The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1895, Page 8

the ’ “long green” was prod The monetary consid acted upon at that meeting. In some way the story ‘Township Committeemen, bh r Was B Proderioks Indicted for Al- aii sith pia and am joged Conspiracy and Blackmail. [war and. ar io Mr testified ‘by | son County Gri Frederic! rested. He No and Counsel attic ‘and Jury retained n to defend him, Hy wd J for the Ing Lib elds mn the not be estaplishe . | “Assistant. Prosecutor Joseph Noonan j rid.euled. the con no and said that the facts in he, ca as sworn Phree Hrookiyn Men Involved in a Léquor License Squabbie. to ok! A sensational case of alleged at- fempted conspiracy and blackmal;, in Which three reputable citizens of Brook- lyn and the members of the Excise Committee of the Township Committee yn 6' Cy ef Kearny, N. J., are implicated, hae ing to the Deen disclosed by the arraignment of yond the J Bernard J. Fredericks, editor of a news. COUNS, 1h paper published in Kearny Tow “fm the Hudson County Court of Gen: easions, before Judge Robert 8. Hud- hat the Indict- ieular, A p jurisdiction of the > ir failure to respond to @ prevent conviction. were served on the Brooklynii rorning, ericks says the affid cusers are H that some sta made at hi It was morning t Jury will make of the manageme Javits of his urther asserts ations will be (-ofictally reported this tthe Hudson County Grand « thorough investigation tof affairs In Kearny. —— Suny They St Abraham Leon, owner of the ow fest at ot bt riling rev Salter Fredericks hus entered a plea al @f not guilty to the Indictment found @gainst him, and Judge Hudspeth pro- poses fixing an early day for the trial The Brooklyn men wanted as witnes fm the case are: Dr. George Clint. Jeffrey, a physician of twenty years’ Standing, residing at 343 Jefferson street; Robert Ward, a real estate broker, of street and 35 Fulton an Kaplan, a fF tate dealer, of 6 Halsey street. ‘Mr, Kaplan is the owner of a large Bite: in Arlington, a portion’of Kearny Township. Some months ago he leased the place to a fascinating widow, who Fepresented nerself to be Mrs. Lizzie B. Harrar. She proposed, she said, opening rance boarding-house. en Mrs, Hatrar iound that a tem- house did not pay she made an tlon to, the Exclxe Committee of ny, Township Committee for a he application was refuse}. ‘second application was ns promptly fas the first Harrar alleges was roached by t bsequeatly e says the f tion resulted: . ho works for you?” asked Fred- ir Wilkie and Mr. replied. : mnt you know you can't gratuitously,” continued house at nan, slumbun ave: owing It I 2. F, Brand: and of the Mayor of NEWBURG, N.Y, J. Brandt, who say the Wonewart terday, They app {uh \e she ed aa being the cause of - the trouble. Sepa is Got Of on a Light Charge. ehet, of the tod three men last night at Twenty- 1 Seventh avenue, who had a Thy were John Barrett,” the, Patrolman jeth street wet a Frea- man in a hallway, the Uth of the samo month she 4 *o the hotel, she says, In com- with Robert Ward, of ‘Brooklyn. met Dr, Jeffrey and Mr. Kapian red to a private room ly afterwards, i yy Urshed out, apy use Mr. Kaplin refused ides is) individual. then unknown to her, [4.4 for which he agreed to obtain a (\"\y) for the hotel. Sok , Jeffrey in an affidavit, now in the | y of Prosecutor of the Pleas ies H. Winfield, swears yee, cing fara at #1 with srs. Kaplan ani he hotel when a tall, entered and announced if $150 16 of the K Dr. ‘angry wan are give high rom. Miny rob: Ma 4 thin m He sat ton Elghth ave In $1,000 for trial. Award Trooka, of B12 Wythe avenue, Brooklyn, nfessed to having robbed the jewelry store 2 Hroadway, 0 can get the licens for each membe w inthe ket Court to await the arrest of hin accompitce, nb my thumb. 1 Asserted th id to have been ra of the Ase | 1 thin} Editor aces, Row sal fare pou sure you can obtain the eT 1 Begper’ again queried the doctor. ou reas there is a God in heaven,” the emphatic reply. ferred to by Di Antieptic ant Prophy'actie, ‘The Rest el Kaplan swears that the man. re: Jeffrey told him that directed to secure ry ptly Indicted and onde rotalr ex Judge insel he first entered a plea judge Hudspeth late ’ conse would be all right if the ation was not THE WORLD; SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1805. BREAD SELLS AT FOUR CENTS a ‘The Wholesals Bakers’ Asso ciation Finally Yields to the Inevitable ° reached the | * END OF A STUBBORN BATTLE, “The Evening World” Shares the Glory of Victory with a Few Honest Bakers. » WHO HELPED BY CUTTING PRICES to Consumers at One® Cent Reduction. - than * BORING: The public can now buy its bread for a loaf and “The Evening great fight for cheap bread is won. ‘The Wholesale Bakers’ Association of | this elty and Brooklyn, has finally sur- rendered and reduced the price of their loaves 1 cent, making