The machine was running along 15th streetand was turning into Ninth avenue at the time

the accident occurred. The corner is a badone because of the number of car tracks at thatpoint. A Smith street car had Just turned the

corner into ICth street as the automobile camealong, A Union street car was dose behind,

but Mr. Mi Williams did not see it. He ran themachine across the plaza and into the Unionstreet car, which was standing still. The forceof the shock threw Mi?s Smith out of her seat,

and the next instant the gs "tens tank underthe seat of the automobile exploded.

Immediately th>- occupants of the car were

wrapped In names. McWllllama was thrownl.a. In the car and Miss Smith was hurled to

the ground, while the automobile toppled overupon her. Mr. McWilliams dragged himselfout of the wreck, and the passengers In the trol-ley car hurried to the woman's assistance.

Miss Smith's gown was on fire, and several

Andrew F. MeWilllams. of No. 1241 Castletonavenue, twenty-four yean old. a son of FrankMcWitliams, a shipbuilder of West New Brißh-ton, Staten Island, was seriously burned, andMiss Mfie Smith, of No. 'J4.''. Summit avenue,Jersey City, perhaps fatally burned, by the ex-plosion of the K"*olem> tank at the automobilein which they wen returnlne; from Coney lsl-

and <-:irly yesterday morning. The explosion ofth»> tnnk followed the collision of the automo-bile, which Mr. MeWUuams was driving, vvitli

a Union street trolley car at I.'.th street andNinth avenue, Brooklyn.

Couple Were Returning from Coney

Island and Young Woman MailDie—Machine a Wreck,

GASOLENE TANK BURSTSAFTER COLLISION.

TWO BURNED IN AUTO

Police Swarm in Chinatown TonesExcited Over Boston Sentences.

••\u25a0„ rger. Chiei

'P°-

m :ind. _ •

\u25a0 c with Ini- . ha ige of th<

tral Office and detective bui h : \u25a0' tor John

Daly, of the M Inspection CMstrtct. which takes. • In Mi< '!•'\u25a0 IJ Galvin. "1•

\u25a0 -;-.- t • tation v i\u25a0••'•\u25a0 c \u25a0 rge nln uptown preel net

' nty pon unknown to the Chinatown pn

FEAR CHINESE (HTBREAK

Two On tbreaks of Eire Great

Alarm Among People.Messina, .Tuh 4. Seven earth shocks hay. -

curred during the last twenty-four hours, keep-

populace In a stat.> of alarm A tii-

.>-,M In the wreckage and while the troops

rk trying to extinguish the flamesstarted *t Mllasso, n short distance

away. II i; believed that this was of incer

diary origin as a protest apainst the of•ihave the wooden bouses com-lo boat was sent to th.-it place

were soon under coi

MESSINA AGAIN SHAKEN.

President's Landlord at Beverly NotExpected to Recover.

illy TPlfgrsj.h to The Trll^une.]

Beaton, Jrly 4.—Robert D. Kvans. owner oftii.- estate at Beverly which President Taft lias

taken Ear ti;e s>imnior. was operated on at theMo—ill—!<!\u25a0 Homoaopathic Hospitui to-night,

and his condition is so serious that be is not..xp'-cted to recover. Mr. Kvans was injured

last Thursday l>y being thrown from his horse.At the time tt was ounnnnnri mat only two ribs

mere broken, but later internal injuries devel-oped and the operation was decided on.

The operation \vas performed by Dr. HowardI'iirkcr. assisted by Tr. Frederick P. Batcheld'-r

and I>r. Harry Los. Mr.Kvans stood tiu> shock

well, but on account of his age, sixty years, thedoctors hold out little hope of recovery. Presi-dent Taft s»nt Bftessages of Inquiry us to ins

condition.

TUGS SAVE A STEAMER.

Narrow Exi'apr of 300 Persons in

Cottimon Off' Dover.\u25a0r. England, July i The British steamer

Whakatane, running to N> \\ SSeafeand. wastowedhere to-day In a sinking condition and !\u25a0•

Dfhakatane was In collision ..ff Dang

:'••«\u25a0 with the Prencb steamer <";ri>'. Th»-latter was damaged, but was able to continueher voyage to Rotterdam. No lives were lost.

Tii\u25a0 fThakatane hnd three hundred personsaboard, including some passengers. She also

carried a l;*rg** number of valuable horses itwas an exceedingly narrow escape. Immediate-ly after the vessels struck the Circe, with thehelp of .inother steamer, took the Whakatan*-In tow, but the hawsers broke. The Circe then

steamed to Dover for assistance.Several tugs put out at top speed to the sink-

ing steamer. One of these was lashed to th •

Whakatane'a side and the pumps were kept at

work drawing water from the holds that were

almost full. When the liner arrived ben she

presented an extraordinary appeanir.ee. her

stern lying deep in the water. All the crew

were mustered forward. Six salvage tugs and

other vessels were lending assistance in the

difficult operation of towing the sinking steamer

to the beach. The Circe had crashed into her

amidships, making a groat rent in her side.

