AMERICAN MAIL NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13035, 31 March 1910, Page 6

AMERICAN MAIL NEWS.

LATEST IN DINNERS

Carnegie Steel. Company officials to the number of 100 sat down, to a dinner a 1 the Fort Pitt Hotel,at Pittsburg’, one night last January,, which for lavishnes? has seldom or never been equalled in that city. The cost amounted to more tha’ 5620 .a ;plate.:. The ,dinner was-arranged by Colonel H. 8,, Pope,, yice-president o! the Carnegie Steel Company. The diningroom was arranged in the shape of r Grecian garden, and the floral display was gorgeous. RADIUM FOR CANCER. Frank G. Geute.s, ojhiNo. 5, Winthro] Terrace, East Orange City, who diedfron cancer last January ins the Flower Hos pital. New. York, surrendered himself before the end to the experiments of cance; experts, to whom he gave permission t( tost the powers of radium on his tissues. He knew that he could not be saved, but expressed the hope that the treatmenf might yield something to science that would mean the saving, of others. GIVES HER BLOOD FOR BROTHER. In order that her brother, Judge Edward J.. Garvan, the well-known Eepubli can politician and jurist- of Hartford City might regain sufficient strength to with stand a delicate stomach operation, Mrs Nicholas df. Brady, of New York City wife of the treasurer of the Edison. Com- ; pany, of New- York, submitted to a blood transfusion one afternoon recently, at ..the Garvan mansion, in Farmington Avenue. ; a Mrs Brady entirely -recovered from he? ordeal, and her brother was So much improved and strengthened that Dr. Joseph Blake, of New York, who tapped the veins subsequently washable, to perform' a second operation to relieve; the ulcerous 1 con dition of Judge, Garvan’s ! stomach. 1 ‘ BY BALLOON TO THE POLE. Dr. Frederick J. Fielding, of Saar Antonio (Texas), offers do build a hydrogel drigible balloon,, ,papable. of carrying several persons and - all the; necessary outfit and sail to the North Pole, provided some responsible' persons convey his outfit to e - point in the Far North and furnish bin with a scwntist-tovtakEASbservations. : .Realising the magnitude of the understaking, Dr. Fielding, who. is the holder of the' worldffi ifecord for v balloon flights made in the race from Chicago in 1908 has compiled some figures. He estimate? that such a balloon, with engine and gasgenerating outfit, will cost him abouf ■£■3ooo.; that the hag must he capable oh lifting ’p-boutf. 30001b;; that .a ; ,gas - tank: must file 1 - carried' lo replenish thobag fore the AtWn 'jhurhey/ and that-.;he; needs: but tpreh or’four months for .preparation;'