the wholesale . price to grocers and dealers, 3 cents a loaf. The price of the large two-pound loat as also been reduced a cent. The whole- sale price was formerly 8 cents. It is now 7 cents a loaf, The retailers now sell it for 8, instead of 9 cents as for- merly, The Wholesale Bakers’ Association ** has stood out for a long while for this one extra cent. Day after day for weeks “The Even- ing World” conducted and printed the results of a series of investigations which showed that the price of flour had fallen to a point lower than ever before in the history of the country, though the price of bread remained Just } as high as ever. Figures were printed proving that the bakers could reduce the price of their loaves and still have a handsome proilt on thelr sales, The wholesale bakers had no reasona- ble or sound arguments to advance in defense of their positon, Their claims that everything relating to their busi- ness, with the exception of flour, cost as much as formerly, were untenable. But there was certainly more truth latterly made, that they did no sell as ich bread as when flour was higher, If they could not discover the cause of this, others could, and dt¢ The price of flour was so cheap in comparison with the price of bread that the retal, grocers began to neglect the sale of the latter, and to persuade their Large and Small Loaves Now Sold) I poetry in the claim which they A representative of Rockwell's bakery sald this morning to an “Evening World” reporter, that the firm had mad the cut in price nome time ago bec: it was found necessary to do so un a count of the reduction which had been @ made by other firms. “We are losing money on our bread sales at this rate,” he said, “and we knew we would before we cut the price down, As it is now, we shall keep the Price down as long as the other firms do, although we really cannot afford to sell bread to the trade for three cents a loaf. Members of the Wholesale Bakers’ Association, consisting of some’ sixteen eighteen of the largest steam baker- jes in this city and Brooklyn, have greed to keep the price of bread down to Its present reduced rate as long as the bakers who are not in the Associa- ton continue to cut the price. ‘They were compelied to do It In order to keep their bread trade, which they stood a chance of losing when the first reduction was made by bakers outside of the Association. —— EARLY MORNING BLAZE. | Fire in a Tenement Electric Wire ‘There was a suspicious fire at 5 o'clock this morning in the hallway of a@ five- story tenement-house, 108 Highth ave- nue, A tenant going to work found the lower hallway filed with smoke. He Thad a ceman send out an rm while he awoke the people. The fire wag burning in the wall, between a stairway and an elevator shaft. The people In the house thought it was caused by hot ashes in a barrel at the foot of the stairs, but the firemen be- leve the blaze in such a pecullar place called for the Fire Marshal to in- vestigate, About $100 damage was done, Crossed electric light wires started ‘a little blage early this morning in the | window of 8, Gepsler’s real estate office, | 97 Third avenue. —— AFTER MORE INCENDIARIES. | Assistant District-Attorney Davis Expects to Make a Haul. Sarah Silvermelster, who yesterday was sentenced for arson In the first de- gree by Recorder Goff to twenty-five years in State prison, and Louls Roth- man, who was sentenced to fifteen years for arson in the secon] degree, were sent for by Assistant Davis tod ot jn relation to a Cronsed ‘The statements Mr, Davis will bes ted t Grand Jury, and other members of t wang will be arrested and indicted, | A MURDEROUS BOOTBLACK. One of the Quarrelling Partners May Die of Hix Wound, John Carlo, an Itallan bootblack, of 68 ront streci, was stabbed in the back his partner this morning, ybably die. y kep he | morn knife MOUTH AND TOOTH WASH KNOWN, | customers, especially the poorer class, ™ MEDICAL NOVELTY CO,, 21 West 23d St. we buy flour and do their own baking. Btate to-day, ® ousting Alderman Brown, and will A’ | WANT BELL KEPT IN. Mayor Strong Asked to Retain Him @ Park Commissioner. Mayor Strong was visited this fore- noon by @ committee from W. 8, Han- cock Post, G. A. R., and was requested to retain Edward Bell as Park Commis- sioner. ‘The request was in lino with a resolution adopted recently by the post, indorsing Mr. Bell's work in reinstating war veterans who had been discharged from the Park Department. Mayor Btrong sald he would give the matter his attention. Another committee, representing the West End Association, asked the Mayor to appoint Cyrus Clark as a member of the Park Board, mmittee left with the Mayor several p other organizations to the or Strong sald he had known Mr, Clark many years, and would be pleased to appoint hi He promised to read the petitions carefully. ELECTION DAY NEGLECTS. The