Show OUR SPECIAL SI A bureau tint that worked a fire DION bocim EM END mammoth leni lens fur for the los angeles Un hersity diemma arnob TEST IT mimis A 1 craod sew lew railroad Inot lation horrified oica a casi fa or f leprosy ike it FIBS HIS 41 A 1 bum bureau wt for fer pay predicted Predict dl fires cut god companies roi to cancel STANDARD S f service NEW sept 19 fire ins insurance or circles in ia this city are are greatly a aly agitated over recent exposures r relative to a bureau of secret if not criminal information that hag loaf long existed exsted briefly stated the bureau waa was one that gave timely limply warning to cc certain r subscribing bra fire insurance ine arance ca companies 01 banies that a fire would occur in certain deal designated gnatek buildings go at certain times the companies having th a information a forthwith ca canceled their risks upon thoo buil building dingi and ml the burden of just Jast loss to fill fall olber other companies that were acri bers the bureau waa was conducted by william ettinger who was what ia is known in the tile ins inBur uranea anea dij we as a public s adjuster juster that is is he lie acted for the insured at the time of tire fl re to enable the individual to adjust bis his loss joao it is elated stated upon authority that in certain cases where ettinger bad had previously given naming warning against certain buildings when the fire tire oc burred in them be appeared on behalf of oklie individuals to adjust their losses eich each subscribing company paid ettinger about a year and received from him from time to time not ce that the th tire fire would occur at a cirtain place abut a certain tima tims how flow etlinger managed to read the future does nop pear bat but so accurate were his predictions that the companies subscribing sert blog to his bureau fel felt t that they were making a paying investment they received bis his cautions without asking questions and at once took steps to 0 o protect themselves by can c eling their policies sometimes ettinger etlinger would convey bis his information by word of mouth sometimes by anonymous notes sent through the mails maile the source of which always seemed to ba understood by the companies receiving the officers of the companies dealing with ettinger do not appear to have been troubled in their consi consciences cien ces it was with them a cold blooded business transaction dehil HB ike ebert illness the final foments att lit work that him special a A CA chronicle SerT service leei NEW NE YORK sept 19 dion bouce cault R u it has bas passed off the stage of life this eminent playwright aud and actor who mar may be justly called the premier anglo saxon dramatist of the day died at his home no west fifty fifth street Y yesterday y afternoon after a de desperate struggle 0 of etwo two das days with pneumonia to bis a boune wife jo thorndyke gung the end was sudden tor for her husband seemed to be in in better health a short time babore death rang the curtain down to tha the practiced eye of the physician however the end on wednesday night did not seem far off and at no time did be he have any hope for the recovery of his distinguished patient it was on tuesday night that mr Boucic boulicault ault was taken sick on oil wednesday morning the family physician dr francis delafield was wa seat sent for lie ile saw at once that the eminent actor was buffering suffering from monia and knowing that the be patients heart was in very bad condition he felt that there was little or no chance of saving saying him under the circumstances the physician was almost constantly at bed t ide as was the playwrights wife from whom the desperate character of I 1 the struggle was mercil merci mercifully lully u ily kept the end came at a little after 5 it was as nil painless s as 9 it was dr came cam e but ut just before the last moment the actor seemed teemed the then n to recognize lis his wife and to ind indicate icat by a motion of his ills bead head that he wi wished s bed to say good bye lie could not speak be he was too weak for that but his face lightened up those won wonderful erful eyes dished flashed and his whole countenance regained its old lime time brightness but only for a second there was a smile as be he looked toward his wife an attempt 0 speak seak and thus be lie died the end waa was BO no sudden that up to a late hour last night no preparations had bad been made tor for tha the funeral at the time ho he waa was attacks at by pneumonia was at nork work on the last act of a melodrama lor for abbott and teal it was wais named the luck of roaring camp and modeled on bret hartes famous story tho the play was nearly done it would have been finished within a few low weeks und and the leading lady would i have been josephina thorndyke Ihorn Thora dyke Boucic aulls Is wife he lie bald pal d a lew days ago that it waa was one of be ilia strongest stron goit plays s ho tie had ever written the last play of boulicault Boucic ault seen upon the tile stage waa was the tale of a coat which raa ran all cummer summer at dalalo and was only recently taken off THE BIGGEST IUS LEIS IET YET ru picked yesterday by alian chaill lor for the los af chronicle CAMBRIDGE mas sept 19 the glass tor for the telescope at the university of southern othern feo california