St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 13

if iwi 1 SALES 260,000 000 Greater Than Any Other Newspaper West of the Mississippi ver. Ever TWO. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary. ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1903.

Twenty-Fifth Anniversarv. 1SPATCH PEOMINENT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENCY OF. THE BOARD OF LADY MANAGERS ST. LOUIS MAKES ROUND OF THE FOUR SEASONS IN LADY MANAGERS IN LIVELY 3 TWO-THIRDS OF ONE DAY SCENES ON BROADWAY WHEN THE STORM SEE THAT YOU GET THEM ALL. The Post-Dispatch anniversary imber today consists of 160 pages, fifteen sections, as follows: irt one 12 pages rt two 12 page 1 thr, pages four 8 pages five 8 pages six 12 pages seven 12 pages eight 12 pages nirc 12 pages ice section pagps I'm Kair section 16 pages tm.is section- 8 pages onis.

scefioi 16 pages -Dispatch section 12 pages Fd-tion 4 pages tal 160 pages idex on page one. part one. ostnge for mailing. 11 rents. wire you get A LI.

of the above -tions. If your carrier, news ealer or newsboy gives yon an tn-mplete ropy, kindly report facts the Post-Diapatrh. It will be favor. mM i -f y4 Extreme Winter Weather Gomes at Close of Day Which ppened With Mild Summer COLOMBIA LANDS ARMY TO ATTACK PANAMA One Thousand Troops at Cartegena Are Awaiting Orders to Cut Paths Across the Mountains for March on New Republic Temperature and Passed Through Variations of Spring and PjallStorm King's Sway Widesoread. Temperature at o'clock Saturday morning.

Temperature at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon temperature at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon Temperature at 7 e'clock Saturday ftraperature Sunday Predicted for 4 Ovkick Sunday mornlnf i it has more. or. less to do. matters connected with the general staff college, is admitted tonight by officers of the general staff to be for the purpose of consulting with the officials regardUsr a probable campaign against Colombia should that country continue the movement of troops toward the Isthmus. It -was- intimated that matters had reached the point where troops might be moved at any time, would seem to indicate that department is in possession of Information, the enor of which justifies actual preparations for the movement of United States troops toward Panama.

-Although the fact would not be disclosed, the presumption Is that in the event of troops being sent Gen. Bell will be put In command. The flrst" of the wifUer e-pread eastward over the central west Contest Over Mrs. Blair's Successor Tuesday Expected to Be an Animated One. ELECTION IS BETWEEN THREE Mrs.

Manning, Mrs. Horton and Mrs. Montgomery Are the Candidates Most of the members of ihe board of lady managers of the World's Fair will arrive in St. Louis today for the meeting of the board called for Tuesday. The most important business of the session, it is expected, will be the election of a successor to Mrs.

James L. Blair, the president, whose resignation both as president and member of the board, is understood to have been placed in the hands, of the national commission before this. Mrs. Blair left for Florida with her husband hist As under the rules no tlni.s is required to elapse between the nominations, and the election of a president it is likely her successor will be chosen Tuesday or Wednesday. The campaign for the place has been lively since the time Mrs.

Blair's resignation was foreshadowed, and has included candidates from outside the present membership of the board as well as from within. A recent announcement by the national commission to the effect that Mrs. Blair's resignation would create a vacancy in the board membership, coupled with the fnrt that tl. nrA.u. i i ii uiuii ue it iru from among the members, has narrowed the campaign within the past week to three members, Mrs.

Daniel Manning of Washington. D. C. Mrs. John Miller Horton of Buffalo, N.

Y.i and Mrs. Mary Phelps Montgomery of Columbia. Mo. Mrs. Blair's resignation will create no vacancy, it is explained, because the bylaws provide that no new members shall be elected until the number falls below 21.

With Mrs. Blair no longer a member there will still be 22. The campaign among aspirants for Mrs. Blair's place is lively and the friends of each have been, pushing a vigorous correspondence in behalf of their favorites. Miss Gould Not in the Race.

