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001- Roosevelt—1:8 ommated For
.3 Governor on First Ballot.
WOODBUPF RB NOMINATED
The Convention Meets at Noon. The
I"llllI’Orm'y and Ptvmanent Organiza-
tion. No Contest to be Decided. Judge
met and
Cody Frank S.
Chauncey Depew Presents Roosevelt.
Names
Convention Hall, Saratoga, Sept. 27.-
The Republican state convention met
here at noon to- dav. The hour set for
the opening of business was twelve
.o’clock, but long before that time the
galleries were filled with spectators.
Shortly before noOn the delegates be-
gan to pour into the hall. _
Up in the gallery a band was sta-
tioned, which enlivened the hours pre-
ceding the fall of the gavel by playing
patriotic airs.
The hall was simply but tastefully
‘ decorated. The Stars and Stripes were
everywhere.
On the stage the chief decoration was
an enormous bouquetof flowers, which
had been placed before the presiding
officer’ 5 desk.
A picture of Colonel Roosevelt in his
service uniforn1 was brought down the
right aisle at. twelve ’o' clock, and the
band. struck up, “See the Conquering
Here Comes."
The portrait was raised above the
section where the. Greater New York
delegates sat. The audience rose and
cheered.
Chairman . Odell of the state com-
mittee took‘his seat at the presiding
officer’s desk at 12.20 o’clock to call the
convention to order.
, After prayer by the Rev. Dr. Jud-
5011 of Saratoga the roll of delegates
was called.
Congressman Sereno E. Payne, tem-
porary chairman, was introduced at
12.40 o’clock. I In, the opening para-
graphs of his speechhe referred to
William McKinley as a warrior and a
statesman and the roar of approval
was deafening. '
The applause was renewed when Mr.
Stewart of Kings county called for
three cheers for the president of the
‘United States.
Chairman Payne’s emphatic declara-
tion that the Republican party was the
party of sound money, and his chal-
lenge to the Democrats at Syracuse to
ignore silver at their convention was
rapturously received.
1. COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
'An enthusiastic Roosevelt man in the
New York section, when Chairman
Payne referred to the glorious charge
of the American troops at E1 Canéy,
raised the Roosevelt picture and the
cheering was frantic.
'After some minor questions or organ-
ization had been disposed of, General
Stewart L. Woodford moved the ap-
pointment of a committee on resolu-
tions. 11-46%“
General Woodford was named chair-
man of this committee, and the Hon.
Hamilton Fish chairman of that on
permanent organization.
[At 1. 25 o c’lock the convention took a
recess until 3. 30 o ’.clock
Second Session.
'At 4.05 o’clock the Republican con-
vention was again called to order.
The committee on credentials repor-
ted that there being no contests, owing
to the good feeling existing in the par-
ty throughout the state, it had nothing
to do. ‘
Senator Horace White was chosen
permanent chairman and he addressed
the convention.
At 4. 35 Chairman White abruptly
ended his speech and called for the re-
path of the committee on resolutions.
There was no response.
e chairman, Gen. -,Woodf0rd was
not in the hall.
Congressman J u1gg then moved that
nominations be made, and the motion
was carried with a shout. -"’
Judge Cady of Albany thereupon took
the platform and made a speech nomin-
ating Frank S. Black for governor.
He was followed by Chauncey De-
pew, who placed Theodore Roosevelt’s
name before the convention as a can-
didate for the same position.
The nomination of Governor Black
was seconded by Charles T. Saxton,
Abraham Gruber and Senator Clarence
Lexow.
Assembly—mam Wallace of Queens and
Congressman Southwick of Albany sec-
onded the nomination of Theodore
Roosevelt.
At 6. 20 Elihu Root took the platform
and addressed the convention in regard
to the question of Colonel Roosevelt’s
eligibility. He denied that a residence
had been forfeited and asserted that -
no objection whatever could be raised
in relation to Mr. Roosevelt’s candi-
. daCy on the ground ofcitizenship.
