THE WASHINGTON TIMES SATURDAY JULY 23 1904

Thrilling Incident on theChicago L Line

RACED MORE THAN A MILE

Pedestrians Narrowly Escape Being RunDown in Course of Exciting

Pursuit

CHICAGO July 2 Pursuing a flaming motor car which had no motormanon tho Douglas Park branch of theMetropolitan elevated road EngineCompany No S dashed at the top speedthrough west side streets Thousandsof workbound patrons on L platforms drew back In fear as the fierycar darted past leaving a trail of flameand smoke

Finally at Market Street the electricpower of the line having been cut offthe ear halted and the firemen put outthe blaze

At Throop Street the motorman Benjamin Oakflcld discovered that his carwas ablaze He hurried the twenty ormore passengers Into the car followingand then uncoupled the motor car andlet it go on Its way while he set thebrakes on the rest of the train andstepped

Message to Powerhouse-He next rushed to a telephone to

the powerhouse to stop the eng-ines

While excitement raged on the LIt was exceeded In the roadways A fireengine company saw the blazing carabove and the race was begun Itthe curves of the road and more thanonce collisions were avoided only byhairs breadth

As Halstead Street was neared theblazing car seemed to slacken its speedsomewhat and the firemen were on thepoint of jumping to the street to attackthe fire when the car gained new en

and plunged onAgain driver whipped his horses

into a gallop and again the race wenton The chase was now beginning toassume more dangerous aspects owingto congested streets but fortunately thegreat power machinery came to a stop

MORE LAND IS NEEDED

FOR WHARF PURPOSES

C l A M Miller officer In charge oftho Potomac River improvements in hisannual report recommendsthat the Gov-

ernment should acquire more land onthe Anacostia near the navy yard forwharfage purposes The growing riverbusiness he says demands that

a large front for wharves In the Dis-trict

For the coming fiscal year the officeraaks for an appropriation of 300000 tobo expended largely In a continuation otreclamation of Potomac Park and thePotomac fiats

During the fiscal year just ended theshows there tons of

freigfct received and by waterfrom Washington exclusive of thestrictly local freight Plying the Washington harbor exclusive of the regularpassenger vessels there were of vesselsdrawing from ten to eighteen feet ofwater X vessels drawing from six toten 1760 sailing vessels drawingfrom four to ten feet 175 barges and-s ews drawing from three to thirteenfeet 1500

VETERANS TO ATTEND-

U V U ENCAMPMENT

Many civil war veterans of this citywill attend the nineteenth annual encftmpmeat of the Union Veterans Un-ion which will be held at Boston Au-gust 17 and 18

Plans for entertaining the veteranshave been projected on an elaboratescale and the encampment promises to

most successfulThe railroads have made liberal rates

on account of the encampment Ticketswill be sold on 15 onwhich days they may be used going and

38th and IfthThe sessions of the encampment will

be held in Knights of Malta Hall SUBroadway Chelsea a suburb of Bostonand a short ride by trolley with S centsfare

At the regular meeting July 9 of JohnA Command No 2 U V UDepartment of District of Columbia

E A Fenton and Lieut Col FL Van Auken were elected delegatesand Major E J Brooking alternatetA the national encampment at Boston

DANGER TO BATTLESHIP-The battleship New Jersey now under

construction at the Fore River ship-yards at Quincy Mass narrowly missedMruetion by fire yesterday Timbersdirectly beneath the bow of the new

took fire accidentally and thecombined efforts of all the workmen inthe yard were necessary to save the

yi Frederick Antietam Keedysvilleand Hagerstown and return B O RTL S a m Sunday July 24th Returningleave Hagerstown 6 Keedysrllle 620 andFrederick 7 p m same day

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our Warships Completed and Five on theArmored Cruisers and a

