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THE FUNERAL IN MONTAUK
Three Regiments That Have Been finds:
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Report Against a Parade of Troops in
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g New York.
i?”Montauk, L 1., Sept. '10.—Impressive
fpneral services were held over the
‘bodies of Thomas H. Wheeler and
ieutenaht Kirkpatrick, who were
drew ned Wednesday afternoon while in
bathing Chaplain Archibald Brad-
shaw of the One Hundred and Seventy-
first New York regiment officiated. The
roughly hewn caskets were placed in
the center of ahollow square, formed
by Troop A of the Third cavalry on
one side, General Wheeler’s headquar-
ters on the other, the spectators and
the choir forming the other two sides.
The caskets rested on two military
caissons and after the services the cof-
fins were placed in strong boxes, made
of oak, surmounted by poliShed nickel.
With bowed heads and hats in hand
the spectators and mounted troopers
listened to the singing of “Nearer My
'God to Thee," by the Young Men’s
Qhristian Association choir. The chap-
, lain read from the ritual of the Pro-
Festant Episcopal church and the choir
th 11 chanted “Lea,_d,f,- Kindly. Light.”
rayers and a. benediction were offered
for the dead and the funeral procession
then got under way. A ' '
The mounted cavalry led the proces-
s on, preceded by the Second Cavalry
. egiment band, and followod by the
earse General Wheeler, his son and
two daughters, in the two old-fashioned
stages followed, and on both sides of
the procession marched the bare head-
ed, spectators made up of members of
various regiments in camp.
The solemn stillness was never brok-
en during that long march to the de-
pot, except for the clatter of hoofs and
the low funeral music of the "band. The
tears rolled fast down the old general’ 3
cheeks, and his children could not sup—
press their sobs.
The train was waiting and the two
coffins, draped in red, white and blue,
were placed in the baggage car. Gen-
eral \Vheeler and his family went into
the parlor car and were alone when
the train pulled out The body of Kirk-
patrick will ' shipped to his home in
Lexington, Va., and General Wheeler
and his children will go to their‘home
in Wheeler, Ala, .where the young
man’s body will be uried. The general
.will not remain any. longer than a
week.
The information was given out at
General ‘Shafter’s headquarters. yester-
day that Colonel Forwood and all of
the shrgeons who were requested by
Geneial Shafter several days ago to
make some. recommendations with re-
gard to a parade of the troops in New
York had all recommended against a
parade. The surgeons stated in their
report to General Shafter that the
troops would not be in shape to stand
the exertion of a march before the ex-
piration ,of at least a month or six
weeks. There is an impression at the
camp that there will be no parade at
all.
The Ninth, Thirteenth and Taventy-
first infantry regiments from upper
New York state were ordered tcfltheir
homes on the fifth. The regiments fro’fn
upper New York state were ordered to
their homes cmthe 6th. The; regiments
are here yet,- with no prongegtgiof get-
ting home in the immediate; future, and
ndt until the duaxter ter'lsgdepart-
ment gives the word. hat 'ds the sit-
nation to- day and the exod from
damp has been checked temporarily
The Ninth reg t goes :sMadison
and Sackett’s 1%or, hi teenth
to Niagara, Fort orter, near uffalo,
and Governor's Island, and the Twenty-
first to Plattsburgh.
The Long Island Railroad compflny,
through its president, declares it is
ready to transport the men and has ‘
b n waiting to do so.
1: last the Rough Ridefi are being
started on their homeward journeys.
The mustering out is being pushed and
fives) troops will leave to— day. Two
re will get away Sunday, .and by
Tuesday it is hoped all will be out of
Elie service and free to go wherever
ey will.
Colonel Roosevelt is no longer com-
mander of tlfe cavalry'division of the
Second brigade The colmel tm'ned his
command OVer to Comfiel Noyes and
he will leave the service in the early
part of next week. The First cavalry ,
(Rough Riders) has been displaced by I
the Second cavalry.
Howard Townsend Red Cross agent,
has communicated with the war de-
partment, urging hurried preparations
to be made to guard agamst the ap-
proaching cold weather.- He says the
hospitals will have to be heated and
more substantially constructed af-
ford any protection against the weath-
er. It is probable that thte camp will
be abandoned before the cold weather
sets in.
