Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1897, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. ENE PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, J1C1 Pennsylvania Averue, Cer. 11th St, by Cor Boe eae New York Ofice, 49 Potter Building. ‘The Exoning Star ts served to subscribers tn the eity by carrisrs, om thelr own account, at 10 cents T week, or 44 cents per month. Copies at the ater 2 cents cach. By aall—anywhere in the ited States or Cenada—postage prepald—S0 cents Per month. ‘et Saterday Quintuple Steet Star, $1 per year, wit foreizn postage added, $3.00. (Entered at te Fost Omice at Washington, D. c., @s_secend-class matl matter. £7 All mail subscriptions rust be pafd fn advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. No. THE REPLY OF SPAIN It Has Not Yet Been Received by the State Department. MUCH SPECULATION REGARDING Tt What is FACTS TO CONTROVERT IT ed with the utmost positiveness rman and his assistants at Department that the reply of i States had not been re- p to 2 o'clock today, notwithstand- Ht re to the contrary. specific denial ts made of the report ate vain to the Uni that a 2,000-word cipher message from Min- ister Weedford was received Saturday or Under these cireumstances, it is unlikely conclusion 1h executive authorities here as to the art of this governmeni. = of speculation in tment today as yet been reached next There move w but be in’s rep cable reports, e contd it had ation out- to meet the situa- go to the luring the morning. and As- f State Day has gone to Was no opportunity for ent on the iasis of Spain's Reply. 1 among officials that the of the Spanish rept Woo.l- note will be th that th States has United s of inter: artme e som: perti- ts to present it is 1 od will completely alienate sympathy that she has at- other Enropean on rted posit that iT om our atrols alor has heen very te Department on ac Hector at av bill of rs apd Attorney Gen- ct, most of tke ex- have been put to and expense. Flerida pa NM put to toy Spain at about $2,081,000, large r who is t put upen stated that United and ming t line. the officials here are confident to show t aw, Which, as vitration, sim- e due diii- arture of hostile the corre ween the Si ish government ft is expected direction Woodford are the President r to Congress October 25.—There were free American securities in this to a pronounced - wer to Minister Wood- id lead to 4“ rupture be- two countries. Spain's Reply Present A special cable di atch to the i from Madrid, Spaii yesterday says: reply to the note of the United inting at mediation in Cuba and juesting an be the end of . Was y y in the hands & nerican here General t reply, made by ‘a3 unanimously cabinet. urteous in ton cting the purport New York ore serts her determination Cuban « jon herseif with- interference of to fix any date for Fess Sustains Sagasta. The tod. ve attitude of t mg in harmony with the people havi! decesso: press ta cabinet as be- national sentiment, become weary of his pre- continuous concessions to American Giplomacy. The « fl of ministers decided yeste ne the drawing up of the con- templated memorandum to the Euroy powers on the Cuban question ain with the Uni an nd on the States, Ss will determine the time for ircular. mt sound'ng of Euronean ain has cume to the con- that most of the powers are not disposed to go beyond purely platonic de- monstrations of sympathy for the Spanish 2 in the West Indies. The Spaniards seem to be conscious that ir relations with America are approach- 5 a grave and critical stage. ——_---e -——_____ Aged Colored Woman Dead. SACRAMENTO, Cal., October 25.—Aunt Nancy Danicly, a colored woman, ts dead here, at the age of 119 years. She was a Native of Virginia. WILL ASK POSTPONEMENT Government's Decision Regarding Union Pacific Sale. Purpose is to Give Everybody Oppor- tunity to Make a Bid—The At- torney General's Sintement. The Attorney General late this after- noon confirmed the report that the govern- ment will apply for a postponement of the sale of the Union Pacific railroad. He aid that Iast week ex-Gov. Hoadley, the counsel of the government in the sale of the road, had been notified to apply to the court for a postponement of the sale until December 15. When asked the reason for the postpone- ment the Attorney General said that it was for the purpose of giving time to anybody and everybody to bid for the road, thus set- ting aside any hints that there may have been undue haste in the matter. Application will be made as soon as possi- ble for the pestponement, which will, no doubt, be secured, as no opposition is ex- pected from the reorganization committee, which is to bid for the road. ALASKA'S SOUTHEASTERN LINE. Pending for the Deter- on of the Boundary. ew of tre chieved, ow! great to tt nt geld discoveries and the import- © of definitely fixing the boundary line ween our territery and that of the Do- ninion of Canada, that the Senate, when it es in December, will take ear! ion upon the treaty pending between ain and the United States for and marking of the Mist This treaty was sent to the most two years ago. ‘The L1lst meridian inarks the eastern boundary of Alaska down to within ten marine leagues of the southern coast, where the trends te the southeast, keeping from: the coast. Concerning idian