N Score of Older VesselsWaysSeven

Signal Japanese victories at Port Arthur and Chemulpo caused the worldto think lightly of the Russian navybut the activity of the Russian volunteer fleet In the Red Sea the sinking ofthe Japanese transports by the Vladivostok squadron and the announcementthat this squadron is about to shut offthe shipment of supplies from theUnited States to Japan have causednewspaper traders to give consideration-to the Russian navy which made sucha poor showing early in the presentwar

The shattered Russian fleet at FortArthur Is kept so busy there that theJapanese do not believe it can leave thebesieged city The Russian warshipsbottled up in the Black Sea will notbe permitted to pass out through thestraits controlled by International agree-ment The volunteer fleet which is prey-ing on vessels In the Red Sea composed of converted merchantmen whichwould not be effective against battleships or cruisers

Attracting AttentionConsequently the Vladivostok squad

ron and the Baltic fleet are the parts ofthe Russian navy whose movements areattracting most attention

The Valdlvostok squadron is free tomove as It pleases for early in the warthe Russians moved their banks andother prominent institutions from thatcity and it is believed they will notattempt to defend it against any greatmovement which may be attempted atsea The squadron consists of threecomparatively new armored cruisers ofabout 12000ton displacement They arethe Rurik Grombol and Rosslya

In the Baltic Sea the Russians have aformidable fleet and are building morewarships Four firstclass battleshipsvarying from 10000 to 13000 tons in displacement are ready for service in the

MEDAL OF HONOR CLUB

HAS LOCAL CANDIDATE

Will Urge General Estes for NationalCommander of the

The monthly meeting of the Medal ofHonor Club of this city was heM onThursday evening last with a fair attendance considering the season Nearlyall officers of the club were present

While Its meetings are usually occupied mainly with the description of

engagements and other militaryadventures through which the members-of the club have passed considerationwas given at this time to the subject ofthe annual convention of the Medal ofHonor Legion to be held this year atAtlantic City September 22 and 28 Sev-

eral communications have been receivedby the club relative to placing the

of the national order lit thehands of some member of the legion inthis city in which event It is presumedthe order would be Invited to hold Itsannual convention here

Will Support General EstesThere are many members of the le

gion who feel that recognition shouldbe given to General Estee of this citywhose candidacy for the commandershiplast year a t Gettysburg was withdrawn-in favor of General Howard whosemany years of service and the nationalesteem in which he is held entitled himto this mark of appreciation While rodecisive action was taken by the cluban understanding was reached that itsmembership should present the name ofits president to the Atlantic City

as a candidate for commanderOn the Sick List

Dr J J Purman of the club was re-

ported sick and In the hospital at Baltimore Companion James R Durhamwas reported sick and confined to hishome

The club was entertained by theof a paper by Major Henry Romeyn

entitled Then And After and thisled to the relation of thrilling

by President B tea and othersThe day was an anniversary to

Truell who was shot to pieces atAtlanta Ga forty years ago commander General McPherson being kill-ed by Hoods army on the followingday

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Baltic and five others are building Thecompleted battleships are the ImperatorAlexander III Oslyabyaand Navarln One the battleships-now building the Knyaz Potemkin wasbegun In 1JM and is now about completed Another battleship was begunin 1 1 two others In 1002 and the iifthIn 1903

There are two battleships of the sec-

ond class In this fleet the ImperatorNikolai I and the Imperator AlexanderII Those are of slightly more thar900 Lofts displacement A battleship ofthe third class the Veliki wasbulk In 1S72 It has a displacement of10105 tons but is out of date

The modern armored coast defensevessels all built within ton yearsleaving a displacement of abouttons are an effective part of this fleetFour armored cruisers varying In dis-

placement from 5600 tons to 700 tonsand built about flften years agolittle strength

The Protected CruisersThe protected cruisers in tho fleet are

much more effective than the armoredcruisers as they are of more recent con-

struction The Aurora with a displace-ment o 67 1 tons was bunt In 1900

The Svyetlana Admiral Kornllov andRuinua are the other vessels ofclass now completed Three others rbulletins

