South Bend News-Times, Volume 30, Number 275, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 25 September 1913 — Page 2

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lAGING a signal beli or ligat ion a typewriter at a distance of at lost ins an electric light through the one hundred feet without other aid than an'

fitful walls of a vault or a brick assistant to put paper in the machine.

wall with no wire connections is apparently an easy matter with

the aid of an invention of WillInm Tj. Cummin;:, a twrnty-thrre-year old boy who is being" hold br the govfrnmnt authorities in Now York city for ending a threatening letter to Miss Dorothy Iiamhrrc:er, a young heirr. Cummins is alleged to have advised Mi? Ilambergr through the letter that unless she gave him $1,000 he would destroy her by means of this contrivance. It is the opinion of the authorities that Cummings fell upc l this alleged blackmailing chomo to pet money to place hi invention before the pnblic. That the apparatus as it ct"- looks like a fincere attempt to apply wireh?s telegraphy to a Mock signal system is the opinion of scientists who have examined the deic T.iit it n!o has deadly possibilities. An infernal machine ontaining the receiving apparatus of a wireless outfit could be entirely concealed in a suit ease nnd yet ho effective. It might be phir1 in a U:iMia- or anywhere else and tho action f the t.jparatus would tit be interfered with o long ns th receiving instruments wero not entirely surrounded by a thick vail of mc lab The machine is not extremely complex fn construction. A pheet iron tank about one and onehalf feet in diameter and about two and one-half feet high stands on a wooden pedestal. In front of the cylinder is a red light below and a green light above, neither of which seems to perform any

function, according to a test recently

made by electrical men. On top of the -nachino nnd connected with tho inside arc two pieces of wire about Fix inches long, one end of each being bent in an upright position. To the other end of each wire is attached a half of a small ball of Rteel, the two halves resting about one-quarter of an inch apart. The inside of the machine contains a series of wires, dry cell batteries, an instrument similar to a. telegraph key and other mechanical devices.

With this machine Cummings claims hei

can ring a bell or light a lamp at a dis-jpo-p(1 patont interested me. and I immedi

tnnce of one hundred and ntty tcet through brick, stone or steel. It is asserted that he al.-o claimed that with ope other little attachment which he had hoped to have perfected he could work the key in the machine and write a letter

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Cummings says that the object of the In

vention is the perfection of a block s nal system. lie asserts that when his In-j vention is perfected he can not only signal by the light3 in front of each station whenj the block is c!ar and when a train is on;

it, but that no matter what happens to the track the engineer will he warned. lie says that with the aid of the wireless a train can he stopped from any distance up to seven hundred feet, and that

in case of a broken rail after a train has.

entered the block the signal will be flashed to the engine cab, where a bell will be rung and a light turned on to call the attention of the engineer to stop the train. Cummings claims that when his invention is perfected it will include a scheme b? which it will be possible to stop a train automatically by pulling the air controller so that in case the engineer and fireman arc incapacitated the train will be stopped' before an accident can occur. A. A. Knowlton, assistant professor of physics of the University of Utah, who was present at the examination of the machine, which wa3 held in the presence of newspaper men, private and government detectives and United- States official?, said : "Cummings idea of applying wireless telegraphy to a block signal system is not far fetched and might indeed prove prac-

Pticahle. The chief problem of the inventor

would he that of reliability. Wireless apparatus Is very delicate and is subject to

fitfulness in operation unless kept care

fully adjusted. This apparatus could be made to explode a charge of dynamite at a short distance, perhaps not more than a

hundred feet.'

Mr. AV. P. Detts, a Salt Lake City man, who had made Arrangements to help

finance Cumming' patent, -tells the fol

lowing story of his first meeting with the young inventor, who is now held by the federal authorities :- "Cummings came to our office first on the morning of June1 24. He said be had been looking for the offices of the Utah Light and Railway Company to apply for work and had boen attracted by the sign

on our door. His explanation of his pro-

ately took him to the office of our attorney, Mr. J. Stokes, Jr., and a contract was made by which we were to furnish material for the building of a model for an interest in the patent rights." The arrest of Cummings was marked

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Doff Does Journey of 210,000 Miles

IIEX the Indra line steamship In-JTiji Islands, Hawaii, the Philippines, drum left loston a few days ago Japan, China. Malay, Asia, Arabia,

there was a cabin passenger aboard

rnjoying the distinction of having just finished the last log of - 210,000 mile

journey without having paid a penny of

fare. The passenger is still journeying nnd still escapes the obligation of paying fares. He is still aboard tho Indrani. Tho remarkable traveler is known by the name of Fluffy and !w is the champion dog traveller of tho world. He arrived in I'.oston on .Tune -7 aboard the Indrani and put in the time -hore seeing the sights, playing with the little girls and boys in the streets anil in gazing with pity and some contempt upon the dogs of the city which have nevr wandered far from their own door mats. I'luffy is part wild fox and part chow nnd has boon making regular sea voyages idnee lie was six months old. rut even now this strangely wise dog knows no master. In 1907 cr.e of the officers of the steamship Indravelli was wandering the streets

