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NEW YORK.?Salute Ransford D. i
Bucknam Pasha! Once more
the international limelight plays |
on the doughty American. Now I
he emerges from the obscurity of his
recent years In troubled Turkey and j
is revealed as the head strategist of
the Ottoman fleet in the sea battles
with tho Greeks.
Rover and adventurer all his life,
hoy captain of u whaleback on the
great lakes, later commander of vessels
plying between New York, Boston
and Baltimore, chief navigator of
big steamships on tho Pacific ocean.
Bucknam became a firm favorite of
the cruel and fickle Abdul Hamid who
made him admiral of the Turkish
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port, and when Abdul was overthrown,
refused to accept the ultimatum
from the new Sultan, Mohammed
V., that ho swear allegiance to the
Ottoman flag and become a subject ot I
Abdul's successor.
Bucknam Pasha was ace-hlgh with
the young Turks and also strong with
the old Abdul Hamid supporters, but
he quit the Turkish servlco rather
than become a Turkish subject. But
his restless, constructive mind was
not to be curbed, and It has Just become
known that ho is now a sort of
John D. Rockefeller and William C.
Whitnoy In Constantinople. lie ob- '
talued concessions In oil lands as well
as in street railway routes, and his
friends In New York have learned
that he bus begun to pile up a big
fortune.
It was to Bucknam, now an oil mag
nate and a traffic expert, that the
Turks turned when the Oreeks began
to threaten the Dardanelles with their
squadron. When the Ottomans made
a desperate and dashing sortie and In
attacking and driving off the Greeks
followed a tactical plan of unusual
skill, the Greeks were astonished.
Only when their spies lusidu Constantinople
reported, did the besiegers understand
what had happened. It was
Bucknam Pasha, the down east Yankee,
who drew up the olaborato plan!
During the battle he watched and advised
by wireless from the heights behind
Fort Kum Kaleh.
y American Brain Won Out.
Bucknam couldn't keep out of it.
lie owed much to his Turkish friends,
even though under a new regime.
And although not In active command,
li was an American brain that furnished
the strategy of what Turku
hailed as a brilliant naval achieve- I
meat. ' t
Hut Hucknnm doesn't need an}' i
three-sheet advertising on the bill- 1
boards of the world, lie is forty-nine I
years old, hard as steel and shrewd :
as a storekeeper at the four corners , l
ir. his native state, lie is short, broad
as he is long, undershot Jaw?a rogu- | <
lar human bulldog. It was lucky fate <
for him that Mohammed V. tried to I
force him to give up his American 1
citizenship. Otherwise he might not <
have had the opportunity to develop <
as the chief explorer of somo ot' the I
most valuable petroleum resources of <
the Ottomans. 1
Ilucknain has tho rights In three
Important oil centers In European and
Asiatic Turkey. His opportunity is
a wonderful one, because Turkey has
in the past Imported 400,000,000 gal- j
Ions of oil from Russia, Roumania and <
A "...1 -
Auioi iv/u crci j j car. PUt'tlHUQl 8 All* I
glo-Amerlcan syndicate owns enough
oil land to supply not only tho wants
of Turkey but to export largo quanta
ties to foreign countries. An lmpor- ,
taut source of his supply is tho region
of; Merloflto, a port near Itodosto on
the European shore of tho Sea of Marmora.
He haB negotiated the exploitation
of 50,000 acres of this oil land
by a British company capitalized at
$1 ,000,000. Bucknam Pasha also eon- j
trols 100,000 acres of oil-producing territory
near tho northeast shore of;
Bake Van In Eastern Asia Minor, and
another 15,000 acres about 80 miles ;
south of Trebizond, the chief Turkish
port of tho Black Sea. The oil
found on the Bucknam possessions excels
the Russian product as a fine
pcralAue oil, and also is three to five
days nearer tho European markets.
This is the new phaso of an amazing
career that Bucknam has now entered.
His life has been replete with bold
adventure that finally took him luto
strange service in a strange country.
His exploits began young.
Early Fondness for the Ocean.
