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I f - . . ' ' - V - > • • - ' . > » 1 . . - . v , - . ' - • * M 'HKNBY rLAINDEALEH. WHENBT, OX. EMPRESS OF IRELAND. SUNK IN COLLISION V> •"i it ' f' H ** 4 h* i! •• »v\ jf".. ' ] %$. ? ,5* ~ I «&.-,* -v;-: I ^iKu; '«<• i "V'^ OF COURSE HE GOT |M - *> A •> ' ^ v*4 ** .< * y ;. ;:2 5,-^tV tt'si" :• •V .-i^j •?;•••'--^ J. ->V h &?£& VJpjsr,- s&v f m PERISHED ON BIG OCEAN LINER; 418_ARE SAVED impress of Ireland Sunk in Col­ lision in the St. Lawrence River. ?§;• 20 WOMEN ARE SAVED 'i • # . \ Craft Goes Through Center of Vessel and Rips It Open From Midships •Lfci 'A to Stern--Men, Women and -•:.* . Children Struggle for Life - . J' l* t * While Waiting to Bs ^ " If Quebec, May 30.--A train with 381 Survivors of the lost Canadian Pacific p ': •;• '< .y .steamship Empress of Ireland arrived %" 'k.. 'r' tiere from Rimouski shortly before*: §-r' ^ ..Sight o'clock last Thursday night. &:'>V *V*' • Thirty-seven wounded were left at jfcimouskt. These are all that live of the 1,387 i'4., ^ho sailed from here Thursday after- £*,, •; soon bound for Liverpool on the queen i§C v ^ ^*e88e' °' a famous fleet. The ship S ^ failed out of a sunlit harbor into "the $ > fog off Father Point, where the rip- pr ' ' * ...Jping prow of the collier Storstad I* }#truc^ the death blow in the dark. ^ >??', 1 The lost number 969. *" "fl 206 of Crevy Are 8aved. Of the living 206 are members of e crew. Of the living only 20 are women; IP- ' , j|wo are children. | ' **. ,*• i Thus the story ot the moat terrible H - i. . disaster in the history of Canadian Navigation is written more grimly, " ^nore vividly in hard figures than it 'AjT;1 »w|\j *ould ever be in words. 'f; How the hundreds of strong men 'l.-'. mt the crew were saved while the hun- ;•-: ijlreds of weak women and children iy *" toerished only the Imagination can ' • t,r -^fathom now. ^ • Not even the survivors can fully picture the 19-minute death throe of £t'*v • the riven ship--the passengers wak- !V ; •' «ned in the dead of night either to be flit' #r««hed by the invading prow of the : Btorstad, drowned in the rush of wa- p® ' ters or to drag themselves to the list- J '<•- 'ng deck» where panic reigned, where f 4* |fr " fh€ and the dead, picked up but a few of those who were taken to the hospital at Rimouski. It was the government mail steam­ er Evelyn and the pilot boat Eureka, which had to run all the way from Fa­ ther Point, that did the big work of rescue. A strict investigation is to be Imme­ diately begun. "There was no time." That is the phrase used by every survivor in trying to tell something of what happened. "There was no time to rouse the people; no time to cry: 'Women and children first.'" Captain Kendall, one of the most able and trusted skippers of the line --a man who had captured Doctor Crippen, the murderer, and had served for many yearn without a mishap at sea--stood on the bridge during those 19 minutes Qathered piecemeal from survivors the horrors of this wreck grows with the telling. The doomed ones had little time even to pray. They were engulfed by the ourushlng waters that swallowed the big ship. The wireless operators on the Em­ press. sticking to their posts to the last, had time only to send a few "S. O. S." calls for help when the rising waters silenced their instruments That silence told the rescuers miles away more potently than a bugle that dot#m had overtaken the ship. Only six hours before this fateful collision the passengers sang as a good-night hymn "God Be With You Tel". Wo Meet Again," played by the Salvation Army band on board. 8urvivors Tell of Fog. It was foggy, according to survivors, when the Empress of Ireland, a steel- hulled, steel-buikheaded ship of more than eight thousand tons left Quebec at 4:30 Thursday afternoon in com­ mand of H. G. Kendall of thes Royal Naval Reserve, one of the most skilled of transatlantic navigators. Forest fires also obscured the at* mospbere and the big ship, in charge of a |/ilot, proceeded slowly on her way to sea. At midnight the pilot left near Father Point, shouting a merry "bon voyage" as he went down a lad­ der to his waiting boat. The darkness at this tipe was in­ tense and the ship under the slowest speed possible with steerageway held her course. Her decks were deserted. The passengers had all sought their berths with no thought of impending death.' Ai~ Out of the darkness, on the port side, soon after 2:30 in the morning, there loomed the little Norwegian col m fehrieks of terror and of pain made an : '^^nothaH the sise of the Bmpress. out fated to be her destroyer. Not until the collier