SHALLENBERGER ON FEDERAL JUDGES

The church where the President attended b<t-

asnni to-day is the oldest in Beverly. It wasorganized in 14C7. Th- minister, the Rev. Ben-J»tr!!n R. Bulk<!' niade reference to the ii-

--Ment'n arrival in Beverly, and in a specialprayer. asked that God might continue to give

him guidance. .Mr. Bulkeley declared that "theaM North Shore" had known two Presidents

—"Washington and Harrison

—and was now hon-

ored in welcoming a third. The President's fc-

lection at Beverly as a summer ban the min-ister raid, had been appreciated by every on'1

in the community. The sermon eras directedtoward showing the presence of the band ofGod -in all things* Mr.Bulkeley traced the his-tory of the government and attributed to provi-dential acts much of the progress that hadt*«n made. He declared that the Almighty*oul<s continue to find a way for the people'•ufof their trials and tribulations. The service

concluded -with the Finginjr of "Amerfca."

The President would not vent a guess to-*ay as to the date of the adjournment, but .v-

preesed himself as being more than pleased --it.

the progress in the Senate during the last fewtore

"There 5? just one thing 1 don't like aboutBeverly." the President said to-day, "and that

ifhaving to tro away to-morrow."Mr. Taft believes that the invigorating pea air

ben* Till quickly restore lira. Taft to compWe.

health. She will endeavor to have as quiet arummer as possible, and the President, too,

vhen be finally takes up his abode here, willtry to have a complete vacation, although workon several plans of government reform which1*ban in mind will take up a considerable part

Of bis timr.

IDEAL DAT FOR ARRIVAL.

The day of tne President's arrival was weilrich ideal. A cool. lnviporati:iir breeze mn<b>the warmth of the unclouded morning sun moreIs b? courtr-d than shunned. In the late after-roon th«» sky became partly overcast, and. •••?-•hough no rain fell here, a rainbow bung forhours ovrr the harbor. Its delicate colors bright*saed la contrast against a heavy bank <>f leadendeoda to the eastward.

Rarely ha^ Beverly been held in a more con-tinuing excitement than to-day. Throughoutthe lon^ afternoon th<» road leading pnst th"recludeti part where the President's summerhome Is situated was crowded with Fiprht-

jeer* pnme were on foot, while others cairn-

Jn automobiles from Boston and other neighboring places Two Ftf.lwnrt policemen andhalf a dozen

-ret Service men were on guard

to keep sway the more venturesome of the

curiou=

I[By naaaaai to Thr Tribune!

Beverly. Mass.. July 4-Presiuei.t Taffs fam-

rv is settled to-ni^ht, bag and baggage, at

Point. The party arrived at 8:30

o'clock th:s morning nt ntontserrat Station, In

it." Pullman car Mayflower by a special train

that left Boston immediately following the ar-

rival of the Federal Express from Washington.

Soon after his arrival at the point the Presi-

dent accompanied by his sister-in-law. Mrs.

Louis More, of Cincinnati, started Ina touring

car for Beverly, whore he attended service, at

the First Parish Unitarian Church. After the

perrlce he and Mrs. More were driven nl*>ut for

an hour and called at the home of W. J. Board-man, in Manchester. At - *» o'clock the Presi-

c>m returned to Woodbury Point, and through^

out the afternoon received callers. Among the

visitors were Mayor C H. Trowt and Postmas-

lar Francis Norwood, of Beverly, and JohnBayt Hammond. At 3 o'clock the President

*met forty newspaj*r men. Mr. Taft sat for

several snapshots and talk.-d with some gayety

cf the "farrr.ine" which he willdo this summer.

The special train brinßine the President P»t

Into Hetrtserral half an hour before it was ex--

pected. Fifty-odd townspeople and n score of

policeman were at the station, but there was iv>

demonstration whatever. When the President

left the train he was mot by Captain Butt, hismilitary am. and two Secret Service men. He

immediately stepped into his car an.l was driven

away; practicalK uimn-opnized. past crowdsfrom far and rear, who were flocking to the

station to meet him on the train due thirty min-

utes later.

CHILDREN EXPECTED FRIDAY.

In fax part) were the President. Mrs. Taft.

Mrs. More. Charlie Taft and Mrs. Taft's maid,

ilrs. Taft Stood th*> journey from Washington

muih better than was expected. She Is f-.-linSexceptfemaHy well to-night. Robert Taft. theeldest son, and Miss Helen Taft. the daughter.

are at Lake Champlain awaiting the arrival of

the President. They are expected here Friday.