When Rucknam's father died at sea
the lad was fourteen and his old grandfather
gave him the choice between
farming and the seafaring life. Young
It uc kit am had an Instinctive love for
the old ocean, a love that helped him
to pick up the knowledge of a ship
with little effort. Ills first venture
was made on the great lukes as cabin
boy aboard a schooner, of which tho
captain .vas also the owner. The captain's
wife took a fancy to tho youngster.
nnd ultimately they adopted him
When he was sixteen Bucknam sailed
from New York as quartermaster 1
ot a sciiuoner uounu ior mo l'aciflc.
At Manila the captain and mates died
of cholerra and Bucknam went before
a special board to bo examined for
a master'j certificate, aa ho was the
only remaining member of the crew
who had studied navigation. He pass
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?d the test trimphantly and was made
i captain at seventeen. Ho' brought
ho ship home.
Early In the "nineties" Ilucknara
was in command of a steamship that
mailed from Tampico for New York
aden with hemp and silver. Twentyfour
hours out of Tampico he struck
i sunken wreck and smashed his propeller.
With the aid of a tug he got
the vessel into Key West.
It was assumed that tho ship would
tiave to be dry docked before Bhe
would be fit for sea again. But Rucktiam
balked at the expense. So he
ihlfted all his cargo into the forward
compartments, thus elevating the
:tern. Ho managed to get the pro
poller out of water and then went ,
ihnml n.ltl, V. i a I?.
ftttvau " itu ilia i cpau .
It 1b said that Pucknam was the flint
nan to put a propeller on a ship wlthjut
drydocklng her.
Devised New Lake Steamer.
Shortly before the world's fair at
Chicago, In 1893, Pucknam went to
:hat city and built the whaleback Coumbus.
In 1897 he went to the Island
if Naoa at Panama, and It was there
:hat ho met W. H. Uodbetter, formerly
an officer In the United States navy.
Ruckuam and Ledbetter became great 1
:hums. This friendship has lasted,
for Ledbetter also became a Turkish
idmlral through tho favor of Pucknam,
and quit the service with Pucknain
and joined him In tho latter's oil
ventures.
About 1900 Bucknnm was transferred
from Naos to the City of Pekln,
Ihen tho Pacific Steamship company's I
new u niis-rtieiuu utter. n wa? Iioi
long afterward thut he as engaged by
the Cramps of Philadelphia In order to
juperintend the trial inns of new battleships
and cruisers.
The Cramps directed him to Jellver
the Philadelphia-built cruiser Medji- j
ileh to Turkey In 1904. Bucknam was
to stay three months in Constantinople
In order to train th(; crew. It was
Lho Fourth of July when the Medjiileh
arrived in the Golden Horn, and
the new comer, fired with patriotic nrJor,
began to set off flretyackers and
fireworks on board the new warship.
Tho Turks were aghast and there
was excitement in the city.
Won Admiration of Sultan.
Bucknam was summoned Into tho
Imperial presence of the gray old wolf
In tho Yildiz Kiosk. Abdul was so impressed
by the bluff and jovU 1 sailor I
that he asked hltn to enter his serv- I
ice as naval adviser at a huge salary. J
IIIb popularity with the sultan in- |
creased to such an extent that he was I
made a pasha and a vice-admiral, and
the sultau conferred on him tho Order
of Osmanlleh and n distinguished
service medal.
Bucknam distinguished himself at
the time a bomb intended for the sultan
was exploded near Yildiz Kiosk.
It was tho sutlan's habit to go
every Friday from his palace to the
Hamldich mosque, about a thousand
yards from the palace. Diplomats and
other privileged visiters view the procession
from a torraco under the j
puiiicu winaows ana me rest of the
route Is filled with troop3. Just as
the sultan was leaving the mosque
there was a terrible explosion. Scores
of men were Killed or Injured. IJucknam
was uninjured, though a inan at .
his right fell dead with his head
crushed.
