Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912 Page: 16 of 85
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CAUSEWAY EDITION
RATTTESTOU TRT1UJM;
SECTION TWO.
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25th and
26th Sts.
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Fhe Fair
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Prop.
While in Galveston Call
at The Fair
Complete line of Millinery, Ladies’ Ready-to-
Wears, Skirts, Underwear, Gent’s Clothing,
Gent’s Furnishing.
Our Shoe Department is as large and
complete as is to be found in the city.
The Difference in Our Store
Is Our Prices Are Less
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Pianolas
WEBER
Pianolas
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Pianolas
STEYVESANT
Pianolas
TECH NO L AS
A1JTOP1ANOS
01 Word s Best Pianas
A Full Line at All Times in Stock. Weber, Ivers and Pond,
Mehlin and Sons, Ludwig, Kimball, Kohler & Campbell and
Many Others.
We have a line that is unexcelled. Our Warerooms are mod-
ern. Our terms within the reach of all. Our pi ices are ab-
> soluiely right. We keep our promises.
In fact, you will do well to see us before purchasing.
Buying in immense quantities for our twelve stores in the Lone Star
State enables us to get inside figures on our contracts and we can
save our customers quite a sum.
Leyhe Piano Company
GHAS. G. SNIDER, Manager
2214 Posteffiee Street
RXH M AFRAID
TO LEAVE WILLS
Said That Some Believe Execut-
ing Document Equal to
Signing Death Warrant.
EN3LISH CLAIM
IS PROVEN FALSE
Music of“Star SpangiedBanner”
Was Not Written in .
Great Britain.
From the estate of the late John Ar-
buckle and Edwin Hawley the state of
New Torn should receive a very large
amount of Inheritance tax, says a dis-
l>aich to the Philadelphia Public Led-
ger. Botli of these estates are to be
distributed, not to direct heirs, as there
was none, but to heirs who are next of
kin. Prom the estate of the late Hugn
J. Grant, who was twice mayor of New
York, the state will receive a much
smaller sum, although that will be in
part due to the fact that the Grant
estate is only about one-h!alf of the
estimated value of the estates of Mr.
Arbuckle and Mr. Hawley. The in-
ventory of the Grant estate has been
made public. Its value is fixed at $3,-
250,000. Ex-Mayor Grant's estate, how-
ever, goes in bulk to his wife, as its
trustees for the children, although she
receives a legacy aggregating $800,000.
The income from the estate is estimat-
ed to be about $400,000 a year. Much
the greater part of this will doubtless
be added to the principal, so that at
the time the trust ends the three Grant
children will, in case Mrs. Grant lives
to scriptural age, receive each not far
from $5,000,000.
It has sometimes been spoken of as
an unusual thing for men of the busi-
ness capacity of John Arbuckle or Ed-
win Hawley to neglect the making of a
will. In both of these cases this ne-
glect has been attributed to a super-
stitious vein which ran through the na-
tures of both men. There have been
presumably authentic reports narrating
in some detail the control of Mr. Ar-
buckle by the premonition that in case
he made a will he would only live a
few months. So, also, the friends of Mr.
Hawley have had reason to suspect that
he procrastinated when the expediency
of making a will was.brought to his
attention because he, too, feared that
with the executing of the instrument
he would be practically sighing his
death warrant, if these reports be ac-
curate they do not constitute Mr.
Hawley or Mr. Arbuckle an exclusive
class among those who possess great
fortunes. A good many men who pos-
ses wealth sire known to have dreaded
the drawing up of wills, bamuel J.
Tilden put that off as long as possi-
ble, and in fact delayed the drafting
and executing of a will so greatly
that he made a fatal legal mistake
when he did draft his will. It is also
a fact that now and then a man of
large wealth believes that it is the
better part to leave his estate for dis-
tribution according to the law.* One
of the reasons is the certainty that if
a man dies intestate anU| the state as-
sumes the administration and distribu-
tion of the estate there; can be no con-
tests. Years ago the late John Thomp-
son was understood, to have given away
practically all of his property before
his death, reserving however, a power
of attorney over the administration of
it.
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V\flLL WE SOON
SEE BY WIRE?
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reason it Is mucsi mere easi y digested than lard cr ccmponnd. IT S3
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S.GNAL SYSTEM
FOR STREET USE
New Method for Handling Street
Traffic is Being Tried
In Paris.
After hfvlng experimented with nu*
merous systems for regulating traffic,
says the European edition of the New
York Heraid, Paris is now putting to
the test a new and original apparatus
for maintaining order and discipline
among the chaos of automobiles, car-
riages, omnibuses and vehicles of all
descriptions which encumber the
streets of the city. It is a signaling
apparatus similar to that used on rail-
ways to indicate “line clear’ ’and ’’line
blocked,” only in this case the loco-
motive drivers are replaced by chauf-
feurs and cabmen, and the signals
mean "Proceed,” and “Stop.” Red, of
course, is the danger, or stop, signal,
as on the railways, and white allows
vehicles to drive on.