There have 'been attempts to induce Miss Helen Gould to become a candidate, and Mrs. Edward Buchwalter of Springfield, first vice president has also received support. Both ladies, however, have de--clined, to enter the campaign. Miss Helen Miller Gould will arrive in St. Louis over the Baltimore Ohio Railroad at 7:40 o'clock this morning.

'Miss' Gould has engaged of eight rooms-on the jiarlor floor of the Southern Hotel. Traveling with her are Misses Alt-man, Orton, Tucker. Coats end Monteom-ery of Now York and Miss Pa'ett of Philadelphia, together--with her private secretary, Mrs. Ruth Fuller Field, and maids. Mrs.

Montgomery will be the only Missouri Woman on the lviard aftr Mrs. Blair's resignation. A Mlssourt woman. It is argued, should le president. Mrs.

Montgomery is a daughter of former Phelps of Missouri, and during his term presided over the governor's mansion at Jefferson City. Her home at present is in Columhia. Mrs. Horton of'BulTalo has had experience in exposition affairs, having been chairman or the committee of ceremonies and entertainments for women at the Fan-Ameiican Exposition. Site has long leen prominent in women's club circles, now being regent of the Buffalo chapter.

Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a Colonial Dame, a Daughter of the War of SI-', a Daughter of the A merit an Pioneers and a Daughter of the Founders and Patriots of America. She is vii-e-presidert of the Niagara Pioneer Lapdmnrks Association and is a member of the Buffalo Historical Society, the Puffalo Genealogical Society, the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, the Twentieth entury Woman's Club, the National Societv of New England Women, the Woman's Fdueatioral and Industrial I'nion and the St. Louis Woman's Club. Mrs.

Manning Is Prominent in Washington. Mrs. Manning, whose husband was secretary of the treasury under has long been prominent in Washington Society. She and Mrs. Horton, her rival, are sisters-in-law.

Mrs. Manning is a leading member of the D.iunhters of the American Revolution. having served as national president. She Is known as one of the m.wt charming hostesses In the capital, The membership of the boftrd of managers at present is as follows: Miss Helen Gould. New York; Mrs.

John Holcombe. Hartford. Miss Anna Dawes. PiUsfteH. Mrs.

Fannie Porter. Atlanta. Mrs. Frederick M. Hanger.

Little Rock, Mrs. W. E. Andrews. Washington.

I. C. Mrs. Helen Boice-Hunsiker. Philadelphia: Mrs.

Blair. St. Mrs. Richard V. Knott.

Louisville. Mrs. M. H. De Young.

San Francisco: Mrs. Belle Everest. Atchison Mrs. Margaret P. Daly.

Anaeon-d'i Mrs. W. H. Coleman. Indianapolis'- Mrs.

Loi'Is I). Frost Winona. Mrs Finis R. Ernest. Denver.

Mrs. Fdward I. Buchwalter. Springfield. O.

Mrs Mnrv Phelps Montgomery. Columbia. Mo" Mrs Miller Horton Buffalo. N. Mr' Daniel inning.

Washington. D. C. Mrs A L. Von Mavhoff.

New York; Mrs. lomes Edmund Sullivan. Providence. R. Mrs Annie McLean Mount Pleasant.

anil Miss Lsvinia Egan. Shreve- of the board will be held In th A rtrnP'tst ration buildinsr at the World's Fair grounds. th opening session beeinrir'g at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mrs. Buchwalter of Oh'o first vice-president, is expected to preside.

The Inhabitants of Berlin are not much ,0 cheerIng( and the outburst, there- remarkable. 1 1. 11 Simitar demonstrations took place, all along the thoroughfares from the station to the Roval Academy of Arts, on the part of Christmas shoppers, most of whom, however. Could barely catch a glimpse of the Kmperor's features through the windows of, his carriage. He was received at the Academy by the director and the members of his staff.

