Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 284, 20 August 1909 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1909.

REAPER CLAIMED TWO VICTIMS 111 THE AUTO RACES Plunge of Speeding Car Into Fence, Indianapolis Speedway, Caused Deaths of Bourque and Holcomb,

IMMENSE CROWD SAW TERRIBLE TRAGEDY When Overturned Car Was Righted Chauffeur Was Found Dead and His Assistant Breathing Last. -Indianapolis, Aug.' 20. Death's toll ,at the opening of the new Indianapolis jtnotor speedway course yesterday afternoon was taken when the two-hund-jred-and-flfty-mile race for the PreetoUlte trophy was three fourths finishThe victims were William A. Bourraue, Springfield, Mass., a famous driver employed by the Knox Automobile company and Harry Holcomb, GrandlllV Mass., his mechanic. They were making a gallant fight with a Knox racer and had pushed their car past other demons until they were second. "Wild Bob" Burnam, driving a rBulclc with a seemingly frightful disregard for the perils that lurked in evry foot of4 the course, was leading them, and Louis Chevrolet, the daring Frenchman at the wheels of another IsBuick, was not far behind. Bourgue was not regarded as a contender for the $1,000 prize until a few 4nlnates before the end came for him and Holcomb. He had - been gaining steadily, however, and was fairly burnling up the macadam surface. The ; acore board showed the pace was faster than a mile a minute. Chevrolet Had Stopped. As mile after mile was reeled off and there were no accidents the big crowd, estimated at 16,000, settled (down to enjoy the hazard of the sport ?fcat ya .befose Gabon got t and-made cruybodj vaJmtiSxx. Ins written about HreasWi bctiuosmy oPtofl anri -an infinite la the United Kansan to scad and talk Tboa story la man who has bad and fccSSng tp & state. than- anyone W in tnrcunntry's Vou nwt -readit in HAMPTON'S! MOW Among tbulwHty other gret! features 4fct wS make yon say that thb is the "Best Magazine' in America" are- f General Bingham "speaks put" at last abont the rottenness tf the New York Judiciary. Vou most not miss bis startling revelations. "72 Commg SjmtaeU tm the Skies." By Garrett P. Serviss. A. thriling-and cntextaiang story tbbwt naHeV Comet that will loan be visible and may give us TA Vw of Siiemctr A by Alice riegan -a ate. 15 cento HAs9TOfraSAGAZVK,r Ytk

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with the feeling that the danger had been exaggerated. Chevrolet, having stopped for repairs after a remarkable flight of over 110 miles without a stop of any kind, had started out to make np for lost time. Bourque and " Holcomb were leading him. They fought it out on the back stretch and were giving the crowd a real thrill when the cry went up that Chevrolet had stopped. His car was creeping with the gap rapidly widening between him and the Knox driver The latter was lost in a cloud of dust at the lower turn leading into the long stretch in front of the grand stand. The crowd knew nothing of the tragedy until at least a minute after it occurred. Even then it was not thought that any one was seriously injured. In fact, the only merciful feature was that the thousands of women in the grand stand and private boxes were