was almost abeam of the big liner was the danger known on either ship. The fog had blotted out the "steaming" lights as well as the port and starboard lights of both ships. Quick orders trumpeted on both vessels were heard. But they came ail too late. The steel-pointed prow of the Stors­ tad struck the liner amidships and then forged aft, ripping and tearing its way through the Empress of Ire­ land. Clear to the stern of the Empress of Ireland was this great steel shaving cat from her side, from the top of the hull to far below the water line. Into that rent the water poured with the force of a Niagara. The bow of the Storstad smashed its way through berths on that side of the ship, killing passengers sleep- Jf-;! Inferno under the shrouding mist. The :j||'r"f>attle that surged about the life- Jboats that had not been shattered in • % " the crash, the cruel triumph of the : Strong over the weak--let the hard fig- tares tell it; They alone can. One of the matters on which the rescued agree is that Captain Ander­ son of the Storstad backed his vessel cut of the hole she had dug into the lEmpross' side, nursing her own bent |)row despite the shouted pleas of Captain Kendall that he hold fast to the wreck. Water Rushes In. > As the collier backed away the wa­ ter rush listed the Empress so that all her lifeboats on the portside were Useless. i The Storstad, moreover, having no mortal damage and lying, in a river that was ruffled only by the strewn forms of the drowning, the wounded STORY OF DISASTER AS TOLD BY WIRELESS OPERATOR | Father Point, Que., May 30.--The ^Empress of Ireland sank in ten min- txtes after the collision and after she had called by wireless: "Save the ship." Mr. White, the Marconi oper­ ator here, instantly notified all the government steamers in view and the 5 Eureka, Captain Belanger, waB the first to get away. She must have reached the Bcene within 45 minutes tq assistance. When daylight broke I saw on the gray horizon with the aid of a telescope a collier, the two government steamers and nine life­ boats all around the same spot. Shortly after the Eureka came by with 32 survivors and several bodies, later the Lady Evelyn with Captain Kendall and Moore, and still later the Storstad with a few more and some after the disaster. The Lady Evelyn^ bodies. All were lined at the Rimouski had to get up steam and also rushed wharf, to which pl&c* the scene has At SEA FOR PAST 47 YEARS DISASTROUS LOSSES OF LIFE Boat. Cause. '* • --50 ships, hurricane... " 1873 Atlantic, foundered.., S:i^-1875--Schiller, collision .... • 4 ^ 1878--Alice, collision s * :.1883--Cimbrias, collision ... ^ :^?(1890--Shanghi, burned >% ; 51891--Utorsia, collision .. 18#2--Nancho,w, founder#! . ||tJ^:a*M'--Utopia. collision ^ • 1S93^-Victoria, collision ... -Elbe, collision Ldss .1,000 . <685 . $12 too . 889 . «00 t63 . *fc09 . $63 » 860 . 830 - 8wims to 8afety and Dies. .•„* Quebec, May 29--To pluckily leap from the deck of thd sinking liner Em­ press of Ireland and swim around for nearly an hour in the St. Lawrence -only to fall dead from exhaustion on the deck of the pilot boat Eureka, which rescued her, was the fate of an unidentified woman. She bad on little clothing and has not been identified. 18&8--Bourgogne, collision (U 1904--Norge, foundered . 760 1904--General Slocum, fire.959 1905--Mikasa, explosion 699 1905--Hilda, sunk . . . . . . . . . . 121 1906--Valencia, foundered 119 1906--Sirio, foundered .......... 226 1906--Cruiser Aquidaban, sunk.. 212 1907--Larchmont, lost 186 1907--Hongkong, rock 130 1907--Berlin, wrecked 125 1907--Lakota, on • .yiiknowij 1907--Berlin, run on pier 1908t--Matsu Maru, collision.... 1908--Matsu Shima, foundered.. 1908--Ying King, foundered. .%i 1908--Taish, sunk 1911--Liberte, explosion . 1911--Kroombuna, wrecked .... 1912--Titanic, iceberg , 1913--Volturno, burned ... 1914--Monroe, collision 1914--Newfoundland, foundered.. 1914--Oklahoma, foundered 1914--Halifax, foundered . 160 300 200 ;« 300 & 160 .. 233 .. 150 ..1,335 .. 134 .. 