Edward Lauterbach replied to Mr.
Root.
‘ Roll Call Ordered.
It was past Seven o'Elock when the
chair declared thg period for nomina-
tions closed, and a roll call was orde1-
ed. This resulfléd in the nomination of
Colonel Roosevelt. or governor by an
averwhelming ma rity -
The vote stoodz’ Black, 218; noose.-
velt, 753. The result: was greeted with
tumultuous cheering. The following is
the balance of the ticket: .
Lieutenant .' Governor—Timothy L.
Woodruff of Kings. I
Secretary of State—John T. McDon-
ough of. Albany.
Controller—W. J. Morgan of Erie.
Treasurer—John P. Jaeckel of Cal'-
uga. ‘ '
Attorney General—John C. Davies of
Oneida.
Engineer and Surveyor—E. A. Bond
of Jefferson.
DEWEY SEN 08 REPORT.
He Seized the Steamer Abby,
Took Arms for Rebels. .
Washington, Sept. 28._—The following
cablegram was received from Admiral
Dewey yesterday at the navy depart- ;
ment:
Manila, Sept. 27, 1898.
Having received information that the
left Macao '
American steamer Abby
September 2 with a cargo of arms for
Batangas, I sent the McCulloch. She 1
arrived at Batangas on the 23rd, and
found her to be in the harbor, having
arrived three days earlier and landed.
cargo.
There Were only Filipinos on board.
They refused to give any information
and had no papers whatever. Seized
and brought her here, ’where we are
now holding her. This steamer was for-
merly the Pasig, and» is, registered ,as
an American vessel. The United
States consulate at Canton has infor-
-mation. .that she 'made one voyage of .
the same kind already.
DEWEY.
_ The. navy department very promptly
approved Admiral Dewey’s action, as
indicated by the following cablegram,
which was sent- him yesterday: '
Washington, Sept. 28.
To Dewey, Manila. -
Your action in seizing American own-
ed vessel Abby approved. She is am-
enable to martial jurisdiction for any
violation of neutrality.
LONG.
2d New Jersey to Go Into Camp.
Jersey City, Sept. 28.—Three hundred
members of the Second/New Jersey
volunteer regiment, constituting a de-
tail of twenty-five men from each com-
pany, met in the Pennsylvania rail‘
road station in Jersey City yesterday,
in response to a call issued by Colonel
Hine. They took an early train to Sea
Girt, where they will be employed the
remainder of the week in preparing
the camp for occupation by the entire
Second regiment.
When the Second came home from
Jacksonville on Saturday last the
weather was so cold that it was
thought inadvisable to put the men,
coming as they did from the South, into
camp at the seashore.
The regiment was therefore disban-
ded and the men were permitted to go.
to their homes.
They will be reassembled at Sea Girt
on Saturday.
State Death Rate.
Albany, Sept. 28.—The state board of
health’s bulletin for August fixes the
annual death-rate for the state from
all causes perz-one thousand of popp-
lation at twenty, as against 20:60 for
the preceding month, and 18.75 for Au-
gust, 1897.
The total number of deaths was 11, -
302, of which 6,451 occurred in New
York city, divided as follows:
Borough of Manhattan, 3,427; Bronx,
357; Brooklyn, 2,187; other boroughs,
>480. ‘
In the maritime sanitary district,
comprising Long Island, Manhattan
and the towns in Westche t‘i" county,
there Was an excessive incs’ése in tyu
phoid fever.- for the month, w ich caus
ed one hundred deaths, 99 being in the
city of New York.
Cabinet; Meeting.
Washington, Sept. 28.—With the ex—
ception of Secretary Alger, who has
not yet returned from his tour of in-
‘spection, there was a full meeting of
the cabinet yesterday.
Although the session lasted two
hours, it was stated at its conclusion
that no business of general interest
had been transacted.
The war investigation was talked
ov‘er informally, as were also the forth-
coming reports of the cabinet officers,
which will form a part of the presi-
dent’s message to congress.
