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BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1912 RECENT DEATHS figures to show that the highest percentage for Infant mortality was In the mill towns, and quoted United States reports that this was due to the working mothers In those towns. He advocated the Introduction of the minimum wage scale, and the French mother labor law. AV PEOPLE JLOOKING for a First-Class Winter Resort Hotel will invariably read the announcements which appear in the Boston Transcript -under the heading Winter Resorts IT PAYS a member of the faculty for twenty-seven years. Ha carried until his death a case presented by the classes of 78 and 79. lie retired In 1895 when the school was turned over toi Tufts.

Dr. Coolldge' was a prolific Inventor and many of tho Instruments that are seen on the modern dentist's work-bench are the product of his mind. 'At tha Belgium anniversary celebration in Brussels 'in 1840 ho was honored by a certificate of honor, and mada an address in French. Dr. Coolldge waa married twice, and la survived by hla second wife and hla daughter.

FORMER ALDEBm AN. GEO. R. MILLER He Had Represented Doreheater In Roth Branches nf Mnnlelpnl Government George R. Miller, formerly prominent in Boston polities and a Republican member of the old City Council and Board of Aldermen, died Sundky at tha Boston City HospltaL On Saturday night he registered at the Boston Tavern, and early Sunday morning ha was taken sud-enly 111 In hla room and was removed to the hospital In an ambulance.

His death la believed to bave been due to cerebro-splnal meningitis. Mr. Miller was born July 13, 1859. In Waltafield, the son of George Robert Miller. Hia father waa killed In the Civil War when he.

waa three years old. and at tha age of five ha waa let out to with whom ho lived until the age of nineteen, getting hla education at tho district school and by night study. At tho ago of twenty he entered a Vermont lumber camp as a laborer, and eight yeara later. In 1877, having risen to be foreman, he came to Boston and entered tha employ of tha C. W.

Leather-bee Lumber Company as yard foreman. Subsequently he was mada superintendent of the company. In 1890 he moved to Dorchester and entered politics, and In 1898, was elected to the Common Council from Ward 20. Two yeara later he waa elected to the Board of and tho following year waa redacted. In December, 1902, he was defeated for a third term, by a narrow margin.

Of recant years Mr. Miller had taken no active part in political affairs. Mr. Miller had been a member of Adel-phl Lodge of Masons, Omar Command-ery, XL Beacon Lodge, K. of and tha Old Dorchester' Club.

With his wife, formerly Clara Brown of Faystown, he had made hla home for many yeara at 11 Greenheys street, Dorchester. In among the populace of GuayaquiL First, were a few cases, then tho people began to die by the hundreds, by the live hundreds every month. The people became panic-stricken. They were willing then to listen to Dr. Lloyd.

He at once seized tho opportunity and bad President Alfaro appoint him supremo health officer In Guayaquil with administrative power. Tho president also gave him about S10.000 a month. In six months Dr. Lloyd had stamped out smallpox. reduced the yellow fever to a minimum and begun to make Inroads on tho plague.

That was in the rainy season, the worst of the year. The dry season came and conditions seemed even better. The people thought they were freo from the dreaded plague, and as for tho yellow fever and other diseases, of course they laughed at those. Dr. Lloyd knew that his work had only begun.

He told them that If they did not keep up their precautions tho pestilence would return, but the people, temporarily cured of the panics grew Indifferent. The local politicians, who, for their own selfish ends, had always fought Dr. Lloyd, took advantage of this Indifference and grew bolder In their opposition to him. They controlled tho press and the newspapers began to incite the people against Dr. Lloyds methods.

They called It "sanitary Intervention." Lloyd still held out. As he had prophesied, the pestilence began to return. Jiut he had lost his temporary power and an Ecuadorean to him was soon appointed. Then efforts wero made to Interest American capital In the project. Tho Americans required, before Investing their money In such a country as Ecuador, some sort of guarantee from tho United States.

Any number of plans were proposed, but the enmities and Jealousies, the poverty of Ecuador, tho changes of administration and diplomatic difficulties frustrated each scheme. Now, the Frenchman, Qolgnet, seems to have hit' upon a scheme which Is attractive to the Ecuadoreans They know now, too, that If they do not clean up their port they will face $ho alternative of. having quarantine placed against them, barring any ship going through the Panama Canal from flopping there. Coignet Is preparing to erect a waterworks, some municipal buildings, a market-place and some waterfront improvements. AH of this Is attractive to the people of Guayaquil.

With these Ideas In mind and with the probability of their being blocked from the benefits of tho Panama Canal, they have become agreeable to Colgnets scheme. Now, If his plans are only satisfactory to the American medical officers. If he can show that he really proposes to give a basis for the work of cleaning up GuayaquiL the matter may be settled. If Colgnets plans are not satisfactory. It Is hard to say what may happen.

But this much seems certain the United States Is stirred to action, and when It Is, It generally. In one way or another, by courteous diplomatic arrangement If It can, or without such courtesies. If neod be. accomplishes Its ends. GUAYAQUIL MENACES CANAL WHY AMERICA WILL ENFORCE ITS SANITATION The United States Determined That the Pest Hole of tha.