The presence of tho President at church made

little stir. Few people expected tie would at-

tend service after so recent an arrival, an manydid not know he had arrived untilhe was ushereddown the aisl* by Captain P.utt. When Mr. Tuftemerged from the church he found a thousandpeople waiting fnr him. There was a loud clap-

pins of hands, bat no cheering. Th" President1 *-£\u25a0= aH~d through th«» crush to his auto-rmhile

and ma* driven away with Mrs. More. ColonelWilliam R. NHson. of Magnolia, proprietor of

The Kansas City Star." is a gu»»st the Presi-

dent's house to-niprht. At 6:30 o'clock to-mor-r"jTT morning th*1 President \u25a0will leave here in atouring car for Boston on his way to Norwich,

-Conn, to" take part in the or-l^hration of the

'9Sth anniversary-' the founding of the town.

He then goos to I>ake Champlnin for the fr-

csntenary coloration, and willreach Washing-

ton next Friday.

Toft SUmds Journey WdL

President Attend* Church at Once—

Pleased with CoUmge Mrs.

Two deaths. less than half a dozen serious ac»cidents and not mor»» than fifty minor accident*tell the story of |Mfra celebration of the Glori-ous Fourth. Compared with last year, when thetoll of dead and injured was 7 and 253. re-spectively. statistics point to a safe and sanacelebration, but the legal Fourth of July. thisyear July .1, may equal or exceed the list offatalities of UHKS. The police made several ar-rests yesterday for violations of the ordinancesgoverning the use and. sale of firearms, andthere were at least twenty trifling fires whichwere caused directly by the careless use of ex-plosives.

Yesterday wa3 the coldest Fourth of July cmrecord at the Weather Bureau. At 7 o'clock inthe morning the temperature »as recorded at58 degrees, the lowest for the day since theestablishment of the local bureau, in 1871 In1882 the temperature went to .M*. and this hadbeen the record ever since.

L*p«n ins discharge ejf a large toy cannonfired by Joseph Kurtz, of No. ."."Jo East t."V3dstreet, four-year-old Edith Brown fell to thecurb yesterday afternoon and was picked up un-conscious, suffering from a compound multiplefracture of th» skull. A wire nail three incheslong was found where the child's head struckthe curb, but Kurtz declared that th» nail hadnot been placed in the cannon when 1* was)

loaded. The girl was taken to Lebanon Hos-pital, where she died at Io'clock. Kurtz waslocked up in the Mof-isania station as a sus-picious person, and will be heM to await theCoraner's inquest.

The littlegirl, who lived at No 3SB East 1-V.tJlstreet, had gone around to the home of hergrandmother, at No. .\u25a0'.\u25a0_"_' East LVMstreet. Shewas fully seventy-fire feet from the cannonwhen it was discharged. The report had hardlydied away when th^ child was seen to havefallen and to be lyingin a pool of blood.

Her grandmother. Mrs. Wider, said she was anervous child am! had probably fainted whenahe heard th»» report. Several persons who sawthe chilli fall said the cannon was not pointedin her direction, and that the nail which wasfound n*ar her must have lw»»n lying there for.•"•m. time. Th- police declared that the cannonwas heavily charged, and that the firing was inviolation of the city ordir.ar.ee governing theuse of firearms.

LOCKJAW FOLLOWS WOI'XD.fjeorglo Mafredonla. ten years old, died yes-

terday at th*» home of a married sister, at No.it: Mulberry street, after two days of intense)

suffering from tetanus. According to th» boy'sparents, who liv- at N». 1«9 Mod street. Georglohad b-r-n saving h's pennies for some time In

order to purchase a plentiful-supply- of-flre-works. He bought a revolver without thetrknowledge. th*ysaid, and a week, ago took sev-•"rn! of his playmates into the back y-ird to

At the first shot the exploding powder flashedback through the revohrer and burne.l the index

fine "f th>- boy's right hand. His mother sent

him to a doctor, and after the wound hail been

dress.-d thought no about it. Friday the fingerbegan to swell and change color and the boys

Jaws were set firm and rigid He was conscious

j almost all th»> time, but th* physicians could donothing exempt administer opiates to relieve ht3suffering. He finally died at 1 o'clock yester-

day afternoon, his back arched and every muscle

distorted and fixed.Through the explosicn of a cannon yesterday

afternoon Michael Ferrino. ten years old. of No.241 North 9th street. Williamsburg. had his

thumb blown off. and several of his fingers wereso badly mangled that they had to be amputated^

He had loaded the cannon with a heavy chars*and was Mini \u25a0 firecracker as a fuse, wheath*side of the cannon Mew out and shatter- Hf*hand. Several of his companions narrowly

escaped injury from the flying fragments of tita

cannon. Dr. Miller,of the Eastern District Hos-

pital, attended the boy and took every precau-

tion to prevent lockjaw.