Cits Decide to Wait.
New York, Sept. 28.—It was announc-
ed at the headquarters of the Citizens’
Union yesterday afternoon that the In—
dependents would nominate no succes-
sor to Colonel Roosevelt until October
15.
R. F. Cutting has received a reply to '
the letter he wrote to Seth Low asking
Mr. Low to explain why he thought the
nomination of an independent would
jeopard Colonel Roosevelt’s, chances.
A Train \Vreck in Texas.
Corsicana, Texas, Sept. 28.—The south
bound Houston and Texas Central pas-
senger train was wrecked six miles
north of this city while going at a high
rate of speed.
Two coaches jumped the track and
went over a bridge. They were com«
pletely demolished. No one was killed,
but_ many persons sustained serious in»
juries.
Honored Mrs. U. S. Grant
New York, Sept. 28.—A reception was
given yesterday to Mrs. Ulysses S.
Grant in the parlors of the Windsor
hotel by the Woman’s NationalWar
Relief Association.
Mrs. Grant is the president of the as-
sociation and is at present on a visit
to New York.
ON THE DIAMOND
How the Clufls Stand.
Clubs. Won. Lost. RC.
6 Boston . 91 44 .674
' Baltimore 86 48 _ .642
Cincinnati .............. 83 55 .601 3
Cleveland .............. 75 59 .560
Chicago ............... 76 63 .547
New York. . 72 63 .533 ‘:
Philadelphia ........... 67 84 .511
Pittsburg . . .. . . 67 71 .486
Louisville 62 74 .456 'g
Brooklyn 49 78 .386
Washington .. . . . . . . . . . . 45 90 .333
St. Louis ' 35 99
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One of the Inquiry . 'ommisaioners
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PLANS FOR INVESTIGATION
Ex-Gov. Woudbury’s Son 11 Major in “‘9
' Engineer Corps. Attractive Nature oi
the Appointment. No Charges Against
i the Engineer Corps. The Time to Be
Covered.
Washington, Sept. 28.—An additional
interest is lent to the investigation of
the president’s commission to inquire
into the conduct of the war by the cir-
cumstance that ex-Governor Woodbury
of Vermont, one of the commissioners,
has a son, who is one of the beneficia-
ries of the present administration.
Charles Lincoln Woodbury was ap-
pointed from Vermont, on the 19th of
last May, a major of volunteers in the
engineer corps. To show what an hon-
or that conveyed, it must be observed
that of all the staff corps that of the
engineers is the most exclusive and the
goal of ambition for regular army ofii-
cers of a strongly scientific bent. There
were only twenty-eight appointments
I or transfers to this corps between the
outbreak of the war and the 22nd of
August last, and of the whole numbei
only six were civilians, the rest being
officers of the regular army. Mr. Wood-
'bury’s appointment as one of the six
was, therefore, a mark of special fa-
‘ VOI‘.
Another civilian appointed about the
same time was Hugh H. G. Gordon of
Georgia, and it will be observed that
ex-Senator John B. Gordon, the young
man’s father, was one of the first men
invited by the president to take part
in the so-called invesigation. The
senator declined, possibly not wholly
for the reasons assigned, but in part
because he did not care to be a target
for the critics of a whitewashing ma-
chine.
.LL must not be assumed from this
that the engineer corps is likely to
come in for a raking over. On the
contrary, when General John M. Wil-
son, chief of engineers, was invited to
serve on the commission, and ventured
to protest that it would be indelicate
for him to sit in a commission which
would have to investigate his own
branch of the service, the president as-
sured him that there were no charges
of any sort against the engineers, and
hence that he need let no sentimental
considerations weigh against his accep-
tance of the detail.
But in the case of a commissioner
like Mr. Woodbury it is different.