there is, of course, no y between the United States and but no basis of settlement line Ss yet been ‘he original it is under- that ¢ the 141 controy= ame or propesed to be hy Senater Stewart so as to in- of the dispute relat- If such an the Sen- ain that Gre ree to the m: ting the differenc countries carding d for t all ce he work of adju tween Ub made pograpnical mu whicn re subinitted to their res overnments December 31, 18% amissioners, however, had no power to ose x settlement: their work was con- strictly to furnishing information h subsequent n tations could pro 5 no rarge of mountains runs along the AST, aS Was urned to be the when the boundary line between Rus- and Canada fixed in terms, the al- ternative prop tion of a line ten marine axues from the coast must mark the limit of our territor. But in the determination many intricate tions are involved—whether the coast line shall be assumed to follow the sinuosi. of the ore or run from headland to «and: or whether the line shall be con- lered to run ten marine leagues to the in- terior from the outer shore of the islands, hich form @ sort of arc! elago along the t. The government oftici who have studied the que n are contident that our tile includes the islands and ten marine leagues of territory from the coast line, with all its sinuosities. A e+ ‘THEIR REPLIES MADE. Messrs. Tittman. Schott and Pratt on Gen, Detlicld's harges. The Secretary of the Tre ed the formal answers of Messrs. Tittman, Schott and Pratt of the coast and geodetic to the charges made against them Duffie Neither the Secretary cretary Vanderlip has yet sone over the papers, but one of them will do sc in the most careful manner. The charge of conspiring against Gen. Duffield is the one regarded most seriously by high treasury officials. If Gen. Duffield should prove these ch it Is said that the three men might be severely disciplined. The resignation of Gen. Duffield has not the treasury, and is not wn to have gone to the White House. . esign has not been ill be officially done, it is s the President expresses ady to take up the matter of an appointment of a successor, formal application of Prof. Lick Observatory has I received asury Department. He is one of two men who will succeed the present chief bureau. ary has receiv Holden WILL BE GIVEN HREE DAYS. Discharged Employes of the Navy Department May Make Defense. Secretary Long has issued the following erder on the subject of removals in the civil establishment of the navy: “The attention of officers and employes of the Navy Department, navy yards, na- val stations, etc., is called to so much of reutive order of July 27, 1897, as is amendatory of civil service rule I, which provides as follo © removal shall be made from any position subject to competitive examina- tion except for just cause and upon writ- ten charges filed with the head of the de- rtment or other appointing officer, and of which the accused shall have full n tice and an opportunity to make defens: ‘In view of the foregoing, the officer or employe charged with the supervision of the official work and conduct of any em- ploye in the classified service who 1s guilty of deriliction of duty, delinquency, or misconduct, or who shall prove inefti- cient to such an extent as to seem to jus- fy his cr her removal, shall forward to the depzrtment through the proper chan- nel written charges detailing the reasons for removal, and at the same time fur- sh a copy thereof to the accused, who, if he so desires, may submit in writing to his superior officer for transmission to the department, within three days from the date of the receipt of said copy of charges, uch defense as he may desire to make. » the accused fails to present his written defense to the officer in charge within the three days above men- tioned, it will be deemed that such person does not desire to make a defense. “At navy yards, naval stations, etc., the commandant, in transmitting the papers in connection with any case, shall submit his views concerning the matter and make such recommendations as he may deem proper. When it is evident that the inter- ests of the service will be better sub- served by immediately relieving the ac- cused from duty, pending final action on the charges, that course will be pursued, and promptly reported to the department. “Chiefs of bureaus and offices, command- ents of navy yards, naval stations, etc., shall furnish each officer anf employe un- der them with a copy of this order, and enforce strict compliance with its provi- sions.” ANYBODY’S FIGHT YET Campaign in Greater New York Full of Uncertainty. VAN WYCK SEEMS AHEAD JUS? NOW Tammany Leaders, However, Fear Inroads of Henry George. TRACY’S OUTLOOK BRIGHTER — Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, October 24, 1897. Surfeited with “claims,” gorged with fig- ures fiom the various headquarters, your correspondent has gone among the voters —among the people, who will, on next Tuesday, decide the question of rulership in the Greater New York territory. Satur- cay in this city is a half-holiday. During the summer season the business man be- takes himself to the seaside for the ozone ard for the accompaniments of, seaside resorts. During the ides of October and November, in an election year he talks polities, and Saturday