The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 08, 1910, Image 3
HAD CLOSE CALL
i
^ Miracalonf Escape From Death of a
v Chicago Mao ii Africa.
PINNED TO THE EARTH
By au Enraged Elephant Which He
Was Hunting, Made Professor C
K. Akely, of Chicago, Think His
East Day on l^iis Earth Had
Dawned Hut He Still Lives.
Details of Professor C. E. Akelev'e
encounter with an elephant while
hunting big game in Africa were
received In Chicago Thursday. A
few days ago friends heard of the in
Jury received by Profesor Akeley,
who was formerly connected with the
Field museum of Chicago, but beyond
the news that he was not fatally
wounded, there was little else. The
letter was received by Fred N. Stephenson,
who, with John T. MeCutch8on
was a member of the Akeley
hunting party in Airica.
Prof. Akeley's letter says "You
may wonder just what happened
when I met the last elephant. Briefly
this: He took me by surprise.
The herd was some distance in advance
in the bamboos and he was on
ine with one tusk at my chest before
I could raise my gun. I caught the
tusk and threw myself between th?
tusks, grasping oiie with each hand.
As I went down he drove his tusks
into the ground?his trunk curled
under and on my chest. Just an
instant I saw his vicious little eye,,
then with awheeze of rage, he surged
down and I went to sleep.
"Four and a half hours latter 1
awakened drenched with a cold
mist, buried in blood and ants. One
eye fortunately was in service and I
could see a little way off the campfires
and tents of the gun bearers
and porters where they cooked their
food and mourned th^lr dead "bwana."
"They had left me to Allah and
the hyenas.
"My voice was in good sham and
how the curs did come when I called
* ?<? i ?. 1 ?
They took me in ana uunng imti v?.of
consciousness 1 got them to give
me whiskey and beef tea.
"Dr. Phillips, of the Church of
Scotland Mission, reached us about
48 hours after the "collision," so
I had the best of care. TheVe were
no bones broken except ribs and f
don't know how many of these.
"Why the elephant left me I know
not. Probably he thought I was finished
and went for others. But the
others had all leaked out of the land
scape. It seems mai in ihh ihbi uuv?
downward he had pushed his tusks
Bo far into the earth as he could,
which acourits for my not being flattened
out as thin as a wafer. My
head gun carier was Swahill, who
was with Arthur Newman when he
was gored by a cow elephant. They
say that on that occasion he killed
the cow, on this occasion he carried
a good gun to a point of safety.
"It Is now three weeks since I
was hurt. I am still on my back,
but doing finely. 1 hone th?.f in
another three weeks I shall be on
the trail of my friend the elephant.'
LIGHTNING KILLS TI1HKK.
Struck Church Steeple in North Carp?
oline Sunday.
According to a dispatch which
reached Charlotte, N. C., from Hot
Springs Madison, County, lightning
?t nifk the steenle of Baldwin's chap-|
el, 1 4 miles from that place Sunday,
killing three people.
Threo others were stunned and
one of them, Joe Raney, is not expected
to recover. The storm, which
was one of unusual violence, came
up Just as the services of the littie
church were concluding and the worshipers
gathered around its doors to
await its passing.
Lightning struck tho steeple demolishing
it and badlv wrecked the
church creating a panic. When the
congregation gathered courage to
take stock six men were found in the
wreckage, three of them stone dead.
Baldwin chapel is located in an isolated
cove in the mountains, and Hot
Springs is the nearest settlement.
Man Fell Twenty-six Stories.
Crowds on Park Row, one of New
N York's busiest streets, stopped terrified
Thursday at the sight of a man's
u~Ax, hnpiinir through the air from
(UUU/ 11 u II >>n ? ? _
the roof of the 26th story Park Row
building. The body crashed into the
skylight of the six-story building adjoining
and became jammed into the
machinery of the elevator. It was
not identified. It is not known if
the man fell of deliberately jumped
to his death.
Electric Storage Ilnttery.
Thomas A. Edison announces that
he has perfected the electric storage
battery and his announcement may
be accepted as substantially in accord
with the fact. What this
achievement should mean in the way
of perfecting horseless traction of
every kind and driving railroad
trains and steamboats is dHUcuU t(>
conceive.