Tho sultan stepped back Into the
mosque when he heard tho explosion
and the Irregular firing In tho air was
begun by the panlc-strleken soldiers,
but In a few minutes came out again
and tottered toward his carriage.
First to Monarch's Aid.
Bucknatn drew his sword and rushing
to tho side of" the despot stood
ready to repel any attack. Tho American
was the first to reach the fright- ,
oned monarch's side and directed the
soldiers In drawing lines and pressing i
back the rubble. Sword In hand, Bucknani
walked beside the carriage all
the way back to Yildlz.
"When the sultan renehed the safety
of his palace," said Ilucknam, in describing
the event later, "he became
much more agitated than he had been
immediately after the explosion. 1
told him of my observation, and added
that in my opinion the bomb cr Infernal
machine had been buried underground.
"Afterward the palace people and
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tho commission which was appointed
to investigate the affair maintained (
that the explosive must have been
hrnuehf in nun nf liio nofi-inoua Kn? II
was naturally their policy to take
this view, as nothing could have
been buried beforehand in the palace i
grounds without the connivance of
somebody in the palace, or at least
without gross carelessness on the part j
of the palace guards."
Today Flucknam can be seen daily
in the Club de Constantinople, and
save that he wears a fez, looks little
altered since the days he was ..nown
around New York. Invariably can he
be found at noon each day In the club, j
seated before a cocktail which he him j
self invented, ai d which is known all
over Turkey as the "Bucknam Cock*
tail."?New York World.
TWO REALLY GOOD STORIES
Congressman Comes to the Front With
Humorous Anecdotes Which He
Avers Are True.
An out-of-town mintster stopped at
a home In Bardstown, Ky., to remain
over night with a neighbor of Representative
Ben Johnson, who now steps
up to the plate and tells about it.
The weather was had the morning
after the visitor got there and he decided
to stay another night. It looked
a trifle threatening the nest day and
the minister said ho thought Providence
had intended that he remain
there in their hospitable midst for
one more night. So that evening when
they held family prayer, the host offered
this supplication:
"O Lord. v?e pray thee that we may
have a bright and propitious day to- ,
morrow that the good brother may
continue his Journey."
Ben Johnson tells still another one
about a preacher. This one was colored.
He got into enibarrasment in
the little Kentucky town where he
had been living, *!n consequence of
some chicken thefts that led to a warrant
being made out for his arrest. I
He beat it away from there and went
to a village in Johnson's district,
where ho got n temporary pulpit. Just '
as he was about to announce his text
on the day of his initial address there
he saw a man in the rear of the
church whom he thought he recognized
as an officer of the town he had
recently loft.
Ho hesitated a moment, but said to
the congregation:
"Brothers and Sisters: I had calc- 1
lated to talk to y'all this mawnln'
'bout th' resurrection, but since stepping
into tho pulpit I done decided to
preach from the Fo'th cliaptah of
Hezekiah: "If thou seest mo and
think thou knowest me. say nothing;
and verily 1 will Roe you later.' "
Wilde Is Among the Great Dead.
"Wilde's grave," writes a I'arls correspondent,
"is in the newer section
of Pcre la Chaise, and, though no
monument marks It, I found it with
little difllculty. There is a fiat slab
upon the grave, and this is surrounded
by a chain, connecting four short
posts, one at each corner lipon the
surfaco of the flat stone some one
probably with the shaft of an umbrella
had scratched the words. 'Do
Profundis. Oscar Wilde.' Oscar Wlldo
lies where' he would have chosen to
lie?among Intellectual and spiritual
Titans. Hut a few steps away are the
ashes of Mollcre; near by, Alphonso
Daudet; Hachel, the world's greatest
tragic actress; Alfred De Musset, tho
composer; Balzac, the novelist. In the
same section those unhappy lovers of
history, Abelard and Ilclolse, are
locked forever as they both desired,
in the same tomb
Pocket "Wireless."
The latest development in wireless
telegraphy was shown recently at the
Imperial College. South Kensington,
Rngland, by the Marconi company It
took tho form of a "pocket wireless."