was selected by your correspondent as the day when there would be a full representation of ali classes of voters. A conspicuous sign, bearing the names ef Tracy end others of the straight re- rublican ticket, attracted him to a resort in upper Harlem. There was the usual gathering of workers and heelers; there was the proprietor moving among his ts as usual, but there was an absence ef definite politics in the atmosphere. Four young men came in and sang a song, the burden of which was “Seth Low Is a high- born baby.” It fell flat; there was a wait and another song, and finally the quartet mixed with the crewd In front of the bar politics were discarded, and everybody seemed to be having a good time. In spite of the fact that this was supposed to he a republican stamping ground, not one men of the many who taiked with your correspondent had pronounced ideas, or if he had, expressed them. There seemed to be a desire to “feel the questioner: to know where he stood before making a declaration. The proprietor had the sp- pearance and talked like a man on the fence. Now mark the difference. Another + in front of which swung the Van yek banner, was entered. There was 0 doubt about the atmosphere. It was Tam- many. There was money to burn, and everybody was burning it on the slightest provocation. It would have been as much as a man’s life was worth to have uttered a sentiment at variance with that ex- ssed by the standard waving outside the Clashing Bicycle Parades. There were two bicycle parades on Sat- urc night—one for Tracy and one for Van Wyck. Through some mistake of the marshals they ran together in a hopeless mixture when the Boulevard was reached. Tracy wheelmen ran alongside Van Wyck wheelmen in the most fraternal manner. To test the temper of the gathering, a Giscourteous remark was made concerning the republican candidate. It was met with a laugh, and the stereotyped expression, “Oh! all right.” A blogk further the same remark was applied to Van Wyck. linan appeared with an r and insisted that the person making the remark be given into custody. And the policeman was earnestly in favor of making the arrest. Then the negro settlement was visited. The colored man is nothing if not enthu- siastic In politics, but on this occasion there was an absence of enthusiasm, and the appearance of waiting to shout on the winning side. Conclusions dra situation is uncerts Van Wyck undertow onstratl doubtful. The is a strong ‘as fully dem- ; but whether it has taken the remains iy there were more encountered on my e: ans of ail . The George ly small, the Low tic, but the two tickets are ing worked for de- terminedly, with the balance in favor of ‘Tammany. fo1m of grouping or or to be seen. Undoub ek people District Naturally Democratic. The component parts that go to make up the Greater New York, New York city, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond counties, and the Borough of the Bronx, are all nat- urally democratic, except in unusual years, when some great national question comes up for settlement by the people. This is one of the arguments that the friends of Judge Van Wyck are using today to show that their candidate will be a sure winner «ne week from next Tuesday. They also y that most of the citizens of Greater New York, particularly the business men, want @ rest from the disturbing influences of a reform administration for the next four years, and that for this reason the majority will be on the side of the demo- cratic ticket. They also argue that the puritanical laws of New England are not suited to the cosmopolitan population of this great city, and they claim that as Judge Van Wyck advocates, in his plat- form, liberal laws for the government of the Greater New York, he is sure of the support of thousands of men who believe in making this city as free and open as any cf the great capitals of Europe. The canvass of the week just closing has apparently brought many new supporters to the Van Wyck standard. The storekeep- ers, the men about town, the common people, so-called, who make their living di- rectly or indirectly from the small mer- hants of the city, seem to be wavering across the line to Van Wyck, and it is this berhaps more than anything else that has d the betting to be so largely in his Hurd to Predict Result. But at this stage of the mayoralty fight it is difficult to predict with any degree of positiveness who will be elected mayor of Greater New York. If it were a straight- cut contest between two leading candidates the task would be easy. If it were a fight between three leading candidates it would be easier still. But the conditions of the campaign are without parallel in the city cf New York, so far as candidates and par- ues are concerned, and the field of battle, so far as territory goes, is an undiscov- ered country. What would happen in Man- hattan and the Bronx might safely be pre- dicted. What would happen in the Borough of Brooklyn mignt safely be figured out if the contest were confined to Kings county. But what is to be said of Manhattan and the Bronx, with Brooklyn added, and what is to be said of Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn standing together, with Queens and Kichmond added? Ten days from the election it looks more Ike the election of Judge Van