Instead of spending several days in jail.las-dor Salow. eighteen years old. who told Magis-

trate Crane, in the Tombs court yesterday, that

he lived at No. 29 Avenue B. is to write an ?•-

say on why the Fourth of July Is celebrated.

The magistrate pronounced this sentence after

he had heard the evidence against Salow. who

had been arrested on Saturday night for hav-ing a revolver in his possession.

HIS MEANINGLESS FOURTH.

Salotr told the magistrate that he was jroin*to celebrste the Fourth, but finally admitted.,

that he did not know why the day should be

chosen above all other days for the legal us*'of, ,explosives. When it was found that he was),equally deficient in other questions of Manor?Magistrate Crane said:

••111 let you go. but Iwant you to write/mea story of five hundred words on the subject.

Here is my address. Send it to me by mall not

later than to-morrow night."

Salow left the courtroom after promising to

do as the magistrate ordered.While standing at the window of her home. .

>\u0084.. 1701 Bathgate avenue, last night. J-rmt*

Sokoff. eighteen years old. was shot in the tight

shoulder with a stray bullet discharged by a.

Fourth of July holiday maker out In the street.who escaped. The girl had a narrow escape

from fatal Injury-

Sixteen families were forced to leave hur-riedly the six story tenement at No. 20* West\u25a0join street last night.when a fire, caused by th-.»

careless use of fireworks, filled the alrshaft with

flame?. Firemen had the blaze under controlIn fliteen minutes and the damage was less than$200. The buildingis owned by Hush Keilly.ofNo. 205 Seventh avenue, and the ground floor '3occupied by Frederick R. Woods & Sons. ma-chine and automobile repairers.

As Patrolman Dennis Sullivan, of the Hamil-ton avenue station. Brooklyn, was standing In

front of the house at No. 59 Sackett street last

night he received a bullet from a 3H-calibre re-

volver In his right thigh. The gun was fired by

:Frank Ludlaco. who was celebrating the Fourth

by firingthe revolver out of his window. Sulli-

van was taken to Long Island College Hospital

;and Ludiaco was arrested, charged with felon-

ious assault. .•Andrew Hirshi. who lives in South Ozone

Park, was shooting with some friends in the rear

of his home yesterday, when a dispute arose asto the merit* of the gun. To prove that ther^n

would not carry « certain distance Hlrsnl went

to a nee some distance away and stood thaw

as a target while one of his friends took aim and

fired at him. The bullet entered the outer w»JI

Tetanus KillsLad Who Played vctika Revolver —Stray Bullet*

Injure Seieral.

CHILDS DEATH FOLLOWSFIRING OF CANNON.

FOUftTtt FATAL TO TWO

THE ZEPPELIN REACHES METZ.

Hets Germany' July \u25a0»\u25a0 The dirigible balloon Siep- ;

pelln I landed here safely this morning. The bal- ,loon left Frledrichshafen last Monday, but was de-

tains, several days by an accident to her ma--;.hit.-rv and by «•!«\u25a0 The airship will be pcrma- jnently stationed at the fortress.

Revival of Terrorism- One Exploit- \ion in Steel Van.

Barcelona. July 4.—The terrorist campaign oflast year shows signs of being revived. A bombexploded to-day ina cafe, doing serious damage, jAnother, found at the circus, was placed In a •

steel van. to be taken to ihe city 'dilatory.'

The bomb exploded on the way, wrecking the

vehicle.

Machine Slipped a Cog, Hurling the j

Rider to Roadside.[By Tel«-*raph to tin Tribune.]

Baltimore. July 4.-

While ... .'or.-.-.-, m, to-day ;at . fast eiip on th.- Washington Road, Paolo Nor- :

II'

tw', tv-nve year. M. was thrown from his M-

;,„„.,.,,to the roadside. His bead struck.largo stone: fracturing his skull He died while |being taken to th- LTnherslty Hospital. ; j

Norclo resided at No. 311 IJ streot. N. X.. jWashington, and left there early this morning for„ motor trip to Baltimore. He was neartag Union

avenue, just outside of the city limits, when Ms

machine: slipped .a cog, swerving to one side and ;

causing his death.

YOUNG GIRL FINED FOR SPEEDING. jSaid She Was Elsie Janis When Arrested on j.

