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Invested 600 by Acc-

ident and Made Fortune-

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Remarkable Testimony of WF Lyons Who Controls

Kansas City Output

KANSAS CITY July 14 W F Lyonsof the Central Ice Company

tnld at the investigation here ofmethods of the alleged lee combine howhe started in the business six years agowith a capital of JIM made a profit ofHxOOO In first year and now is head of a

400000 corporation doing more bust newthan any two other ice concerns in thecity combined

His story of the enormous profits inthe business created aatnoishment untilho told of the coat of making foe andthe prices charged for It Then the in-

vestigators readily saw that his tale ohow fortune smiled on him w s no

The coat of manufacturing loa he saidwas from 176 to L8B a ton It catsthe mall consumer a ton and MrLyons felt aggrieved that the ice dealerspert too timid to force the big

in the business district to paymewhere near the same figure

Two Advances in PriceMr Lyons told of making two advances

this season In the price of fee sold tothe peddlers on April 1 and on May 1

How did you come to raise theon the let of April was asked-

I heard that the Peoples lee Compiry was going to raise the price ontiat date so I raised it

WhyWell I am not it the lee

philanthropist I wanted to get allcould for my ice

The first advance was of 1 a tonLater he made an additional Increasewhin he heard that the other com

intended doing soMr Lyons said he knew of no

in the ice meatiness But it inecessary this he added

In reply to further Questioning MrLyons said

If I had the making of the price o-

Ke it would be higher on the businesssales than It is now The downtowntrade today ought to be paying 7 a tonIt la due to the timidity of the ice menthat the price is not higher I say

I wont say cowardice but it isbusiness timidity and moral timidity

Iceman by AccidentMany careers have turned upon trifles

If his friend Tom Bear of Higginsvillehad not borrowed a couple of hundreddollars from him Lyons might neverhave gone into the toe business at allIf there had not been a providentiallywarm winter preceding the summer o1901 and if Mr Lyons had not beenshrewd enough to corner all the naturalice crop of the season he wouldhave become the ice magnate ofcommunity-

Mr Lyons born fortyfour yearsago on a farm In Lafayette countyMo and on the farm he stayeduntil he was eighteen years of age Hewas sent to Emery and Henry College-in Washington county Va and aftergraduating at that institution he at-tended successively Chicago and StLouis law schools He came to KansasIity in 1886 after his graduation fromthe Pt Louis school He was suppliedwith modest means andwhile he a fair reputation as-a lawyer he made little money at it

Turns to PoliticsHe was something of a mixer and

naturally gravitated toward politics Heearly took a prominent part in localDemocratic and ten years afterhs arrival h was nominated for Statesenator and elected He his fullterm of four years as State senator andthen resumed the practice of law Hewent to the senate poor and he cameback with the reputation of being noricher

In 1900 Boar an old friend borrowed530 from Mr Lyons to buy out a modestlittle coal business which he carried onduring the winter When spring cameand coal was a drug on the market Mr

f Bear proposed to Mr Lyons that theyinto the Ice business to keep the

horses bpsy until the coal season rolledaround Nothing was further from MrLyons mind than to go into the icebusiness He knew little or nothingabout it He had taken no part in thecoal business and had small funds toengage in any business at all He rakedtogether Just JMO and on the modestcapital the firs years business wasdone

From the Packing Company icewas bought for some timeabruptly refused to sell more andMr Lyons applleC to James Yates anIcemaker for Ice to supply hislimited clientele If Bear had had thecourage to go ahead with the business-at this Juncture Mr Lyons might nothave engaged in It but Bear was timidand insisted on working for aIn this way Mr literally wasforced to become an ice man himselfIn order to save that M9

f Corners the CropThe winter of l l 1901 was very mild

and there was little natural ice har-vested in this This was thetide in the affairs cf Mr Lyons which

x he took at the flood He went Northon a still hunt after lee and corneredthe available aupply of about 50000tons Following the mild winter therewas an unprecedented hot summer Forweeks the thermometer registered 10degrees and the artificial ice made herecould not half nil the demand

There was no natural ice to l e hadfor love or money except fromLyons Train after train cameMinneapolis and St Paul laden withnothing Lyons Ice Men stoppedhim In the and begged to sellthem Ice per hundred Hefrom 85 cents to fl25 per ton inNorth paid from 5150 to freight

it here for all the way from J350-to 4 at rtrst to and as asJL2 per ton as the season advanced