spared sight of the two mangled bodies. The mystery of the tragedy, for there seems to be one, is how it occurred. Car Left a Wreck. Bourque was found on one side of the racer and Holcomb was on the other. It is said that Bourque's arms were stretched in the direction of the guide wheel, indicating that even in the closing chapter he made a desperate attempt to hold the car to the course. The car Itself landed against the fence beside the course. The front wheels were shattered and it was said that the spindle of one front wheel was broken off at the hub. The car was a wreck, and bounded along for 40 feet before" it brought up against the fence. Bourque and Holcomb are supposed to have been caught beneath the car and crushed to death before it came to a stop. Different causes are given for the accident. Private Frank Brander, Company H. Second Indiana regiment, saw Bourque and Holcomb rise from their seats and look back to see what had become of the flying Chevrolet. The car is said to have hit a rut in the course and to have escaped from Bourque's control. Spindle May Have Broken. Another story is that the spindle broke on one of the front wheels, causing the car to turn turtle and killing the occupants before they had a chance to think of safety. Bourque's legs were broken and his skull fractured. Holcomb's skull was fractured and both arms broken. It is probable that their car was heading into the stretch at the rate of a mile and a half a minute when the end came for them. Both were breathing when the first men reached them. Bourque died as he was placed in an ambulance. Holcomb died a few minutes after he reached the Emergency Hospital on the Speedway grounds. THE KINGFISHER. A Bird Whos Wr i Are Most Difficult to Observe. Perhaps there is nothing in nature more difficult to observe than the ways of the kingfisher. Any one may see him glancing down midstream or making bis sudden arrow Sight from bank to bank under the bright June sunshine, but to tfack biui down to his secret fishing place and watch him at work is a vastly more difficult thing. You come from the gold clad meadows into the shady river path as into a cathedral aisle. Tbe willows crowd down to the water's edge. In tbe green reeds a sedge bird is fretting. There is a low twittering song of nestlings all round you. And now, in tbe shadiest deep of the willow wood, a shrill, piping note cuts tbe silence, a flash of emerald passes, a kingfisher has gone by on his way to his favorite pool. A common notion is that he sits perfectly still on some branch overhanging the water, a picture of crafty vigilance. But this is rarely if ever tbe case. Tbe truth is, says a writer in the London Chronicle, that the kingfisher, like tbe master he is, sets about his work with an easy surety, almost a nonchalance. Peering down upon him warily through the screen of branches yen would Judge that tbe last thing In the world he was thinking about was the gilding brown water below . him. He twirls round on his perch, making his vivid green and turquoise and amber plumage scintillate like a dewdrop in the one beam of sunlight that has found him out. He preens his feathers, stretches a lasy wing now and again, looks about him with a casual eye, and then, as If It were the merest trifling detail In life, he suddenly points his two inch long fishing spear of a bill at the water beneath him, plunges and is gone. The Withering Wind. The name of barniattan has been given a periodical wind which blows from the interior of Africa toward tbe Atlantic during the three months of December. January and February. It sets In with a fog or dry base, which sometimes conceals the sun for whole weeks together. Every plant, every bit of grass and leaf in its course Is withered as though It had been seared by heat from a furnace. Often within an hour after It begins to blow green grass is dry enough to burn like paper. Even the hardened natives lose all of the skis on exposed parts during the prevalence of this withering wind. Painful Ailment. Though gout Is generally reckoned a disease of rich men and free livers, one of the worst of sufferers from It was a well known English minister who died not long ago. A friend once said to him, "Dr. So-and-so, what Is gout like?" The clergyman smiled sadly. "If you put your hand In a vise," be said, "and let a man press as hard as he can. that is rheumatism, and if be cau be got to press a little harder, that is gout" ' Why Ho Cam Back. "Wasn't you hero a few weeks ago?" asked the woman of the house at the back door. "Yes'm." repl led the wanderer, "but I understood from a pal that you've got a new pastry cook since then!"