HURTS THE PARTY
APOSTACY OF CERTAIN DEMOCRATS
DELIOHTS THE
R^publicniis, Wlio Are Making Capital
Out. of the Votes of The Democrats
to Tax Lumber, Etc.
In his letter to The State from
Iowa Zach McGhee says there is, unquestionably,
a widespread impression
in all parts of tlie country, but
more particularly out here, that the
Democrats can always be depended
on to do the wrong things at tho
right time for the Republican party's
advantage. These sentiments are
freely expressed by Republican standpatters,
and even Insurgents are iinbubed
somewhat with the same idea.
Insurgents and Democrats alike
seem glad that certain Democrats
voted for tariff duties in which their
States were supposed to be interested.
The insurgents are making much
capital out of the votes on lumber,
sugar, and iron ore by certain Democrats.
These insurgents tell the
people that these votes show that the
Democrats are just as had when it
conies to protection as the stand-pat
Republicans.' In fact, these Democrats
are freely referred to as "standpat
Democrats," the other kind of
Democrats being called "progressive
Democrats."
The Democratic cause naturally
suffers from this. The Democrats
are really misrepresented, their voting
for protection greatly exaggerated,
but it is effective. On account of
these votes in the new tariff session
of congress and the turn given to
them, thousands of Democrats are
voting for insurgent Republicans,
and many thousands who have been
Republicans, but who are disgusted
with the policy of protection and who
would, under normal conditions, join
the Democrats, are lining up with
the insurgent Republicans instead.
The stand-pat Republicans, likewise,
are taking keen delight because
of these Deeniocratic votes for duties
on lumber, iron ore, pineapples, sugar,
tea, certain melicnal barks produced
in Virginia, and sea island
cotton. Prom the stand-patters'
viewpoint, these votes indicate that
the whole country has come around
to the protectionist principles, that
the south, as well as the North, is
clamoring for protection, and that
there should be an end to all agitation
on the subject of the tariff. ,
This, 011 the surface, looks like a
gloomy picture of the Democratic
outlook. Hut it is not so gloomy as
it appears. It will undoubtedly be
hard for the Democrats to make Republicans
put confidence in them.
But there is so much dissatisfaction
with Republican rule, and both the ,
insurgent, and the Republican#, in
various districts, scattered through- ,
out this part of the country, have so
many grievances against one another
that they may be willing that their
congressman shall be a Democrat. It
will not take many districts like this
for the Democrats to carry the house,
and it appears that there are two or
three in Iowa.
A WARM MKKTING.
Anti-Saloon League President Denounced
by Senator.
The county campaigners of Union
County spoke in Union Monday, with
about five hundred voters present.
The day pased without excitement
until towards the end of the speaking,
when matters assumed a somewhat
serious aspect.
The Hon. L. J. Browning, candidate
for re-election to the House
charged that the Rev. J. L. Harley
State agent for the Anti-Saloon League,
had said that Browning had
been drunk during the session of the
Legislature. This the preacher, who
was seated upon the platform, denied
when given a chance to reply after
the meting adjourned.
During the speech of Hon. B. F.
Townsend, who seeks re-election to
the Senate, the speaker pointed to
the Rev. Mr. Harley, and said: "You
are a scoundrel, come here to poke
your nose into matters that are no
concern of yours," and more to the
same effect. After the meetirg was
adjourned by Chairman \V. W. Johnson,
the crojvd, almost to a man, remained
to hear Mr. Harley's statement.
KNOW NO INSURGENTS.
Sherman Says Ilis Party's Members
Will Not Recognize Tliem.
Vice President Sherman, before a
company of St. Louis Republicans at
dinner there Sunday night, declared
there arc no insurgents in the party.
Qualifying his statement, he said
good Republicans did not recognize
insurgents. He was about to explain
further when he discovered newspaper
men in the room.
He refused to continue beecause he
said, he had been assured by the local
Republicans that his speech would
not he reported.
"I would not have it said that I
made a political speech Sunday night,
not for anything in tho world," Mr.
Sherman told the newsnaper men as
he was about to take hlfl train.
YEARS IN ICE TOMB
TOURISTS AXI> GUIDES WHO L5ST
THEIR LIVES IN SNOW.
The Hodies of the Mont Rlanc Victims
May Im* Recovered Some Time
This Month.