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There are 766 patients‘n the general 5
hospital and there is room for one
thousand. The detention hospital is
'al ost empty. The Shinnecock left
yes erday afternoon with 215 convales-
cents for the hospitals in New York.
and Brooklyn and Boston, and the fur-
loughs continue to 1un into the hun.
d1 eds daily.
A Gigantic Steel Trust,
Trenton, N. J., Sept. 10.—The certifi-
cate of incorporation of the great steel
trust. to be kndwn as the Federal Steel
Company, has been filed in the secre-
tary of state’s office. It s the largest
company ever organized under the
laws of New Je1sey, its paid in capital
being $200, 000, 000.
The paiticulars of the consolidation
of the Minnesota Iron Company and
the Illinois Steel Company, together
. with other kindred corporations, have
, been recently published and are well
knmvn. The controlling spirit in the
- mm ement, it is said, has been J. Pier-
pout Morgan, head of the banking
house of J. P. Morgan & Company, who
Tare gains to finance the new company.
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DUN’S WEEKLY REVIEW.
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velume of Business Larger. Iron Steel
Promises Well.
New York, Sept. 10. -The volume of
business is larger than it ever has
been. Investors across the water have
caught the cue, and their purchases 01
American. bonds and stocks have been
heavy for several weeks. There' an;
symptoms of another‘ Crazy movement
in South Africa and Australian stocks,
and instead of gold and diamonds by
the car load Americans have €833” 1v-
idends to offer, but the23 transpo‘ ion
business of this contiiig‘gt 111,113. very
solid basis for earnings and values.
Wheat has been about One ce t high-
er in price for spot, with wesgern re-
ceipts only about as large as "those oi
last year for the week. No doubt some
farmers have learned that it is a poor
businessto hold back for higher prices,
and yet many are doing it, and so are
making inevitable a more disastrous
decline in prices after a time. The
latest estimates range from 665 to 700
million bushels, foreshadowing a some-
what smaller crop than was indicated
a month ago, but one large enough,
nevertheless, to distribute one hundred
million bushels for replenishing the
world’s depleted stocks, to meet all
domestic consumption and probable for.
eign demand, and still to leave a sum-
cient surplus to depress the market.
Atlantic exports for the week have
been 2,,3251100 bushels, against 4, 243,386
last year, flour included, and Pacific
exports 163,192, against 713,434 last year.
Corn is a shade higher, one estimate
promising only 1, 750 million bushels.
The cotton year has closed, accord-
ing to the Financial Chronicle, with a
yield of 11,180,960 bales in 1897, of which
7,646,085 were exported, 1,856, 000 were
consumed in northern mills, 1, 227, 939 in
southern mills, 420,079 were added to
northern mill stocks, and 98, 991 to com-
mercial stocks. It is but fair to say
that tthe financial Chronicle makes no
calculation of the quantity produced,
but not marketed, which the New
leans Cotton Exchange reckons at 3 0. -
(100 bales, presumably including octton
owned by southern mills, but not yet.
.consumed.
The leather does not yield as yet in
quoted prices, though in this case also
the quotations may not accurately rep-
resent thte actual transactions. At
Chicago hides have not changed in
price.
The sales of wool have been only 2,-
289,500 pounds, at the three chief mar-
kets, against 18,010,400 pounds for the
same week last year, and 8,812,000 for
the same week in 1892. The feeling
grows that the prices demanded at
the West cannot be maintained, and
until wool sells at materially lower
prices the manufacture cannot meet
the existing market for goods. The
volume of all business represented by
clearing house exchanges has been 3.]
per cent. larger in daily average for
September th 5 far than in 1892, and
this with the eturns of railways, indi—
cates a material enlargement in the
general volume of traffic.
‘ Failures for the first week of Sep-
tember have been in amount of lia-
bilities $1,111, 593, manufacturing $224, -
602, and tradirt $703 ,991. Failures for
the week have been 164 in the United:
States against 215 last year, and 16 in
Canada against 35 last year.
A PROTEST FROM SPAlN.
Manila Capitulated After Peace Protoco
Had Been Signed.