That was the beginning of his fortune He up something like0000 on the summers thenhe had a bad year when he lost J2 oooHut the next two years were goodand he cleaned up about halt aseach year as he had made during thebanner year

In the winter of he was in a pojmion to build an Ice plant of his ownlp to this time he had been allhis natural and manufactured ice and

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Old Texas Navy Hoodoo to Fight No More

THE BATTLESHIP TEXASShe Will Shortly Go to Charleston as a Training Ship

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Was First American Battleship andHerself Through Gallant Performance-at Santiago Under Captain Philip

Redeem-ed

With her days of usefulness in thework for which she was designedpassed the Texas the first battleshipand hoodoo of the American navy willspend the remainder of her time quietly-in harbors as a reserve ship Old timeworn totally outofdate in plan andmanner of construction it has been decided by the Navy Department officialsthat the warship named in honor of theLone Star State will never again takeher place in line with other battleshipsor with any warships in fleet orsquadron formation unless she shouldbe pressed into we by the advent ofwar and this is not probable

Cant Make Her a Fighter-

A few weeks ago the Texas wasdocked in the Norfolk navy yard forrepairs when an examination convinced the officials that it would be use-

less to overhaul the ship Consequently-It was decided to hold her in reserveand now Secretary Bonaparte has

concluded that she shall be sentto the new navy yard at Charleston S

C to serve indefinitely as a receivingand training ship

The six ilneh guns of the Texashave been removed at the Norfolk yardbut it la likely that the two SInchturret guns will remain on the ship for

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was in a position to deal in largeThe plant at Twentieth and

Campbell streets at first had a capacityof 1 tons per days but has just beenenlarged to a capacity of 0 tons Inthis enterprise he invested JSCOOOO

1000 times as much as he had loaned tohis friend four years before

He worked early and late spendingeighteen hours a day for weeks andmonths building up his business makinghimself thoroughly familiar with all itsdetails and organised the Central IceCompany in which he owns all thestock

From J M he ha built up a plantlarger than any Icemaking plant in theUnited States outside of New York andBrooklyn The combined output of thethree other largest factories here lustabout equals that of his

Communication Now Between theSeveral Government

Departments-

The recommendation of the subcommittee of the Keep Commissionrelative to the establishment of the Interdepartment telephone system wentinto effect on the first of July whenthe system was installed in all of thedepartments

When the lines direct from onedepartment to another as they are withthe White House wnlch has a tlolineyet with the special switchboard in theTelephone Exchange one department-can connect with another almost immediately so that in point of time hardlys second is lost

The new system works to perfectionThe departments and their branches are-as heretofore swithboard going direct to all branches

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the reputation of being the hoodooship of the American Navy owing tothe number of seemingly unaccountableaccidents that overtook her from timeto time and this name stuck to her tillthe SpanishAmerican war when underthe new command of Capt JackPhilip she redeemed herself and didfully her amount of valiant service atGuantanamo and Santiago

Regard Her KindlySince Jack Philip brought her

through safely made her show herspeed the strength and reliability of herguns and her ability to keep her feetthe old vessel has been looked uponKindly and tenderly by the older navalofficials more particularly since thehero that commanded her in the onlyreal action she ever experiencedaway two years almost to a dayafter her work before Santiago afterhaving been raised to the rank of rearadmiral

In the early days she was the buttof every joke ridiculing the navy bothat home and abroad till the Texas became known the world over as aclumsy imitation battleship that wouldsink herself the moment she saw anenemys gun pointed toward herIt was near the close of Clevelands

Administration that construction of the

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Anxious Wife Took PoisonThen Three Letters

Come

JACKSON Mich July 14Becausethree letters from her husband WilliamHyzer of Pittsburg did not reach herwhen they should Flora Bycrtf Hyzercommitted suicide The first malt de-livered after the girl wifes deathbrought the three letters from the husband marked with a rubber stamp De-layed and Missent

Hyzer and Miss Bycraft were secret-ly married six months ago In Yypsllantl in spite of opposition of the girlsfather Shortly after returned tohis parents home in Pittsburg Whenhis letters stopped his girl bridehe had repented and deserted her Shwaited two weeks and then swallowedstrychnine