Young Woodbury naturally has ambi-
tions in his military career which the
president and the secretary of war will
have it in their power to gratify. ‘The
ex-governor has therefore placed him-
self hors de combat in all that con-
cerns the thoroughness of his inquiries
and the weight which will be attached
to his share in the verdict in the pop-
ular mind.
The commission has decided to limit
the period covered by its investigations
to that between the beginning of the
war and the 31st of August. The last
named date was chosen because the
departmerptal accounts and reports
will be presumably complete up to that
time, and are liable to be incomplete
and straggling later.
The commissioners have decided that
it will take them two or three months
to do all their work on the lines on
which they have laid it out. Their
mode of procedure will be to inquire
first what were the conditions existing
in the branches of the service at the
hour when war was declared. Then
they”? will trace down to August 31 the
various changes, and .inquire the rea—
sons for them, the methods by which
they were accomplished, and the char-
acter and quality of the results as mea-
sured by a reasonable standard of ex-
cellence.
For Alger to Answar.
To Secretary Alger the commission
has addressed six queries for his reply.
They are as follows.
i 1. Plan of campaign proposed im-
; mediately after the declm ation of war;
was it intended to move at once on Ha-
vana, or that the campaign should be
,postponed until the autumn?
{ 2. When was the Santiago campaign
' determined upon?
3. Why was Tampa selected as the
base of operations?
4. Why were summer camps organ-
,ized at Fernandina, Jacksonville and
Tampa?
5. When was the Porto Rico cam-
paign determined upon?
l 6. Why were the troops held on
[transports after embarkation at Tam-
gpa, and not permitted to sail for sev—
i eral days?
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To Restore the Rates
New York, Sept. 28.—Meetings of the
passenger and freight committees ~of
'the Trunk Line Association were held
9 yesterday at the headquarters in this
city.
Now that the differences between the
Canadian Pacific road and its Ameri-
can rivals are practically at an end,
it is expected that the passenger com—
mittee of the association will settle the-
"latter of transconiental rates.
The restoration of these rates took
effect last Sunday and was put into
immediate operation by a majority of
the roads interested, including the Ca—
nadian Pacific and Grand Trunk lines.
It is believed that by the middle of
next month the-restoration will begen—
erally observed.
Nicaragua Canal Survey.
Nicaragua canal has been completed,
and the engineers returned to this
country on the Atlas line steamship
. Altai Monday night.
1 They are Andrew Onderdonk, Harm-=3
C. Miller, Louis Hawkins, Eben.f~
B. Post, Percy J. Bruns and Horatl
H. Trundle. The engineers say ”the
the plan of the proposed canal is ;
simple one and that their reports wii-
show that the cut which the Spanish
American war has made an absolut
necessity canfgbe made quickly an.
cheaply. . ’
NewYork, Sept. 28.—The preliminary I
survey of the route of the'proposcd
Wheeler, William D. Thomas, Richard-
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H!STORY OF TWO BLACK DIAMONDS 1'
One-Time Spanish Crown Jewish in Pos I
session of an Americanr _
Just now, when everything concern- ‘
ing Spain is of more or less interest.
a couple of one-time jewels of the
Spanish crown attract more than '
usual attention.‘ Thev are two won-'
derful black pearls, which, ‘foriginally ‘
coming from the for East, have found .
their way. to America by way of the;
Spanish crown. It was a goOd many
years ago, when Spain was a powerful
nation, that the jewels were placed I
in the crown. Perhaps black pearls,
which seem an appropriate emblem
for the proud and haughty Dons, are.
not their lucky stones. At any rate
they remained in the possession of the '
royal family for 300 years, but in the;
meantime the Spanish heads that wore '
the crowns had been proverbially un-,
easy, and the fortunes of the country
were not as bright as they ,had been.
One king, perhaps a little more su-.
perstitious than the others, had the.
dark gems removed, from the crown
to make room for stones of more cheer- ';
ful appearance. It was after that that .