London, Sept. 10.-—The Madrid corre—
» spondent of the Standard says:
E “The government recently forwarded
1 to M. Cambon, the Fiench ambassador
:at Washington, a long and s}; 3r?
' argued statement respectTng the P il-
lippines, which he will communicate
Everbally to the Washington govern-
menf.
E “Spain protests against the capito-
lation of Manila, because made two
I days after the protocol was signed.
“It asks that the revenue from the
Manila customs may continue devoted
to the'service of the Philippine loan
of 1891, and finally, it insists upon the
1 United States compelling Aguinaldo to
liberate a thousand Spaniards now; in
his-custody, most of whom were placed
ithere, the note asserts, by Admiral
Davey."
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The Cooling Station in Samoa.
San Francisco, Sept. 10.-—-Comman-
der Tanner has opened bids for the
construction of a United States coals
ing station at Pago Pago, Samoa. The
lowest bidders, Messrs. Cotton Brot
ers of Oakland, offer to erect the coa-
ing sheds, Wharf, etc, for $183,337.
” ON THE DIAMOND
Games Played Yesterday
At Boston:
New York. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—- 0
Boston ...... 3 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 0-— 3
Batteries, Warner and Rosie; Ber-
gen and Nichols. Base hits, New York
7, Boston 8. Errors, New York 0, Bos-
ton 0.
At Brooklyn:
'Baltimore.. .2 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0—5
Brooklyn... 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 0——~8
Batteries, Robinson and Kitson; Grim
and Dunn. Base hits, Baltimore 10,
Brooklyn .10. Errors, Baltimore 4,
. Brooklyn 4. '
At Cincinnati:
Chicago..... 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1—4
Cincinnati.. 0 2 0 0 3 1 0 0 0—6
Batteries, Thornton and Donohue;
Hill and Peitz. Base hits, Chicago 7,
Cincinnati 7. Errors, Chicago 3, Cin-
, cinnati 0.
f At Washington:
EWashington..«.. 2 0 0 0 1 O 2 0—5
IPhiladelphia... 3 0 O 0 2 2 1 0—8
3 ..Batteries C‘Weyhin'g and McGuire;
Orth and a1 land Base hits, Wash—
ington 11, c1"11iladelphia 1%. Errors,
Washington 1, Ph ladelph1a
‘ How The Clubs Stannd
Clubs. Won. Lostt. P. C.
Boston .................. 77 42 .64?
Cincinnati ........ . ..... 18 45 .634
‘ Baltimore .............. 72 43 .626
Cleveland .............. 70 50 .583
Chicago ................ 67 54 .5.’ 4
New York 65‘ 54 .546
Pittsburg ... ., ........... 61 62 .496
Philadelphia .. .. . . .. . . . 57 . 58 .496
Louisville 52 72 .419
Brooklyn 44 69 .389
Washington .. .. .. .. .. .. , 40‘ 79 .336
St. Louis 33 88 .273
THE hVENlVI-(i
PROBABLE WAR INQUIRY
Indication that1t Will Be Ordered
By the President.
The Bureau Chiefs Expecting to Be Vin-
dicated. Difficulty of the Investigation.
Hope that Reforms in the Service will
Result. The Task will Be a Formidable
One.
Washington, Sept. 10. —Secretary A1-
ger’s 1equest for an investigation of
army affairs during the war is likely
to ‘be complied with, though it is not
true that the president has yet indi-
cated his decision in the matter. There
have been signs of a purpose in this
direction, and the quartermaster gen-
eral, suigeon general and commissaiy
general, upon 11 110111 the greatest
blame has fallen, hen: e been anxious £01
an inquiry, each assuring himself that
he will emerge vindicated.
These bureau chiefs have urged ' the
secretary to appoint boards of inquiry,
and General Sterr nberg, against whom
the attacks have been especially vio-
lent, has been part c‘u-arly desirous of
an investigation of his corps and his
methods.
