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‘Weather indications: Fair and warmer, Watch the ee in junday’ World Bargain; a House, Apartments; Boarding Place. If you want a Situaton; a Rooms or or a Over Half a Million Per Day, | WEEK DAY AVERA PRICE ONE CENT BUSINESS . DAY Seene im the Mayor's Office at 11.20—OMice-Seckers Begging for Jobs. NIGHT DITION SMALL BIDS PREFERRED, ae It Is Said They Will Be First Attended to in the Allot. ment of Bonds, $20,000,000 SUBSCRIBED. Notices to the Lucky Holders Will Be Sent Out Through the Mails, MORGAN MAKES NO STATEMENT. Wall Street Eager'y Awaits the james of the Chosen Few Who Will Share in the Big Deal. KILLEO ON THE RAIL, At Least One Life Lost in Green- ville, Ala Wreck. Eight Coaches Reported to Have Been Overturned. | Passengers Bound For New Orleans | Mardi Gras On the Train. | MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 23.—Pas- | senger train No, 1, bound for New Or Jeans, was wrecked on the Mobile and, Montgomery division of the Louisville, and Nashville Railroad, near Greenville, Ala., to-day. Elght coaches were overturn filled with passengers, bound for the! Mardi Gras at New Orleans, from this| city, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other | citles, The coaches at once caugnt fire and are now burning. Supt, McKinney, of the Southern dt- vision of the Louisville and Nashville, ‘vho went to the scene of the accident, wires that one man was killed outright and one woman probably fatally injured, Both were passengers from the north and their names are not known, Many others are more or less injured, CHICAGO, Feb, 2%—A telegram re- celved at the Monon office in this city, says that the private car of General Manager Lowell, of the Monon, was in the wrecked Mar Gras train on the Louisville and Nashville road, near Montgomery, Ala,, but that it was saved, NASEVILL b, 23.—The wrecked train was the regular passenger t n which left Nashville last night at 9.10 o'clock, and was due at Greenville, Ala., near where the accident occurred, at 8.16 this morning. It Is reported here that one white man Wall street eagerly awaited thix morn- img the statement which J. Morgan promised to make to the public ~~ BEFORE Banker: ‘ 104} is too much to pay for them."’ im regard to the subscriptions and allot- ments to the new bond issue. ‘she time for making the allotments expires this afternoon. During the early part of the forenoon representatives of several large banking firms which are known to have sub- scribed for the bonds called at Mr. Mc gan's office for information concerning e allotment. ._ MI have learned,” said one of them, “that the work of allotment has been eompleted, and that notices will be mailed some time this afternoon to the various subscribers informing them of the amount of bonds which they will Fecelve, ‘Of course, the dssue was so largely eversubscribed that very many will be @isappointed in not receiving bends as they bid for, Others probably will get none at all.” The steamship Aurania, which left Liverpool to-day, took out (350,00 bar gold for syndicate account in payment of bonds recently purchased by the Rothchild. Mr. Morgan arrived at his oilice at M45 o'clock. He refused to see re- porters, but sent out ihe following statement: ‘The subscriptions on this st ‘Atlantic for the new 4 per cent. |Amount to about $200,000,000, “The allotments have been completed and notices will be sent out to G ‘The steamer Pari ay, brings thirty-lv 470,00), to August Belmont & Ca, on account of the bond syndicate. ‘The Morgan-Belmont syndicate uepur de of the bonds ‘(Continued on Second Pags.) | Pierp: aa was Killed, a white woman seriously | Injured and several persons slightly hurt, LOUISVILLE, Feb. The first xe tion of train No. 1, that left this city at} 2 yesterday afternoon, was wrecked AND | Banker: ‘© 120 is not enough to | get for them.’’ ion of the whieh | and party, | eral Sypt nd was om Mardi ¢ jand burned, with the exc Jengine and was occupy Mrs, Lowell is U) | Lowell, of the Monon lr her way with friends to th at New O: | So far as can be one white} man was kilied and one white women | eriously injured. ‘The in the wreck received at the G rs oflice was of the favt jown in that section, on fire and the fam and de! ed the tele outh-bound train oan ormation neral N very © that the where a sawn! sp wires are he a W |“Cireulation Books Open to All.” eh secth of tme, crowds | Vided into separated. by This was on a Jen route to th N of four and three, ivate car of} baggage sive of the reral given oj att train had been wre: burned with the ex: Aside from Lie wied Kille |, no