Wyck than any other candidate. Every poli of any considerable number of voters, widely scat- tered, shows Van Wyck in the lead; that is $o sayy all the polls give him a larger percentage than any other candidate. The cenfidential estimates of all the parties who have polls show as regards Tammany that the 136,000 who voted for Bryan in New York county will also vote for Van Wyck, and that 14,000 will be added by citizens ‘who are sick of reform.” The conservative Tammany leaders figure that Van Wyck's total vote in New York coun- ty will be about 150,000, although othes es- timates are much higher. Giving Low or Tracy 100,000 votes in the same territory, and considering either the leading minority candidate, this, it is ar- gued, will make Van Wyck’s plurality in the county about 50,000. Resentment at Bryan. Congressman Amos J. Cummings and other prominent Tammany Hall mea who were most emphatic in their support of William Jennings Bryan last year are ex- pressing great indignation with the late free silver candidate because he has fail- ed to come out with the indorsement of the Tammany ticket, thereby acknowledg- ing the regularity of the ticket headed by Judge Ven Wyck. They do not hesitate to express openly their bitter resentment at Mr. Bryan's treatment. Cummings said, in speaking of this subject: “I believe our ticket will win, but if, by any chance, Tracy should slip in and Van Wyck be de- feated, it will be the end of William Jen- nings Bryan as a presidential candidate. We of Tammany Hall and the democrats of the country as well will hold him in a large degree responsible for our defeat, and will do everything in our power to pre- vent his nomination in 10. The attitude taken by the secretary of the democratic national committee and other followers of Bryan in indorsing Henry George was an outrageous proceeding and one that I, for one, bitterly resent.” These remarks of Cummings would seem to indicate that the Tammany Hall lead- ers are not absolutely confident of Van wyck’s election. Men who are dead sure of winning do not make threats as to what they will do in case of defeat. Congress- n-an Cummings’ remarks also show con- clusively that he regards General Benja- min F. Tracy as the most formidable can- didate that Judge Van Wyck has to con- tend against, and in this he is not alone. At Judge Van Wyck’s headquarters one never hears y talk abiut any candidate cept Tracy and George. These two alon em to be consdered in the calculations of the big men of the wigwam. Gold Democrats for Low. Den M. Dickin: seds through New York last week on his way home from Hahiax. To a reporter he sald: “I am, of course, watching the pending contest in New York with great interest, and [ find, after talking with a great many peopi+ down town, that most of the Cleveland democrats, among whom, of course, are many of my old friends and political 2sso- are going to vote for Seth Low; but that the regular republicans are rapidly go in; General Tracy. I have sus- ong that this would be the re- Of course, free silver is dead; as dead as a door nail. It can never and will never be an issue in another national con- test; but there were other things far more dangerous than free silver in the Chicago platform. “The Supreme Court of the United States is the one novelty in our government. It Is the bulwark upon whitch all our prosperit as a nation rests. Other’ republics nave been tried and failed. Ours has succeeded principally because we made our Suprem Court a bulwark against the assaults both the legislative and executive branch»: cf the government. The attack upon the Supreme Court was far more dangerous, therefore, to this government, than the free silver heresy. The Chicago platform, therefore, was the greatest danger from which this country ever escaped. It is the knowledge of this and the fear of Henry George that has driven the regular re- licans over to General Tracy. I do not hesitate to say to you that I, for one, believe that Gen. ‘Tracy is good @ man as the republicans could have nam- ed. He made one of our best Secretari+s of the Navy, and is a man of strength and judgment and excellent capacity. If he is elected mayor of New York he will gov- ern this city himself.” + MARINE BAND LEADERSHIP Prof. Fanciulli’s Engagement Terminates Saturday. Unless he is reappointed, Prof. Fanciulli's engagement as leader of the Marine Band will terminate next Saturday. In order to secure the original appointment he enlisted in the Marine Corps for a term of five years. This term expires on the goth in- stant. To be reappointed as leader of the band It will be necessary for him to re- enlist In the service for another term. He may re-enlist and still not be continued as leader of the band, but he cannot continue in that capacity after the 30th unless he re-enlists. Inasmuch ag he has publicly announced his intention of re-enlisting, t impression obtains that Prof. Fanciulli feels confident reappointment to the leadership. There are several other candl- dates for the place, but their names are withheld for the present. The appointment rests with the Secretary of the Navy. He has the matter under consideration and will confer with Assist- ant Secretary Roosevelt and Col. Heywood, commandant of the Marine Corps, beforé reaching a conclusion. ‘There