waa was unpacked backed yesterday by alvan 0 dark clark in athe the presence of judge widney of IH lw angeles his son robert and bev eral others rhe the glass was florid f und to be in perfect condition it measures ten feel in diameter and war was oa as transparent as a bit of thin plata plate elass glass clark fondled it as a the though u gh railing raising a baby from the cradle an and d looking at it admiringly eaid said what a beaubr beauty it atis let I 1 no one eer ever its like 1 widness Wid eyes danced with pleasure plea guro as be looked through it ite ile fald laid he lie waa was perfectly Batia oed it would he be the biggest and most perfect afifi ct glaes glass in the world it will require a rolph of eira more to finish and when redy ready licurs it w will ill represent a value of 70 clark fava save its curve on one side is almost perfect but that the other will need a littlon cutting he baa bu not riot yet decided whether to have the I 1 I I 1 1 I 1 remainder of the work dona done here or remainder in california the first process this he new wand and far the greatest leua lens ever a attempted will have to undergo will be that of grinding to the pro proper r curve it will he placed in a milland id made to revolve at a slow and uniform ra rate to of 0 speed sharp steel in ft will ill cat cut the eurple glass and a smoothing machine moving in a con bantly changing carve curve will be for months flail and months passing over its surface before the lens can be utilized daring the time it will be tested pe perhaps r haps hundreds of times by the aid of af a silver its prop er foci focal power shall I 1 be established red oxide of iron is used tor for grind ini and beeswax brings bringol not nut the perfect polish even after the machines machi oes have done all their heir t one work it still remains for h tinman aman finders fingers to complete the proceed ea Tha focal length of the tile telescope cannot be decided upon until the focal power of the lens has ilan baen but V is imater is that it will be between fifty and sixty feet besides being an object gla glas 9 it is also a photograph claw glass the largest astronomical photograph lens previously made has been bat but twenty foar four inches in diameter and it 1 is expected that the present one will accomplish unheard of triumphs in revealing the wonder onders of the starry firmament judge widney said that through it the moon will wil I 1 look a as if only on v miles away and that if there aio are any cities or largo large buildings on its surface their presence will bs be revealed through its aid the glass ft it la Is thought though t will also settle the question as to the supposed s signals i of jig light ht which the inhabitant inhabitants of mori are understood to bs be making to the people of the earth sair ama tin IT unrolls the english dliah compound flate plate fiend to be rutlt inferior to ike he steel veel STANDARD special 3 F R chronicle berries NEW sept 19 at annapolis napolia An yesterday tour four armor piercing shells were fired at each of the three plates represented a ships armor the test flaa as the most severe ever made agai against ritt plates of the thickness used but it was similar tor for all three targets all of these plates were foreign made and the shell was foreign made but bat the powder and gun were american the projectiles in most moat cases proved equal to the demands made mad 0 u upon pan them hence the comparative value of the armor was satisfactorily determined two of the plates were steel one containing between three and five per cent of nickel the third was what is known as a compound plate a hardsteen bard hard steel face ona on a wrought iron backlog about one third of the thickness being steel welded upon he the iron this plate represented the claes class of armor that lia has been adopted almost universally fin for english war warships ships and tor for war ships built in england for other nations that the special gun used in the annapolis test should have pierced all of the tile plates was DO no more than the ex experts expected it was the comparativo rei alt bat that rave gave the trial a world wida ance checo theco the compound plate miserably failed while me under the conditions of stress the two steel plates signally withstood itha tood their rial trial there ran can tw be no codding cod ging the meaning of this victory ahac corn 0 m armor that by thousands of tons BOW now clings to the tides of the existing exit ting english battleships must come oil and the compound armor in equal amounts bow slow designed for english battle battleships ships will never go on oa the french steel platea plates are the victors and the designs ica the fren french c h navy aro are proven superior to those of the english in thia this country we had planned for the ue of all steel plates ibis trial shows that wa we need take no steps backward it aho alio means a blow to british liri tish supremacy whose effect can be estima es timed ed only when we hall know how the british admi admirably admira raby liy intend to act upon it it makes the me english armor a back number until english ship designers and ship builders shall conform to the n new e y knowledge secured in the annapolis ll 11 e trials THE TOE their errest a part ol 01 fear 8 desperate scheme