In four little knapsacks all necessary j
apparatus ran no stored. and if a party
were lost li; a wilderness help eonld
be easily summoned At present the
apparatus can only Bend messages
within an area of fifteen miles, but It
is expected that In time this range
will bo greatly increased.
THIS MARY'S LITTLE
LAMB HAD "PEG" LEG
Wooden Underpinning of Kansas!
Pet Cause of Tragedy in
Chase to School.
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l.arued. Kau.?A case of Mary am. ; ^
her little lamb that ended tragically i Ef
was reported the other day from '
Richmond, county seat of Morton | r
county. Mary, the ten-year-old daugh- re
tor of T. A. Schoor, a millionaire ?
rancher, had the lamb, which she
called Pet. I '
While romping with the dogs. Pet '
was caught in a barbed-wire fence
aud her leg so lacerated amputation ;
was necessary. Mary's heart was , |
broken, but the lamb soon learned to ! f
hobble on three lcgH and follow her ' I
about. !
After n while Pet pined to romp '
with the dogs and run with Mary on
the cattle trails. Inactivity produced
m !
\ I;-;.|
The New Wooden Leg Worker 1
Finely.
obesity, and Pet became so fat she i
panted at the slightest exertion. '
Then May conceived the- idea of r .
wooden leg. t
Mary started for lUchlield to sew- (
lug school, the morning after secur- '
lng the artificial number, fitted to <
Pet. who was tied in the barn. i
She had scarcely gone when Pot |
had nn Idea ?her last one. She 1 <
chewed the rope viciously until but a i
thread remained. Then with the full <
weight of her fat body, she plunged
through the doorway and raced down
the trail in pursuit of Mary. The |
new wooden leg worked finely, but ]
the long-enforced la7.inesa brought a
different answer from the flabby
heart, which longed only for Mary's ( i
presence, a ien nine run and I'et was , i
no more.
CARED NOT FOR THE CROWD
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Lovesick, but Dignlfi d, German Hus- ' I
ear Pro?ose3 Before a Laughing
Audience In New York. I 1
New York.?Apparently oblivious tt
ills surroundings Frederick von Holtzer
of the Fourth (Kaiser's) hussars, n
tall, dignified soldier, dropped to his
knees at the foot of the main com
panionway of the i'nited Fruit steamer
Turrialba and begged Miss Margaret
Allen to marry him.
"Do not go away and leave me," he
cried. "It means my life if you refuse
me. Everything I have in this world is
yours if you will only accept me, but
please, please glvo me some hope."
Passengers stepped bark startled
and impressed by the earnest proposal i
of marriage. Then a fat man laughed I
and everybody followed suit, all but j I
the principals In the little drama. The
stewards suddenly came into the scene
with a trunk, which accidentally car
omed the fat man, who went tripping
over the kneeling hussar and went :
headlong into a big palm.
Iii a situation uproariously funny, i
Miss Allen blushed deeply and tied to
her stateroom. Her mother begged the
hussar to leave the ship, which he did. :
Von Holt/er's dramatic proposal
came after a long chase after Miss
Allen, whom he met In Germany. He ;
followed her to Buenos Aires, thence
to lmr home in San Jose. Costa Rica. |
to St. I cui3 and th?n to New York.
Von Holt/.or. heartbroken, said he
vould return to Germany.
Coughed Up a Lizard.
Fayette, N. .1. The cough that for
two years distressed Evan Jones is :
vanishing because Evan lias got rid
..t <i.? ? 11~ .i_i..i ? ,t... i
UI nil- \ aun? . lie ? uui ill iv iiik l lit*
other clay when ho had a terrible paroxysm
of coughing On the verge or
strangulation, he thrust a Anger into
hi? throat to widen the passage, lie j
felt something hard there ami drew' It ,
out.
Tt was a lizard three inches long,
Jones said The lizard seemed to he
is happy as ihe man to dissolve partnership.
and was wriggling away
when .lones decided he would capture !
it and show it to Dr. Kdgar Allen.
The doctor put the lizard in alcohol,
where it still Is. to show to persons
who doubt the story.