ELD FOR ASSAULT-

NEW YORK July 14 Does kissingconstitute sault and battery That Isa question the New Jersey courts arecalled upon to decide Mrs William CMacoDnald of Tenafly holds theaffirmative William Perry of the sameplace the m satlve

According to Mrs MacDonald sheand and Perry returned from New Yorkon the train and knowing eachother they chatted While he was ac-companying her home she says he sud-denly embraced and kissed her Shecaused his arrest and he hasfor trial

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ship was begun The work was doneat the Government yard at Norfolk andunder the supervision of Naval

Bowl now at the head of abig shipbuilding company in

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ship WM finally completed and launched at the Norfolk navy yard In thespring of 1892 It was a great officialand social event the launching ofAmericas first great battleship so thecream of Washington official circlesand society was present Even foreigndiplomats were invited

In describing launching it is usuallysaid that the gallant ship glidedgracefully down the ways into thewaves but in describing the launch-ing of the Texas a writer might havdisposed of it briefly by saying thatthe cumbersome warship awk-

wardly down into the and turned turtle

Bora UnluckyThat was the beginning of the bad

luck of the Tex the skip was boraunlucky everyone said The first timethe Ttras was ever taken into NewYork t arbor for the people of themetropolis to view the nations battle-ship she ran her nose into the mudand it vaa several days before shecould be pulled out

When the vessel was sent out tosea she would roll sad tumble in astorm like a frail craft it was even

that if there was a rock in thebottom of the sea she was sure toscrape it she seldom entered a harborthat she did not get stuck or bump intosome other craft and some were mean

to declare that she could run as

it was declared that her gunsswiftly backward or broadside u for

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were defective They wouldnt carrystraight the eaetnlss declaredand It was a demonstrated fact thatevery time one of the gunswas tired the ship would strgger around-In the water and it WHjId be foundthat the Siring had loosened ecrew anadone other dama

Her War ServiceCaptain Philip was placed in

of the Texas in the fall ofand it was said at the time that hewondered what grudge Navy De-

partment had against him When warwas on the Texas under the capablecommand of Philip did her share ofblockading duty both at HavanaSantiago She silenced the guns orGuantanamo forts in a most remarkable manner When Philip was ordered-to hit task he feared he would neverbe able to bring the cumbersome craftrarely out of the harbor channel Buthe did and every one marveled and

him In the battle of San-tiago Texas was right in the foreand her activity and reliable

was clearly demonstrated whenher captain suddenly saw through thesmoke that Admiral 8chleys ship theBrooklyn was bearing down upon herin the famous made by the Brooklyn Both engines were re-

versed and the big ship managed to getherself out of the way of thesharp cruiser Captain Philipstory of the battle said the Texas wasnot built for ramming and her ability-to get out of the way quickly no doubtsaved one or both of the vessels

But now the Texas is old and obsoleteShe can s l but not fast she canboot but nut often For a number ofyears she has been kept close to shoreas of the coast squadronunder command of Rear AdmiralFrancis W Dteklns Her last commander was Cipt George A Bicknell

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15000 CflRROUSEL

Bowling Alleys Pool and BilliardsPot ladles and Gentlemen

DANCING PAVILION OPEN TO ALL

Every Day and Evening With Music by

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Fine Fishing CrabbingSailing Rowing

Rustic Pagodas Shady Picnic Grounds

Entire city with water front of 4 miles beautifullyat night by myriads of varicolored electric lights

Excellent Hotels and Cafes

Saturdays 25c Via ChesapeakeOther Days 50c j 1 Beach Railway

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at 9 2S and 1 1 00 a m 2 30 5 40 and 7 45 p m

RETURNING leave the Beach at 635 a m 240 600800 and 1000

SUNDAYS AND at 925 10301 1 30 a m 2 30 3 00 4 00 7 45 9 45 p m

RETURNING at 7 a m 1230 115 215 6 8 9 10

FREIGHT TRAIN WEEK DAYS Chesapeake Junction at a m Leaves Chesapeake Beach at1130 a m

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Special Trips Steamer St JohnsSATTTBDAY 545 P M

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night trips 10day tickets 1109 Seasonticket good until September 1153 Tenday tickets and season tickets sold on alltrips Children half fare All amusementsIn full operation Stops at Alexandria on aitripsColonial Beach Hotel and Bath Houses

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DAILY 10 A M 2 JO and 690 P MSUNDAYS 11 A M 2 AXD M P M

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