Various systems of regulating traf-
fic have been tried in Paris, copied
from Ndiw York and London, and the
policeman’s baton is the present meth-
od employed in the French capital of
signaling instructions to drivers. Re-
cently the Eno system of diverting the
traffic in such a manner as to keep it
continually moving was tested and has
been adopted in certain squares of the
city, where it Is essential to prevent
vehicles attempting to cross In all di-
rections.
The new signaling apparatus, which
Is really a kiosk surmounted by mov-
able red and white disks and fitted
with a warning bell, has been placed
in position at the junction of the Ruo
du Faubourg Montmartre, the Boule-
vard Montmartre, the Boulevard Pois-
sonniere. }t Is the invention of Dr.
Goupil, and has been constructed at
tlie inventor’s expense for the purpose
of experiment. One of the chief ad-
vantages of the signal kiosk lies in
the fact that it reduces the number of
policemen required to regulate the
traffic. Thus, in flia case in point, one
policeman seated in the glass-window-
ed kiosk can operate the signals,
which do the work for which four po-
licemen were formerly required. If-
kiosks were ereceted at the twenty-
two crossings in Paris where police-
men are on duty regulating the traffic
they would free ninety-eight police-
men for other work.
The inauguration of the signal
kiosk yesterday afternoon excited con-,
siderable curiosity and a large crowd
watched its operation all the after-
noon. Every time the signals change
a bill rings to call the attention of
drivers to the fact. At one moment
the red disks barred the Rue du Fau-
bourg Montmartre, while the white
disks showed the road along the bou-
| levards open. A minute later the sig-
| nals changed and traffic along the
j boulevards was stopped and that pro-
I ceeding at right angles across it al-
lowed to resume. A number of drivers
—many through ignorance and a few
perhaps intentionally—scorned the sig-
nals and tried to drive on, but they
were quickly pulled up by policemen
v ho explained to them the working
of the kiosk.
The kiosk will be tested for several
days before the authorities come to
any decision regarding Its efficacy.
Mrs. Wm. A. Allen, Chacon, New
Mexico, had so severe a cough that it
nearly choked l’»r to death. Mr Allen
s'vs: ”AVe tried manv things without
helving her when, by good luck I got a
bottle of Folev’s TTnnev and Tar Com-
pound Tt he.Iped her at once and fhnal-
Iv cured h?r. It is the best med'-'oe
we ever used.’ For sale by all drug-
gists.”
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Laugh, if you will, at the apparent
folly of seeing' by wire, but in the
midst of your mirth please do not for-
get that our grandfathers laughed just
as heartily when there was rumor of
talking over wires. And, if any one
had intimated that future genrations
would even • talk without the aid of
wires, over thousands of miles of
ocean, grandad would have passed
away with a stroke of appoplexy su-
perinduced by congested laughter.
When It is remember that the voice
can be reproduced by mechanical
means, inasmuch as it is but a series
of vibrations in the air; the vision is
but another kind of vibration in the
ether, it looks as though seeing over
wires would be quite as simple as talk7
ing over the telephone. The time may
come, and not so very far away either,
when we will pick up the telephone and
not only talk with our friends, hun-
dreds of miles away, but see them quite
distinctly as well.
Electricity travels at nearly the same
speed as light, 186,000 miles a second,
and it is planned to send the light vibra-
tions into electrical vibrations, send
them over the wire, and then change
them back into light vibrations, which
will be visible to the naked eye. Tills
is exactly what occurs in a telephone
In a much simpler way. The sound
waves are changed into electric waves,
these electric waves are flashed over'
a wire and the receiver changes them
back again into sound waves with the
aid of delicate magnate and a metal
disk.
Prof. Rosing, of the Telephone In-
stitute of St. Petersburg, has already
accomplished much in sending rays of
light over a wire with the assistance
of electricity. The Rosing apparatus
is as yet in its infancy, but very email
objects can be seen with it and it is
only reasonable to supose that within
a short time we will be able to see a
person while speaking to him over the
telephone.
The war and navy departments and
congress have been advised that re-
searches recently made in the Britisu
museum show that the English claim
to music of "The Star-Spangled Ban-
ner” is udfounden, says John Henry
Blake in the New York World. This
leaves the identity of the composer a
mystery.
There is no dispute that the words
of the anthem were written by Fran-
cis Scott Key in the early morning aft-
er the night of Sept. 14, 1814, during
the bombardment of Fort McHenry,
Baltimore harbor, the fort being held
by Col. George Armistead, U. S. A.
That "Star-Spangled Banner” Is now
in the National museum at Washing-
ton, loaned by E. Appleton of New
York. Key was a lawyer, a soldier, a
Sunday^ school superintendent and the
authaor of several hymns in present
church use. He also specified the mu-
sic "To Anacreon in Heaven,” but the
British since 1873 have claimed the
composition of that music, thus appro-
priating the most important portion of
the anthem. The Americans have sub-
mitted to this without investigation
for forty years. But researches just
made in the British Museum explode
the British claim.
