The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3174, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 28, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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ONE DESIGN F,OR LINCOLN MEMORIAL
BADEN-POWELL IN AMERICA
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder
and chief scout of the British Boy
Scouts, who arrived in New York a
few days^ago to visit the Boy Scouts
of America, is one of the British
Zeroes of the Boer war, having earned
'his fame by his brilliant defense of
■ iMafeking.
In fact the history of Baden-Pow-
ell’s. life is packed with incidents of
faring. When only nineteen he en-
tered the army, being appointed a sub-
lieutenant of the 13th Hussars, a crack
I cavalry regiment and being sent to
[India.
From India he was sent to South
jAfrica and participated in the Zulu-
jland operations in 1888. From there
jhe went to Malta for three years and
|in 1896 he was ordered to Mafeking
land from there made many scouting
! expeditions to various parts of the
country.
Among his feats that stand out in
[the course of the defense of Mafek/ng
relief 12’ l900’ when the Boer besiegers, knowing that
storm the town^ garrison,, made their final desperate attempt to
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BREAKS AN AVIATION RECORD
All American records for the carry-
ing of passengers in a heavier than
air machine were smashed the other
day, when George W. Beatty, operat-
ing a biplane, carried three persons
with him in the air above the Nassau
Boulevard Aviation field, New York,
and flew over Belmont Park, Garden
City and Mineola for fiftten minutes.
The wind beat against the sides of
the fragile machine, rocking it dan-
gerously, and the cold was intense,
but Beatty did not come to earth un-
til he was confident he had done more
in one branch of aviation than has
any other man in this country. A
smooth, graceful descent to earth
marked the finish of the trip.
It was said by several men who saw
the flight that Beatty flew with his
three passengers more than sixteen
miles. Leo Stevens, an aviator, placed
the distance, however, at approxi-
mately ten miles, saying no man could
fly with a burden of three passengers
ifurther than that in the time passed by Beatty in the air under the existing
[conditions.
■ ■ ■' After the flight Beatty, when speaking to a reporter, said he had marked
jthe actual time passed in the air as twelve minutes and the distance covered
ias approximately eight miles. He could not be sure of the number of miles,
jhe said, as all his attention had been attracted to guiding the machine.
BISHOP OF ALASKA RETURNS
; Church bazaars have proved a suc-
icess in a land where churches, except
jof the most primitive kind, are un-
I known.
Right Rev. Peter Kimball Rowe,
Bishop of Alaska, who arrived in Chi-
cago recently; received a wireless tele-
lgram while en route telling of the
success of a bazaar held within the
shadow of the artic circle.
; The message read; “Camp Iditarod,
Alaska—Bazaar just finished, Re-
jceipts, $1,782. Temperature, 72 de-
grees below.”
j Bishop Rowe came from Alaska for
the express purpose of making a plea
for the Indians to President Taft. He
spent several days in Washington and
says he is well pleased with the re-
isult of his mission.
For sixteen years he has been
[tramping the snow fields of Alaska,
j ministering to white man and Indian
[alike.
“To preach the gospeUn Alaska one
j must train for the task,” said Bishop Rowe after he had been prevailed uoon
I to relate some of his experiences. “Before I start out on one of my trips to
/visit the missions I go into training around the home camp.
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M OTWITHSTANDING the fact that Potomac park has been practically decided on as the site for the Lincoln
Memorial, Mrs. Mary Henderson, one of Washington’s wealthiest women, has sent Jo congress the design
6y F. V. Murphy and W. B. Olmstead for the memorial as planned for erection on Meridian hill, with arguments
for its erection there instead of on the Mall.
FLIES FORGERY AID
Interesting Legal Battle Over
Will in New York.
Attorneys for Heirs Claim Insects
Were Used to Give Written Agree-
ment Appearance of Age—
Son Finds Document.
New York.—Up in central New
York for four years a remarkable law
case has been going on, the World
says.
Frank B. Townsend for four years
has been trying to prove that he is
the legally adopted son of rich old
Cyrenieus C. and Mary Jane Town-
send. One of the most Important doc-
uments in the case is a time-worn, fly-
stained slip of paper dated January
24, 1862. The defense has attacked
this on various grounds.
