a visitor in tte seast 423 00 ..4 u .ho f-,riCA tCMla-r. Mr. FoIta

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THE WEATHER PROPHET.

INDIANAer. -Generally fair and warmOHIO Not quite so cold Wednesday, with fair weather. NOTE TO READERS. Owing to the entire space on page 3 being taken up by an advertisement today the makeup of the Palladium is slightly changed, the amusements being shifted to page seven. The Palladium more than any other paper in the city tries to classify its news matter, having certain pages for certain news. Unless an unavoidable change must be made departmental news in. the Palladium will be found on pages as follows : Sports Page 2. Classified ads Page 2. Amusements Page 3. Editorials.. .. .. Page 4. Railroads Page 4. Society Page 5. Markets ..Page 6. Serial story Page 7. Daily statistics Page 8. On page 1 an effort is made to place the news of most interest to the greatest number of bur readers. Page 2 Is generally the last page made up and often times late stories, especially telegraph will be found on it. They are often worth a place on the first page but do not get to the office in time. PLAYFUL PRANK AT COST OF HIS LIFE Howard Mouser Broke Through Thin Ice on Mill Pond and Was Drowned HIS PLAYMATES HELPLESS OTHER LADS WHO WERE WITH YOUNG MOUSER COULD NOT LEND HIM IMMEDIATE AID AND HE DIED IN COLD WATER. Howard Mouser, the en year old firm rf Arlnm Mr.or S-(7 U i 'v,aw, VI ,WI III : Twelfth street, broke through the thin ice on the nond adioininc the nieh-! mond Corn mills yesterday afternoon ! about 3: CO o'clock, and was drowned before the eyes of f his companions, They all being youngsters, were almost powerless to render assistance to the unfortunate lad.' After the alarm had been spiead a crowd soon gathered around the pond and with the assistance of a rake and an ice' raft, Sam Wickett dragged the lifeless body from the cold water. Young Mouser was a student in the fourth grade at the Whitewater of ice overlaid it. The boys slid around on the more substantial ico ror several moments, when young Mouser called to his companions: "Say, fellows, I'll banter you sliding toward the thin ice." His companions protested against the action. Young Mouser simply smiled, and with a gladsome cry took a long run and slid to his death. Ho realized as he was fast approaching the thinner portions, of the ice, and according to the statements of his companions, tried in vain to stop hirrself. .Wlilie Holaies ran to the edge of the thicker' ice and said that Mouser rose to The Mirface only once and sank, A - " li a:' lu - v iuo vJa nnl eot'Ai" si n-. r rC TY1 0 tnrTi4rrP tlts QUU C V VLB t U1V 4 y -tM r A 14 ft -l 1 . U V sce4i0 of the accl ient. C. W. Hi!!, the miller at the Richmond Corn in;!i who happened to see the boy break through the Ice, ran to a nparbSLarn and grabbed a rope with the hoe that he could yet save the lila of the bey. It was of bo avail however. Sam Wickett. who ooi arrived upon the 8ine," secured a ra&o, ans with the aid of en ie raft, which he pulled the -. lifeless body from u water, -lae city amouiance was called and removed the boy to the home. ',...''' KANLY WILL SIGN BILL if Legislature Passes McCuilougfi Measure he Will Affix his SignaIndianapolis, lad., Feb., 12, (Sp!.) It was announced tonight ,that la case the McCullcugh police bill, which by Its provislcas will ch.apt the By 1V.J uuneiwar in i-w.-wv ISe ! nrpsont f arrOTWjiTUl J Jaar lRsim KfK i 2 hoose9 of U,e 2tre, Governor r , .,.. ",u . .,, n rif jvtH : .turn n. f HiE1y win as i- i-iereiorore It Hacly will sign U. Heretofore it fi has bea g!vrn t that the governor cuM veto the raeajnre. ; . i . The Bev;iT. Ware Sick. The RcT. A.T- w are cf ft- tastf Main Street eds' chnrcij it rejtort, cd to be 111 africhlta. 'Raster he j.. f0r . "k tne rneuu f""";me. -xr. ware jg suffering frcjan attack of'-rippe.