40 64 2? ing In their bertha and grinding bodies to pieces. Reaching the itm of the big liner, the Storstad staggered off in the dark­ ness, her bow crumpled by the impact. Her commander was ready a few min­ utes later, when he found his ship would float, to aid the crippled and Sinking Empress, but ha was too late to save the majority of those' on board. The Empress of Ireland recoiled al­ most on her starboard beam ends from the blow of the collier and passengers were flung from their berths against the walls of their staterooms. Many were stunned and before they had time to recover were carried to the bottom with the Bhip. The vast torrents pouring into the great gash on the port side, aft, filled the corridors and flooded every state­ room abaft the midship section inside of four minutes. There was never a chance for the helpless ones in the after cabins and staterooms of the liner. With her port side laid open for half its length from the midship section to the stern, a sieve had more chance to float than the Empress of - Ireland, and the trapped passengers in that section were doomed from the moment the Storstad struck. Reeling from the blow the ship be­ gan to settle, almost immediately as the water rushed Into the big rent. From the forward cabins, however, men and women in night attire stum­ bled along the corridors and up the; companionway to the promenade dec --the deck below the one on whicl the boats rested. Swarm to Deck. Up they swarmed on deck in their night clothing, to find th^ ship heeling away to port and the deck slanting at a degree that made it almost impos­ sible to stand even clinging to rail­ ings. Men and women, shrieking, praying, crying for aid that was fated to arrive too late, fell over one another in that last struggle for life on board the doomed Empress of Ireland. Frenzied mothers leaped overboard with their babies in their annB. Oth*- ers kne'i on deck and tried to pray in the few moments left to them. Some were flung overboard by the heeling of the sinking ship and some broke their legs or arms in trying to reach the lifeboats. Above the din of the struggle on the great premenade deck could be heard Captain Kendall shouting com­ mands for the launching of the life­ boats, Several were launched in the 19 minutes that the ship floated. There was no time to observe the rule "Women first" in this disaster, for those nearest the boats scrambled to places In them. But even as they were _ being launched, while the wireless still was calling "S. O. S." there came a terrific explosion that almost rent the ship in twain. Places 'Blame on Collier. Rimouski, Que., June 1.--Testifying before a coroner's Jury on Saturday, Captain Kendall of the Empress of Ireland placed the blame for the dis­ aster on Captain Andersen of the col­ lier Storstad. The testimony of the Empress' commander showed that he had done everything possible to avoid a collision and to save lives after the crash came. His ship had been stopped, and he gave the requisite sig­ nals when the Storstad was still two miles away, but the collier had kept on through the fog, which settled down soon after the two vessels sight­ ed each other, and had rammed the Empress of Ireland while the latter was virtually motionless. , Then, despite his plea to the master of the collier that he run his engines full speed ahead to keep the hole In the liner's side plugged with the Stor- stad's bow, said' Captain Kendall, the collier backed away, the water rushed in, and the Empress sank. Denied by Andersen. Quebec, June 1.--Capt. Thomas An- deroen of the collier Storstad denies that he was to blame for the disaster the Empress of Ireland, and contra­ dicts Captain Kendall's statements. He and his officers say the Storstad did not back away after the collision. On the contrary, it steamed ahead in an effort to keep its bow in the hole it had dug Into the side of the Em­ press. The Empress, however, according to the Storstad's officers, headed away and bent the Storstad's bow over at an acute angle to port. After that the Empress was hidden from the view of the Storstad, and. despite the fact that the Storstad kept its whistle blowing, It could not locate the Em­ press until the cries of some of the victims in the water were heard. Captain Andersen absolutely denied that he moved a mile or so away from the Empress after his vessel struck the liner. According to the report made hy Captain Andersen to the owners, Ink- mediately the collision occurred, he heard Captain Kendall shout, calling on him not to pull away. "I won't," shouted the Storstad's captain as loud as he could. After that thfr Empress disappeared ,from the Storstad's view. now been shifted. About three hun* dred and thirty-seven were saved in all. J. M'WILLIAMS, Operator. Passengers Saved press of Ireland Relate Thrill- fig Stories of Rescue Work;" DEATH CAUSED BY BLAST Uttle Girt, One of Two Children to Escape, Says She Helped Hep- •cii V--Ship's SufyoOii TdiSs Ex­ perience--Crew Is Praised. ' ____ Quebec.