Egypt; Spain. Malta, South Africa. Cey

Ion, India and the United Sjates. He has

passed through the Suez Canal eleven

limes. Fluffy has a remarkable knowledge of the movements of the vessels aboard which he happens to be. He will not leave the bridge day or night during- a fog so long as the fog whistle is kept sounding. Ho is also just as fussy about not leaving the bridge during the passage in and out of port, and he always keeps close to the captain during these trying times. He was the mascot of the Indravelli and the Indrasamba before going to the Indrani. His experiences have been many, varied and trying. The champion

dog ocean traveller once fell forty feet into the hold of the Indravelli and if was feared he was killed, but within a few

days he was up and running about the

deck again.

Fluffy came to Uoston from Japan on

fliss Dorothy Bamberger.

with sensational circumstances. Miss Dorothy Bamberger, who had just arrived from New York, where she attended school, received a letter telling her to meet the sender at a local hotel, where she should give $1,000 in cash in order to avoid danger to herself. The letter was crudely written on a typewriter and many words were misspelled. At the bottom of the letter was a drawing of a suitcase

filled with dynamite, with notations showing that certain diagrams were meant to be batteries, a spark coil and contact wires. Cummings has admitted that he made tho drawings on the letter. Miss Bamberger turned the letter over to detectives, who instituted a trap which resulted in the capture of Cummings. Cummings was caught as the result of

it-iepaone conversations. Miss Bamberger was called by telephone at her apartments in the Hotel Utah br one

who said he was "Mr. McCormick." The

threatening letter was signed "James McCormick." She was told to keep the man on the line ns long as possible, and the detectives traced the location of the telephone used by the supposed "McCormick," and in that way Cummings was captured. . ne at first denied all connection with the Black Hand letter. He later admitted that he made the drawings on the letter, but declared that he had been the catspaw of another. Ho said the prevailing mind in the affair had been a man named Burge, but a search has failed to reveal such a man. Cummings said that Burge had compelled him at the point of a gun to make tho drawing.

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Owing to the fact that Cummings told a fairly connected story even under severe cross-examination some credence was placed in what ho said. Telegrams were sent to surrounding towns and an effort was made to locate Burge, The effort proved fruitless. Mfrs Bamberger is an ardent lover of dogs. She recently exhibited her prize winning Russian wolfhound Boreas in New York city. Boreas is very fond f his young mistress and follows her devotedly. Cummings denied ever having used opiates of any kind. He said ho never drank anything stronger than beer, and very little of that, and said he was a confirmed smoker of cigarettes. While

telling his story to the United States officials he trembled perceptibly, twisting and untwisting his fingers, which bore the stains usually found on the hands of one who smokes cigarettes a great deal. The youth claims that he is an electrician by trade, but that he has worked at many things, his most recent employment be

ing as section hand on a railroad in Wyoming, ne was born in Summcrville, Gn. For the last few years, he says, he has

been devoting all his spare time and money

to the perfection of his invention. In ignorance cf her son's arrest, Cummings mother sent him a letter and a picture of herself. The letter read as follows :

tetter flecciyed by MisDcroUiy. Bamberr;

"My dear son Willie: I will try to lur you. I pray for yu every day and write you to-day. I wrote you a long, every hour. Ah. do try to live riht and letter to San Francisco, Cab; you told : go to church and Sunday school. Willie, me to. Why did you do that, for you the Lord can take care of you and make did not go there? What are you doing in!a grand man of you, like he did of Joph Salt Lake City? Why don't you toll us?! in Kgypt, if you will live like Joseph. I-

know people will ask what you arc! member, everybody has thoir part to do doing. What did you do about the auto-; in the world and Cod will do the rest

mobile improvement; did you get anything

'Write as soon as you can, and a bng

Visiting As a Fine Art, Told by an Expert

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( ( I 'VE had two delightful wee!:3 by myI self at a deserted little country ' Inn." said Miriam, "and now I am orf for a round of visits. "I'm EOlnff to relatives and family friends," continued Miriam. "I am a poor relation, you see, and they all solemnly invite me for a week or ten days, or only for over Sunday. Time always carefully stipulated, after our businesslike fashion and just as carefully observed." "Any new Ideas as to Hostesses, visits

and visitors in advance?" queried Grace, brightening: up a bit. "Rather." replied Miriam emphatically, "I am golnff to write a book on "Visiting as a Fine Art one of these days, for it is a fine art if you're a good visitor, and I suppose I am. or even duty wouldn't make the relatives and family friends invite me annually." 1 "What do you do?" asked Grace, "and how do you do it?" "Well, to begin with, I consider the servants, how they judge, and I aim to gain their respect and liking.