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HAD "BRAIN STORM" Dr. B. D. Evans Proves Valuable Witness in the Hands of Atty. Delmas. LAWYERS IN A SQUABBLE DELMAS TAKES OFFENSE AT REMARKS OF JEROME ABOUT THE OPERATION PERFORMED ON EVELYN THAW. tHublishers' Vzess.i New York. Feb. 12. Counsel tor Thaw unexpectedly announced that it; will take about two days to put in the t , unrti te iui me ut-i?iise. x xiia, ui course, does not take into consideration the cross-examination of Thaw's witnesses by Mr, Jerome, but it indicates that Thaw will not go on the stand. "What is regarded as an important document in connection with the trial was obtained by District Attorney Jerome from Abraham Hummel. This document is a photograph copy of the statement which Mrs. Harry Thaw testified Hummel dictated when she went to his office with Stanford White. The original copy, it is stated, was destroyed, probably at the time Mrs. Thaw says she went to Hummel's office in search of a paper she had signed. It is said that in the statement are charges that Thaw ill treated her and even beat her. There is some talk that Hummel may be put on the stand as a witness In rebuttal, but it is -re likely that Mr. Jerome la preparing for his crossexamination of Thaw's wife. Tuesday was the anniversary of Harry Thaw's birthday. He is 36 years old, having been born in 171. Counsel for defense called as a witness Dr. Britton D. Evans, superintendent of the state insane hospital., at Morris Plains, N. J., who said he first saw Thaw Aug. 14, 1906, in the Tombs, and in all visited him eight timerf, sometimes alone and at other times accompanied by Dr. Charles G. Wagner, who testified Monday. Dr. Evans declared he noticed during his visits to the Tombs that Thaw suffered from forms of Insanity, charactelrlzeayn finding' lr1RrTil- Insanitr (ha Inttni ! j- ,.ri I T frxnai nnU TU. ,Tn .TiikH. CAU1u1L ""a 1 j?e an exl0f ye or fulminating condition of mental unsoundness. By "exaggerated ego," Dr. Evans said he meant "a disproportionate idea in- clothed with cowers caoacitv and t.M7 J , powers' caPac"y ana ability far above normal or above . . those actually possessed." These symptoms, he said, are characteristic of several mental diseases. Dr. Evans declared adolescent Insanity is characteristic of the development perlcd of life from 10 to 40 years. The person thus afflicted is known as having a psychopathic taint, a predisposition to mental unsoundness, the result of heredity. Another form of Insanity indicated," said the witness, "is known as a paranoiad, a fixed insanity on some subject. A third is maniacal, where the patient jumps from one idea to another. These forms and others are characterized by the exag gerated ego." "Is there any specific name?" asked Mr. Delmas, "given to that form of In sanity wherein one Imagines himself omnipresent the ruler of the world?" "That is included in the forms of insanity to which I have referred. Both adolescent insanity and paranoiad in sanity are characterized by delusions as to self- Importance, and exagger ald ego. In adolescent Insanity th patient exhibits no marked symptoms But when the stress comes the mar does not break down as the ordinar or normal man would. There is a com plete loss of mental balance, an ex r!os?ve condition of the brain, the rea son becomes dethroned, the will power Is lost and the brain Is operating as s ship does in wind without a rudder the balance wheel is gone. The act' of iuca raen are not acts of a norma nan, but show him to be guided b disease and stress. His mind has lef its mocrings and yielded to diseased conditions. On my first visit I noticed that Mr. Thaw suffered from a rapid Cow cf words not characteristic of the narmI mind. He showed a condition of abiormal excitement a diseased conditio of the brain." Lawyers' Bitter Squabble. The interminable squabbling between District Attorney Jerome and Mr. Deliaas was contributed today with Increasing bitterness and ranco At one point M"r Deimas in a fit of displeasure at Mr. Jerome's deportment noted an exception in the record to the district ator leys condact of the case. Toward the close of the hearing today, when "jlr. Delmas had propounded his hvporbetical rtXJPttirm tn TV . . an Mr. J)tOme L,. If fZ was picKiag InaeenrafM, Mw--uraci es in the tate- ,,,, x?vZru ay lEe eviafW cuiarly w t t 3 p4r"" SfJw ,v , l. to' Mr-Jerome ob.asmuduua in me Ques tion that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw had undergone a criminal operation. MiJerome declared that it was 't known that the oneratt formed at the oStes of Dr William t BulL uaoT With great heat Mr. Delmas object (Continued on Page Two.)