The task before the commission
which will be assigned to investigate
the war department and army affairs
is a formidable one. Nothing quite so
gigantic has been presented to a com-
mission, and there are those in the war
department who have faint hopes that
the inquirers will be able to reach any
definite or satisfactory conclusion. The
attempts made to locate responsibility
for many alleged defects of system,
attempts conducted by persons without
prejudice, have served only to bewil-
dgr the searchers. Every staff officer
upon whom criticism has fallen is able
to explain away the charges against
him, and the commission which Secre-
tary Alger has asked for will probably
be afforded a spectacle of endless shif-
..ting of responsibility and blame until
the investigators retire in‘ bewilder-
ment.
The only hope of substantial results
is that the disclosures of the inquiry
will lead to needed reforms of system.
Lieutenant General J. M. Schofield,
retired, is spoken of as the officer'most
likely to be selected as a military mem-
ber of a commission to investigate the
army when the president appoints one.
He is regarded as the most experienc-
ed and best qualified of army officers
likely to be chosen for this duty. It is
probable that anofiicer of the judge
advocate general’s department will’be
selected to act as recorder. It is deem-
ed that such an officer will bring out
technical facts better than a labvyer
taken from civil life. For this duty
Judge Advocate General Lieber is spo-
ken of. V
If General Miles is preserving a si-
lence in regard to the controversy, his
associates are not so discreet. The of—
ficers who returned to Washington
with him are outspoken in their criti-
cism of prominent men at the war
department, and Adjutant Gen. Corbin
comes in for a large share of their cen-
sure.
If one may judge of General Miles’s
sentiments from the remarks of his
staff officers and others of his Porto
Rico party, there will be no abatement
of the fight.
An additional cause for grievance
among the Miles men develops in their
interviews here. They point out that
General Shatter was repeatedly and
promptly praised by Secretary Alger
and the president, and that General
Merritt and Rear Admiral Dewey have
been congratulated upon every occa-
sion, while General Miles and his offi-
cers have gone so far without a sign
of appreciation from the authorities.
Secretary Alger, on leaving Detroit,
will visit Lexington, Chickamauga,
Huntsville and Jacksonville. He will
be joined at Cincinnati by Surgeon
General Sternberg and Quartermaster
General Ludington, who will accom-
pany Secretary Alger on his tour, of
inspection.
Alger-’9 Request Granted.
Washington, Sept. 10. —The president
has decided to appoint a commissio
to investigate the war departmen.
Geneial Schofield and ex- Senator J hn
B.’ Gordon of Georgia have been as ed
to accept places upon the commission.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 10.-—A telegram
from President McKinley was received
to—day by the. family of General John
8. Gordon asking the general to ac-
cept a position as a member of “A
commission to examine. into the con-
duct of the commissary and medical
departments of the army in the recent
war with Spain.”
The specific object “gage commission
is stated in the telegram to be an ex-
amination into the commiss ary, unar-
termaster and medical bureaus of the
war department and into the extent,
causes and treatment of sickness int
the fields and the camps.
General Gordon is at Reynolds, m,
and inaccessible.
Ocean House Burned.
Newport, R. 1., Sept. 10.——The Ocean
hora, the biggest hotel here, was
burned to the ground yesterday after-
aged by fire.
So fat as known no lives were lost.
and nobody was hurt.
The blaze started in one of the up-
per fioors of the Ocean house, a great
frame building on Bellevue avenue. The
cause has not yet been ascertained.
About one hundred persons were
staying at the Ocean house. , None of
them had time to save any of their
effects.
Bap Caine Arrives.
New York, Sept. 10.—-Hall Caine,
. whose weird novels, analytical of near.-
ly every human emotion, “The biann—
man,” "The Deemster," “The Bond-
man,” and “The Christian," have given
him a. wide audience in America, was
among the passengers on the Campania
which arrived yesterday.
Mr. Caine comes to supervise the
preparations for‘ the presentation of
the play built out of his latest story,
“The Christian," at the Empire thea-
' tre with Miss Viola. Allen in the _lead—
1 ing role.
ssc. ALGER REQBESTS 0111:-
‘ble.
noon and the Casino was badly‘dam-~
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PADDY PLAYED WELL AND LONG.
shuts Out: the Other Stars and Gives the
Entire Concert.