The theory Is that Jones, when
drinking at a spring, swallowed a lizlrd's,
egg. which instead of being assimilated
hatched out.
Grew Too Fat.
Yonkers. N. Y. Mrs. James Mr
.nughlin complained to the authorlirs
because her husband had grown
? during a term In the eountv iaH
.
"/WASHI
'Growler" Is Thing of I
yIT ASHINQTON.? A band of crepe,
If dangling mournfully from the
mndlc of a large gray "growler,'-' Bits j
ipon an Inverted champagne basket in j
i down town saloon, and bears a mute j
ributo to the leading feature of the
jeer consumer's uew year. It marks .
ho passing of the "growler." The :
ast can was rushed at midnight. New
k'ear's eye, the last dime was laid
ipon the bar, while tho thirsty mor- I
4il on the other sido signified that
ill that was needed to make his hap- :
>lnrss complete was a bucket o' suds,
rhe man In the white apron and
;hirt sleeves, handling the growler
ifter the manner of many generations,
ho barkeepers, mixed In just enough
'nam to make a profit on the transition,
and the chap who chased the
luck In his slippers, and without a
'ollar, silently slipped through the
S'ew Year's dawning moment to his
Do Not at All Times Di
r\VO men who had every earmark of
being tourists from the Pie Pelt
Aero nearly stricken with apoplexy in
lie eapitol building a few dayB ago
a-hen they ran suddenly on "Pnr'e
loe" Cannon and Representative Burleson
of Texas, who were talking to
acli other in a most confidential way.
They backed ofT. made motions lndi.ating
proper appreciation of greatness.
although neither one of the two
gentlemen mentioned hud any idea of
what was going on. The 1'le Belters
gathered themselves together in a
Jarkened corner. One of them said:
"That's Uncle Joe."
"Sure," said the other, "and he's
talking to What's Ills Name?you
know?"
"Yes, I know; that fellow who "
"Yes, that's the man. Gosh! I'd
like to know what they're a-talkln'
about."
"Somethln' big, I'll bet."
And the two stood there overawed.
Now James C. Courts and Marcellus
Ukl.,l.l<. a. ?.? ? -
...... .in.i tut- .minor oi uiese lineB
happened to hear what the two grent
statesmen were talking about, and
Hourts and Shields are certainly reliable.
Builders Preserve an 0
CROSSING Florida avenue at Thirteenth
street and beginning the
ascent of the steep hill which trafllc
avoids, you will see a great tree, one
of the old Belmont oaks, growing close
to the brick wall of a row of new
bouses thai front on Belmont street, a
street that not long ago was cut
through from Thirteenth to Fourteenth.
The trouble which the preservation
of this tree cost the builders
of that row speaks well for their sympathy
for and appreciation of a tree.
The houses are three-story and basement
and a two-story back porch,
railed and roofed runs along their rear.
nr/littn rv Vnillrlincr Aimral Ia?o #1*1^
tree would have been chopped down
Trojan Horse Unknown t
TWO honeymoonlsh tourists were
standing before a painting in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art. The man
was of the self advertising type, and
his analysis of the picture was elaborate
and loud. It was not, however,
convincing enough to satisfy entirely
tho young person with him, for she
interrupted as if she honestly desired
to know things.
' Are you sure it's a box office at
the race track? Seems to me there
must b<? some other reason for building
a horao out of wood. Besides,
nu n don't go around dressed like that.
I'm going to ask this lady."
Tli" woman to whom she appealed
dispensed knowledge:
"That's tho Trojan horse, don't you
remen? ber ?"
The young person shook her
hf ad. The young man looked hnughjtily
glum.
oh. you've just forgotten it. The
,.i? I'.m: ' |Mcotiiio an Mil iiiriii III iix?'
c. pture of Troy after a ten-year war
.11 account of Helen of Troy."
You must be lulbtuken, ma'am," tb'.