Napoleon’s tioops invaded the coun-’
try and a Spanish officer of the royal,
troops, displaying great gallantry, was I
rewarded with the black pearls which
had been crown jewels. They did not I
prove to be lucky stones, and events-I
ally they found their way to America, '
and now belong to the private collec-
tion of precious stones of Mrs. Cellai
Whipple Wallace, who is called the
“Diamond Queen” of Chicago.
Mrs. Wall-ace ha not only 3 won- I
derful collection of diamonds, but of
Opals, of Which she is particularly
fond, and the black pearls are a unique
feature of her collection.
She wears them in a brooch, one set
in the brooch proper surrounded by
an army of diamonds, and the other
also surrounded by diamonds and sus
pended by 11,.jeweled chain.
How are the mighty fallen when the
jewels of the Spanish crown are worn
by a Chicago “Diamond Quee‘n.”—New
York Times.
THIMBLES FOR PLAYING THE PIANO.
And Also For Typists. Said to Save .11.
Nerves of the. Worker.
Thimbles for pianists and typists—
that is something new for you. Eithei
of these young ladies finds that inces-
sant use of the fingers pounding on the
ivories all day long, or for six, seven
or eight hours in rapid and constant
manner, is very nervous work. The
tips of the fingers are nervecenters.
In fact, the most sensitive part of the
entire body is the end of the 'finger.
If this nerve center comes in harsh
contact with the solid ivory keysthou-
sands of’times during the day—in fact
one might say millions of times—think
what a strain on the nervous system.
It is no wonder that these ivory 111a-
nipulators of cithcr sort give out and
become nervous wrecks in the course
of time. Some physicians have even
gone so far as to say that a typewriter
cannot retain her vigor of nerve'for
longer than five years, and it is well
known that a pianist often has ner-
vous prostration.
..These new thimbles are made of
rubber and intended to lessen the
shock to the nerve centers. They are
made to fit the ends of the fingers as
the glove fingers fit. They are made
in sets according to the size of the
glove worn, and can be ordered in
that way. Of course the typewriter
does not need full sets, but the fingers
which are used the most will be
greatly relieved by their use.
A" pneumatic ring cushion forms the
end of the thimble. In making a num-
ber of carbon copies the amount of
strength required is lessened by their
use. It is said that the speed is also
increased at least ten per cent. It is
certain that they save the ends of the
fingers from becoming callous or
cracked, and save the nails from
breaking and splitting—New York
Herald.
SINGULAR NAVAL ACCIDENTS.
One Ship Taken Over a Town and Back
Again by a Tidal “lave.
Curious accidents to our warships
characterized the early history of our
navy. When the government built ten
new gunboats to prosecute the war
against Tripoli, in 1805, they were
sent out as soon as they were finished
and before they were named. Each
one was given a number and dis-
patched to the scene of the War. No.
7 sailed from New York June 20, 1805,
under commahd of Lieutenant Ogel-
vie, and after she cleared. Sandy Hook
light she was never heard from again.
She went dorvvn with all on board be-
fore she had ever been named.
A most extraordinary accident hap-
pened to- the corvette Monongahela
at Santa Cruz- in 1867. “While at
anchor in the harbor a tremendous ti-
dal wave lifted her upon its crest and
carried her clean over the town of
Frederiohstadt and back again with--
out injuring the town yr the boat to
any great extent. The receding wave
landed hei on the beach instead of in
the deep wa aters of the harbor, and it
cost oui government $100, 000 to float
her, again.
Fully as strange was the fate of the
sloop of war Wateree. ‘She was an-
cfiored in the harbor of Arica, Peru, in
1868, when a huge tidal wave swept
inland and flooded the whole city.
The wave carried the sloop several
miles inland, and finally landed her in
the midst of a tropical forest. It was
impossible to release her from such a
peculiar position, and the government
sold her for a nominal sum. The pur-
chasers turned'the vessel into a hotel,
and the remains of the once formida-
ble war vessel loom up in- the tropical
forest to-day as a monument to the
power of tidal waves.—Leslie’s Week-
ly.
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