Early this month the village of
Chamonix, lying; among the foothills j
of Mont Bianc, is expected to witness |
the final act in an Alpine tragedy j
which 4 0 years ago thrilled not only
the old world hut the new, says the
London Daily Express.
Three tourists and eight guides
were overcome by the cold, and
suffered a slow and agonizing death
near the summit of Mont Diane, on
September 7, J 870.
One of the victims was John C.
Randall, treasurer of a savings bank
at Quincv, Mass., whose life ambition
was to clinrb Mont Blanc. He
did it, and death was the price.
Mr. Randall's body h-as lain for 40
years within the great Bosoms glacier,
a coffin of ice, progressing inch
by inch downwards a few hundred
feet every year. About him are the
bodies of live of the guides.
The bodies of the two other tourists,
I)r. James Bean, an American,
and the Rev. George McCorkindale,
a Scottish minister, and three more
guides were recovered not many days
after the tragedy.
Mr. Randalls's widow died 19
years ago, but Miss Edith Randall,
the second child, has been twice in
recent years to Switzerland to visit
the slow-moving tomb of her father.
The villagers of Chamonlx are
waiting and watching. First an alpenstock
may be recovered, or an axe
Then the thining ice may reveal the
body, which can be released by cutting
through the glacier surface.
Pathetic, indeed, is the story of
Mr. Randall's visit to the country
where he met his death. In his diary,
under date May 25, 1 870, the day
when he left his home in America,
appears the following entry:
"Today i begin the 'realization of
the dream of my whole life. After
many misgivings and douhts I decided
a few days ago to visit Europe,
said good-bye, and kissed my
dear wife and babies."
Jt was on September 6 that Mr.
Randall began the ascent of Mont
Blanc from the Grand Mulets inn
with Dr. Bean, Mr. McCorkindale and
eight guides. The weather was bad
and the wind frightful.
People in the Chamonix valley,
recognizing the danger, endeavored
to watch the progress of the party
through telescopes. Early in the af
LtJI 11UU11 llltJ V I 1 111 XjK'I o ?t'l f OtJtJIl
through a rift in a smirling snowstorm
throwing themselves down
from time to time to prevent being
swept away by the force of the gale.
With the exception of one more
glimpse nothing was seen of the summit
of Mont Blanc for eight days.
No one reutrned, and the people of
Chamonix knew a disaster must have
overtaken the party.
On the 16th a search party of 2o
men set out from Chamonix and the
following day the bodies of Mr. McCorkindale
and two of the guides
were discovered about 750 feet from
the summit. Three hundred feet
higher Dr. Bean and another guide
were found sittinir the former with
his head supported by one hand and
the elbow 011 a knapsack. A thorough
search was made by 2 4 additional
guides, but not a trace of ths
rest of llie party could be foun t
The bodies which had been found
were brought down to Ch a mo nix, and
after a service in the village church
were buried in the- graveyard.
A note-hook was found in Dr.
Bean's pocket, in which appeared the
following penciled message to his
wife:
"My Dear TIessie: We have been
on Mont Blanc for two daws in a
terrible snowstorm. We have lost
our way, and are in a hole scooped
out of the snow at a height of 15,000
feet. 1 have 110 hope of descending
We have 110 food; mv
feet are already frozen, and I am exhausted.
I have only strength to
write a few words. I die in the fa;;h
wf Jcnsus Christ, witn affectionate
thoughts of my family. My reuietv
brance to all."
CAUSED PARENTS TO REJOICE.
Daughter Not Killed in Wreck as
They Thought.
There was a joy in the home of
George J a gem an at Chicago where
gloom resigned a few hours before,
and Miss Lena Jagemann, the daughter
who has been mourned as one
of the victims of the Grand Trunk
railroad wreck, near Durand, Mich.,
is on her way to Chicago to issure
her parents that she is indeed still
alive. So impossible did it seem
that the young woman was still alive,
after her father had gone to Durand
and identified the body of one of the
dead as that of his daughter, that
the first telegram from Toronto, In
which Miss Jagemann said she had
escaped injury, did not reassure the
parents and Thursday two more messages
came from her in reply to the
anxious inquiries and the la.st one
announced that she would follow
immediately, herself.
DEEDS OF HEROES
OOL. BROOKS TELLS OF BATTLE
OF GRAVEL RLW.