He went specially see the mural decorations for the m-w cathedral and commented on them. It Is said, with his usual animation, not speaking a great deal but oceaslonull" making a comment in a natural to.ic of voice, so far as the members of fie Academy t( were able to observe. WAS AT ITS HEIGHT. tl degrc 'egr .27 degrees ,..2 degTeea i 0 crowd and take the crowd's own time. Buf the crowd wasn't slow.

It almost fought to get refuge. Rivera rushed, ohuis; the gutters, up to -the curbing In mm places. Men and women and ohi'dren struggled for entrance to nut-bound cars. At 3 o'clock the rain stll fell, but eos violently. The afternoon was almost black In Its dreariness, and the temperature wns falling.

Now 4 o'clock Is at band. Out of the comes Fury- At the lxck of the Master Magician, quick a a flash from th powder pan. th rain change to snow. Minding wind sweeps behind It and with The white flak. One as the sands of th beach and thick the rein drops of thr-hours before, are driven hcrliontally the windows.

You wonder tiow they ge the ground. They arw not falling. Hut stKin the slop and slush of the streets are overM under a blanket that rpreads out and on. Ihe window ledgK are bunked with I ha white. You stand appalled by Nature's miilms and power.

The air Is like a biting breath of the 'r-z-en North. Down on the street, bias, after blast strikes you and chills you to' lha bone. With each step tho vtnd drives you back or hurls forward. To wlk is a battle. Five o'clock caught a on th streets, crowds like those of the noon.

Mer cury was falling and falling. The 'jtyt was" heavy, tne wind a torrent. TRUCE IN WINTER'S ATTAt (. All traffic was Impeded. The car ays- terns were in full operation, but progress was uncertain.

Sr.o In the tracks and at th switches The cold. eg-r crowds Jammed Into thm coaches at every Corner. Christmas bundles mere held aloft to escape the crush. Tired men and woia fudged and struggled for prmectlon. Wag .1 truffle In the gathering darknea nd mad storm became almost lmpoibi.

Horses slipped and slid as they tugged at thtlr loaded vans. Drlvem urged and coaxed while their water-soaked clothe frose to their bodies. Through the early evening hours the snow lessened. At 7 o'clock It was very light and the wind had gone away. The mercury was still on Rs downward course, but waa moving slowly.

Abfwic the awful wind and mercltesa. CONTySVED ON PAOS SEVC. ern part of the United States yesterday, giving a temperature of Wro of L- South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Kansa and Nebraska, with a prospect of similar temperature as far east as St. Louis and central Illinois by Sunday morning. Sleet and snow impeded traffic and interfered with telegraph and telephone wires over a large territory.

On the western ranches many cattle were frozen to death. Chicago suffered severely. A gale from the Northwest drove sleet and snoMT sharply for 24 hours and during the business hours the streets were almost as dark as at night. Zero temperature is predicted there for Sunday morning. Lat night in the West clear and very cold weather was the rule.

East of the Mississippi, however, snow was still falling. The official forecast for St, Louis today Is: "Fair and colder; northerly winds. Minimum temperature early Sunday morning and Sunday night 'will be near zero." DA OF WEATHER HISTOR FOR ST. LOUIS ICLE SAM TO OST "HANDS OFF" SIGH TO WORLD eets of Warships to Enforce Monroe Doctrine, Both in the ter and the Spirit, in Central Sonth America. ENEZUELA EPISODE WILL NOT EE PERMITTED AGAIN WASHINGTON, Dec.

12. The administration is preparing to post a "Hands Off sign on South and Central America, tihich will be so big and plain that every nation on earth can read and understand It. The Monroe Doctrine will be enforced, both in letter and spirit, in the broadest sense' in Which" it can' be Interpreted, and no repetition of the Venezuelan incident nor anything closely, approaching it will be permitted. It Is explained that this does not mean that the littfr? republics of Latin America will be allowed to take refuge behind the T'nited States to evade payment of their debt'. I necessary, this country will exert friendly pressure to bring about the faithful discharge of their obligations.