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l?^ _\ s
F rlw ^L I I I w I
kSHIII
'M&BP' yyf
millll |^ji | y *[
home, there to contemplate the bloWjjara^^^Bfl
Acfl how the "growler" sits fjgjBIB^^^^B
IllOllrnlng lta hanitlo nnTP- wnnrtx f ?
will be pushed through the side doorJp^^^JH
and over the mahogany bar. The
shirted laborer who has hailed thatffl^H^H
growler at the stroke of 12 upon aJag^^^M
hot summer day will perhaps havnnP^^HM
to take to cold tea or Ice cream ^dajffigjBB^B
The growler has passed on beyondT^K^^^H
And sad to say It, the Retail Uquer.^f^^^H
Dealers' association did not favor the.^^S^HH
growler, and. in faot, belped to banlshJ^SB^B
It. The man in the red shirt and ear*
pet slippers, who has been seen bw10*^u^h
ing Joyfully toward his little cotta^-^S&B^^l
home with a pall of brimming amber
In his right hand, believes in a gen
oral way that the police or tho H
mlssloncrs had something to do wltb
it, or that the excise board gave tbel9
order which killed the growler at midnight
New Year's eve.
Dut such is not the truth. In the
best legal circles where growlerology
is being studied, it is said that the jjfeifiaM
excise board merely warned the sa- '
loon men that they don't like tho Va
growler business, and while they |,V'w ''
really cannot stop it by law ^ ,
growler, if pushed across tJ $ v03|
any more, will count *^\ A X jju
loon man when he com T
license again. "> 3 \ 'jl
eeneo A ffo ire aI Cii \ 31
ouuoo ft 11 ail O UI OlClk^ J|
The fact ia that just as the two Pie C'^B
Belters were backing off and bowing 'v#jSgM
J their obeisance Uncle Joe was saying H
to Brer Burleson: '*0
"I have on a fine pair of walking
shoes here, and if your friend Wood- |wBB
row wantB to walk down the avenue ~*3W
to his inauguration he can come to v'
me, and I'll tell him the namo of the ' JTM
finest walking shoes he ever stuck on JjSBH
his feet." MM
"Aw, go on, Joe. He isn't going to <JHH[
walk it. The avenue would be too 4?HH
crowded."
"Well, lot him take a few back
streets and come thfough an alley or *|w8
two. Then he'd make it. If ho wants B
' to, I'll give him the best recommends- ^99|
tion for a pair of shoes a man ever ,191
got." "IBMB
j Affairs of state!
Id Tree at Great Cost
and Its stump grubbed out as an obatruction
to progress, but it was ailowed
to live. The north bark of ita Nil
trunk is within a few inches of the w
bricks of the south wall of the third jnj
house in tho row. The trunk is about ? ;?. _sSj
thir.' feet in diameter and as tall as H?
the top of tho house. The crown growa - IbB
as high again and its big, strong
branches spread themselves over the
roofs of three of the houses and over fl
an alley that runs between Florida 9 3
avenue and Belmont street. fy
The diameter of the tree is nearly 9
as great as tho porch is wide, and to JB
accommodate the tree the porch waa
stopped at one side of the tree and 1
its building resumed on the other side. V | 3
It Is an unusual spectacle and many
persons passing that way have their $j 9
attention arrested by it. 1
This tree is one of the grove of %
oaks that stood In the blar trant ?
tween the boundary and Clifton street, 3
Thirteenth and Fourteenth street*.
About n dozen of these oakR are still J
growing in that tract on the Clifton
street side.
o Honeymoonish Tourists |f|
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interruption came from the self-advertising
young man. "I never heard of ' :.that
fight, and I was born In Troy. , /
and lived there all my life until two *. i
years ago. when 1 left to go into bus!- fl "'v
ness with a friend in Utlca. Isn't that '
The woman who had umJertuken to ijjria
! explain history acknowledged her de- ^ |Nn
feat with a polite bow and passed on..^_
1 And when she looked back MSMjfc gH
I honeymooners on their way ^fl|
i room, she said to herself,"having ^-9m
no one else to say it to:
When 1 tell the girls about
thing they are going to say I made 9