I have to rack for myself, but I manage

the neck and sleeves are seen, and over them you can don a variety of coatees, boleros or mantleM. "Thoy are" very useful and pretty, especially when accompanied by a shady, sample hat with just a big bow or a cluster of blossom3 for trimming, and I'm slad

"Weil, then, to continue. I take plenty of underwear and smart boots and dainty shoes, and a tea gown of the fluffy kind, as well as a pretty bathrobe in pink or blue. "I use a quantity of t!ssue paper In packing my box, and I carry several of

those thin dust sheets for putting over

they're in favor again.

"But the Tarisienne has made of hr)clothes in the cuoboard

robett a most elaborate garment. She has r "jq t:-SSUQ paper goes'' In the sleeves nounced it and frilled it. and fashions It ln!of my coat5 ijouse3 ami bodices, and net or embroidered muslin. j rolls of it so uner the crease in the skirts jwh?re they are folded. .... . . r "My boots and shoes ard slippers are "Houseboat VaCCine m rolled in those squares of linen. All my for TuberculOSXS. j toJct 5lJvcr Js carefully polished, and HOUSrnO VT vaccine" is the latest, everj' ribbon Js run through my underdhcov'ery for the cure of tubercu- j so when the maid comes to do my uiscoery iui unpackln- she finds everything in perfect losis. The merits of the trcatmen. condmoju have been fully tested by a New Yotk , -That ives her a respect for me. I am

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threatened with the dread disease. Mrs

were; rot exaggerating. The effect 13 instan-

taneous. She has not been a lady's maid

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Patterson J. llothermel, who is knounoa &

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to achieve a certain distinction. In spite 'reel, has been in charge of te aurnims-

cf this evidences of poverty at least Illation of the treatment and is jcrseL.

"I step out of the day coach, for 1

can't afford parlor cars, with plenty of

!the discoverer of the cure.

In her pathological researches

Mrs.

"As for the tipping well, I give what I can afford and feel disposed o give. I offer it pleasantly and without any doubt as to Its reception, and I've never been disappointed. It Is always accepted grate-

mder the critical eyes of the ! Rotherxnel was inspired by mother love! fully and respectfully, on who waits to conduct me ' rather than by scientific curiosity. Her- "I think people worry

husband was a victim of tuberculosis and

When the

the amount of tips.

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always reasonable and receive the fee in

self respect un

liveried minion

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v.r.- , W V T J Vijdied from tho disease m im w the sp:rit in which it is given, whatever ery truth a fine art. I choose my ward-, . . . T robe for these plutocratic visits with the Psiciau examined Auuison J.jthe amount. greatest care, and I place it in my one ' Hothermcl and Itoyale Kothermel, the, "As for my other cla.ms to being a good and only box as ably as a French mahi'only children of the family, he declared: visitor they are just the usual ones. n t . . i t,,,f.r. i the first place I ve trained myself to be

came here on a visit She is doing fine.

write to us often. All of the Henry girl

She married a Mr. Fleming; he is a lawyer, are grown and all have leaux; there ii

tnere. "They are doing fine. I think I will

go somewhere and run a boarding house.

I see we will not make a living here. I

am all to pieces and don't know what to do. I will not try to write very much. There is a lot o: fever now. Dayton Kspy died the other day with it and Mr. Taylor is very low. I just beard it since I besan your letter. "Willie, I want you to look at the moon and think ot me and think I am praying

an automobile at the gate now, waiting to

take them for a ride, and a lot of company on the porch. 'I have nothing more cf Interest t write, so will close by asking you to write long letters. Your letters are a lot to u, so you ought to send them often. Martha lies down nearly all the time; she is very feeble the?e days. I am well and hop you are the same. Martha find Orr join me in ,cniling best love. Ibst vvihi to you. MOTH 1:1V

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that they too were threatened with tuber-

interested in any one who takes me in toj

Rwffy, thj D33 S23 Rover. cf Shanghai when he noticed a tiny dojth? last trip and aboard the veel were

following him and making an effort toja jw notables, with whom he becamei

attract his att ntion. The kindly of ficvr ' great friends, but the dog declined to ao s;ioke to the puppy, which howled with cept of the hospitality pormar.ently of any delight and began jumping upon the of-jof them. They all were anxious to adopt ficor as if he were a long lt friend, the sea rover. The officer took the pappy on board his The dog, it is declared, knows the bells vetd aid the little follow was imme-'of the steamship and all the watches diately christened Fluffy, because of his r.nd is easily ablo :j ccunt tlie bells nd heavy coat. Ho remained with the shipjto tell the difference between two bell a hng im. and made many voyages, mol j and eight bells, and hen the mess bells