However, in any event, American wars-hips and plenty of them, will be on guard to see that their creditors do not apply any serious or humiliating amount of force. The action that has been decided on and which the general board of the navy has arranged to carry out, amounts to little less than the policing of the waters of the Isthmus and northern shore of South America, which 1s the region that some of the nations of Europe are believed to be most covetously eyeing. Hereafter. American warships will be much more familiar objects in those waters than in home harbors. The "Hands Off" sign will be posted immediately after the winter maneuvers of the combined fleets in the Caribbean, when, instead of returning to their accustomed haunts, an Imposing array of warships flying the stars and stripes, will be permanently located almost with In shooting distance of South America and the Isthmus.

Culebra and Guantanamo will then become the Joint base of operations of the powerful battleship squadron. moneyTcattered by wind Little John Booth of Alton Stopped to Look at Bills and Gale Scattered Them. Tin- business neighbors of John Edwin, booth of Alton turned out in full force yesterday afternoon to recover for Mr. Booth $2m that his little son. John Edwin had scattered to the winds.

At last accounts, they had recovered a $10 bill from the roof of a cigar store a block west of the i.lare where Edwin scattered the money, two similar bill, two blocks east of the place and the rest had not been accounted for. Johns inihap came aSout through his anxiety to jm what -3ii looked like in a nevu sent the bank with the money lust as the wind and snowstorm a.s r-ifliig and stopnec. at the corner to at the money. Before he had a good SWPpt tvcr" a the fi pn bank book. BURIESluiTpHEN DIES Jasper N.

Rountree Wins Race With Death, but Contracts Fatal Cold in N. Rountree. who returned a 'week ago from Hock Island, with the body of his daughter, died at his home at V.khorn. yeste.iwy, of pneumonia contracted during his journey to Texas and return. Mr.

Rountree reached his daughter 24 hours before she died and returned jer death. A cold contracted on the train developed seriously and he was unable to attend the funeral. Mr Rountree bad many opportunities fir preferment, but refused them all. Aether of James M. Rountree, former mayor of Nashville.

Ransom Post Officers. Hl tt "lectin last niftht. iatuhi the wing i.fncers for y0- For l)' KimUaU: for se-for Kihr'm Mugoou: vi commander, Man-ii 'u-rteimaster. Silas M. Rnurk-iin.

for surgeon. Thomas a. Hawlev for Thwia- II fia "or offl K. W. Duncan; Krf office? fuai-a.

yiwrles A. lloibertj BAGGAGE AND CAB DRIVERS OH STRI Theatrical Companies Had Hard Time Getting Out of Town Last Night; ASK INCREASE' OF WAGES. East St. Louis Drivers Not Involved, but Are in Sympathy With Sixty-five drivers of baggage wagons and carriages employed by the St. Louis Transfer Co.

declared a strike last night. Recognition of the cab drivers' union and increased wages are the chief demands of the men. The strike was put Into effect by the joint executive council the drivers' unions after communicating with union headquarters at Indianapolis. The strikers ask an increase from $11 to $12.50 a week, a working day of 12 hours and recognition of their union. The last clause Is said to have been the 'one whlcn caused the company to refuse the demands.

The strike nearly marooned theatrical companies in St. "Louis who had finished their engagements. The transfer company-turned over to the other companies as many orders as they could handle on short notice. A meeting of the carriage drivers' union v-as held Saturday night in a nail at Eleventh street and Franklin avenue to discuss the strike. At the conclusion of the emergency meeting, called to discuss the situation, W.

G. Reynolds of local C. J. Mcpherson of the Baggage and Parcel Delivery I'nion and John J. Boylan of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' I'nion gave out the following statement, Boylan acting as spokesman: "Not a baggage wheel of the St.