--Thrilling tales of heroism, stories of futile fights for life, narra­ tives that tell of the horrors of that fateful few moments after the Em- presB of Ireland tfas rammed by the Storstad poured from thd lips of the rescued when the special train bearing them reached this city. There was little voiced criticism for the terrible loss of life; rather those who "had been snatched from the jaws cf death seemed anxious to tell of men who had proven themselves heroes in the supreme moments, of their liveB. Special praise was given to the work of Dr. James F. Grant of Victoria) B. C„ ship surgeon on the Empress. To his* coolness was credited the saving of a large number of persons taken out of the water who probably would have perished had they not received prompt medical attention. - 8urgeon's Own Narrow Escape, V A graphic description of the sc&ie on the Empress of Ireland after the collision was given by Doctor Grant "I was in my cabin," said the ship's surgeon, "and knew nothing of the ac­ cident until the boat listed so that I tumbled out of my berth and then rolled under it. I tried to turn on the light, but there was no power. 1 reached the bolted door, but the list was so strong that it took me consid­ erable time to open it. "When finally I got out and reached the passageway it was so steep, due to the way the ship was canted, that my efforts to climb were rendered impos­ sible by the carpet which I was cling­ ing to breaking away. "I then scrambled up and managed to get my head through a porthole, but I was unable to get my shoulders through. At that time the ship was lying almost flat In the water on Its starboard side. 'A passenger finally managed to pull me through the porthole. Sank With One Hundred Others. "About a hundred passengers were gathered on the side of the ship at the time, but a moment after I joined them the vessel took another list and plunged to the bottom. "I next found myself in the water and swam toward the lights of the steamer Storstad, and when nearly ex­ hausted from the struggle and the ex­ posure I was picked up by a lifeboat. "This boat went on to the scene of the disaster and picked up a load of survivors from the water and then took them on board the Storstad. There we were wrapped in blankets and I was provided with clothes. "When able I did what I could to help the survivors. Some of them, however, were in such exhausted con­ dition that they died." Child Says She Saved Herself. Only two children are known to have been saved from the wreck. A wonderful rescue was one of these-- little eight-year-old Grade Hanagan, daughter of the leader of the Salvation Army band. Her father and mother were both drowned. Grade was not told of her loss and believed at night that her father and mother would come to Quebec on the next boat. When asked how she was saved Grade replied: "Oh, I saved myself." The child was entirely unconcerned, apparently not realizing what she had been through. No lifeboat was near when she was thrown from the Em­ press. She sank at o^ce, but rose to the surface in a moment, saw a piece of floating wood near her and seized it Later she was pulled into a lifeboat. She, had been benumbed to the point of exhaustion by the cold water, but kindly hands worked skilfully to re­ vive her and she soon was entirely re­ stored. Saves Self and Wife, Major Attwell of Toronto uttf his wife were among the saved, "I got a life belt for my wife," Said Major Attwell, "and we both jumped into the water together when we saw that the veBsel was doomed to go down. We both sank three times, be­ ing carried under by the suction of the foundering vessel. When we came up the third tiuie I saw a lifeboat near, and to it I swam, pulling my wife after me. Then those in the boat pulled us In and we were saved. "The Impact was juSt sufficient to waken us. rJIt sounded as if our boat had struck a rock. It was very Blight, r-r* *ad I wtt turprfsstf ivMft came to realise the Jnrial co: quencss of the crash. we iot -on deck there were vefcjr few persons to be seen. In fad, the people on the deck were so few that they were hard* ly noticeable. "The reason for this Is that when the boat had liBted to one side the stairs from the sleeping apartments up to the boat decks were very dlfll .cult, almost impossible to mount. 