"I takA all thrfk nf mv pvrnin-' fml' -f thr lnnS

tha super-sDlontlid or. in rainhnw ff.. I t rr-., t,M thnt Mrs. ltothenncl came ; dinner.

the dainty Frenchy piak-and-blue-chiffon. 'out as a scientist. j "Thcn 1 help my h05tesS a11 1 Can' am; and the sheathlika affair in black Wi,k! ..ix-mi ivmat cure." she said ; always to bo called upon tu play a fairly

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I'ilolicr, of the Indrani. do- happy. At such times he will jump about

th? dog has travelled HlO.fiX) tho docks and. lark, inviting everybody

to h's certain knowledge, and t!ii ' aboard to the wardroom.

do' s n.t Include the many mib's of river ; When the vessel i docking Fluffy runs nnd harbor travcliing tho dog ha done; about the decks, barking command after in bf-twe-vu his big j-i:iniM. I'luffy has command to the crew nnd the hands on Wva in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the dock handling the lines and Lawters.

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and more elaborate, and I have a variety

of blouses to wear with these. "This year, as I am starting out on my

round a little earlier, I've tucked ia a!rnrfcninf rn nearer to Manhattan,

nnd tfc. i...'Tt-hoit moved over to the river

"A what?" - frrm niirfp.T DuvCih In addition to

the fresh air cure, the Kothermehs took the cold water cure, and every morning until the ice comes Mrs. Kothermel, her two

triumphantly at the end ul rer reearci.ts.pic i 1

love a ti-amp over the f

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rus, which Italy is now seeking to have they fear that unJcr th- A!la:.iaa

transferred from the rule cf Greece taj1' lose -Ji thte adar.:a...

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"A robette." rerated Miriam. "It's one of those overa!l gowns th!ch are fashionable now, since Paris has 'discovered' them ami pronounced them charming. "They are made la one piece, and lsok likj a child's pinafore. Under them you can wear a. orttiy blouse, of which onlv

REKfv women of the district cf Eni-! Hhich v.a rer.'ected even tr the Tjrki.

Valray a comlortaLU iiouejeai, at oriage, ar.u 1 iave j. ui

was at once purchased and the family .hills if she wishes to send hnn nfl.vit. Tr.e first station o: the; some one."

houseboat was near Gcat Island. Echo "You"re almost too good to be true'." j that of AlLania, are among the most piet- j loung Crown I'rinoe of Creole i liay, Lon- Island. Then the following! laughed Grace. "Why not advertise as the uresque peasants to be found in Europe at : tLe lero of Ep.ruv. After the battle of

year it was ueaueu uiat it .iw.i.u - u.. - llie prcscat vtben la so many coun-; caraauuporo. ia tu;u ne 'i'S.afd great

tries the beautiful traditional peasant cos-jvaIor axiJ which was his firt battle, ht tumcs have teen modified or set aside ia'e a triumphant tour through the liba pitiful attempt to follow the mode of the jerateJ cities of Northern Epiru, JjU::u.

sons and the four do

which are also

members of the houieboat faiaily, dive over the sides of their home into their water garden.

"Oh. you may jeer," said Miriam good

naturedly. "hut I've told you my method, and I only hope the gocd ;ecd won't fall on barren ground. If you had seen as many tiresome visitors ai I have and ttayed with as many overzealous hostesses you'd realize that visiting and entertain-

moment. The (Ireeks of Epirus, both xatn ' Argyrocastro. Chimara. Saati VJaatrau:and womeu. are very unwilling io be made'anJ Delvino. Argy rocas-tro i. the great subjects of Albania instead of Gret-k sub- tireek centre of this region Its Greek

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a,c u.- b;;'-fc jccts. While they are now in the enjoy- inhabitants including tho.e wh re.ide io to practice either we had better s.udy flrstr J I , w,i..,it, . Iment of Grek civilization and culture. Iwe burruunding country, uumbcr Lu.tva

vl it; uo you nuns you win stay tucre r; letter, ana ten me nil aimt yourse::. .MonWhat are you doing for a living there? day morning Mr. Taylor will be buried. Martie Gerthery passed through Salt To-day it is so dry out here everything is Lake a short time i"o on her way tojall burned up. Willie, I wih yon would

Los Angeles. She lives there now. She stor travelling about and settle down and

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