Louis Transfer Co. will turn tonight or Sunday St. Louis. The Hast Side drivers are not Involved at present, but they will nl any carting across the bridge. "This matter has been hanging lire since Nov.

2. On that date we submitted wage and hour agreement. Four times since then we have been put off when a dellnite answer was demanded. At .1 o'clock today we. as a committee, called on Mr.

Tansey. and after a heated interview we announced that the strike would take effect at 6 o'rlork. "At present the cab and baggage drivers put in IS and 19 hours a dav, sven davs a week, for la. We Intend to make "a light for the 12 consecutive hour dr.v and six days a week, the seventh dav to be at a time and a half rate If our services ore necessary." A telegram from Indianapolis states thnt George Innis. central district deputy of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is on h's way to St.

Ixoiis. He will take charge upon bis arrival. WANTS TO MARRY A CONVICT Girl Anxious That Ceremony Be Performed Before Sweetheart Is Taken to Penitentiary Kpeeial to the Pt-tlpt, h. NEW YORK. Dec.

12. A beautiful young girl went to the Tombs prison today and asked If a minister was there. don't you go to some minister's house?" asked the keeper. Because my future husband 1s confined In a cell In this prison. want Jo marry him before he goes to Sing Sip." The yung woman was "Miss Stella Hamilton of Toledo, u.

She said loved her sweetheart so much thst she wanted to marry him. although he had been convicted of a felony. The prisoner for whom she Inquired Is Harry Williams, a professional pickpocket with quite a prison record. When the young woman learned there wan-no minister present, she went away, saying she wt uld return and would aak the prison chaplain pc rro th cere- TO CONTEST VILLARD'S WILL Only Daughter Piles Suit, Alleging Incompetency and Charges Fraud to Mother and Brothers. fipeclil to the NEW YORK.

Dec. J2. Mrs. Helen Vil-lard Bell, the only daughter of the late Henry Vtllard. has brought suit to set aside the will of Villard.

She names as the principal defendants her mother and her two brothers, Oswald and Harold Villard. In her complaint, to which she made oath befora United States Consul-General Frank H. Mason in Berlin, on Nov. 5 last. Mrs.

Bell says "on information and belief that her father was mentally incapable of making will; she als alleges that the execution thereof, if the same was ever executed by said Henry Villard, was secured by the fraud and undue influence of said defendants, Fanny Garrison lllard, Oswald Villard, Harold Villard. and other persons unknown to the plaintiff. Mr. Villard died on Nov. 12.

1). at his countrv place near Dobb terry is. Apoplexy caused his death, and his illness was brief. His will gave Mrs. Bell only $13, and that in trust.

Her brothers gt $500,000 each free, and the '7''w 275.0ftO. This was Independent of the real eSMrs7 Bell, whose husband Bell a German government offic al. has Uved in Dresden most of the time since her marriage. PANAMA, Dec. 12.

Advices received here from Cartagena says that the Colom bian cruisers Gen. Pinzori and Cartagena have landed 400 men under Gens. Bns-tamente and Ortiz at Cape Tiburon at the mouth of the Atrato river with the object of cutting paths across the mountains to enable the Colombian troops to invade Panama. According to these advices there is in C'arthagena a standing army of 1000 men. AMERICA PREPARES TO SEND AN ARMY TO DEPEND PANAMA WASHINGTON.

Dec. 12. The coming of Gen. Franklin Bell to Washington, while FIRE AT THE WORLD'S FAIR Blaze in Varied Industries Building Extinguished in Time to Pre-: vent Serious Damage. Fire was discovered in an electric switch board in the north wall of the Varied Industries building at the World's Fair grounds last night and on account of the high wind for a few moments threatened the great 'building with destruction.

Charleys Butler, a guard. on duty In the building, discovered the blaze, and No. 2 company, stationed on the grounds, responded to the alarm, putting out the fire. The damage amounted to $10. SISTER'S WORD CONVICTS HIM Joseph Knoble, Sentenced to Ten Years' Imprisonment for Mur- der of Matthew Lan-gendroff.