City Club Cats Out Work for the Grand 4 Lawyer H. P. Okie, of the City Club, to-day handed in the names of 7% poll clerks and election inspectors who served in November, together with affi- davits charging them with violation of the election laws in neglect of their same effec: asked that the witnesses in each be subpoenaed to go before the inty Grand Jury next week, that in- tments might be found against the ised men, tary Pryor, of the City Club, at the same time submitted to the Dis- trict-Atlorney the names of 40 men, and affidavits setting forth that they ‘were guilty of {legal registration, ‘These cases will be attended veek by the County Grand Jury. They are said to be of ‘so strong @ ature that indictments will follow in early every case, ee KILBOY GIVES IT UP. Decides Not (o Content the Election of Brown for Alderman. The Aldermanic Committee on Con-i tested Seats met this morning in the| Counell Chamber, ready to proceed with the taking of evidence in the contest of William H. Kilboy against Alderman Nicholas T, Brown for the seat now occupied by the Tammany Alderman from the Second District. Mr. Kilboy an- ‘To everybody's surpris nounced that he had decided not to con- test the election of Mr, Brown, He sald that his business partner waa an old man, and that he would not be able to alve' proper attention to the duties of Alderman should he be successful in y. Wf to next | | Brown was elected by a plurality of! 26 votes, HE IS THE MAYOR’S FRIEND. Dr. ehart Didn't Rev. Me STRONG. GOES WITH PLATT, To Discuss Local Legislation with Gov. Morton at Albany. 1 B16 POW-WOW ON TUESDAY. Strong Says Platt’s Attitude Is in Thorough Accord with His Own Ideas HOW LAUTERBACH WAS NAMED. The Excise Bill Does Not Embody Strong’s Sunday Opening Views. Mayor Strong and Thomas C. Platt will go to Albany next Monday to discuss local legislation with Gov. Mor- | ton. They will dine with Gov. and Mrs. Morton Monday night, and will devote a part of Tuesday to a con- ference with the Governor. Mr. Strong says he will not appear before any com- |mittee while at the capital, and will jreturn to New York next Wednesday. Furthor legislation relating to this city will be mapped out, and altogether it vill be the most important conference which has been held for a long time. Mr. Platt sent his messenger to the Mayor's office this afternoon to find out for Albany. The long statement of Mr. which was published this morning, was subject upon which Mayor Strong wag disposed to talk freely this af noon, A great many of the Bot statements were confirmed by Mayor “When Mr. Platt says that he is in sympathy with me, and that I will have the tration, he tells the truth, so’ far as I am able to judge. What Wan Said He Salad. Rey. Dr, Ferdinand Iglehart, of the Committee of the Methodist Preachers’ sociation, that called on Mayor Strong said to-day that he had been misunderstood as saying that the Mayor's reception of the liquor dealers was only a dress parade, and that it was done for the purpose of gaining a few | dttjrude has been one of thorough accord , tlons to be preseat. | with my Ideas. votes for the Republican party. Mr, Iglehort declares he did not mean any such thing, but referred to the call of the preac! the fighting would al He did not, he sal in the Nght ‘of ani when, in fact, he 1 be 4, wish to be placed nizing the Mayor, a8 his friend. | ' “I have had but two conversations with him since my election, and both times I have had his assurance that he woud give me his cordial support in my efforts to make good my pledge to keep partisanship out of my administration. “I nave lac no reason to change my mind gince then as to his sincerity, and I have stated before that Mr. Platt’s “I speak of Mr. Platt as I know him ‘as a dress parade, as|from his own statements to me, and I! done at Albany, have not sald anything since I have Depot been in office which could be construed as conveying the impression what time Mr. Strong intended to leave {ns his support in a non-partisan adminis- | Jooked for any opposition from Mr. Piatt.” ‘The Mayor confirmed the statement mada by Mr. Platt that Gov. Morton had requested him to name the Chair- man of the Republican County Com- mittee. as first suggested to him, |the Mayor sald, last Monday, and he agreed to select a man provided the opposing fuctions would each submit | the names of t men and then ablde noice. Mr. Platt's faction Beactl wo thie without any hesitation, ard gave him the names of three meni Who would prove acceptable to them. When It came time for the Brookfield men to submit the names of their can- didates, they said that they would have to first’ call a meeting and consider the This meeting was held last . and the next day, the he was notified that Mr. uipporters could not agree position. Mr, Piatt's statements, how- od the Mayor to mirth, par- hose