It begins to look as though the com-
poser was either Irish or French, or
possibly American.
TWO CLAIMS FALSE.
Thus two attempts to rivet the Eng-
lish claim to- the composition of the
music of the American national an-
them are proved to be false, and ever,
member of congress has been mails
from England a history of the case',
with illustrations from original pho-
tographs of the document in dispute.
Affidavit of its truth was made before
the American consul general in Paris.
This “History of the American Na-
tional Anthem,” which is not for sale,
jis in the war and navy department li-
braries in Washington, in the Colum-
bia College Library in New York, in
the Brown Music Library of the Bos-
ton Public Library and in the New
York Public Library. It is also in the
principal libraries of Europe.
The foll.o.wingT'eward announcement
is made:
“A reward of $100 will be paid to
any persons who will find or produce
,a copy of ‘To Anacreon in Heaven’ of
an earlier date than 1770. The word
poem was probably written in Ire-
land.
‘‘Also a reward of another $100 will
be paid to any person who will find
or produce the veritable original music
of this song. The music is probably
older than the word poem, and may be
found separate and distinct from any
words. .This music probably origina-
ted on the continent of Europea.”
There was a lively interchange of
music between France and Ireland
from 1760 to 1790, so that the origin
of music in these respective countries
in those years is doubtful unless abso-
lutely specified at that time. It is
found that A. E. Gretry,. 1741-1813, of
Paris, produced an opera about the
year 1770 or 1780, called “Anacreon,”
in which there are unmistakable por-
tions of the music of the American
national anthem.
RAILROADS ARE
PLACING ORDERS
More Than 60,000 Cars Have
Been Bought Since First
of This Year.
RAILROAD OFFICIAL SUCCUMBS.
Assistant Arloe President New York
Central Dies Suddenly.
By Associated Press.
Rochester, N. Y., May J6.—Barrett
D. Mitchell, aged 65, assistant presi-
dent of the New York Central lines,
died suddenly at the Glen Springs
sanitarium In Watkins last night.
Galveston now has five elevators,
with a combined capacity of 4,00.0,000
bushels of grain.
BURNED IN FOREST FIRE.
Seven Men In Two Lumber Camps
Lose Tbelr Lives.
Bellingham, Washn., May 16.—Seven
By Associated PresB.
men were burned to death and six
square miles of timber and two camps
of the English Logging Company near
Hamilton were destroyed bv fire that
swept Skagit County, Washington, last
night, he property loss, ia addition
t« &&4> timber, was $100,000,
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Car orders placed sfhee January 1
make a total easily in excess of 60,000
cars, and approximately half these or-
ders have been placed in the past
three weeks, says the Iron Trade Rec-
ord. Orders placed in the first three
months of the year fell slightly short
. of 30.000.
The appearance of some large car
orders i in the past ten days, the Harm
man, St. Louis & San Francisco and
Atchison oredrs alone making a total
of over 20,000, cars, suggests that at-
tention be paid to the fact that many
other and smaller orders have been
placed this year,, though until within
the past fortnight the buying bore no
resemblance to the spectacular move-
ment late last year. That movement,
it will be recalled, left the car shops
with a very large amount of business
on books January 1, easily exceed-
ing 75,000 cars. Indeed, there were
more cars booked in a period of a few
shops made during the entire calen-
dar year 1911.
The car shops entered the present
year with a comfortable volume of
business on books, but at the moment
it was- quite uncertain whether many
additional orders would be forthcom-
ing in the near future. The orders
had been taken at very low prices,
and the shops had had some unpleasant
experiences in gathering together large
working forces, at considerable ex-
pense, only to find orders play out
after a short period of heavy opera-
tion. Accordingly, they concluded to
j nurse the business and produce the
cars at the lowest possible cost. This
was an. absolute necessity, indeed, for
the orders had been booked at the
lowest prices on record. Plans were
laid for operating^ at a moderate gait
and making the business last. While
there is a total capacity in the coun-
try to make a thousand cars ,or a
trifle more, per day, the actual aver-
age output during the first four
months of this year has probably not
exceeded 500 cars a day, which would
mean an output during the first four
months of not far from 50,000 cars.
Thus the car shops find themselves
with more business on books than
they had January 1, when they had
feared that they would have less.
BLUM
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COMPANY
Jobbers and Importers of
Hardware Cutlery Tinware
Galvanized Ware
Enameled Ware Brushes
Wooden Ware House Furnish-
ing Goods Stoves
Fire Extinguishers Guns
and Ammunition Fishing Taclile
Iron Pipe Iron Pipe Fittings
Harness Leather Sole Leather
Builders’ Hardware
Farming Implements Iron and
Steel Sheet Iron Rope
Oakum Nails Barb Wire
Field Fencing Prepared Roofing
Bar and Pig Lead
Babbit Metal Rubber and
Leather Belting Pumps
Cement Fire Brick
Fire Clay
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Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912, newspaper, May 16, 1912; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth871897/m1/16/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting San Jacinto Museum of History.