Hancock Badly Bone lTp but Butler
in the Fight.?Death of the Gallant
Capt. Smith.
Tuesday was the anniversary of
the battle of Gravel Hun, fought between
the forces of the North and
South. Growing Reminiscent Monday,
Col. U. It. Brooks, of Columbia,
said:
"A battle planned, fought and won
by Butler! On the 23rd of August,
1864, Butler's scout told him that
there was one division of calvary and
one brigade of infantry directly in
front of him. He laid his plans, pitched
into them, whipped them and
got over enough of their ground to
auo t h :i 1 it vwinlft Iip si emirl to
take Reams Station, then held by
Hancock's corps.
"This first was the battle of Gravel
Run. At the time Gen. Hampton
was seven miles away with his handful
of men.
"When this battle was over Butler
never stopped until .he found Gen.
Hampton and told him that if he
could get Gen. Lee to send some of
A. P. Hill's infantry from the breastworks
in front of Petersburg that
they could whip Hancock's corps and
Gregg's calvary.
"General Hampton thought it was
a good idea and on the next day, the
2 4 ih, called on Gen. Lee in person.
The next day, the 25th, with A. P.
Hill's infantry and Butler's calvary,
all under Hampton, they whipped
Hancock, captured sixteen pieces of
Artillery, four thousand stands of
arms, 2,000 prisoners and sixteen
battle flags. Gen. Lee was so pleased
with Butler's work that he and
Hampton immediately recommended
him for Major General. Hancock
was so mortified ax the rout of his
corps that he said: "I don't want to
die, but I would rather be dead
than to see my corps routed again
as they have been today."
"When we captured the cannon
our men did not know how to handle
the guns. Lieut. Henry Heise, now
living in Columbia, was in command
at a particular spot, where these
cannon'were captured. There was a
Yankee sergeant, an American,
whom we had captured. When he
saw that our men did not know how
to handle the guns, he rushed up,
saying: "Let me fire them for you.
Just bring the amunition.' And he
just mowed them down like chaft
before the wind. IMiese were his
own men who he was killing.
"Another thrilling incident: We go
now to the 17th of September, 18l>2,
when Mart Gray was leading the
Hampton legion, then infantry, in
a charge, at the battle of Sharpsburg.
Capt. Smith, of the same legion, being
shot down right by Gen. Gary
and the blood was spattered all over
Gary's shirt 'bosom. Capt. Smith
was the father of W. G. Smith, the
cotton manufacturer, of Orangeburg,
also the first cousin of it. W.-Shand,
of Columbia."
SAVKS CHllil) FltOM DK.VTif.
Woman Stands for Fight Hours in
Cistern Until Help Conies.
Standing in five feet of water in
a cistern at rer home near Sedan,
Kan., Mrs. John Burah, wife of a
farmer, for eight hours held aloft
her two-year-old child until the arrival
of her .husband Friday. The
child had fallen into the cistern and
the mother immediately sprang after
it, seized the baby in her arms,
raised it above the surface of the
water and called for help. No one
2 4 1. 1 I. ..2 ? e i u. ^ - * ^
was wiiiiiii iiciunis 01 uie woman s
calls, and she waited for the return
of .her husband from his work in the
fields. After being taken from the
cistern, Mrs. Burch collapsed and is
dangerously ill, but the child suffered
no illness. *
Kentucky Farmer Despairs.
Robbed of his wife by death, and
of his only child by kidnappers,
Texie Allison, a prosperous farmer,
has returned home after a vain
search through six Southern States.
Little Gladys Allison was abducted
while returning from the funeral
of her mother three weeks ago at
Shreveport, La., and since then her
father has been unable to find a single
trace of the child's whereabouts.
Would Cause a Famine.
, The Commoner says: "We shudder
to think of what a famine would
ensue if farmers would run their
farms like the city men think they
nno-lit tn run thorn Tho m u ?i u>h n
can not keep a 2x4 lawn in decent
shape is usually qaite sure he could
successfully manage a half-section
farm." We are satisfied that if the
farmers followed the advice given
hy the city chops it would cause a
famine in the land.
Horsee Kills Baby
Falling from a buggy in which it
was rising with its parents, Joseph,
1 8-months-old son of John J. Kouke
of Savannah, Ga., was instantly killed
by a horse following the buggy Monday
afternoon on a country road. The
horse, attached to another buggy,
stepped on the baby's head.