Way to Newport. • •;

\ an. woman. Wearing a tons duster, a poke

bonnet and goggles, driving her ear at the rats of jtwenty-flve miles an hfur, was arrested In Pelham •

Road. New Bochelle, yesterday. In the car with

her was her mother, a maid and a negro chauffeur. !At the police station she said she was Miss Elsie

rani* aged nineteen, of Columbus. Ohio. She said

that she had just bought a car and was learning to ,run it and had forgotten Wow fast she was going. I

Later, when she was arraigned before Judge !Bchlesasnger, at his home; she declared" that her jreal name was Elsie Beerbower. Sh« paid a.One of.i

110. The party was on Its way to Newport.

Nebraska's Governor Says They Cannot In-

terpret State Laws.|Ry TWsisi»li '•• Th<» Tribunal

Oh .in.i..111 4.— ln a letter to the Nebraska press

Governor Bhallentergef baa Una to -=\u25a0»• ,-eiative to

the federal court issuing an order restraining theoperation of the hank guaranty law:

i have all possible respect for our courts, but Ibelieve the law passed at the last session of theLegislature expresses the will of the people orNebraska. The Legislature voted soli.lly for trie

law and thai body Is the only voice me peoplehave, and Its mandate ahould be stipre.ne. If afederal ludge can set aside the expressed will of

the people of a sovereign state when legislatingupon a matter regulating purely state corpora-tions a single Judge has more power and la morepotent than the voice of a million and »i half orpeople expressed through constituted authority.

This should make plain to the people of the sta««

the necessity <" non-partisan judges on th? bench.

ASKS $1 50 A DAY FOR PRISON TERM.

Ex-Soldier Says He Was Sentenced for MurderAfter Enlistment Had Expired.

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Tribune. •

Richmond. V,... July 4.—Julius H.Rucker. \u25a0 negroex-soldier, of Big Island, 8 constituent of Repre-

sentative Glass, of I-ynchburg. hi endeavoring to«-ompel the United States government to pay him$1 SO a day fox eight years be spent in the Fort

LeavenvForth military prison, to which he wassentenced by court martial for murtler.

The negro does not deny that he was properly

convicted of the crime, but says the killingtookplace after his lens si enlistment had expired, butbefore he received his discharge, and that Ifhehad been discharged at the proper time ihe trouble\u25a0would not have oecuiiad.

REPUTED TALLEST AMERICAN DEAD.

He Was Seven Feet Nine Inches High andSeventy-seven Years Old.

Vernon. Tex.. July *—Colonel H. O. Thurston.known as the Texas Giant, believed to have beenthe tallest American.

"feet 9 inches In height, a

Confederate soldier under General' Price. Is deadat his home here, aged seventy-seven.'.' He Is thefather of four children, one non being more than 7

feet tall.He was a conspicuous figure at the recent Con-

federate reunion at Memphis- '

DEATH IN MOTORCYCLE.

LARGEST FLAG FLIES.

Made h>/ School Children, It Is 160 \Feet Long bfi 80 Feet Wide.

IHy TMesi to Thf Tribune. IPittsburg, July 4. The largest Bag In the

world was down to tin breeze to-day from theeighteenth Door of the Frlck Building here.. The !Immense bunting Is IGO feet in"length and sofeet Wide. .

With the top .-it the eighteenth floor of theskyscraper the bottom reaches to the sixth Boorwindows. Each stripe is six feet wide, and thestars measure five feet from tip to tip. Itweighs twfclve hundred pounds without thetrimmings, which bring the entire weight to

three thousand pounds"There Is not a flagstaff in the city I .-.<\u25a0 will|

support it, therefore it was suspended from a !two-inch wire cable and used as n streamer.

The idea of the Immense (lag originated withHoward 15- Ouster, private secretary ol Mayor

Magee, and was made by school children andpatriotic women of Pittsburg.

BOMBS IN BARCELONA,

One Man Killed and Two Injured

at It Went Into Ditch.CniinellsvlUe. Perm., July 4.—One man was

killed, two were Injured and two had narrowescapes when an automobile descending the

Limestone Millnear here to-day turned a somer-

sault into •! ditch.Th'cmas joy. . thirty-five: neck broken.The injured:Henry Kernlese; head cut. bruise. l."jotm p.isiol: arm cut. bruised and sprains.

Morris Coulter and William Correll. the chauf- \feur were thrown ahead of the machine to th-

h,.ft ground of an embankment and escaped with

a severe shaking up. _

AUTO TURNED IN AIR.

Machine Turn* Over, Pinning Her

Underneath fter "Seek Broken.t'.leu Cove, Long Island, July 4.—Miss Gladys

It. Yinuisr. thirty years old. of Hlghwood, N. .T .„govrness In the family of Frederick B. Pratt.

secretary of Pratt Instil was Instantly

killed in an automobile accident at noon day.

Miss Young was returning from a short ridethrough the village In \u25a0 small electric runabout,

owned by the Pratt family.

As she was about to enter the gates of the

grounds sh« suddenly remembered that thegateway was chained to prevent strangers from

entering. She quickly turned the. machine to

the right and It went down a five-foot embank-ment. As it reached the bottom it turned over,

and the young woman was thrown out and pin-

ioned under it. When she was taken from be-neath the machine it \u25a0\u25a0 as found that her neckhad been broken. Deal must nave been In-

stantaneous.