Pacific" Shall Be Cleaned Up Ecuadoreans, After Years of Neglect, Finally Roused by Threat of Quarantine at Panama Accept Frenchmans Scheme, Upon Which, However, Onr Medical Authorities Will Pass How Dr. Lloyds Hard Work Was Frustrated a Few Yean Ago Special Correspondence of the Transcript Washington, Feb. 3. The death of Commander Bertolette of the L. Yorktown, stricken with yellow fever while protecting American Interests at Guayaquil, Ecuador, promises to goad the United States to decisive action to force a cleansing of the peat hole of the Pacific." Guayaquil, where the dread bubonic plague la endemic.

rooted among the' populace by years of neslect. where children die of yellow fever and are called dead of colic, where the grown natives laugh at yellow fever as at the measles, where cholera lives and smallpox flourishes. Is to be cleaned out before the merchant ships that are to sail through the Panama Canal to all ports of the world may risk carrying Guayaquils plague-infected rats and dres I diseases to other coun-' tries. For years the State Department has been endeavoring to secure the sanitation of Guayaquil. But the bankruptcy of Governments, the local Jealousies of anything tinctured foreign Interference.

the frequent recurrence of revolutions. and the intrigues of petty mu-. giclpal politicians, have brought the late Departments efforts to nothing. Now, however, just as It took the disaster of the Maine to bring intervention In Cuba, the sacrifice of Commander Bertolette promises to force this country to action. Just what plan will be adopted for the sanitation of Guayaquil Is not certain.

The Ecuadorean Government has now a contract with a Frenchman. Edmund Coignet. proposing a loan and a contract for the construction of waterworks for that port which would be the foundation for sanitation works. As guardian of the Panama Canal, the United Stales Insists upon approval of any plans that may be adopted for the sanitation of Guayaquil, the unhealthy conditions in which are a constant menace to trans-Isthmlan traffics The Government has made Colonel Gorges, the medical authority with the Isthmian Canal, ths man who stamped out yellow fever in Havana and Panama, the Judge sf -those plans. The State Department today took steps' to have the Coignet contract submitted to Colonel Gorgaa.

If the Frenchmans plans are approved the State Department will give the Ecuadorean Government the word to go ahead. If Colonel Gorgaa considers them Inadequate some other step will immediately be taken under consideration. The United States is determined at least that Guayaquil shall be free of pestilence before the Panama Canal is opened. Guayaquil is one of the most Important ports on the -west coast of South America. It is the only port that Ecuador has, and Guayaquil will not bother Itself about its sanitary condition because it has no competition to fear.

It Is bound to get All Ecuador's transportation Inland, anyway. So far as Panama is concerned, or ports In the United States, there is not much dread of yellow fever Infection from Guayaquil- The Public Health and Marine Hospital Service could stamp out that In a short while, even if cases were brought from Ecuador. But with the bubonic plage it is different. That germ lives not alone with man, but with rata, and, once it becomes rooted In a place or. a country, it requires a battle of years to stamp it out.

Not long ago the medical authorities of Panama, inspecting a ship frim Guayaquil which had landed at Colon, saw several rats run off the ship. The doctors Immediately ordered a cordon of policemen to be thrown about that section of Colon, and burned everything houses, furniture, and ail that stood a chance of Infection. That cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. There has already been a death at Panama from plague brought from Guayaquil. There is another danger.

too: and that Is from yello-r fever. Sanitary conditions In Asia are deplorable. When the Panama Canal Is opened ships stopping at Guayaquil wil: unload cargoes at Asiatic ports. If yellow fever Is carried In that way to India or to China It is likely that there will be one of the worst epidemics the world has ever seen. Medical authorities of England are today aroused over that danger and pressure is being brought to bear by.

them to force the sanitation of Guayaquil. Conditions in Guayaquil are described by authorities having visited that place as unbelievable. That was the town that cost tlie American people the life of Thomas Nast. the cartoonist: the Invaluable surgeons of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service have given up their lives la the discharge of their duties there: there is an American railroad. the only road running from Guayaquil Inland to Quito, the capital of the republic, and the pestilence of Guayaquil has cost doxens of young American lives, engineers employed by that railroad.

When Secretary Root was visiting South Ami -lea he cancelled an engagement to visit Guayaquil and the authorities of the town wrote him with unconscious humor that they were sorry "four cases of yellow fever and some cases of smallpox, sporadic" would cost them the honor of entertaining the American Secretary of State. For live years Americans, In oneway or another, have been endeavoring to clean up Guayaquil. Some time ago a surgeon of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, Hr. B. J.

Lloyd, then stationed at had the good fortune to cure the then president of Ecuador. General Eloy Alfaro, of a disease, and gained a great deal of personal Influence with that gentleman. Dr. Lloyd succeeded in having. President Alfaro place him in charge of sanitary work In GuayaquiL Sanitary laws and regulations In exact accord with Lloyds desires were drawn up and he started to work.

He expected to find opposition from the ignorant populace of GuayaquiL hut he found that his trouble came from other quarters as well. There was at that time a triple government In Guayaquil so far as sanitary measures were concerned there was the municipal government, the corporation of Guayaquil: the supreme board of health, coBrdlnate with the municipal government: and a Federal chief of police. Each one of these authorities succeeded in proving that It was the other ones business to enforce the sanitary regulations, and Dr. Lloyd found that he had run Into one of the most perfectly organized Tweed rings ever known. But he did not give up.