ROGER'S ANNUAL REPORT

CITY PLANT MADE MONEY Excess of Receipts Over Operating Expenses for the Past Year was Nearly Thirty Thousand Dollai A Gcod Report. Charles II. Rogers, superintendent of the municipal light and power plant has completed his report fo the twelve months end'ng January 1, 1906. It made the following showing: Receipts: January. $5,SG2.12; February, $5,S73.3S; March, fo, 477.10; April, $3,317.06; May, $4,S3S.10; June, $4,747 99; July, $4,476.26; Au gust. $4,505.91; September. $4,3SG.13; October. $5,824.81; November. $3,s24,04; December, $6,70l.s2; total receipts ; for twelve months, $63,267.42. Ex- j pendituresr wire $3,303.99; meters, ) $4,600; transformers. $1,936.S9; sun j dry equipment, J3 m o; !and extensions. $Uoo.63: additions total $20.j Operatin expenses: pay roll. $10,644.20; coal $12,436.2S; oil, 431.66, repairs, $1,275.81; miscellaneous expense, $3,023.9S interest on bonds, $3,772.10; total $33,3S7.03; total expenditures for twelve months, $53,6S1.84; receipts from light and power for past twelve months, $63,267.42: operating expenses for past twelve months, $33,587.03; excess of receipts over operating expenses, $29,680.39. EX-GOV. HfGGINS CALLED BY DEATH End Came , Just Before Nine O'clock Last Night After a Long Illness. HAD AN ACTIVE CAREER HELD VARIOUS POSITIONS IN REPUBLICAN PARTY, GREATEST HONOR BEING THAT OF EMPiflE. STATE EXECUTIVE. . Olean, N. Y, Feb. 12. .Former Goveruor Hlggins died tonight at S:40j o'clock, after along illness.' Tho fr.niM.r oil n K hnJl.ln ..1.1, i me exception oi nis eiaesi son, u. i, Higgins, who Is in California. Frank Wayland Higgins was born i at Rushford, X. Y., August IS, 1856. He ) was graduated from Riverside Military academy at Poughkeepsie in 1S73. - From 1875 to 1879 he was in mercan- .... . . . 0 . . xfi, .. - tile business at Stanton, Mich., marry- . . ata n at Rnarta Wis., in 1878. In 1S79 he returned to his native. state, engaging in business at Olean Here he began to interest himself In politics, held various positions with the republican party organization and in 1S94 was elected to the state senate. . From 1903 to 1905 he was lieutenant governor, and in 1904 was elected to the chief executive's chair. He was succeeded by Governor Hughes, Jan uary 1, 1907. UNVEILS LINCOLN TABLET Governor Hanly Presided at the Fes tivities Held Last Night at Claypool Hotel. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 12. (Spl.) With impressive ceremonies, Governor Hanly tonight unveiled the splendid Lincoln tablet in the Claypool hotel. TAKES OPTIMISTIC VIEW REV. HUNTINGTON SPEAKS Tells Members of the Tuesday Club That People are Ready and Anxious to Try Their New Methods on Problems of Century. Before a large and appreciative au dience composed of the members and friends of the Tuesday club, the Rev. David C. Huntington last night read I the paper of the evening upon "Ethics of the Twentieth Century." The paper was thoroughly optimistic, so far as the gradual betterment of the world is concerned, and abounded with good thoughts. He compared the nineteenth and the twentieth cen turies from an ethical standpoint. He said that the twentieth century had already solved a great number of problems and concluded by saying: There are still problems for this country to solve, as great .as -any that have been solved, in the last six years, but what is claimed Is this: the century is ready to solve them. There has been

a great advance an the moral ideal. Rev. J. F. Robinson of Indianapolis The people have learned the .meth- -will conduct the services. Rev. Robod and the people are ready and anx- hnson la an able effecient and enthusiona to try it npon all sorts and con- lassie minister, worthy of being dMoxs of men. The thre steps are . heard.