Miss Young came here about a year ago, andhad been in the employ of the Pratt family ever

since.

Brother of Mrs. 1/7// < Expire*'

den It/ in Parrs.

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lied.

I:,\u25a0\u25a0:'. i Stuyvesant, a direct descendant ofPeter Stuyvesant. whs sixty-nine years old. Ha iwas n brother of 'A itIhi"i' Rutherfurd, who mar- Itied a daughter of former Governor; I>e\i I*. Mor- |ton. in •\u25a0! del to inherit the Stuyvesnnt fortune^ !however, he had his name reversed He was re- :

lated by marriage to .Mrs. \v. K. Vonderbtlt. Mr.and Mrs^ Stuyvesant came to this country every iyear for a long vlHit.

Mi Stujrvesant was a lar^*1 real «>stat« hoMrrIn this \u25a0 Ity. In 1908 he borrowed $50,000 from the !Seamen's Hank for Savimjs, giving a niorignße >

covering the northeast corner <>f Fourth awnue jarui iitli street. He had spent .\u25a0\u25a0. large portion of Jhis time abroad during th*» last ten years. He was .

'a director of the Metropolitan Museum of am and \u25a0

a member of the Racquet and Tennis) the Century, jthe Downtown Association, the City. th«> Union-, ;

the New York Yacht and the Atlantic Yacht clubs, \u25a0

and also of the American Fine Arts Society and i

the American Geographical Society.Mr. Stuyvesant and the Comtesse <!p Wassanaer \

were married .'it St. George's, Hanover Bquare,'

Uondon, on June 16, IM

R. STUYVESANT DEAD.

men too* off their coats ami tried to smother

the names. After some heroic work on the par*'

..f it,,, bystanders the young woman was re-

leased from the burning automobile. Some one j

stopped a milk wagon and got a horse blanket,

which he wrapped about her. As she was being

carried to the sidewalk M< Williams crawled Iafter her -iihis hands and km \u25a0

"Kid. "liKid. this Is awful!" he cried.

The flr» In the woman's clothing was finally

put out and an ambulance was summoned from ;Scbey Hospital, to which the sufferers were |hurried. It was found that McWilMams had

Buffered only burns of the hands and face, but

Mlsa Smith was in a critical condition. Her |clothing had been almost burned off. and her \Buffering were BO intense that she became <Ie- Jlirlons. The hospital authoritl.-* say she may ,not recover.

The resrrves" ..f t!i<- Fifth avenue police sta- ;

ll«m and »lr<-m«n were called out to look afterthe cnr. By the time the flames had been ex-tinguished nothing remai'ied i"it the ruinedBte^lwork. The machine was owned by Mr Me-WiUisma. Several of those who resi-ued MissSmith from the wreck were burned about the

hands slightly.

avto kills governess:

Thought Threat to Kill HimselfWas a Joke.

\ Standing in front of a group of his friendsyesterday. Joseph Graber, eighteen years old. siNo. 17 Seigel street, TnillSlllslmia. shot himselfin th«» heart and died instantly. His companions

;thought he was Joking until they saw bloodtrickling from a wound In his breast.

Gruber was a driver, and it was said that be!had heen sick and despondent for some days.

'\u25a0 Yesterday evening h«» was talking with some of; his friends in front of No. i" Bartl^tt street, and' while they were discussing plans for the celebra-j tlon of the Fourth he walked down th#> steps.• drew a 22-calibre revolver^ which he pointed at

his h«*art. and said: "My friends. \vh«>ii a manis sick and tired of Hfe, what is the us* of going

>>n with the struggle? He might as well kill

himself.'! As be uttered the last word <-,ruivr

pulled the trigger and fHI to the ground dead.His friends refused to believe that a tragedy

\ had been • na rted before their eyes, and laugh-f Ingly Mild that Gruber would make \u25a0 good actor.! After fie had lain motionless on the street forIsome minutes and they noticed a thin stream ofi blood making Its way from his body they be-j came alarmed. Two of them ran to a drug store

j for .'id and were flr*-d upon by policemen, who

i thought a murder had been committed. /3aUs-l factory explanations were made.

DIES AS ERIESDS LOOK.

[By Teieip-a;i)> »>> The TribtUM.]

WoodMne, N. .J., July 4. A drop into one ofthe wide stretches of swamp land on DelawareKay. with Us pwarms \u25a0\u25a0f mosquitoes, far fromanj habitation and near midnight, was tii<' ex-perience of the party of four Phlladelphians, in-

t-luding Miss Margaret Tourison, who ascendedlast evening in th<- i>i^ balloon Philadelphia IT.

In nn effort to find help. Dr. Thomas B. Kl-•lrirlpe, head of th<^ party of four, phinerrd into acreek and came near drowning. After a timehe found a cabin, anil anally reached Him place,six mi!*>s away, where students of the Baron!»<• Hirsch Agricultural School rallied to th<> aidof the stranded party and brougtri all i f theml;r-re.