is necessity for haste In the matter, inasmuch as the Marine Band fs under engagement to play at the horse fair in Chicago next week, and it will be without a leader unless one is appointed within the next few days. Since Secretary Long granted the band permission to play in Chicago he has re- ceived protests from two musical organiza- tions belonging to labor unions against such action, and it is possible that the per- mission may yet be revoked. The question is under serious consideration today. + + —___—_ TO STOP A TRAIN. Report of a Recent French Inven- tion. Consul Mcrris, at Ghent, Belgium, re- perts to the State Department a new In- vention recently tried on the state rail- way of France, and which is intended to check and stop trains. The device is ope- rated from the station, and, placed 230 yards awey, will stop the train before it reaches the station. It is fastened to the rails, and when in operation catches a lever hanging from the passing locomotive, which causes an air valve to open, and puts the brakes immediately in action. In connection with this device is another, which connects the grade crossing gates with it in such a manner that the gates cannot be opened without the brake from the track is in operation. a Personal Mention. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt résumed his duties at the Navy Department this morning after a two weeks’ vacation, most of which was spent at his country resi- dence near Oyster bay, L. I. Maj. J. M. Wheelan, 8th Cavalry, is in the city under orders, He is at the Nor- mandie, Col. J. T. Haskell, I7th Infantry, and Capt. J. M. Carson, jr., assistant quarter- master, are in the city am leave of absence. ° SOLDIERS AT ST. MIGHAEL. Col. Randall Reports the Arrival of . the Detachment. Adjutant General Breck received a tele- gram this morning from Colonel Randall of the 9th Infantry, commanding the military forces in Alaska, dated St. Michael, Oc- tober 9, saying that the military detach- ment arrived there the day before and that the supplies were landed in good condition. He says that there are wut 180 persons on the island and that godd order prevails, The British Anbnssador’s Return. Sir Julian Pauncef the British am- bassador; Lady Pauncéfote and the Misses Pauucefote, who have been on a ‘visit to England, will arrive in New York on the American liner St. Louig about the 20th They are acc nied by Mr. George Young, attache of the British em- WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1897—-FOURTEEN PAGES. CHARGES EXTORTION Former Deputy Collector T. R. Farrall Accused of Crime, WARRANT ISSUED FOR HIS ARREST Wrongfully Collected Money for Revenue Special Stamps. DIVISION WOMEN Ss VICTIMS It was learned today that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of T. R. Far- rall, ex-deputy internal revenue collector of the District. The charge was extortion, and was preferred by Lizzie Clayton, pro- prietress of a house on C street north- west, It was alsd learned that there are a number of other charges pending against Mr. Farrall. Deputy Revenue Collector Hamlet was seen at his office by a Star reporter today. At first he refused to talk on the subject, but finally admitted that the warrant had been issued. He said the matter of the arges had been brought to his notice since he had taken charge of the office here October 1, “I had no idea that anything of the kind had been going cn during the former ad- ministration of the office,” he said, “but whilé down in the division on bus connected with the office the matter was brought befcre my notice forcibly. After I had found out the one case 1 in- vestigated and found a number of others. There will probably be some more, as I feel convinced that ali haye not yet been brought to light. The Specific Charge. “The specific charge on which the war- was issued, as has leaked out in some man- ner, was brought by the Clayton woman of the C street house. She said that Septem- ber 10 Farrall had called on her and de- manied $37.50, which he claimed was due for a retail liquor dealer's stamp. Septen ber 13 he called again, and the woman gave him $20. He went again September 21 and she gave him the remaining $17.50. I ex- amined the special revenue stamp which he had given her im return for her money. It ecvered a period from September 1 of the present year to June 3 WS. The stamp itself was receipted for $20.84, the other amount having been disposed of and no ac- count made of it. Finding this out, I took the woman before the court, and she swore out the warrant, as stated. Others Claim Extortion, “After my investigation I took the other bersons who had also claimed extortion into my office and had their depositions taken and signed. One of these was from Fanny Hill, on 13% street. Farrall, she swore, came to her September S$ and de- manded the sum of which she paid him as asked. He returncd the special stamp for retail malt liquor dealer eoyer- ing from September 1, 1897, to June 30, NOR. It receipted for $20, and it looked as if the amount had been raised from “The deposition of Nelly Jacobs of street 1 claiias that September 1S she had paid $30 as demanded by Farrall. The spe- cial tax stamp which he returned was for retail malt liquor dealer, ing the period from September 1, 1 S. The stamp