AN AWFUL NIGHT
TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS SINCE
THE BIG EARTHQUAKE.
Wrought Damage of Five .Million
Hollars ill Charleston and Killed
Twenty People and Hurt Many.
Last Wednesday was the twentysixth
anniversary of the terrible
earthquake which shook Charleston,
causing damages to property aggremitinir
iihii'p than J Ti llOii llflll ami
the loss of twenty odd people, killed
outright and the injury of several
hundred, i?any of whom died from
their injuries. All the older people
remember what mi awful night it
was. The following from the Charleston
Post aN)out the earthquake
will he read with interest:
The shook oecured on a Tuesday
night, at 9:54 o'clock. On the Friday
morning previous a slight shock
was felt by some people in Charleston
and Summerville, but the people
generally ridiculed the idea of an
earthquake until the great shock
came which left no doubt of a disturbance
of the kind having oocured.
The terrible visitation gave no warning.
There was a sudden rumbling
m mi fY fit' liriuv/n < :! limine t>n?
leaves to rustle and then the ground
lilted and lowered with a wave like
motion and the buildings tottered
and fell, burying hundreds in the
ruins while those who could do so
made hasty retreats for the parks
and open places, where many lived
for weeks after the great shock.
To add to the terrors of the occasion,
several fierce fires occurred in
the overturning of lamps. The engines
had difficulty in getting to the
fires on account of the debris in the
streets and then some of the horses
of the fire department forgot their
tiaining and escaped from the station
houses. The fires were however
extinguished in the several sections,
without contributing very materially
to the losses of property values.
The cries of the negroes who became
hysterical, many believing that
the day of judgment had come added
no little to the terrors of the occasion
With the scenes of havoc and distress
on all sides robbery of residences
and stores was consequently
occurring and between protecting
lives and property the police officers
had no small task on their hands.
With the congested crowds oil the
parks and open places the sanitation
of these quarters became a problem
to the health authorities.
1 ti ?i it tr nr <1 lrn (i /I f i n It n % 1 /in I
j it iiiti ii %> ? in.j o auu niiiuo, v^nai iuo
ton passed through an ordeal which
few cities of the country had before
endured. The terrors exceeded those
of tires and cyclones which had several
times laid a heavy hand upon
Charleston and to many, the scenes
and experiences of the earthquake
were worst than those of war.
Charleston lived through it all.
The city arose phoenix-like from her
ashes and it was not many months
before the general evidences of the
disaster were completely obliterated.
A close inspection of many
buildings today in Charleston reveals
the presence of holts, new plaster
work and other work which bear in
the outlines the story of the repairs
of property and the rebuilding of
the city following the terrible visitation.
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1MTTKKSON PLKADKD Cl'lI/TY.
Ihiid One Hundred Dollars Fine by
Order of the Court.
A. B. Patterson, coporhl. Company
10, Third regiment, of the South Carolina
National Guard, has pleaded
guilty to the charges of disrespect to
and ofterirg violence against his superior
officer, Lieut. Col. 11. B.
Springs, and of conduct to the prejudice
of good order and military discipline.
He was sentenced by Maj
R. Boyd Coles, the presiding officer
of the summary court which sat in
Barnwell, to pay a tine of $100 or
serve 110 days ift hard labor. Corporal
Paterson paid the fine and was
released from custody.
The report of the trial before the
summary court in warn wen was received
Tuesday at. the adjutant, general's
otlice. The incidents out of
which the charges against Corporal
Patterson grew occurred on the train
near Jefferson City, Tenn., while the
Third regiment was returning from
the encampment at Chicamauga.
According to the specifications set
forth in the report of the trial, Patterson
was drunk and disorderly and ,
after breaking glass in the train windows,
threatening to stab Lieut. Col.
Springs witJi a bayonet. The specifications
also state that he disobey
0(1 an oraer to stop urinKing. vv non
arrested and taken before the summary
court which was ordered to
try him, Patterson pleaded guilty to
all the charges brought against him
Fouml Hoy Killed.
No trace has been found of the
kidnapper and murderer of Peter
Fabish, four-year-old son of Frank
Fabian, an Italian, at Kingston, N.