That the signature is not genuine.
That somebody sweetened the paper
to make flies light on it and give it
the appearance of age.
Townsend, the contestant, Is the son
of Harriet Eaves, a widow with four
children, who was taken to the alms-
house forty-nine years ago. The
Townsends, who had no children, had
the almshouse physician bring one of
the Eaves boys to their home. He
was returned in a few days and a
brother was substituted. This one
they kept, and he, now a man over
fifty years of age, is trying to prove
that he was legally adopted.
In 1905 Mary Jane Townsend died,
and a month later Cyrenieus followed
her. They had had no children and
both died without making a will, and
[ a horde of Townsend heirs appeared
as claimants.
Frank made application to the sur-
rogate’s court to be appointed admin-
istrator, as son of the estate. The
application was denied, proof being
lacking of legal adoption. Immediate-
ly after the Perry-Townsehd suit end-
ed Frank began in earnest to make
inquiries. He sought out old men who
had been intimate with Cyrenieus
Townsend and from them learned of
remarks that his foster father had
made.
The day following the search Frank
appeared before Attorney Thomas
Carmody with a paper apparently fad-
ed and time stained, which read:
“Agreement made this 24th day of
January, 1862, between Cyrenieus C.
Townsend and Mary J. Townsend, of
the town of Jerusalem, Yates county,
N.' Y., parties of the first part, and
Harriet Eaves, party of the second
part. In consideration of $1, parties
of the first part agree to take Charles
Eaves, son of Harriet Eaves, and give
him a good education and at our death
he is to have all of our property, pro-
viding we have no children of our
own, and if we do have children then
he shall share equal with them.
“It is further agreed that Harriet
Eaves gives-up all claims on her son
and will not try to get the boy away.
“CYRENIEUS C. TOWNSEND,
“MARY JANE TOWNSEND,
“HARRIET A. EAVES.”
The case Is now on appeal In the
appellate division, which among other
questions will have to consider the
startling theory proposed by expert
Hamilton:
That for the first time In history
flies helped to forge a document.
GIRL REJECTS DAD OF EIGHT
Suitor Fails to Mention Children to
Prospective Bride—She Tears Up
Marriage License.
San Francisco, Cal.—When Isidore
Cohen, a San Francisco tailor, gave
Minnie Levy of East Oakland a list
of the assets which would go to make
him a valuable husband, he neglected
to inventory, his eight motherless chil-
dren.
Everything else was told her In de-
tail and she was so impressed that
she appeared at the county clerk’s of-
fice and obtained a license to marry
him.
Cohen’s oversight developed and
early in the morning Miss Levy was
at the county clerk’s office.
“I have been deceived. I want my
marriage license canceled,” she an-
nounced.
Miss Levy said that Cohen ex-
plained, after the license had been is-
sued, that he was the father of eight
children.
“I don’t want to marry a family,”
protested Miss Levy, as she proceed-
ed to make confetti Of the license.
Brothers Given Surprise.
Chicago.-—John and Jerry Keating,
who have served’ side by side for ten
years in the 27th United States in-
fantry, learned they were brothers
when Jerry mentioned his mother's
name.
Will Not Tolerate “Snobs."
Princeton, N. J.—The Daily Prince-
tonian declares positively there is no
place at Princeton for a “snob” nor
for a man who “makes” a secret so-
ciety by “toadying.’
Frau iNo. 2 Willing to Resign for
Predecessor Who After Long
I Absence Returns.
NEW MINISTER TO PORTUGAL
Cyrus E. Woods of Greensburg, Pa
will be nominated for the office of
United States Minister to Portugal, ac-
cording to announcement made * by
Secretary of State Knox the other day.
Mr. Woods will succeed Edwin V.
Morgan, who has been promoted to be
ambassador to Brazil. Senators Pen-
rose and Oliver endorsed Mr. Woods
for a diplomatic post, and Secretary
Knox was quite willing to make the
appointment. At first Mr. Woods was
considered for the vacant embassy at
Rio de Janeiro but there were rea-
sons why it was considered best to
send a man of experience to that post
and consequently Mr. Morgan was
chosen and Mr. Woods appointed to
his place. The salary of minister to
Portugal is $10,000, and the place is
considered a very desirable one.