There came a curse upon GuayaquiL which was a blessing to Dr. Uoyft. Up to this time he had been lighting yellow fever, dysentery and smallpox. The people laughed at these aflllctlona It even served their selfish Interests to keep Guayaquil pestilence-ridden. The natives; with their Inferior ability, were holding positions In foreign corporations at good salaries, which they could never have held if Guayaquil had been made healthful and foreigners could have been Induced to come there to work.

The blessing that came to Dr. Lloyd was the curse of bubonic plague. It set Monday Transcript Iron and Steel News a year JARICS MANN OF SOMERVILLE Ho Had Been City Messenger for Forty Yeara, und Waa Still la Ofllec In 111a 88th Year Jarlus who had been Somervilles city messenger ever since tha town became a city In 1872. died denly of acute Indigestion on Sunday at tha home of hia only daughter, Mrs. Harriet A.

den. wife of Elmer EL Tilden of 80 Porter street, that city. He wag In bis eighty-eight year. Hia wife died In August. 1908.

Besides hla daughter. Mrs. Tilden, he leaves a son. Alfred EL Mann, and a granddaughter, Irene Mann Tilden. Mr.

Mann always said ha wanted to die In harness" At the meeting of tho board of aldermen last Thursday evening be cat at tha desk on tha left of the president, which had been hla post of duty for forty years. Friday ha was at City Hal, and that night-he first complained of Illness. Ho remained In tho house tho next day by advice of tho family physician. Dr. Thomas M.

DurelL When --Mayor Burns learned of the death of Mr. Mann, yesterday, ha ordered flags on all tha public buildings In the city to ba put half-staff. Tha funeral services will ba of a municipal character on Wednesday, and all city bualneaa will ba suspended during the services. Mr. Mann was born In Charlestown, Oct.

29, 1824, tho son of Joseph and Eunice Jacobs Mann. His father died when Jarlus was nine years old. After at-, tending a private school for a year he entered the law office of William Sawyer, tho leading lawyer, and at that time the only trial Justice, In Charlestown. He remained there only a short time, removing to Cohasset, where he remained three years, returning to Charlestown (the part that Is now Somerville) In 1841 to learn the pottery business with John Buney. Subsequently he worked at his trade In Brooklyn, N.

Water-bury. Boston, West Amesbury and Peabody. He was appointed to the police force of the town of Somerville In 1853 and had held the appointment of a constable ever since, a matter of almost sixty yean. For a number of years he was an assistant engineer and secretary of the fire department. He was mada a lieutenant of the town police In 1855 and held that position until the town became a city In 1872, when he was appointed city messenger by Mayor Bras tow.

At tha time of hla appointment he was constable of tha Police Court and ho held tho latter position until 1875, when the present police building was completed. Mann served seventeen yeara In tha National Lancers. Ha became a member of John Abbot Lodge. A. F.

and A. Dec. 8, 1859. Ha waa also a member of Somerville Royal Arch Chapter, Washington CounelL Homo Circle and Excelsior CounelL Royal Arcanum. Ha originated the Massachusetts city Messenger Club, of which he has been secretary since Its organisation twenty-seven' years ago.

He had been offered its presidency, but had preferred to remain as its secretary. Mr. Mann had been twice married. His first wife was Miss Emelina Runey. daughter of John -Runey of Somerville.

His second wife waa Mias Martha daughter of Joalah and Nancy (Smith) Spofford of Me. MRS. MARY CLEMENT LEAVITT Honorary Life President of World's W. T. Waa Noted -MTriter and Lecturer Mrs.

Mary Leavitt who died at her home, 18Huntington avenue, this morning, was one of the best-known workers for the cause of temperance In this country. She was born In Hopklnton, N. Sept 22, 1830, the daughter of Rev. Joshua and Elisa (Harvey) Clement She attended the district schools and Thet-ford (Vt.) Academy, and was valedictorian of her daaa when graduating from the State Normal School, West New-, ton. In 1831.

She was married In Thetford, Vt, June 8, 1857, to Thomas H. Leavitt and taught occasionally In country schools In New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. She was head assistant in the Boylston Grammar School, Boston, from 1854 to 1857. She conducted her own private school In Boston from 1887 to 1881. She became Interested In the womans eruaade and helped organise the Boston W.

T. C. U. She was a member of the State executive board, and later became national lecturer. From 1883 to 1891, she was secretary, and in that time she Journeyed thousands of miles.

She roused the Continent, lecturing and, speaking; went to Australia by the way of tha Sandwich Islands and New Zealand, thence to Asia and the far East to Africa on to Europe through nearly every land of that great continent and thence to America. i She continued her mission In Mexico. Central America. South America, and again the Sandwich Inlands, and home again. In this -period she.

traversed at least 200,000 miles, a record. It Is believed, which stands almost alone In the history of missionary effort. Through the aid of Interpreters aho spoke to people In fifty-one languages, has taught temperance and purity morality and Christianity to the votaries of Buddha and Bramah. Mahomet and the Mahatmas of Zoroaster, to the Jews, to the Greek, Roman. Coptic and Armenian churches, and even, to the superstitious people of Slam.