r ‘Ella Buchanan, paid $80 as demanded by Fs stamp he returned her was for a ret malt liquor dealer and receipted for $16. The period covered was the same as the others. Ida Nightingale of 13% him $10, she swore, Septem’ to June 30, ipted for ‘$1 ptember 1 street paid r 8, and Sep- tember she paid him $20 more. The stamp receipted for $16.67 and was for a retall malt liquor dealer. Stamp Not Delivered. “Lillie Berry of C street claimed that in the latter part of September Farrall called on her for her amount and demanded $30. She gave it to him, she said, and thought no more about It. A few day after Farrall called at the house to see her, but she was out. He left a note, which he had not signed, asking that she would not visit the office here and to say nothing about the matter. He told her that two deputy collectors who were making an in- spection of the ‘Division’ would be down to see her and to say that she was not sell- ing beer and never Intended to sell it, and therefore, would not be subject to any spe- cial internal revenue tax. “She claimed that she never received any special stamp whatever. The woman was badly frightened, as she realized that she had been selling malt liquor for sone weel without enything to show for it, and there- fore was Mable to the regulations covering such cases. She is willing to swear, she sald, that Farrall recelved the money, which was siven to him by herself in the presence of an inmate of the house.” Will Prosecute Vigorously. Scon after taking charge of the office here Collector Hamlet, in an interview in The Star, stated that he would make every ef- fort to see that tke regulations of the in- ternal revenue office were fully carried out, and the investigation and swearing cut of the warrant against Farrall is in line with his statement. He intends to pursue his Investigations as far as po: Die, and says that, while he has nothing whatever against Mr. Farrall personaily, not even being acquainted with him, he thinks it is his duty to push the matter to a termination, He intends to stari in with a clean deck. Where Farrall Operated. Farrall is from La Plata, Charles county, Md., and is a man about fifty years of age. He has a large family. He was made dep- uty collector soon after Murray Vandiver was appointed collector of internal revenue cf the Maryland district. His work was confined principally to that part of the Dis- trict Included in the “Division.” Farrall, it is stated, is a brother of the man who was claimed to have been poison- ed by his wife and whose trial made such a sensation in the newspapers at the time. It is said he has a store at La Plata and is well connected in Charles county. Deputy Hamlet said further in regard to the administration of the office of which he has charge here: “I am determined to pursue all offenders of the internal revenue laws. I will make a special effort to have the penaities for violations of the oleomargarine laws en- forced.” ————— The Navy. Ensign H. C. Caldwell has been ordered from duty at the Navy Department to the Olympia, on the Asiatic station; Ensign Cc. T. Jewell, from the Cleveland hydro- graphic office to the Buffalo hydrographic office. . Reports to the Navy Department show movements of warships yesterday as fol- lows: lowa, Massachusetts, Brooklyn and Texas arrived at Tompkinsville, N. Y.; New York at Brooklyn, Dolphin at New Lon- don, Amphitrite at New York, Montgomery at Key West, Newport at New York and the torpedo boats Porter, Dupont, Cushing and Ericsson at Richmond, Va. ee Sixth Auditor’s Office Promotions. Promotions made today in the office of the avditor for the Post Office Depart- ment are as follows: D. W. Duncan, Penn- sylvania, from $1,600 to $1,800; M. C. Ed- son of Minnesota, from $1,400 to $1,600. TWO CENTS. The Evening Star is the only afterncon paper in Washington that receives the dispatches of the Associated Press. It is therefore the only one in which the reader can find the complete news of the world, directly trans- mitted by telegraph, up to the moment of going to press, COAST STORM SWEPT Northeast Gale Raging at Points Along the Atlantic. Several Schooners Go Ashore—Report That a Vessel Went Down Off Cape May. CAPE MAY, N.J., October 25.—The northeast stcrm which has prevailed along the coast for five days developed in the night into the worst storm which has struck Cape May in nineteen years. The tides cover over a third of the territory of the town and surround the mammoth Stockton Hotel and all the section north- east of it. The wind reached a velocity of forty-five miies an hour, and is still blow- ing a gale. The board walk is slightiy damaged. Four miles of trolley on the beach is entirely broken. Ar unknown two-masted schooner, sail- less, is at the mercy of the elements two miles off shcre. Sightseers say that one vessel went do: off shore about 6:30 this morning. T! statement cannot be verified. Trains ov the South Jersey railroad cannot ¢ across the meadow. South Cape May is also badly flooded, many cottage porches and fences being Washed away. The train service to ail beach resorts is suspended. Telephone service between the life Saving st: interrupted. The fishing pavilion pier was ashed away at 8 o'clock. Blow at the Bre water. DELAWARE BREAKWATER, Del., Ov- tober 25.