The balloon crossed the river and headed in asoutherly direction, following closely the WestJersey & Seashore electric lino. Hundreds ofpeople watched the flight as the party sailedquietly along, the moonlight reflecting againstthe great gas bag The balloon kept \u25a0 straightsoutherly course for three hours, passing New-fleld. Millville,Mariumuskin ami Port Elisabeth.About in o'clock a big body of water could beseen in the distance, and preparations weremade at once to land.

Jus! then a strong breeze sprang up. and,despite < . thing that could be ('one to lowerthe big balloon, it could not be brought to enrthIn time, and landed In th« swamps of DelawareHay. Jin-.- the party made fast. Miss Touri-son, who was on her initial trip, prepared lunch-eon, while Dr. Thomas E. Bldrldjre, his brother,Frederic, and i>- Oeoreo H. Slmmermatt, madetl»*> balloon fast. As •.<\u25a0..>\u25a0<> ns the repast was tin

-islied Dr. Eldrldge. started but alone to secure arelief party. He had son,, difficulty In- extricat-ing himself from the swamp. After he hadgained solid earl he followed the gleam of a,

distant light, a cloud obscured the moon andthe doctor stumbled Into a canal.

Dr. ddrige la an expert swimmer, and had nodifficulty In keeping above water, but could findno place to make a landing. Fortunately, a Mr.Sutton, in a cabin near by, heard the doctorsplashing about in th<> water and rescued himfrom his perilous position. Sutton then drovet!i»> doctor to Woodbine. At tin; Do lllrschSchool n r<-li<'f party was formed, and half ahu:i<ln>d students, armed with axes and roi«'?.tramped to the bay and brought the party back.Tlio same students rescued a balloon party fromthe pine woods near the school n f<nv weeksago.

Miss Touriaon Cooks Lu?wheon

While Dr. Eldridge Nearlif

Drowns Sicking Aid.

PHILADELPHIA PARTY IN

TRYIXG EXPERIENCE.

BALLOONISTS IN SWAMP

(By Telcsraph Is The Tribune.]

Norwich. Conn., July This city is in a blaze oflight to-dght in readiness for the 2Doth anni-versary of the founding of the town. All day»o-day the cJty has been filling up with people,Siany.of them having returned to their homes for1h» reunion. The celebration opened this morning*lUi historical sermons delivered In all thechurches. >

Prwrfdeht Taft will Pi-rive to-morrow morningabout JO o'clock and view the historical representa-«ion». consisting; of scene* of early Indian life, the•Isning: af the deed by Uneas and the founders, the*'Mtof Washington during the Itevolutlonary War»nd the return of the soldiers from the Civil War.In the afternoon th« President will review theParade and make an address. John Mitchell, thelabor leader, will be In the line of march and %ill

*k» an address in front of the courthouse.Governor WeeVs and his staff will take part In the(sAeiotttsa.

6RETTON WOODS HOTELS, WHITE MTS..N..H.*££Wentatlv<ss at USO liway. Tel 4T48 Mad.—

General Manager of Southern Pacific May Diea3 Result of Operation.

, "IllyTelegraph to Tin- Tribune.)

Snn Francisco, July 4.—lt is feared thai It C.Calvin, vice-president and general manager of theSouthern Pacific Company, may die as the resultof an operation for appendicitis performed to-day

by surgeons at the New Railroad Hospital in thiscity. Calvin did not -stand the operation well, andthe doctors to-night express grave doubts of nfsrecovery. He Mas stricken on June 21 at his desk.

Mr. Calvin ha» been with Harriman lines formany years, and is regarded as one of the bestrailroad traffic managers in the country. >

E. C. CALVIN SERIOUSLY ILL,

Allows Only Golf on His Forest Hill Estate,

in Cleveland.i;.

;.\u25a0 \u25a0

Clev< land. July < Tennis, the favorite ill>•< rsionof Theodore Roosevelt, do

-not appeal t., John I>.

BockefeUer. He barn d H \u25a0J < Hill, his

summer home here, to-day.Mr. Rockefeller called tennfa too stren is. ll<-

<il<i this as h<- was U new pastor, the

1.-v-v W. W. Bustard, ••( the Euclid Avenue BaptistChurch, '" join him on the golf links to-morrow.

•\u25a0}>,\u25a0 v,,!f. to I"- ::t Forest lliilat ft u'ciock." *Ir.RockefeUei cautiowHl Mr. Bustard after the \u25a0ermon

t..-.ia;,. -Aii.lbring a bag of golf sticks, too.'

•How about .-; !.-rmi.s racket?" asked the pastor."No, n<>. sol \u25a0\u25a0' PVirest Hill," responded Mr.