Mr. Woods served in the Pennsyl-
vania legislature from 1901 to 1908
and part of that time was president
pro tempore of the state senate. He
Is now general counsel for the Pittsburg Coal Company. His nomination prob-
ably will go to the senate on Monday
Boston.—With the advice and con-
sent of his second wife, Gustav E. Lar-
sen has petitioned the court here for
the annulment of his second marriage
in order that he may remarry his first
helpmate.
Larsen was married to his first wife
fifteen years ago, and four years later
she disappeared. For eight years he
searched for her without success and
then,, believing her dead, he remar-
ried. A few days ago the first wife
hunted up her husband and asked for-
giveness. To clear the situation wife
No. 2 offered to renounce the man she
loved and give up her home that Lar-
sen might re-wed his first love.
FORTUNES ARE PILED UP
KEEP TALLY OF STITCHES
Workman From Missouri Finds There
Are 32,937 Strokes of the Needle
in a Simple Garment.
Kansas City, Mo.—Herman Axene,
a tailor, took time to count the
stitches in the last coat he made. He
found 32,937—23,800 machine stitches
and 9,137 hand stitches-—he announced
the other day.
The coat was a four-button sack,
thirty-two inches long and single
stitched.
His Dream Came True.
Rockford, 111.—Glenn Stockman
dreamed that his step-father, Sol
Hayes, shot and killed himself. Next
day he received a message that in-
formed him his dream had come true.
Birth of Industrial Combinations Dur-
ing McKinley’s Term Netted
Financiers Vast Wealth.
New York.—The great railroad and
industrial development of this country
which has gone on since the Spanish
war has produced a remarkable crop
of men whose fortunes have mounted
into the millions at a rate unknown in
any previous period of our country.
One who died recently was John W.
Gates. Mr. Gates’ fortune has just
been appraised at $11,000,000.
Like Mr. Gates, Mr. Harriman pos-
sessed a fortune made practically
within this period. It was a much
larger fortune than Mr. Gates’,
the estimates of it at Mr. Harriman’s
death ran as high as $150,000,000. The
Harriman estate paid taxes on a for-
tune of $71,000,000.
Next to Mr. Harriman the most con-
spicuous of the new millionaires who
have been made essentially by rail-
road manipulation is Edwin Hawley.
Teh years ago he was regarded as a
newcomer on the financial stage and
was being described as “Wall street’s
new constructive genius in railroad
operations.”
One of Wall street’s most interest-
ing figures in these years of rapid for-
tune building has been former Judge
William H. Moore. Of all these newly
made millionaires his record is unique.
Within the same period—the period
that began with the consolidation of
the great industrial plants—Judge
Moore has made and lost one fortune,
and has made another on the ruins of
the first
Daniel G. Reid is a man who has
made a large fortune in the same
record breaking time and in much the
same way. With him should be class-
ed the late William B. Leeds, for they
hewed their way together, “two little
Indiana boys,” Reid used to call them.
As the youngest, possibly, of this
remarkable group of swiftly made men
of millions, Charles M. Schwab has^
come in for perhaps more attention.^
than many of the older figures In i$i
Strictly speaking, he belongs to the
Carnegie group of millionaires, men
whom the ironmaster took into part-
nership and helped' to push along to-
ward fortune, though belonging to a
younger generation than himself. Wil-
liam E. Corey and several other men
might be named in this group. Their
fortunes have been made in the same
quick manner. The career of Schwab
has been almost meteoric.
These are perhaps the most con-
spicuous figures in the group of new
men of great fortunes in this country.
It is a group that is younger than the
men with fortune made from oil and
the railroad development of a quarter
of a century ago. Twenty-five years
ago few of these men had even the
small beginnings of a fortune. Al-
most without exception their fortunes,
running up into millions, have been
made since McKinley was Inaugurated
and the Maine was sunk in Havana
harbor.
Western Pennsylvania’s Affluence.
No man is poor who can afford te
chew tobacco or keep a dog.—Duboie
Journal.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3174, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 28, 1912, newspaper, February 28, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth889618/m1/2/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.