—The northeast gale, waich reach- ed a velocity of nearly fifty miles an hour last night, is still blowing forty miles an hour, with no signs of abating. The schocner H. W. Laws, whick went ashore near the fish factory yesterday, is still pounding cn the beach. The schooners Lizzie Falkanburg and Serah J. Vaughan came ashore last night at West Maulls Pier, and barge No. 11 and a dredge are aground near the life-saving station, The schooner Anna L. Ponder, with wood from Virginia for New York, is ashore three miles north of Maulls Pier. No word has been received from down the St, on account of interruption to the life-saving service wires, Heavy Sen at Atlantic City. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., October 25 Phe night and today has been the heaviest in years. No wrecks or injury to els hi yet resulted off this coast, but considerable damage in a local wz has been done. Fully fifty is of Young's ocean pier has been washed away, and a portion of the old board walk off Cheisea has been wrecked and washed cut to cea. At the other end of the city the water nlet is very high and the inlet pa- ons is on the been badly damaged. The tide 5 ally high, and the railroad S ac the meadows are submerged. This is the only route of the railroad into the city and ail trains on both the Penn- sylvania and Reading railway have been abandoned. The telephone wires between Absecon and Atlantic City are all down. The small wooden pier at the foot of Texas avenue has been entirely destroyed. HIGH WINDS MAY BE EXPECTED. A Tropical Storm Coast. The weather bureau has called upon the chief of engineers of the army to know whether he as any property along the coust Hable to damage by high winds in Washingion or along the Jersey and New Englahd coasts. If so, it would be well to notify the officers in charge that a very destructive wind may be expected to: and tomorrow from Norfolk to Bos: A tropical storm is coming up the coast and property had better be sheltered as soon as possible. Coming Up the ————E——— APPLICATIONS FOR PLACE. G. J. Corey After the Chicfship of the Engraving Bareau. G. J. Corey of Illinois has filed an appli- cation at the Treasury Department for chief of the bureau of engraving and print- ing, to succ: Claude Johnson. . Corey is personally known to Secretary Gage as a business man of ability, competent to fill the position. He was at the head of the work of western commercial men in the last campaign, doing such effective work as to receive the approbation of Chairman Hanna and leading republican politicians. He is at present holding a commercial posi- tion of prominence, and would hardly ap- ply for a position here uniess he saw something ahead. He is not familiar, it is said, with the technical part of a printing and engraving establishmeni, but has the ability to quickly grasp the details. Another position fer which applicants continue to file their claims is register of the ureasury, held by J. Fount Tiliman. Elmer Pettiford of Ohio is the latest appli- cant. This is cne of the g00d places that the President has left until the last to give cut. That he has not appointed a man ex- cites wonder. The general belief is that an appointment will be made early next month, Other applications filed at the treasury today were as follows: Joseph Morris, col- lector of internal revenue, tenth Ohio dis. trict; L. D, Thurston, collector of cusioms at Toledo, Ohio; W. B. C. Duryee, collector of custems at Fernandina, Fla.; John B. Cooley, collector of customs at Plattsburg, N. Y.; N. H. Morse, collector of internai revenue of the thiricenth Illinois -district. ° YEAR’S WHA LE CATCH. Leads Fleet Light Carge. SAN FRANCISCO, October 2 Lydia, the first of the whaling rive, reached here yesterday. Only three whales, yielding 45,000 pounds of bone and 200 barrels of oll, were reported as the sea- son’s catch. The bark was out eight vo days. many whales were sighted going into tie Northeast gulf, but, fearing shipwreck, Capt. Jenks decided to return to this port. eee CSTE TAGGERT WILL GO ALONG. Bark Lydia fleet to ar- Hoosier Democrats Will Whoop It Up for Tammany. CHICAGO, October 25.—Mayor Thom: Taggert of Indianapolis, and a number of prominent Indiana democrats, will go to New York with Mayor Harrison and the Chicago democracy to work’for the elec- tion of Tammany’s candidate for mayor. Mayor Taggart will in all probability make at least one speech in the New York cam- paign. The Indianapolis contingent ma: go to New York on the Chicago democracy special train. Leon Bailey, chairman of the Indianapolis democratic campaign com- mittee, arrived in Chicago today to ar- range for the eastern trip. He informed Mayor Harrison during the day of the plan for Mayor Taggart to go east, and dis- cussed with him the final arrangements for the trip. —_—_ Stenmship Arrivals. At New York—Furnessia, from Glasgow. At Boston—Pavonia, from Liverpool. TRAIN IN THE RIVER ——— Se State Express Plunges Into the Hud- son at Garrison's, TWENTY-EIGHT ERSONS = RILLED pcemnens Embankment Gave Way, Causing the Awful Disaster. DREDGING FOR BODIES GARRISON’S, N.¥., October 25.