about reformers. | Mayor Strong anid thas the Excise bill Introduced at Albany did not embody his ideas concerning Sunday opening. He said. that his meeting with the Liquor ‘Deulers' Association Committee, which was set down for next Tuesday, Would have to be postponed on account of his visit to Albany. —— OPPOSE THE LAWSON BILL. The LXX. People Object to Several | of Its Provisionn, ‘There was a hearing in the Mayor's office this afternoon on the Lawson Dock bill. Gustav Schwab, Henry F. Dimock and 4. J, Callanan represented the Commit- tee of LXX., who are opposed to several provisions of the bill, and W. H. Jacks, | Thomas J, Walsh, Augustine Walsh and Assemblyman Judson Laweon, in-| troduced the bill, were present cate its passage. Mr. Dimock argued that the selection of three commissioners was unnecessary, and took exception to the provision that one of the commissioners should be a practical dock builder of ten years’ ex- perience, ‘The LXX.'s representatives held that one commissioner was enough, and that was not essential that he ehould be a it dock builder. { | B to his pro Some o! ever, mov | tUcularly t who to advo- Contractors Do! TOCALL PLATT DOWN, Mas:-Mecting Wanted to Give Backbone to the Legislature Good Government Men Don’t Like a Bi-Partisan Police Bill Strong Views Expressed by ‘‘ Even ing World”? Correspondents. That the people are aroused against Boss Platt's scheme of having @ ble partisan Police Commission is evident from the fact that numerous letters hi been received ut ‘The Evening Worl office suggesting that there should be ® mass-meeting in Cooper Union to pro-‘ test against the passage of the Police Reorganization bill, introduced in the Legislature by Senator Lexow. There evidently 1s a feeling in the public mind that Republican politicians are endeavoring to place the reform vic- tory of November as a credit in the profit account of their own ledger, and this Is something, says one correspond- ent, “taat the independent voters who elected Mayor Strong will not tolerate.”* In the various reform clubs of the city the opinion prevails that the issue which resormers should now take up im order to snow .o Platt that Parkhurst ull the leader is the Bl-Partisan A singie-headed Commission is what Dr. Parkhurst has had in mind since he opened his fight against police corruption three years ago; and in order that he may know the people are with him, and that Platt may be given warning, it is argued there is necessity for a mass-meeting. those who favor this plan is 3 Roome, a Good Government Club leader, who, although a Republi- can on National questions, views the Postmaster Dayton headed a delegation of con- tractors who called on Mayor Strong this morn- ing, to obtain his influynce to bring about the repeal of the law compelling them to have bulld- ing dressed withii mits of the State, he here the work can layor declined to Id give a public Platt, bearii — 2 = | Tappen and Clausen Call, Too, | Park Commimssioners Clausen and Tappen ed on Mayor Strong to-day and talked for » They said their conversation had ng to do with the Speedway, but refused to kay what the object of thelr vialt’ was, | ———— j New Man May Brenk Dendlock. | DOVER, Del., Jan. 26.—One ballot was taken to-day in the United States Senatorial fight with- out result, It is bellevea that the deadlock will be broken carly next week by the election of & compromise candidate—possibly Harry A. Richardson, who was the Republican candidate for Governor in 1890, Morey-Blake Contest Goes Over. ‘The Morey-Blake election contest, which was set for hearing to-day, was adjourned until next Saturday. Chairman Kelsey telegraphed from Al- jany that it was impossible for th the Assembly Committee on Privileges and Elec- Thought They Were Shot At. One of the soldiers on duty near theM@Fiatbush accidentally discharged hin musket this A crowd of striker, who wera near by, eral stones at the militiamen and then G. 9. F's assumption in undertaking to use the reform victory for the ad- vantage of partisans as unwarranted “We owe 't to the reform officials we elected," he said, ‘to show to them that we are with Dr. Parkhurst in his stand against a bi-partisan Police Commission. If reformers remained silent now their silence might be construed into submis- sion to Platt's will. If no protest against this measure came from the peo- ple of New York, members of the Legis- lature who are really reformers at heart would be warranted in concluding that there was little opposition to the Lexow bill. Something must be done in order that tt may be definitely known that this scheme of arranging for @ division of spoils between two parties Coes not meet with the approval of the citizens of Ni ork, and the proper to have @ mass-meeting. ave heard a number of prominent |men express this same view, but it | Seems that no