A score of oldfashioned unprotectedcruisers and armored hnrbor defenseboats complete the list of nenvler ves-

selsTwenty torpedo boat destroyers of re

cent pattern and four torpedo gunboats make up the torpedo boat

of the formidable fleetThe Japanese have little to fear from

the Baltic fleet at present but it Is amighty reserve force may bedrawn upon the European powers beingwilling in case the struggle In the FarEast prolonged

Granting that the Russians could sendwarships from the Baltic to the seat ofwar by way of the Suez Canal it wouldbe Impossible for a squadron to makethe trip In than six weeks

RESIGNS HIS POSITION

Supposed That Suit for Divorce HadSomething to Do With Break

in Relations-

ST PAUL Minn July M W CToomey Is no longer private secretaryto J J Hill president of the GreatNorthern Railroad Mr Toomey it Isreported was Informed by Mr Hillthat his services would no longer beneeded and after a conference whichwas held on the yacht of the railroadpresident near New York Mr Toomeyresigned

The retiring secretary had been employed in handling Mr privatebusiness railroad affairs forthe last six years Mr Toomey and hiswife recently agreed to separate and Itis stated that he was to begin proceedings for a divorce Mr Hill learned ofthis and Mr Toomey resignation wasthe result

ARRESTED RELEASED

THEN ORDERED HELD

STAMFORD Conn July 28 J Eknown in financial circles in

New York and Philadelphia was arrestiu here on a warrant issued by the clerkof the Pottavllle Pa court charginghim with embezzlement

Democratic National CommitteemanCummings his counsel protested thatthe warrant was not effective In Con

it being issued to the sherufof county PaCollins was released but later Judge

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TO BRING THE BODY HOMEThe body of F Kent brother

of Assistant Secretary Loomis of theState Department who was drowned oftPlymouth England on June 19 wilt be

back to the United States fromSouthampton on the steamer St Paulsailing for Nov York on July 27

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ExSeaman Says He IsUnrighteously

ASKS COURT FOR LIBERTY

Petition Filed With Justice WrightWho Sets a Day for Hearing-

of Case

A petition for a writ of habeas corpus lots been tiled in the Supreme Courtof the District of Columbia by JohnMaestros for the purpose of securinghis release from St Elizabeths

Hospital for the InsaneMaestros petition filed by Attorneys

Lambert and Baker sets forth that thepetitioner enlisted in the United StatesNavy five years ago and was a seamanuntil two years ago when he was Incarcerated In the Government Hospitalfor the Insane

He was treated for a year at the hospital and discharged Later he wasemployed at the hospital in connectionwith the engineering He workedfor the authorities until two monthsago when he says the authorities attempted again to incarcerate him

No Warrant at LawThe latter attempt It Is alleged was

without authority of law For that rea-son petitioner says he left the hospitaland took up his residence with AndrewAlexander In Maryland

He was employed by the latter at thetime he was again unlawfully arrested

officers of the Governmentunder a pretended right on the part

of the Secretary of the Navy Maestrossays he is now detained by Dr WilliamA White superintendent of the asylum

The petitioner declares he has adequate means of support and that In addition to his ability to earn a consid-erable sum per month he has a fund of460 which is detained by Dr White

he has often demanded paymentMaestros says he is of sound mind andcapable of making his living and thathe was unlawfully seized Is Improp-erly detained

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It Is further set forth that petitioner-is entitled to all the rights privilegesand Immunities of a citizen of theUnited States Inasmuch as he has beendischarged from the United StatesNavy and he avers that there is noright of law authorizing Dr White toincarcerate him or to detain him andthat his detention is unconstitutional-null and void

Upon presentation of the petition bycounsel to Justice Wright an order wasissued for the production of the peti-tioners body in court upon the 26th dayof July 1994 for a hearing to beand a further order was issued requesting the Secretary of the Navy to furnishthe court with certified copies of theenlistment and discharge and commitment of the as well as withother papers that might refer to thedischarge