Burnish and tha extreme Orient She had been honorary life president of the Worlds W. CL T. since 1891. i Mrs. Leavitt had written a great deal on tha subject of total abstinence, social purity and kindred topics.

She also contributed stories and verses to the periodicals of the day. OLD-TIME BOSTON DENTIST i Dr. John Bacon Coolldire. Practitioner and Had Done Mneh to Promote Interests of 'Ills Profession Dr. John Bacon Coolldge, formerly a prominent dentist.

Is dead in Natick, at the house of hla daughter, Mrs. Ella Wilson. He died from old age, having passed hla ninety-first year. Born Aug. 24.

1820 at Natick, the son of John Coolldge, himself a native. and of Hannah Badger, likewise a native of the town, ha spent hla early years at the homestead on Worcester turnpike, later going to Maine with hla parents to live on a farm. At fourteen years, he had saved $80 and announced hla Intention of going to Natick to learn the trade of shoemaker. He; did this and attended evening school In West Natick and Framingham. Ha studied medicine and dentistry In Natick, and when President Lincoln called for volunteer dentlsta he walked to South Framingham, joined the band of one hundred doctors on their way to Washington in 188.

and was stationed at a temporary hospital near the White House. After returning, he opened an office on Winter street. Boston, and later opened cilices elsewhere. Meantime Dr, Coolldge had taken a degree at the New York Medical College. He wae tho first to use tho nitrous oxide gaa as an anwsthetlc, giving an exhibition of this at hla Winter street office as far back as 1884.

With Dr. J. J. Weatherby, well-known Boston dentist, he started tho Boston Dental College in 1867, the Legislature granting a charter. The college was later merged with Tufts Dental SchooL Dr.

Coolldge was secretary fifteen years and was professor of chemical dentistry and dental art mechanism, as DEATHS See Page Tea. ESTE8 In this city. Jan. SI. Ellen M.

Estea. T2 jrro. funeral from Gilbert Hall, Traaont Temple, on Tuaadajr. Feb. 1 at M0 P.1L Relatives sad friends tarllad.

DEGRAFF PLACED ON TRIAL Prisoner Accused of the Murder of Captain Wyman on Board the Barge Glendowvr on the High Seas At two o'clock this afternoon William De-Graff was placed on trial before Judge Putnam in the United States District Court for the alleged murder of Captain Charles D. Wyman on board the coal barge Glendower on the high seas last June. United States District Attorney Asa P. French and his assistants, William H. Garland and E.

Mark Sullivan, appeared for the Government. John P. Feeney and Daniel M. Lyons represented the defendant by assignment from the court, without compensation. Among the one hundred members of the venire called for this case was James B.

Connolly, writer of sea stories. Tomorrow morning the Jury will be tafcoa to Lynn for a view of the coal barge. PERSONAL TO BE MARRIED PRIVATELY Wedding ef Miss darn B. Crocker and Courtenay Crocker Will Be Followed by a Small Reception On Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 20, the marriage of Miss Clara Ballard daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. George U. Crocker, to Courtenay Crocker, eon of Mr. and Mrs. eGorge G.

Crocked of 843 Commonwealth avenue will take place at the home of Miss Crocker's parents, at 878 Marlboro street. The Ceremony will be private and will be followed by a small reception. Tho prospective bride and bridegroom arc cousins. Mias Crocker formerly was a student at Bryn liter. Mr.

Crocker, who was graduated from Harvard In 01 Is a member of tho New Riding. udYhe Country and the Exchange clubs. He Is by profession a lawyer and has nerved as a representative. PRESIDENTS AUNT VISITS HIM wi Della Torrey ef Mlllbary a Gncat at the White Homo In Washington Miss Della Torrey, aunt of President Taft, arrived In Washington -on Sunday from her home In MUIbury, to 'Stay at the White House several days, by Invitation of tho President. Although eighty-seven yeara old, aha travelled alone from her home In Mlllbury to Washington, where Major Butt, tho Presidents aid, met Miss Torrey at the station and rode with her to the White House.

President Taft waa In the main corridor of the White House when his aunt arrived and gave her a most cordial greeting. GIVES RECEPTION ON WEDNESDAY Mrs. Dwight S. Brighams At Heme" la' la Honor ef a Bride and Alae Two Recently Engaged Girls On Wednesday Mrs. Dwight Stillman Brlnghe-m (Marion Shattuck) of Boston, who la visiting her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. B. Shattuck, at their home, 800 Lincoln street, Worcester, will give a reception there. It is In honor of Mrs.

Jefferson W. Coe, one of the autumn brides. Miss Rachel Harris, whose engagement to J. Herbert Johnson recently was announced, and Miss Mary Bannister, who Is engaged to Warren Williams. ENTERS UPON HIS 1S4TH YEAR Donald Davis ef West Reyalsten la One' ef tbe Oldest Men ef This Slate One of tho oldest men in the State, Donald 'Davis, celebrated on Sunday his 103d birthday at his home In West Royalrton.

Hundreds of hla relatives and friend called to offer congratulations. Mr. Davis In 1834 waa dropped from the Boston police cm the advice of a physician, who stated that he then had only about a year to live. Mrs. Robert S.

Bradley te Be Hostess Mrs. Robert 8. Bradley of 411 Commonwealth avenue Is to be hostess af an Informal "at home" for Mile. Brlenne of Paris, on Thursday afternoon. Mile.