Y. The boy's body was found Thursday
in an outhouseCAt the rear of his
home, cut and strangled. Ho had
been dead but a abort time, although
missing since last Friday.
VERY SAD CASE
Unknown Woman Attempts to Kill Her*
self in the Hotel Astor.
LEFT PATHETIC NOTES
In Ono to Her M ther Sho Said "10
is Iteally Deplorable tliat a <*irl
Cannot <*et Along: Honorably in
New York." and Hits tfie Men
Hard.
"While surgeons in the Flower Hospital
in New York were making every
effort Moiulaj to save the life of
the fashionably attii-l vo;:ng Ionian
who shot and ser*'M!-,i.' wounded
herself the crowded waiting
room of the Hotel Astor
Wednesday night, the attempts of
the authorities to obtain a erne 'o
the woman's identity were unrewarded.
She still persisted in refusing
to answer questions. Wehnever
an effort was made to get her
to say who she was, she would bite
her lips and shake her head negatively.
Surgeons Thursday said the
young woman's condition was serious
and that an operation probably
would have to be performed upon
her durinsr. the day.
She walked into the hotel shortly
before midnight Monday night, seated
herself in the woman's room and
a moment, later shot herself in the
breast. She was conscious when taken
to the hospital.
"1 did it myself." was all she
would say. She is about 25. year#
old, of medium height and light complexion,
wore no jewelry and had only
a small amount of money.
In her black silk hand bag which
was picked up in the waiting room of
the hotel were found three letter?
bearing the date of August 18. They
were addressed "Dearest Blanche,"
"Dearest Sister" and "Mother Dear," ,
but from each the signature had been
scratched so carefully as to be practically
illegible, although the police
thought they could read "Nora" in
faint strokes in one of them.
"It is really deplorable that a girl
cannot get along honorably in New
York," ran the letter to her mother.
"In somethings I might have succeeded
had I conceded to the wishe?
of men (?) cultured (?) usually
mmiovD/l )\nt ittinna nwiralc Vui..
kilVUVJ V\* ,v/ ll w lillll %*U U1U1 UIOi A V * ?
er reproach yourself for what I aw
about to do. 1 can hear you say,
'Now, my dear, it is very wrong) for
one to take one's life, whatever the
incentive may be.' "
A typewritten manuscript carried
the title "Thessalia," and under it i?
her own handwriting was scrawled:
"My pet story, which I wanted
buried with me. I wish I could take
books as companions into the unn
known world with me." , . <
It was a long story and dealt with
the adventures of two young men in
Europe.
The hotel physicians said that they
had found clutched in the girl's left
hand a small typewritten manuscript
tied with baby blue ribbon. She
seemed loath to relinquish it and he
obtained only a hasty glimpse of
what seemed to be a short novelSome
one straightaway advanced
the theory that the attempted sui
cide bad been inspired by disappoint
ed authorship.
"Don't take it from me," she whispered.
"1 want to have it buried ?
v,Jth me." f
"But you are not going to die/*
he assured her.
"But I want to die," she urged.
KILIjKI) IN A CAVE IX.
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W'ero Playing Bandit in Hole They
llnd l>ng in a Hill.
Two boys were killed and another's
arm was broken, when the roof
of a cave they were digging in the
sand banks along Wallworth Hun,
near Cleveland, Ohio, collapsed. Carl
Broege, 12 years old, and Walter
Christopherson 12. are dead, while
Herman Mitehekope, 13, escaped
with a broken arm.' x
The boys started to play bandit
"Let's dig a cave to store the treasure
in" said one. They took a rust/
pick and shovel and made an excavation.
The cave was almost complete
when the roof gave way.
A woman saw the accident and
summoned a policeman ami nearby
warknien, who helped dik the boys
out. The Broege lad was dead and
Christopherson was so badly injured
he died in less than an hour.
Has Hand Itlown Off.
Alexander Barkitt, aged 17. found
a dynamite can a week ago and Friday
tried to remove a large stone
from the front yard of his home at
Kittannig. Pa., with it. Ho placed
the cap on a stone and hit it with *
hammer. The stone is still there,
but Burhitt lost his right hand.
Recently a wealthy man paid a
great price for a special car in which
he might travel with his dog front
one side of the continent to the other.
It is to be hoped the dog appreciated
the favor. He is one of
our Tariff Barons. $