UMBRELLA SCARES HORSERUNAWAY WOMAN HURT

CHESTER Pa July manalong the road near Boothwyn raised

an umbrella in front of the horse drivenby Mrs El tea Crumwell of BoothwytsThe horse became frightened and ranaway Mrs Crumwell stuck to the linesfor several miles when the wagonstruck a post and was demolished Twoof Mrs Crumwells ribs were fracturedand her back injured She Is in theCrozer Hospital in a serious condition

NOW AT PUGET SOUNDLieutenant General Chaffee chief of

staff and Quartermaster General Humphrey who are In the West on a tour ofinspection are now visiting Puget Soundposts

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Invited by Thomas McCauley of NewYork to Make a Short Trip

Here

Much Interest is taken here In the roport that President Dlaz of Mexicomay come to this country on a visitWaning ten officials the fact thatDiaz was here twenty years ago on ahoneymoon trip with second wifeOn that occasion however he was notcnfef executive of the republic havingjust completed his first term

Mexico holds the same tradition asprevails in the TJnlted States that thePresident should stay at home and somedoubt is expressed as to the probabilityor a now precedent being established

Some color Is lent to the report onaccount of the fact that two of President Diazs sistersinlaw are now Inthis country on a visit to Atlantic CityThey are Madame de Feresa widow ofJose Je Feresa former Mexican minister a Vienna and Madame Elizaga Itis said that both of them will urge thePresident to accept the invitation extended to him by Thomas McCauley ofNew York

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Residents of Passaic Who PatronizedSame Dairy Seriously Affected

by Ptomaine

PASSAIC N J July 23 More thanfifty families are suffering from pto-maine poisoning due the physicianssay to the effects of drinking Infectedmilk Those affected all take milk fromone dairy

In onch case the symptoms were thesame The patient about five hours aft-er drinking the milk was taken withsevere abdominal pains vomiting andtotal collapse

When the milk was delivered In themorning the housewives noticed a pe

ordor about It and many remarked it when members of their fami-lies were taken sick Even after

been kept twentyfour hoursmilk showed no signs of

The matter has been brought to theattention of the board of health Theveterinary Is Inclined to attribute thepoison to some weed the cows have eatenIn pasture

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Passive Legislator

ATLANTA July 31 The most sensa-tion affair that ever occurred in thehouse of repi flRtat1va hereyesterday when Mr Steed of Carroll

an ink bottle whizzing pact theh ftd of Mr Buchanan of

An instant before the latter had called Mr a common knave andliarThe flying talk spilled over Representa-tive Harding of Chatham Representsthe who resented coatingof ink picked up his ink well and wouldhave thrown it at Mr Steed but forthe rapping of the speakers navel

As soon as Steed had thrown the inkbottle he Jerked the stand from itsplace and was taking aim for a secondehot at the head of Buchanan whenJames Smith sergeantaturms grabbed him around the waist and held him

Those who know both men are of theopinion that a more serious meetingwill be the result of the fight

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A continuation of The Sunday Times series on the Dangers of Modern Science describingthis week the perils physicians undergo who seek to investigate little known diseases-

A picture in words of the ventures of the Visiting Nurses Society among the Washingtonpoor Stories of pathos of helpless suffering of want mitigated by sweetest charity

A shine of beauty and home of Mrs Albert Clifford Barney There are collectedthe treasures of many ages and many climes and there Washingtons culture gathers

The Naval Academy of the future The new buildings of this celebrated institution at An

napolis where the tardy generosity of Congress has at last recognized a great work for the nationsgood

The new battle of Bull Run that will be waged in the field where North and South clashed-

in the first great battle of the Civil War The regular and volunteer army maneuvers of 1904

The high degree Masons of America The House of the Temple in Washington accounts

of its foundation incidents in the lives of Masonrys leaders its work in the world

Canoeing on the Potomac Health and RomanceCome to Enthusiasts

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The number of canoes on the river during the past three years has increased from ten totwo hundred The story in The Sunday Times tells of the annual encampment

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