Brlenn will entertain the guests with French readings and French songs, for which Miss Cornne Harmon will be at the piano. Have Retaraed Fisa California Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Dow, after a delightful trip to California, have returned East and are now at their summer home.

Bay berry In lpssich. Mrs. Dow formerly waa Miss Eleanor Pearson. Mrs. George Albert Chaffin of 108 Dexter street, Malden, will give an at home" next Friday afternoon from four to six oclock hi honor of her daughter, Mrs.

William Renwlck Smedberg. Jr. (Louise Gore Chaffin. Since her marriage, several yeara ago, Mrs. Smedberg has lived most of the time In tbe Philippines.

Rev. George F. Harvey, for the past three yeara pastor of the Berean Baptist Church In Harrisvllle. R. has tendered his resignation, to accept a call to the pastorate of a church in Vergennes, Vt.

Mr. Harvey went to Rhode Island from Bellingham, Mass. I Announcement Is made of the engagement of Miss Ethel Vlginia Phillips, daughter of Mr. end Mrs. James W.

Phillips of Philadelphia, to Fred Bandborn Arnold of Boston. Among recent engagements Is that of Miss Mabelle Lauretta Rice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Warren Rice of Aliston. to Ray Drown of Cambridge.

One of the latest engagements is that of Miss Katharine Webb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Webb of Harvard street. Brookline, to Arthur T. Thompson.

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin West Cllnedlnst of New York announce the engagement of their daughter, Josephine Cllnedlnst, to Harrison C. Elllng. Harvard, '14.

Mr. and Mrs. 'William D. Putnam of Medford have gone to Palm Beach. to pass the remainder of the winter.

EAST BOSTON STOKE BURNED People in Tenements Overhead Driven to jStreet and Can Are Blocked The three-story brick building at 9 Meridian street. East Boston, was damaged by fire this morning and several families that occupied the upper floor hurried to the street through the smoke. The -fire originated In a shoo store on the street floor, which la conducted by Margaret McQueenle. The cause is unknown. The flames ate through into the second floor and the loss was placed at 81000.

Street cars wero blocked for nearly an hour by hose lines laid across the tracks. DAIRY PRODUCTS BURNED About $2000 Worth of Butter and Eggs Destroyed in Market Diatrict A blaxe called the fire department to tho building at -IT John street Sunday, where S. K. Ames A Company carry a large stock of butter apd eggs. The damage waa 82500, of which $500 was on tho building.

Live coals that fell from a stove on the third floor are thought to have started Jthe fire. Hyde Park had a lively Sunday fire when the bicycle repair shop of Walter W. Neill, and the tailor shop of Robert Gray, In tha building at 40 Falrmount avenue, ware badly damaged. Thomas Mooney, a member of tho protective department, was cut and bruised by falling plaster. Tbe losa waa about flOOOi liven counties was regarded me a mark of restoration to favor.

FIRST MAYOR OF HIS CITY Bradford Lansing ef Rensselaer, N. Was Member ef the State Leglalatnre Aaaemblyman Bradford R. Lansing, who was tho first mayor of Rensselaer, N. and who had been a member of tho lower branch of the New York Legislature since 1908. died on Sunday after an Illness of several weeks.

In hia home la Reneselaer. Although he had been mentioned earlier in the year aa a candidate for speaker of tho Assembly, hla illness had not permitted his attendance at any cf the sessions since tho opening of the Legislature. Mr. Lansing was born In Nlskayuna, Schenectady County, In 1880, but had been a resident of what la now the city of Renaaelaer since he was ten years old. His first political office was that of assessor In the old village of Greenbush.

Before hla term aa assessor waa completed he was elected police commissioner, hut soon after he entered on his duties he was elected as the republican mayor of tha city of Renaaelaer. At the end of his first term Mr. Lansing waa a candidate for reflection, but was defeated. He wae again elected when the villages of Bath, East 'Albany and parts of the towns of East and North Green-bush were annexed to the city in 1891. In the last Legislature he was chairman of tha committee on Internal affairs.

Fall River Bealneaa Man Marcus M. Wordell. one of tha best-known merchants of Fall River, has died suddenly at Ormond, Fla. Mr. Wordell left for the South about ten days ago, suffering from a slight cold, which developed Into pneumonia and caused his death.

He was about sixty-five years of ega and was born In Westport, but went to Fall River when young. He went Into the clothing business under the employ of the late Charles E. Vickery and subsequently went Into partnership, and upon Mr. Vickerys retirement Mr. Wordell took another partner.

Mr. Wordell was a member of the board of overseers of the poor of hla city. King Philip Lodge of Masons, Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery, K. and of tha Que-queehan and Drivers dubs. He is survived by a widow and two daughters.

Rev. F. D. Psaasy, Baptist Minister Rev. Frank D.

Penney, for nine yeara pastor of the First Baptist Church of Burlington, has died at hla home in Schenectady, N. where he went last May to become pastor of the First Baptist Church there. Mr. Penney had been 111 for months with a nervous trouble. In 1893 Mr.

Penney went to the First Baptist Church of North Adams, where he remained until 1897, when he went to the Lincoln Square Baptist Church of Worcester. He remained there until May, 1902, when he was called to Burlington. Rev. Mr. Penney la survived by his wife and three sons.