I dare say you have heard of Pader-
ewski’s love for his own particular pi-
ano and his absorption stherein. He
gave proof of his passion in rather a
realistic fashion one evening, when
YOUng Mr. Alfred Hamsworth, the
proprietor of the London Daily Mail
and thirty odd other papers, gave an
”at home” in his -beautiful house in
Berkeley square, to which all London
west of Bond street seemed to try and
seek admission.
There was a (long list of artists who
had beenengaged at “enormous ex-
pense,” as the bills say, and among
these were Paderewski, Melba, Plan-
con, Johannes Wolff, Eames, etc., all
of whom came with their checks al-
ready in their pockets. Paderewski got
five hundred pounds in advance and
brought his own piano; Melba received
three hundred pounds, for which she
was to sing three songs, and the others
had sums varying from one hundred
to two hundred and fifty pounds, ac-
cording to their importance. Early in
the evening there was a tremendous
crush, particularly in the neighborhood
of the dining room. Nothing seemed to
serve to thin the crowd. The music
was advertised to begin at 11.30, but
owing to the frightful crush, the host
decided to turn on the musicians an
hour earlier.
So they approached M. Paderewskl
and asked him if he would begin the
concert. Certainly he would, and there
was an immediate rush for the drawing
room. For fifteen minutes the pianist
held the audience spellbound with his
wonderful music. He played anything
and everything and seemed absolutely
lost in the chords and rhapsodies of his
instrument. Half an hour more and
Paderewski was still playing. The au-
dience began to thin out and seek the
neighborhood of the supper room
again. Harmsworth commenced to
wring his hands in despair, and Melba,
who was standing by,.with her musm
in her hand, ready to sing, began to
soowl and look glum. No one dared
stop Paderewski. Half past 11 and he
was still playing. Twelve o’clock, and
the great master was fairly revelling
in a whirlwind of music, while Melba,
with her notes in her hand, Wolff, with
his fiddle under his arm, and Plancon,
with a frown on his face, stood behind
the young Napoleon of journalism and
cursed between their teeth. Paderew-
ski was having a. grand time of it.
Finally, at half past 12, after :two
hours 'of fun (for him), he stopped,
gave _a grand flourish of his right arm,
ran his fingers through his hair, and
walked out of the room with a most
gracious smile on his face. He did
not know that he had kept anyone
waiting. He had forgotten his very
existence, while Melba and the others
ed and fretted their tempers away.
Tull re were exactly eighteen people in
the room when Melba sang her 'one and
only song of the evening, and then
swept out of the house in a_ tower of
indignation. The othens did not get a.
look-in at all.-—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
HOW FAR ONE NEWSPAPER WENT.
Price People in Alaska Paid for News of
Dewey’s Victory.
_"Papa" Cobb, the old Harvard atho
lete, who returned from Dawson on
the Roanoke with a big bag of gold,
told the following story about patriot-
ism for the Stars and Stripes at Daw-
son: ‘
“One day a man showed up in camp
with a single copy of a newspaper con-
taining, the first account of Dewey’s
victory at Manila. This single paper
was the first intimation we had of the
great [things our navy had been doing,
and it was sought after more eagerly
than gold.
' “An enterprising Yankee purchased
it for $10, and then hired Tammany
hall for the evening. .He charged 50
cents and packed the hall. He read the
paper to the crowd and after every
sentence there Was a warwhoop. It
made the walls of the building trem-
The success of the venture was so
pronounced that he rented the hall for
the next night and reaped another har-
vest. He made $400 off that one news-
paper and sold it To a miner who was
going into the diggings for $50.”-—Seat-
tie PCst—Intelligencer.
Music an Aid to the Sick.
The theory that music is a sedative
to the nerves is no new one, and has
been fairly well tested. Mr. Gladstone
during the many weeks of acute neural-
gia which ushered in the last phase of
his fatal illness found great relief in
music. Mr. Herbert Spencer is said to
have had recourse to music for the re-
lief of nervous disturbance; and the
empress of Austria is reported to have
been cured of neuralgia. by certain
strains of sound repeated at frequent
intervals: Many other illustrious suf-
ferers have had their pain charmed
away by the same sweet medicine.- The
“music cure” had considerable vogue
some time ago in Germany, and a spec-_
i-al hospital for its systematic applica-
tion was established in Munich.
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