On the' statement of his sister. Joseph Knoble of 1535 Sotsth Third street, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by -a jury In Judge McDonald's court last night for the killing of Matthew Iangendroft of 2M1 South Seventh street on Aug. 18 Knoble. Iingerdroft and the former' sister. Lydia, were guests at a lawn party at 22tf Cherokee, and It was there that Langendroff was shot.

Lydia Knoble was the only person who saw her brother tire the shot. She "told her sweetheart, James Sloan, about the affair. At the time of the trial she could not toe found, but Sloan testified to her statement to hir- 'his bing th main evidence hey brother. PAPERS READY FOR LEAVITT. Will Be Served as Soon as the.

Artist Arrives in Newport. Spi'la! to the l'est Ililati h. NEWPORT, R. I.i Dec. facts In regard to the I.eavitt-Cook case were vstablished beyond question today.

The chief one Is that Miss Cook believes that her wedding garments had been made, and that an engagement fing was ordered from a prominent Newport j-welry firm. A lawyer has been engaged and papers will be se-rved-' its soon'Jtr- Mr. lavitt treads Rhode Idand soil to visit his patents. Saturday, Dec. 12, 1903, will go on record in Weather Bureau annals as one of the most remarkable days In the history r.f St.

Louis. From the balmy air and soft rain of a cool summer day to the bitter cold, the blinding wind and the driving snow of a northern blizzard, back again to gently falling snow and the pleasant temperature of spring or fall, and finally to clear air, free from snow, and Intense cold all within 16 hours. This was the day. In the first hour of the morning ralu began to fall, softly at first, then drtvjn by a wind that shook windows and drove the straggler and the outcast to the protection of strong walls. At o'clock, when some men are going to their work end others are being whirled home in their carriages from late suppers or a "game," the rain was falling heavily.

The morning dawned cloudy. At o'clock the rain had slackened, but still fell steadily. It drove the smokers from the rear platforms up Into the aisles of the car. The wind had quieted. The merrury stood up toward the middle of the thermometer.

One couldn't see "his breath in the open air. "Just like May. Isn't It?" was the morning salutation. The morning passed we, dark, almost warm. was thus when the Midday was sold on the streets.

The paper carried the prediction of forecaster Bowie that a violent snowstorm was bound St. Loulsward. The forecaster said the storm woidd break in a fury within 24 h-jurs. and that the temperature would drop nearly to er.x A high northwest wind wan driving It on from the mountains at terrific velocity. The forecaster sent special warning to florlstr.

merchants, public n4 street companies, na ftroat seemed UMBRELLAS A BURDEN. At 1 o'clock rain fell in torrrnt. The streets were filled with crowds cf hippcrs and tuslnes people out for Viewed from upper windows. Broadway was a surging sea of umb- pllas. Here and there was a man or a fan without one.

He fared better than f-oteeted fallows. The wind drove the Against the fave eatcoats oodles. It und ngrst To th like a of keep It ff hroug' STAID BERLIN CHEERS JAUNTY LOOKING KAISER Extraordinary Scenes Attended- the Emperor's Arrival, the Populace That Rarely Applauds Showing Its Delight Mic Nnrmal AoDearance. Th Fmw-ror andEm BERLIN, Dec. Emperor ni ress came to Berlin' today on a Ul a rn sit)- train, which arrived at the Potsdam sta tion here at 3 m.

The Emperor waUed briskly, almon Jauntily, from the ptlvate entrance of the station to a closed court carriage, pausing fw.nn instant to acknowledge by a military salute the cheers of the accidental crowds attracted by the sijht of the court equipage and the unusual of no one knew precisely hat member of the royal family wa expecVjl- Spontaneous cheers broke Em-pcrror brame visible in the orway. is.