—The gray dawn this morning, twenty-four hours after the frightful happening of yesterday, broke upon a scene of greater litter and property destruction than yesterday's sun and last night's torchlights displaye4, The weary gangs of wreckers were relieved early this morning by fresh ones, and ¢ werk of getting the chains from the der- ricks vpon the submer cars w vigor- cusly prosecute As the wreck was pulled from the bottom of the river and placed on the si it added to the pte turesque though distressing sight. Whea the wreckers got sufficient tackle on the sleeping car Glen Alpine to drag her up there was much excitement and speculation, as it was believed that th must surely be some bo¢ in this oc the most sply submerged of the lot. When the car had been placed on the scow, and the water hy searching party went through, and, to the relief of the raflroad officials and every- hedy near, not a body was discoverea. A revised list of the dead and injured is as follows: 1 run out of it, a The Dead. Thomas Reilly, St. Louis, Mo. W. H. G. Myers, Passaic, N. J. E. A. Green, Chicago. Guiseppe Paduuano, New York. W. S. Becker, New York. Samuel Williams, Buffalo, > A. G. McKay, private secre eral Superintendent Van Etten. John Foyle, engineer, East Alban! John Q. Tompkins, fireman, East Albany, Two unidentified women. Wong Gim. Hop Sing. And six other Chinamen not identified, The Injured, injured— 0. Parrish, . ¥. 'y to Gen- The conductor, severely bruised; Frank J. Degan, New York, body bruised and face cut; Herman ekskill, bruised express agent, ew York, slight bruises; John E. 24 Barrow street, Jersey City, badly crated arm and leg, in hospital at Peek- skill; Clarence Morgan of Aurora, N. Y., brol W. 8. Langford, Bayonne, N. J., bruised: Charles Buchanan of } laceration of hand and arm; John Flood, laborer, of Lockport, N. Y. cut; John Smith, Ameri senger, injured internally Three Chinamen, badly cut and bruised, one identified as Quang Ding. None of the injured is expected to die. The bodies of McKay, Engineer Foyle and Fireman Tompkins wave not yet been recovered. The coroner's jury will :nect on Tuesday night to conduct an investigation. In the meantime the railroad comuaissivners and officials of the New York Central railroad are also investiguting of the disaster. The engine was loc afternoon, but no bodies were discovered. The engine was about thirty feet from the shore in about sixty feet of water, and firmly imbedded in the mud. The cab Was compietely wrecked, and the tender had become separated from the engine. tuto Une cause d by a diver this Escapes Were Miracutous. Some curions things were discovered, however, which tends to make the escape of the pasrengers in Uhis car almost mirac- vious. Not only were the blankets and curtains thrown down and jammea into the front of the car, but the seat bottoms, which at night serve as bed bottoms; th mattresses and pillows and every movable thing in the car, had been jammed from Side to side and from end to end of the car in @ manner that would seem to almost preclude the possivility of any person in the car escaping. it is believed, however, that all in this car escaped, and as there were a full score of handbags and satchels in the car, there may have been that num- ber of passengers. Sume of ine people in the vicinity and the hotel keeper ai Garrison say Uhat they helped dress some of these people, but the supposition is that the majority of those wao escaped with Uheir lives and not their baggage were taken care of by the pas- sengers in the sieepers that remained on the track, and when taken to New York city were provided with clothes by the ratiroad people. In Ube state room of this car were a bride and groom, who escaped with the others. Jusi to the rear of the Glen Alpine was the car Hermes, which ia the plunge left its trucks ou the track nd Janded fat on its bottom in the river, but only in about three feet of water, Porter Patterson's Story. The porter of this car, Wm. Patterson, an inteliigent and cool-headed man, telis the most graphic story of the wreck, and one which -will probably be found to be the nearest lucid explanation of how so many sleeping people were miraculously saved from death. He related the story to Col. Ashley W. Cole, the president of the state railroad commission, who is mak- ing an investigation. He said: “Just before the accident I was awakened doze by the slowing up of the train, SEES up, thinking we were nearing Peekskill. I looked out of the window, and just as I did so there came a crash and the leap of the car toward the river. I was thrown to the floor, but getting up in a moment I seized a hammer, and rush- img outside broke all the windows on the shore sice, and in a few minutes had got- ten my twelve passengers out. I am posi- tive every one got out, because there was only a foot or so of water in the car at the time. Waen all my passengers had geot- ten out we began to look out for the others. The car Hermes was just ahead of mine, ané had plunged into deeper water, so that one end was completely submerged, while the other was up against the end of ours trifle higher. “nt caw the people climbing out of the high end, and I am quite positive that before the car settled into deep water we got everybody out. Some of the people were scantily dressed, because, I suppose, their clothes could not be found in the dark. They hurried away to the other cars, and, I think, went to New York. Helped Rescue Swimmers.