1 did not see the hole in the side of our fehlp as I rushed for the stairs, but 1 did see the water entering in such volume that it threatened to drown us before we could mount the stairs. Salvation Army Man'* Story, A. Mclntyre was in the second cabin with most of the other Salvation Army passengers. He tolu a vlviu stury ui his own experiences and of what he saw as he swam to safety. "Virtually every leading officer of the Salvation Army in Canada Is gone," he said. "Commissioner Rees and his wife and the children sank and only three of this family survive. Out of our Salvation party of 150 on board probaby less than twenty, were res­ cued. "I was on the upper deck and there* fore had a better chancy to get to safety than those in the lower berths. The Water came in through the port­ holes of the lower decks before the passengers there realized their danger or that there was danger at all. "I was aroused from my sleep by the impact and awoke the others in my cabin. I could then hear plainly the rush of water, and I felt sure that something serious had happened. I also heard the machinery 'of the boat running. It did not Btop immediately after the crash, but continued until the explosion occurred. Gave Woman His Lifs Belt. "I grabbed a life preserver and went out to the deck. On deck there were no life belts and quite a number of people were standing about apparently, unable to determine what to do. I gave my belt to Mrs. Foord, one of our party. I tied the belt on her myself. "My three comrades went to the bot* torn. I swam in the direction of the vessel that ran us down and was pulled into a lifeboat of the collier. I saw the collier standing not far from where the Empfess foundered. It was all lighted up. "When I was taken on board I saw many men rescued, practically un­ clothed. I was almost In a state of nakedness myself, and the reet of those on board were shivering and in a bad state from the! icy water of the river and the chilly morning air. Soon, however, we were attended to by those on board the collier and made warm and comfortable. Heard Boilers Blow Up. "As I swam through the Icy waters I heard the- dull explosion caused by the water reaching the engines of the sinking ship. It was followed by a burst of steam that spread to all parts of the Vessel. Then came a quick listing of the liner and she turned over. It looked to me as if she turned turtle. "I don't think there were many first* class passengers saved. I saw only one of the first-class boats lowered. "The weather was virtually calm and there was plenty of light on the water when I came on deck. I saw no fog. "I thought at first we had hit a rock. Some officers of the vessel came along and said that the snip would not go any further, for bottom ha4 been struck. Praise Liner's Crew. "THe behavior of the crew was, on the whole, good, though It must be said that the men hardly had time to collect themselves or to effect rescues in any systematic way. "The boat was really sinking before the crew or anybody else realised It or could do anything. "Those of the crew who got to the deck tried to launch a boat on the up­ turned side of the vessel, but this was impossible, because the list was such that the boat could not be put Into, the water and landed on the side of the vessel. "The decks were almost perpendicu­ lar, so that many passengers in order to escape had to slide down from the higher side to the lower or water side." Another Tells of Explosion. A story that there was a tremendous explosion on the Empress of Ireland after it was hit by the Storstad was told by Philip Lawler, a steerage pas­ senger from Brantford, Ont. He was on the way to England with his wife and son Herbert, aged fifteen. When the collision came the Bm­ press listed under the severe shock and water rushed into the steerage quarters. A few seconds later there came an explosion that shook the ves­ sel. This probably was when the wa­ ter reached the hollers, Mr. Lawler said. People were simply shot out of the ship into the sea by the explosion," Mr. Lawler added. "I was pushed over­ board with my wife and boy. The boy could swim, so I tried to take care of my wife, but somehow she slipped from my grasp and sank." CAPTAIN OF EMPRESS OF IRELAND CAPTURED CRIPPEN . v» Commander of Empress of Ireland De­ tected Disguise of Murderer. New York, May 30.--Capt. H. G. Kendall, commander of the Empress of Ireland, brought about the capture of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, American dentist, who was accused of murder­ ing his wife. Belle Elmore Crippen, in London. Doctor Crippen, with his stenogra- ITALY TELLS OF SYMPATHY King, Government-* and Pope Express . Condolences for Disaster. Rome, May 30.--King Victor Em­ manuel and the Italian government have sent expressions of sympathy to the government at London in the dis­ aster which has overtaken the Eip> jrese of Ireland. The pope and Cardi nal Merry del Val, papal secretary of state, have expressed their condo­ lences through the apostolic delegate ip Canada. pher, Ethel Clara Leneve, took j as- sage July 22, 1910, on the steamsnig Montrose of the Antwerp service^ which Captain Kendall commanded a{ the time. Five days later police offl* clals at Quebec received a wireless message from Captain Kendall whioh said that Doctor Crippen and Miss Leneve were aboard. They had taken passage as "Rev. John Robinson a ad 'John Robinson, Jr." Miss Leneve w»s disguised as a boy. • y ; ; *• •No American Delegates. Seattle, May 30.