Mammy Crawlly, An Aged Negro Ending Her Days in Proverty

Eaton, O., Aug. 20. In a dismal. dark little room in the "Beehive," a rickety old tenement house here, sur rounded by sad conditions of poverty, is found one of the most interesting and remarkable person probably in the state. This person is Mrs. Nancy Crawlly. The fact that she is an interesting woman is attested by the story she has related to the reporter. Mrs. Crawlly is a colored woman who was born somewhere In West Virginia, so many years ago that she cannot remember the exact number. The resultant infirmities to one who has lived so many years have rendered her an invalid and have destroyed the faculties of recollection. However, from the story told by the old mammy, as best she can remember, it is learned that she is about 120 years of age. Mammy Crawlly was owned as a slave by a holder in West Virginia, WILL BE FAIR POLICEMAN Richmond Man to Help Protect Visitors to State Exhibition. ARRANGE A NEW SYSTEM TACTICS OF INDIANAPOLIS POLICE LAST YEAR MAKE THEM UNDESIRABLE, SO FAIR HAS ITS OWN FORCE. Indianapolis, Aug. 20. The State Board- of Agriculture has organized a police force of its own for the State Fair at Indianapolis, and it will be the first time in the history of the exposition when, during the coming fair, that the police have not come from the regular department of that city. The experience of the board with the Indianapolis police department at the fair last year caused the stop to be taken. On two days of the last fair the Indianapolis patrolmen on duty at the gates took charge of the gates, over the protests of the gatemen, and gave free admission to their friends. The police threatened to use their clubs on the gatemen, when they reported the action to the State Board of Agriculture. Before the contention ended, Mayor Bookwalter was called in and promised that it would not occur again. Next day the police again admitted a number of their friends, and the Indianapolis force was ordered off the fair grounds. It was late on the last day when this action was taken by the fair management, and on promise of the police not again to molest the gatemen, the city officers were permitted to remain on duty. Wilson the Chief. Several weeks ago the State Board engaged Frank Wilson, former chief of the Indianapolis department, and a policeman of long experience, to organize a force of patrolmen and detectives to look after the comfort and safety of State fair visitors during the week of September 6. He has made up a force largely of men who have seen service on the Indianapolis, while many of the appointments have gone to Richmond, Anderson, Elwood, Crawfordsville, Lafayette, Brazil and Muncie. The men will be In regulation uniform. "There is not a club wielder on the entire force," Mr. Wilson said. "They appreciate the fact that the kind of people who attend the State fair know how to behave themselves. The chief duties of the police will be to look for men and boys who climb the fences to avoid paying admission, and to protect the visitors in any way needed." Richmond will be represented on the State fair force by I. A. Gormon, former chief of police. The Shorter Word. The day before Christmas Edith, aged ten, bad a number of packages tied up for distribution. Tbe doctor felt of one intended for "Uncle John" sod the rest is as tbe New York Sun prints It. "That's some tobacco," said the doctor, as he fingered tbe package. "How can you telly asked Edith. "Because I am a good diagnostician." he replied. Thei. as Edith seemed, somewhat dazed at the big word, tbe doctor inquired: "Do you know what a diagnostician is?" "Yes." she answered promptly. "It's a good guesser." H. Took h. Cak. "Mike." said I'lodding Pete, "dere's ' wuss t'ings dan gold bricks." "What's happened T' MDe lady up de road said dat If I'd chop an armful of wood she'd gimme a cake." "Didn't she keep her word?" "Yep. She handed me a cake of soap." Washington Star. When It Started. "Captain, what time does the boat atartr "It starts, madam, when I give tbe word." "Then Ire always had the wrong Idea. I thought It started when the engineer pulled a lever or did something. Thank you ever so much." Chicago Tribune. The Banyan Tree. A regiment of 1.000 men could readily find shelter under a single banyan tree. In India there Is one of these trees which has 400 main trunks and

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and while serving as such became, the wife of Alfred Crawlly. She says four children were born to them. The eldest one, a daughter, Martha Brassfleld, yet living, is 91 years of age. Another daughter is three years the Junior of Mrs. Brassfleld, while a daughter living in West Virginia is now 67 years old. Mammy Crawlly says she was separated from her husband at the outbreak of the war of 1812, when he became a soldier. Since that time she has never looked upon him. At the beginning of the war 97 years ago, Mrs. Crawlly was the mother of a daughetre who was then D years old. Considering these statements, also presuming the mother to be at least 15 years old when she was married, her age appears to be about the number of years stated above. A look at her bent old form, with due consideration given all evidences of extreme old age, would suppress any douot as to her years.

MESSAGE DOESN'T WORRYPRESIDEHT However He Gives Occasional Thought to His Western Speeches. NAMES TRAVELING MATES ALTHOUGH THE TRIP WILL BE LONGEST A PRESIDENT EVER MADE, NUMBER OF HIS PARTY TO BE THE SMALLEST. Beverly, Mass., Aug. 20. Only through "unconscious cerebration" is President Taft preparing for his many speeches to be made on the long west era and southern trip. By this same method the President also is working on his annual message to congress. The President has thought out the general plan of his message; he has several cabinet officers at work on the details of certain phases of it, and he will not take up the work of assemb ling the document until a week or so before congress meets. The message is not likely to be a long one. Personnel of Party. The personnel of the President's traveling party has been completed. While the trip promises to develop into the longest ever made by a President, the party unquestionably will be the smallest. Besides the President, there will be John Hays Hammond, president of the League of Republican Clubs; Captain Archibald W. Butt, mil itary aid; Wendell W. Mischler, assist ant secretary; Dr. J. J. Richardson, of Washington; James Sloan, Jr., and1 L. C. Wheeler, of the secret service, and Major Arthur Brooks, the President's confidential messenger, who just now is fighting with the Red army of in vasion about Boston as commanding officer of the battalion of colored troops with the District of Columbia national guards Six newspaper men will accompany the President through out the entire trip. The party will travel in two private cars attached for the greater part of the time to regu lar trains. , President Taft sent the following congratulatory dispatch to Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary, on the occasion of his birthday celebration: "On this anniversary of your majesty's birth I offer you my cordial congratulations, with, fitting expression of the good will this government and people bear for your countries and wishes for their prosperity." Confident Law Will Hold. Reports reaching Beverly that the constitutionality of the new corporation tax law is to be tested just as soon as an effort is made to collect It have not disturbed President Taft the least. The tests and the protests, the President declares, were all anticipated, and no threats of the corporation lawyers now cause the chief executive any alarm. Mr. Taft is thoroughly convinced that the tax will stand any test that may be applied to it Attorney-General Wlckersham, a corporation lawyer of note, and Senator Root collaborated on the corporation tax provisions of the tariff bill, and the measure, as enacted, they believe, will survive any attempt to nullify it Seemed All Right. "Mamma, why don't you want me to play with that Kudger boy?" "Because, dear. 1 know the family He hasn't good blood In htm." "Why. mamma, he's been vaccinated twice, snd it wouldn't take either time." Ladies Home Journal. Making snd Earning Money. "What is tbe difference between making money and earning money?" asked the youth. "Sometimes the difference is a trip to the penitentiary for counterfeiting." answered the home grown philosopher. Chicago News. Enlightening Rolls. ' "Father.- said little Rollo. "what is an egotist?" "An egotist, my son, is a burnt match that thinks it was the whole firsworks. Washington Star, Politician an4 Patriot. V Teacner What is the difference between a polltfeian sad a patriot! Scholar A patriot does something for his country; a politician does ate country. Pittsburg Press. It Is sometimes exnedient to forge