Sterling, Frank D. Jr. and Julian, and a brother. Rev. R.

C. Penney, of Philadelphia. Waa In tbe Frelt Daninrai John B. for more than thirty-five yeara a resident of HolbroOk, is dead at hla home there. Mr.

Austin was sixty-four years old and went to Holbrook from Methuen. He waa engaged In the fruit bualneaa. and was practically the sole owner of the J. B. Austin Fruit Company of Holbrook.

He la survived by two sons, E. W. Austin, chief-engineer of the Holbrook 'fire department, and Milton Austin, now a resident of California. Had Played for Queen Victoria Mrs. JuUa Travers, known for two generations as one-of the most accomplished' amateur pianists in New York city, has died at her home.

No. 616 Riverside Drive, at the ago of eighty-three. She had played for many wall-known persons In this country and Europe. 'Queen Victoria sent for her several times while Mrs. Travers waa In England.

She waa a sister of tho late Nugent Robinson, first editor of Colliers Weekly. One Hundred uud Three Yen re Old Captain Edward Bailey, one hundred and three- years old, a native of England. who fought with Farragut during the Civil War, has died In Los Angeles, CaL Congress In 1864 gave him a medal for risking hla life to save hia comrades in a successful attempt to capture an unexploded rebel torpedo. Clergyman ef Congregntlonnl Church Rev. Elijah Harmon of Randolph, who has died at his home, after a long Illness, was a native of Hawley, where he waa born March 22, 1833.

Ha was a minister of the Congregational Church and held pastorates at Winchester. N. H. and Wilmington. He retired from active work twelve years ago and had since lived In Randolph.

William H. Chamberlain, one of the" pioneers of the shoe Industry In Hudson, has died at his home in that town, at tha age of ninety years. SAY BREAD HAD HAIL IH IT Cambridge Woman and Husband Sue Baker for $5000 and $3000, Respectively A contest over the alleged presence of barrel nail In a slice of brown bread was the first case to be heard today by Judge. Ratlgan. the appointee to Middlesex County.

Mrs. Mary Cullen and her husband, John Cullen of Cambridge, are suing a Cambridge baker, John F. Danskln, for 83000 and $5000 respectively. Mrs. Cullen testified that in May, 1910, she purchased a loaf of brown bread from the defendant and that In eating a piece of it she bit a small nail, which broke one of her teeth and caused her such nervous shock that she has been unable to do her housework since.

Alleghanys Crew in New York New York, Feb, 5 The crew of forty-seven of the Hnmburg-American steamer Alleghany which was rammed and sunk by the British tramp steamer Pomaron off the coast of Virginia on Friday night last, have reached here on the steamer Madison of the Old Dominion ASKED TO REVIEW PARADE Special to the Transcript: Washington, Feb. 5 President Taft has kd bjr Mror Fitzgerald to review Evoutlon Parado la Boston. orth remember, says the mayor, that the British evacuated Boston on the natal day of Ireland's patron saint. In recognition of thp coincidence General Washington Is said to have given St. Pat-rtek as the countersign on that occasion.

We have, therefore, a double celebration Jn the city and hope that you may be able to review the parade and take part la the other patriotic exercises. W. E. B. AERO-PARACHUTE FAILS French Inventor Killed When He Tries It in Drop from Eiffel Tower Faria.

Feb. 5 An Austrian tailor named Kelchelt was killed yesterday while testing an automatic parachute cape Intended for the use of aviators. The cape was his own invention and Reichelt was authorised by the police to carry out tests with a dummy first from a stage on the first story of the Eiffel tower. Having absolute faith, however, in the efficacy of his invention, Rel-chelt secretly determined to dispense with the dummy and try the experiment In per-json. He rapidly donned the garment and leaped into space before he could bo stopped.

For some reason the cape failed to open and Reichelt dropped for a distance I of 187 feet like a stone. A great crowd that had gathered at the base of the tower burst Into Jeers when they saw what they believed to be the dummy drop. Their mirth suddenly changed to consternation when they realised that it was the Inventor himself. Hardly a bone In his body was left unbroken. JOSEPH STORY FAY, JR DEAD Retired Business Man Had Been -Devoted to College Sports, Yachting and Racing Joseph Story Fay.

who on Sunday died suddenly at his residence at 100 Commonwealth avenue, had been In falling health for nearly three years, yet his death was not expected, as he had been up to this time in about his usual condition. He was a retired business man, haring relinquished his more active Interests In business affairs about ten years ago. Mr. Fay was born In Boston in 1847, the son of Joseph Story Fay and Sarah (Bryant) Fay. After his early and preparatory education he attended Harvard to take aa peclai law course which he finished about later entering business life.

Mr. Fay waa deeply interested In athletics and sports and while at Harvard rowed in the 'varsity crew which beat the Yale crew in on Lake Quinslgamond at Worcester in 180Bl Later that same year he went with the Harvard crew to England, to row against the Oxford crew, which beat the Harvard men. Mr. Fay was also one of the finest amateur single scullers of hia day and entered successfully Into many contests. His business Interests era those of the Iron trade and he was formerly president of the Champion Iron Company and treasurer of the Lake Superior Iron Company, which wee afterward absorbed by greater steel Interests.