of coercion 0 special F ServiCe 1 LONDON sapt 19 dillon and obrien are almost surely in for another ther six months of prison their plans for the american tour are spoiled they were put under heavy bail by the magistrate to appear lor for bial about the middle of october thia this is balfourd Bal fours first move to utilize t the he impending distress in ireland to E starve tarve I 1 the people into his scheme of emigration which will be bis big trump carthia card cad this thia autumn the irish party regard the arrests as a deliberate plan of balfour to cut off american on supplies these men are not prose prosecuted cuM for or the breeches recently delivered but tor for speeches delivered five months a ago g 0 the hopes of balfour and bis his I 1 landlord ord allies are now wholly centered in the possibility of starving out the nationalist natio organization by concerted action the landlords have also begun evictions on a large scale in different parts of the country BO so as to drain the a of the national league whatever can bo be said against balfour Bal lour be he is a man who pursues bis his policy P ilcy vigorously once be he makes up bis 18 m mind ind un unless e ess be is met with powerful real resistance stance from america be he will surely contrive to send to america a hundred thousand haupers paupers from the west coast ot of ireland irelan before christmas obrien baa has already been in atil five times under the coer coercion clou act and dillon three times 11 ibi roads of r city gal or the missouri kilter enter a cast irta iron STANDARD special a A service CHICAGO sept 19 A railway news bureau bays says entirely without publicity and without the klows edae edge ol 01 a ingle single railroad not directly interested jay gould baa has succeeded in forming lla his ideal railroad association its title ia Is the southwestern railroad and steamship association and it includes all lines south of kansas kensas city and west eat of the missouri river its exiSt Trice was noticed last in it night in the article saying th t J F had accepted the chaiem n thip today the fall full sarv was told as a fullow 1410 a the lines in the territory mentioned have long felt the nied ned of a strong association none of the existing agreements suited and jay gould has been quietly working for a year over the for formation m tion of an agree will be strong enough to compel every line to do as it should lie bai has been completely successful two weeks ago today the presidents of all the roads interested met in new york and sinned signed a ca castl stiron ron agreement which absolutely prevents rate wara wars under the new dow agreement an executive comal solon 9 I 1 I 1 t 1 s i A was appointed with rowers as plena aland y and cuoc autocratic r abic as ary art those of 0 the czar of fimia R 1 il this executive ex eca committie com committee mittle e e cassista can sista of 1 vice vice president a aad u d central general manager 8 11 H C dark 1 ark of the missouri Mie sour pacific third vice ident J C stubbs 61 ottea tile southern pacific general graffia banarer waldo of 0 the kansas texas tt aaa fudge J 1 I springer nasi stant to pea ima dent I 1 n t 31 mini anvel el of the atchian a system ae anil and 0 11 II mallory willory representing the mallory steamship and other ocean lines this committee lias ilia absolute control of rates aa is well as all other subjects jay hiiri Belf la Is tied handland hand and foot loot and rin can order no change on the missouri pacific which nil will affect its except with the tile consent of the executive committee under any and all circumstances of 0 a malwitz of the executive commit tee if Is final chairman goddard rj l cf of tha the western passenger association baa has been elected chairman i i the tho same way that P F 0 donald baa has baen elected y vice achal chairman rm an of the central traffic association in both cases the can committees have settled on tg the aneo abutin but in neither case cae hai hali final action been taken alien the bead mateis teia of ottha the new association will b 3 in chicago the th suicide conr S F service yew new tone youg sept 19 farther details tf cl the double suicide reported yester lay ilay show that emilio emilie rossi two t 0 years ayo alro made the acquaintance of gustav 0 koch he ile tome come of a good amily in vienna and reached america about aix six years ago co lie wag then married hut but his wile wife secured a divorce from him three years later emilia emilio and be became greatly in in fatna ted with one another and were lucli moct together it 13 that asked her mothers consent for marriage to koch and that it WAB was refused ehe abe communicated that refusal to her I 1 lover 0 ver and that they agreed to jo eo together in a letter left by the girl addressed to her aunt otherwise her boarding mistress under date of the aho she verifies the premeditated suicide referring to koch she L bays y e ehe ai d would not let lot him bim die nun ith h her e r n nd abati that he would go before referring to ar fler life n germany the writer say says the people there broke her heart come tome with love come tome with hate her mother loved her no lon loncar gerand and notified her ebe she did not want to fee see her any more this was the hardest blow and she was happy at ho the |