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HUNT NORTH POLE Daring American Newspaper Writer Starts His Balloon Journey. WIND QUITE FAVORABLE NEWS OF START WAS RECEIVED FROM ITALIAN STEAMER AT HAMMERFEST, NORWAY AVIATOR'S RECORD. Paris, Aug. 20. A special dispatch has been received here from Trieste saying that according to a telegram received from the captain of the Italian steamer Thalia, now at Hammerfest, Norway, Walter Well man left Spitzbergen Aug. 16 in his dirigible balloon "America." bound for the north pole. He hau a favorable wind when the start was made. GETS NOTE FROM PARTY. Madison, Wis., Aug. 20. Mrs. Ar thur Wellman, who lives in Madison and whose husband has been with his brother. Walter Wellman, making pre parations for the flight to the north pole, received a letter from her husband today in which he stated that Walter Wellman would start three or four days from the date of writing. He said the explorer would take simply an engineer and one other man with him. CLIMAX OF YEARS OF WORK. For several years Mr. Wellman has been working to carry out his belief that the north pole can be discovered in an airship. He has made two expeditions by sledge and boat into the polar regions and is well acquainted with conditions there. His airship theory grew out of his experience and his study of the progress of aeronautics. After two years of preparation his dirigible balloon, the "America," first ascended from Danes Island, Spitzenbergen, Sept. 2, 1907, carrying Mr. Wellman and two assistants, to make the dash for the pole. A furious storm made progress impossible, and the party descended safely on a glacier. The initial expedition of Mr. Wellman in quest of the pole was made in 1894, by sledge and boat, from Spitzbergen, and reached latitude 81 degrees. His second trip was made, by the same means, in 1898-99. when he penetrated to latitude 82 degrees north. Then Mr. Wellman turned his attention to the airship problem. Louis Godard, the French expert, was given an order to construct the largest and strongest dirigible balloon in existence. With the exception of the Zeppelin craft, no airship of the balloon type ever has been constructed so large as the "America." Has Airship Rebuilt. - Shipped northward from France in the early summer of 1906, the "America" reached Spitzbergen early in July. It was found to have so many defects that it was sent back to Godard's shops to be reconstructed. In the following summer it again reached Danes Island. Gales and the work of perfecting the details of the airship delayed Mr. Wellman until Sept. 2, when the ascent was made. Owing to the lateness of the season, no other attempt was possible in 1907. The "America" has since been in storage. The inflating of it began July 31. Mr. Wellman's right-hand man on his present venture is Melvin Vaniman, an American electrical and mechanical engineer, who for several years has practiced his profession In Paris. Arthur Wellman, a brother of the explorer, accompanied the expedition to Spitzbergen. RIVER THRE1IEIIIIIG (American News Service) Calcutta, Aug. 20. It is reported from the town of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjaub that the plain is rapidly disappearing owing to the erosions of the Indus river which is eating its way inland from 50 to lOO feet daily. Many buildings have already slipped into the. stream and the residents of the town have moved out carrying such household effects as they can. Cecile Caricu age nineteen years, living at Molene, France, is in an awkward predicament. On going to the mairie to have her marriage banns published, she was told that legally 6he has no existence. Her parents had forgoten to have her inscribed at her birth. IK

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