--There were no United States delegates to the Salva­ tion army world's convention on the Empress of Ireland. The ten Oregon and Washington, 24 California and IS Colorado, Montana and Utah delegates will sail from New York for London on the steamship Olympic tomorrow,, according to Salvation army offisei* here. Unless you bear with n bstrar ywr -ft* ,, , Man Pulled Off Something 'P.fflatljrNew, and His ftewfcr#;". ' Was-Adequate. "Please, Mister Jones,-can 1 get off Tuesday?" said the young male em­ ploye, only more rapidly. "WTiich of your relatives Is -tfeadf* inquired the boss. "Not aay, sir," replied the lad with a politeness which exists only in Ac­ tion. "Which of your teeth are too going to have pulled?" -- "Not any, sir," replied the lad, etc; "Which of your sisters Is getting married?" "Not any, sir," etc. "The fact is," continued the youth, "I would like to go to the ball game, and, my desire being genuine, I would not hazard any chances by trying to pull a rotten old excuse on a foxy, busi­ ness man. Thank you, sir." 0M ' Terrible to Contemplate. A distinguished member of the Eng­ lish bar was once sojourning at a farm in the west of Scotland. One morn­ ing the farmer asked him to go out and have a shot or two at the rab­ bits, %hich were very plentiful. The learned lawyer went, and he blazed away for a whole afternoon, but with­ out singeing the hair of a rabbit. The farmer and, the would-be sportsman returned home, the former silent and disappointed, -i , "Mr. S--he exclaimed, clapping his companion on the back, "supposin' ane o' the rabbits had turned on ye, what wud ye hae dune?1' ^ LADIES CAN WEAR SHODR '?• One size smaller aft«r using Allen's Foot-Hase, the Antisoptic powder to be shaken Into the shoes. It nakoe tight or new shoes feel easy. 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I cannot praise your medicine too highly,"--Mrs„ ̂ > r' Augustus Lyon, Terre Hill, Pa. _ j It Is true that nature Mid a womlm's-'.' work has produced the grandest remedy,J j for woman's ills that the world hattfV/Q'A, ever known. From the roots and ^, lV; herbs of the field, Lydia E. Pinkham,- ^ forty years ago, gave to womankind^^^^ a remedy for their peculiar ilis which^1*? <| has proved more efficacious than any^'.^':;;l# o t h e r c o m b i n a t i o n o f d r u g s e v e r c o m - i m ­ pounded, and today Lydia E. 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Some time ago Walter Shaw, known > one of Gardiner's most" persistent wags, wrote a letter to the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It was deplorable, he said, the way the government men in charge of the Yelloxystone park treated the wild animals. Just to cite one in­ stance, he said, these scoundrels did not give the poor bears anything to eat during the entire winter, when the whole park is blanketed with snow. The society immediately started an investigation, beginning at the office of the secretary of the interior. Such cruelty must be stopped. It pressed its investigation until some friendly nat­ uralist told them that bears hibernate all wiftter. • > t \ - ; , 1 1 EarMeat Arc'Light*: A recent historical exhibit of arc lamps and electricity in Cleveland, O., has brought out a bit of interesting history in connection with the pioneer arc lamp system built by C. P. Brush. The first demonstration of these lamps was made in the public square of Cleveland during the summer of 1876, and afterward in the fall of the same year the apparatus was set up at the centennial exposition at Philadelphia. The exhibit at Cleveland was exten­ sively advertised in the newspapers, and on the evening the demonstration took plape thousands of people assem­ bled, most of whom carried pieces , of smoked or colored glass to protect their eyes from the arc lamp's rays, which were expected to rival those of tfe# sua*--Electrical Worl4. v •!' Mistaken Raldf "They fooled some cops the other evening at a tango dance contest." 'How did'they fool 'em?" "Told 'em they had better raid the hall as a lot- of dips were get­ ting In their work." ^ # v > ' ' i ? j To Be Expected. * "How is you new polish business progressing?" "It-is quite a shining success." ' HER MOTHER-IN-LAW Proved a Wise, Good Friend. 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