It was then that Mr. Fay etired from active business life. Aside from his business he was fond of horses and racing and also of yachting. He ownrd from time to time several sma'l sloop yachts. Including the Queen Hah.

Interested in International races, he sailed with General Paine In his Mayflower, and also the Volunteer in the race between America and England. In the summer of 1994 Mr. Fay maintained a racing stable of steeple chasers and -entered his horses chiefly on New York tracks. He conducted his table under the name of Mr. Story, taking his middle name for that purpose.

He was an Intimate friend of the late Robert C. Hooper who also In 1994 maintained a stable of racing horns, doing so as Mr. Mr. Fay was a member of the Somerset. The Country and the New Riding clubs here, and of the Eastern Yacht Club at Marblehead; also the Knickerbocker and.

the Turf and Field clubs of New York. He was married twice. His first wife, who died In 1005, was before her marriage Miss Rebecca Rodman Motley of an old Boston family and the niece of Motley, the historian. The present Mrs. Fay.

who survives her husband, waa formerly Miss Grace Ely of Cleveland. O. addition to hla widow, Mr. Fay la survived oy three sons by his first wife. Joseph Story Fay, 3d, Samuel Prescott Fay and William Rodman Fay; also a young daughter, Joanna, by his second wife.

FUNERAL AT BEACON-STREET H0HE Services for Otis Kimball Conducted by Rev. E. S. Rousmaniere, D. D.

Many business men attended funeral services of Otis Kimball, which were held this noon at his home at 134 Beacon street. Rev. E. 8. Rousmaniere.

D. rector ot St Paul's Church, conducted the services. The body was taken to the Forest Hills Crematory. There were quantities of beautiful flowers pieces having been, sent by tha Commonwealth Trust Company, of which Mr. Kimtall was a director; the John Boyle O'Reilly Club, the Ancient and Honorable, and other organisations.

RELIEF FQR NANTUCKET Steamboat Arrives with Supplies, hat la Agala taeght la the lea Nantucket, Feb. 5 After having been laid up at Woods Hole since Thursday because of damage sustained In an unsuccessful attempt to run the Ice blockade on that day. the steamer Nantucket succeeded In making her way into the harbor here yesterday only to be ice hound on thla enl of the route. The steamer had a heavy cargo of express and freight which had been piling up at Woods Hols sines early la the week. PROMINENT IN LEGISLATIVE WORK Horae Hopkins Coolldge Served Three Tines as President' of the State Senate, After Membership la the Ilenae Horace Hopkins Coolldge, thrice president of the Massachusetts Senate and a prominent figure, years ago, in the Suffolk County Bar, la dead at hla home at 162 Newbury street, at tha age of eighty yeara Death waa duo to ago, and came late on Saturday.

Mr. Coolldge retired from tho practice of law about twenty yeara ago. Ha waa admitted to the Suffolk County Bar in 1837 and, for many yeara served as commissioner of Insolvency and maatar of chancery. From 1885 through 1807 he served In the Massachusetts House. In 1889 he was elected to the State Senate.

The following year he was chosen president of that body and sat In the chair through the three succeeding yeara Mr. Coolldge waa born In Boston on Feb. 11, 1833. Following preparation at the Boston Latin SchooL ho entered Harvard and was graduated In tha class of 1853. Four years later he waa graduated from the Harvard Law School and, after further study In the law offices of Brooks Ball, waa admitted to practice In June, 1857.

On Oct. 27. 1857, he married Miss Eunice Marla Weeks of Boston, who, with one daughter, Mias Alice Coolldge, survives him. LEADING AMATEUR IN TENNIS Mlaa Elale Little ef New York, Player ef Widespread Fame, Meets With Aecldeatal Death at Plaeharat, N. C.

Mias Elsie Littie of West Sixty-eighth street. New York city, a daughter of Joseph J. Little, publisher, and one of the leading tennis playera of this country, was struck by a train at Pinehurst, N. late on Saturday night, and was Instantly killed. Miss Little walked to the station with a party of friends, and waa examining her baggage, which was near the track, awaiting tha arrival of tha train.

Apparently upon an Impulse, she started to cross the track just ahead of an engine, when a warning was shouted: she hesitated, and before her companions knew Just what had happened she was beneath tho wheels. When Miss Little reached Pinehurst for tho tennis tournament, early in tho week, she was suffering from ear trouble, as tha result of a cold, which had affected her hearing. Because of this aha withdrew from the women's singles event of the tournament, and when aho Sras leaving on Saturday night she had, as a precautionary measure, put cotton In her ears. Miss Little as a tennis player was In the front rank of amateurs. She was not In the championship class, but was recognized as a most promising young player.

She was a member of the West Side Tennis Club and had taken part In national tournaments and had reached the semifinals. She had played in Philadelphia and at tha Westchester Country Club la the matches between New York and Philadelphia. Raymond D. Little, her brother, who was with her at the time of her accidental death, is a player of international fame In the tennis world. With O.

F. Touchard he won tha Eaatern doubles championship last year. Ha was one of four playera who defeated Great Britain last September; four matches to one. He Is associated with his father in the publishing business and Uvea at Babylon. I MGR.