one is going ahead with \the plan. All that fs needed Is some ne to arrange for such a mass-meet- ing, and the people of New York will do the rest by turning out in numbers that will astonish Mlatt and his legis- lators. At the same time. the meeting {will give heart to any members of the Legislature who are willing to fight for trouble with reform movements is thai there ts usually no definite plan adopted for reaping the fruits of wie tory. Now iz the time to reform formers by getting them to continue fi \Fesulted in the overthrow re- ight that ‘ammany. CERTIFICATE OF OFFICIAL EXAMINATION BY FOUR STATES’ INSURANCE DEPARTMENTS. +3 MUTUAL RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY without reservation. E. B. HA RPER, COFPMISSIONERS’ CERTIFICATE. We, the Insurance Commissioners and Superintendents of the States of Illinois, Ohio, Texas and South Dakota, do hereby certify that we have been for the last two months engaged in an exhaustive and thorough examination of the books and accounts of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association and of all receipts and disbursements during the period extending from the 1st day of January, 1894, to the 13th day of November, 1894. We further certify that we have carefully checked and proved all items; that the loans on bond and mortgage have been checked and verified; that stocks and bonds have been accounted for through receipts held for deposits; that cash on hand has been counted, and that cash deposited with sundry banks has been proved by the books of said banks or by proper certificates therefrom; that the real estate has been valued upon the basis of net rentals and from information derived from reliable sources, and that the operations of the Association have been subjected to a thorough examination in which every facility has been afforded us by the officers and managers, every book, record and source of information having been laid open to us President. New York City, January 24, 1895. _ We further certify that we find the Association possessed of admitted invested and non-invested assets on the said November 13th, 1894, to the amount of $4,228,120,93, and of contingent mortuary assets to the amount of $1,340,490.31, making gross assets as of said date to the amount of $5,568,611.24 5; that against said assets we have charged actual liabilities to the amount of $675,7 67.84 (including bonds but not bond statements) and contingent mortuary liabilities to the amount of $1.175,041.32, making the surplus of the Association on basis of gross invested and non-invested assets $3,552,353.09, and on basis of gross assets (contingent mortuary assets and liabilities being included) $3,717,802.08. We further certify that we have verified by a competent expert the value of the Association’s interest in the building known as the Mutual Reserve Building, and that we are satisfied that its value is largely in excess of the amount at which it stands upon the Association’s books. We further certify that we have made a very careful examination of the death claims paid by the Association during the period covered by this examination, and that we are of the opinion that the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association pays its death claims honorably and promptly, and that it does not in any case wilfully attempt to re ist payment of any honest death claim that is made upon its. and that the work of the death claim department is handled with all possible dispatch and in such a way that the most critical can have no just cause or reasonable ground of complaint. While under the operation of the fundamental principle of the Association which calls for the collection after death of the sum required to pay a claim, there may be some seeming delay, payment is just as sure as with any other company or association, which fact is fully established by our examination. We further certify that we have made a personal examination of the methods of the Medical Department, and feel warranted in saying that the utmost care is exercised in the se this respect the Association will compare favorabl and prosperous condition of the Association, and the gradually increasing assets y with an upon the solidity and security of the Association. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto sub- scribed ‘our respective names in the city of New York, the day and year above written, y other life insurance AInaueance Superintendent, State of Cei2itpielh. show prudence and economy. Mlinois, Chairman. Superintendent of Insurance, State of Ohio. ction of risks, and that in r association. The financial statement furnished abundant proof of the healthy The Management, the public and the Members are to be warmly congratulated lee bhp ori Insurance Commissioner and Kzaminer, State of Texas, CPEB ener Haaminer, State of South Dakota