investigation, publicity and reform. The discussion was led by Messrs. W. K. Bradbury and T. A. MotL

MANY SINK WITH STEAMER III ICY WATERS OF OCEAII

Larchmont Collides with the Schooner Knowleton. Off Block Island, R. I. BODIES WASHED ASHORE NEAR SCENE OF WRECK Frantic Passenners Frozen to Death as they Made Attempt to Leave the Doomed Vessel in Open Boats. rPubllshera'rress Frovidtntv, u. I., tea. 12. The steamer Larctnnont of the Joy line, with many passengers on board, bouni from Providence for New York, saulc off the northwest side of Illock Islan l after having collided wththe thmmasted schooner Harry Knoweltou off Quonochontaug. Passengers and crew of th steamer took to the boats, but many lost their lives either by bein! drowned or freezing, as the temperature was below zero. The schooner's bow was cut away, and her captain ran her ashore to prevent her sinking. The crew of seven men, including Captain Haley, reached shore safely In boats. . The Knowleton, from Kaatport, Me., was bound from South Arboy for Bos-: ton, with coal. She lies on a sandy bottom, but Is full of water, and It is not known whether she can be floated. The Larchmont left Providence for New York, in command of Captain MeVey of Providence. She carried a crew of about 30 and had on board 150 passengers and a miscellaneous cargo of freight. Passengers met their deaths in various ways. Some attempted to launch lifeboats and were frozen to death on the decks of the foundering steamer. Others were drowned In the'attempt to escape before the vessel went down and KM 11 nt hpn whn wjm nnti,.Dii. , XT ' . , reached shore. Captain McVey said that at the time of the collision lie had not had an opponunny io examine tne passenger list handed to him Just before hU steamer left Providence. The cap- ' tain's estimate of those on boarl agrees, however, with the estimate ' made by the Joy line officials at Provi-' dence, about 130 passengers and a crew of 30. Inhabitants of all parts of the island turned out to asslrt la rescue work, although many of then live several miles from the point oft" which the steamer sank. The north west gale continued with rero temperature. Captain McVey said the Larchmont sank within 10 minutes after the collision. After cruising about in a small boat In the Icy gale nine hours, hu landed on Block Island. Close behlnl his boat another landed, bringing 16 dead and eight dying passengers. Only 19 survived, of whom six men and two Women were passengers, and the rest were members of the crew. Including Captain McVey. So far 20 bodies washed ashore. Captain Frank T. Haley of th5 Knowleton rammed the Larchmont oi ' the port side about a quarter away from the bow. The blow carried away the schooner's JIbboom and bowsprit, and all her forward ringing, openln? up the ship's sams and making a great hole forward, through which the water rushed. Desperate work at the pumps alone faved the lives of tho crow of the schooner. Captain Hal and his six men all took a hand at th work until the moment cane to launch th ship's bo-t, in which they wer able to reach the shore at Watch Hill. Captain Haley was without knowl edge of the damage to the Larchmcut which, an soon 'as the two boats cleared a'fter the collision, appeared to continue her waj- to the westward, an-1 Captain Haley and his men ud cot remember of hearing any calls for assistance from the steamer. However, they were so much engaged In keeping their own vessel afloat that they hal little or no time to watch the Larchmont, or figure out the extent to which she was damaged, or the fate of those on board. I never shall quite understand ho-.v this acc'dnt occurred," said Captain Haley. A long time before the accident happened we sighted the Larch mont as ,she steamed steadily to tb westward. All her lights were seen. Some of the crew were on deck awhile and we spoke of the picture the Larchmont made, all lighted np. Then we saw that the steamer seemed to be heading directly for us. I remember that I looked up at our lights, which were burnine all right. Revival in Progress. ' The congregation of the ML Moriah Baptist church is engaged Jn revival services this week. The congregation extends an invitation to all jK-rsous throughout the city to come and assisL

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