Rockefeller. "Tennis is too strenuous \u25a0 game."On his links here Mr Rockefeller follows his

t-h.its awheel, :i boy pushing the vehicle. That re-

i• \u25a0.•. • s c.'f of its most strenuoua feature.

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER BARS TENNIS.

Skipper Indignant at Stamford Folk—Says

He Meant to Respect the Fourth.my Telrpraj.h tr. The Tribune.]

Stamford. Conn.. July 4.— Because he Hew a Brit-Ish flag on the mainmast of his vessel here to-day,Captain C. B. Merriam. of the British schoonerKing Josiah. aroused the ire of some patrioticAmerican*,* who complained to the police. ChiefBrennan went down to the canal, and as the resultof a talk with Captain Merriam the latter hauleddown the British ensign. ,

•\u25a0it is ridiculous,*' he said, "to find fault with thedisplay of my Bag;. 1 ran it up us a mark ofrespect to the United State?. l have done the sametilingman; times In Boston, New York and otherAmerican ports, and no complaint was made. Infact, it would i •\u25a0 disrespectful to the United StatesIfIdid not run up my nag on this holiday.

\u25a0\u25a0if Ihappened to be In \u25a0 foreign port, say m

Spain or Italy, and did not display my British Banon a holiday, the captain of the port would orderme to do bo. Iwas trying to do the respectful

tiling, that was all."Captain Uerriam la \u25a0 Nova Scotia n and the

schooner Is a two-master, owned by Josiah Balejr,or Nova Scotia.

MADE TO HAUL DOWIT BRITISH FLAG.

New York Celestial Raising $10,000 for BostonCountrymen.

[By Tel«-Krai.h to Tfc* Tnbunn |

Boston, July 4.—Ling K<<\ of a New York City

Chinese society. Js raising an X.lUttoi CO.OOO to

aid, if possible, the five Chinamen *ent«Mice<i t"

death yesterday for murders committed in the

wholesale "shooting up" in Boston's Chinatown

two years \u25a0go. It was reported that an appeal

would be made to th- Chlneso court at Peking. This

is not true, however."We shall do what we can for th« men," sai<l

LJng Kee. "Juft what steps can be taken we donot know ><t. It would be useless to appeal toChina."

FUND TO SAVE CHINESE

-Just' IOal-

\in ai'

The X- -v York poll it was reported, hnv

reason to fear an outhreak among the tongs in

Chinatown as b result <>f the .ie«tli penalty

meted nut to fivemembers <.f the Hip Bin* Toi

by .T>tc- Brown, in Boston, for "shooting '•!'"Boston's Chinatown on August 2. It*>7. and kill-ing four members of the Ong Loong Tone. It

was said that Mm Sing. Horn Woon, Leone

<;<>ng. .1,-. Guey and Warry Charles, the Chineseinterpreter, who will go

# to the electric chair in

Boston next October, will have the satisfactionof having some of their enemies in this city g:>

to the grave before they «re. exerted.After Chief Inspector S'hmlttb.-rK.r left

Chinatown last night Inspector Daly and Cap-

tain Galvln stood at Pell street and the Bowery

fur several hours. It looked as though everyfourth man Hi the crowd might be a plaincl^theJdetective, and uniformed policemen \u25a0\u25a0 .re numer-ous.

w-t- in tho Chinese section last night underspecial orders.

K. I).Kr.iXS CXBER KXIFK.V- LXX...N° -'-\u25a0*" To-da.v. fair and cool.

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HJL TAFT AT BEVEKLY

WAMMLY GREETED AT

SUMMER HOME.

London, July General Botha is on his wayto England, and it Is expected that he willopennegotiations for the acquisition of Rhodcsfanterritory south of the Zambesi. It is under-stood that the Chartered South Africa CompanyIs willingto sell this territory and retain North-ern Rhodesia for future development. It is notbelieved, however, that Genera] Botha willofferanything like $100,000,000.

Report That Botha WillOffer $100,-000,000 for territory.

• 'ape Town, Cape Colony. July 4.—lt Is report-ed from Bulawayo, Rhodesia, that General LouisBotha, Premier of Transvaal, at the requestof the South African National Convention, willoffer the Chartered South Africa Company$100,000,000 for the purchase of Rhodesia by

United South Africa.

MOVE TO BUY RHODESIA.

British and United States Vessels to

Give AllAid Possible.Washington. July 4.

—Information received it

the State Department to-day through the Brit-ish Embassy here says that the commander ofthe British ship Merlin has telegraphed theForeign Office at London from Sandakan. NorthBorneo, K. 1., that his vessel is proceeding along

the east ;coast of that territory to render allpossible aid in the matter ofan American citizenwho was raptured by pirates.

The British vessel is working in co-operation

with an American ship and willreport if furtheraction becomes necessary

PIRATES GET AMERICAS.

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