RICHARD LALOR BURTSELL Premlaeat Beata Cat hollo Priest Only Reeeatly Waa Ueaored by the Pop While la Rome with Cardinal Farley Mgr. Richard Lalor Burtsell, -a noted Roman Catholic priaat and pastor of St. Mary's Church In Rondout, N. died on Sunday from pneumonia at the Benedictine Sanatorium In Kingston, N. Mgr.

Burtsell waa a member of the aulte which recently went with Cardinal Farley to Rome. On hla return he took an active part In the management of the functions arranged for the welcome of the new cardinal, and It was while engaged in thla work, that he caught a severs cold. After the announcement last week of Mgr. Burtsell's serious condition, a cable message was received' from Cardinal Merry del Val In Rome conveying special blessings from Pope Plus of whose papal household Mgr. Burtsell recently had been a member.

Mgr. Burtsell received hla latest title when the pope bestowed honors at the time of the creation of Cardinal Farley. Some yeara ago Dr. BurtselL who waa pastor of one of the Influential parishes In New York, vigorously espoused the cause of Dr. Edward MeGlynn, who was charged with improper activities In polities, especially advocacy of the single tax propaganda, led by the late Henry George.

After the letters deposition. Dr. Burtsell was transfererd to a rural pariah In Rondout. It waa said in some quarters that this transfer, made by Archbishop Corrigan, waa Intended aa a rebuke to Dr. Burtsell.

Dr. Burtsell protested to Rome and more than fifty thousand persons signed an appeal to the Vatican for his reinstatement, but the Congregation of the Propaganda at Itome sustained. Archbishop Corrigan and the decision waa approved by Pope Leo. Late promotion to be dean- of Ulster end fiul- PRAISE AND CODEMN STRIKE Speakers at Congregational Ministers? Meeting Take Opposite Sides in Discussing Lawrence Situation v' The strike of the textile workers at Lawrence was both Justified and con-1 demned by the speakers at the meeting of the Congregational ministers at Pilgrim -Hall this morning. The speakers, the Rev.

Arthur Barher of Lawrence, and the Rev. AL Friddy of Leicester, who has made ah extensive Investigation of the mill situation, took opposite sides. The former, when asked the question: "Was the strike Justified?" replied. "I do not think the latter answered: "I think so." Both men stated that they believed hat the strikers had been betrayed by their leaders. In taking up the subject, "The True Inside Causes of the Lawrence Strike," the Rev.

Mr. Barber said that there were many things that must be considered. He stated he would not take sides either with the mill owners or the operatives. He criticised the mill owners at times, also placed a great deal of blame on the real estate men, the attitude of the Catholic Church, the dictates of fashion, all of which he said were elements In bringing about the situation that exists In Lawrence today. "The mill owner Is a grabber sometimes," said Mr.

Barber, "but I do not know of anything meaner than the real estate dealers around Lawrence." He then went on to tell of the exploiting of small house lots, 50x100 feet In the country, alongside street railroad tracks, at what he called exorbitant prices. Speaking of the Catholic Church, se said: "I do not need to take you up to Lawrence to show these costly churches and parochial schools so costly that they now want a division of the school funds to help the heavy debts." He told the story of a Polish House girl going without clothing this winter to meet church expense and then paid his respects to Cardinal O'Connell by asking who paid the bills for the gifts and expenses which his new position has Imposed. In regard fo the effect of fashion on the textile Industries, he cite dthe vogue pf the hobble skirts, and or expensive cloths practically made worthless because of changing styles. "My conviction today Is that there is not one man in twenty that wants to be out," he continued. I live In the midst of a German community, I have talked with many of them, and almost without exception they said they would go back to work if they dared." He attacked the travelling delegates who have fomented the strike, and said he wished they could be excluded.

He also urged the churches of Massachusetts to petition the Legislature to prohibit immigration for a few years at least In order to give the State a chance to avlmlkte its present foreign population. "I heartily agree on most of the points made by Dr. Barber," said Rev. Mr. Friddy, author of "Through the Mills." "I have worked In the mills; have lived In their homes, and I have been among them durlng the strike.

Let me say this. The textile situation in Lawrence Is the best in the State of Massachusetts. It Is the most highly protected of Industries In the country, and the leading one In the State. IThere are three positions that the textile industry has to face. When the textile workers of Massachusetts are ready to' work with the Industrial of America.

It looks to mo very serious for the State. "If we were speaking in a Socialistic meeting I would say that the conditions are ripe for a social revolution. I would not like to see tha happen, I hope not. but -the elements are there and we must face 'the facta Those people, may have been misled at Lawrenca but they are In earnest. I sincerely believe that the reduction of two hours a week In their pay is really going to affect those people very seriously." The three principal characteristics the textile Industry, he said, were the low wages paid, the unsettled condition of employment, and the terrible death rata Speaking of the wagea he said the three increases In wages which the mill owners claimed have been made since 1905 were partially wiped out by a decrease made In 1008.

and that a State board last year stated that the wages were the same In 1911 as In 1906. He characterized the Industry as being the most unstable in the State, stating that 05 per cent of the workers out of employment were among the mill operatives. and that they drifted frequently from one mill town to another. Taking up the subject of competition, he admitted that times had been hard for the manufacturer, particularly with the Southern competition. Relative to the death rate, he quoted I 6 a.