Kiown, tho: thi r . number 1 it wan du etrin was Mr. porn four or five minutes rise, Depauw 1 Mis eee (Continued on Second Pase.) don’ jund yet th Sect TARY To. ‘Cot WARING iW YORK, IN sa Ssant HE GREAT SUNDAY WORLD. eryhody loves a dog, but there are very few artists who can draw satisfac- tory pletares of them. One of these few spent all this week at the dog show, and has consented to allow enough of the resultant eketches to fill a page to ve reproduced in the Great Sunday q | World. That alone ts worth the price of admission newspaper. Points on embezzlement are always useful to business men and others de- sirous of avoiding embezzlement them- selves. ‘Twenty-five millions dollars were embezzled in this country last year, For other interesting points on this qubject see the Great Sunday World. All men read the Sunday newspapers; women devour them, To ease the intel- lectual digestion of the feminine portion of the comunity the Great Sunday World will print a full report of the Woman's Convention at Washington; also an essay. by, Amelia E. Barr, the famous writer, on “Women's Extray gance;” aio an interview with Hetty Green, the famous woman who has suddenly developed a streak of humor; also the dearest little song about weethearts Aguin,” by the author of ‘Two Little Girls in Blue.” For those who love adventure on the wheel there is in the Great Sunday World an able article from the pen of the Chairman of the League's Racing Committee, For those who take their adventure In a milder and less sanguin- | ary way than a la bicycle, the Great | Sunday World will print Morley Roberts's remarkab‘e "Tale of a Cannibal Crew.” ‘There will be four pages of the fun- niest kind of fun and other features too numerous to mention in the Great Sunday Word All of which will be to-morrow at th disposal of every citizen for the small sum of five cents, coin of the realm. No gold required, - = BURGLARS IN HARLEM. cen and a Far Wrap Com. prined Their Booty, The residence of A E. Kein, of 370 Bt, Nicholas avenue, a wealthy litho- grapher, was entered last night by burglars and rubbed of Jewelry valued | at % and some expensive lace hand- | kerchiefs. ‘The burglars entered the par- lor window, which they pried open with a cold chisel. Mr. and Mrs. Kein had spent the even- ing in ‘Tremont, and Mrs, Paul, Mr Kein's mother-in-law, was out. She re- turned at 10 o'clock and found the house in general disorde:. One gold watch, a pair of diamond ear- a tur Wrap and a Parisian lace nikerchiet were missin, he case was reported to Capt, Thomp- of ‘the West One Hundred and fifth atreet station, No arrests) en made, | to an ordinary Sunday dew ging among the to-day, boys dis victim imbedded in this afternoon, of one of t he remat: ne —-_— 100 Cakes German Laundry Soap Free to retail gro Ask your jobbe! Boarder s and Boarding, OARDERS Want- ed? Sometimes > people paste this signup on the door frame and wait for somebody to come along. ‘That is a poor to do business, because fastidious people like signs on door frames, and because people generally do not hunt for board that way. It is much wiser to hang out a fourteen- in The World. The cost is but 30 cents, and that puts| it where 2,000,000 people can see, it. It would take 2,000,000 @ good | while to puss the pasted sign. Move than 50,000 Inndladies ask for Boarders in Toe World every year, way sign 1h. Waich The World's Wants. MORTON CALLS ON STRONG, _. Conference Between the Gov. eraor and the Mayor at the Latter's Home, MAYOR'S GOUT 1S. BETTER, Tilnees Due to a Great Ex- tent to the Persistence of Office-Seekers, HIS DAILY LIFE HARASSED. Has to Fight His Way Through the Crowd in His Office in Order to Get His Lunch. . Morton called on Mayor Strong shortly after 3 o'clock this afternoon After leaving his downtown office he Proceeded to #87 Fifth avenue, the home |of his partner, Mr. Biss, and then he went to Mayor Strong's residence, West Fifty-seventh street, where Mayor had been waiting to rec The Governor left Mayor Strong's house at 4 o'ciock, having been in con- sultation with him for more than an hour. He said 40 an “Evening World” re porter that he had heard Mayor Strong was ill, and had simply called to pay his respects. “WIL the distribution of eity pat: be affected by reason of your Int with the Mayor?” asked the reporte “Indeed 1 don't know,” “1 cannot tell you what about.” “Did you discuss any U * was the answer. Jovernor admitted that he hed received a number of letters from Mayor Strong, to which he had replied, subject of New York City le put he could not remember significance that had them recently He could not say when’ he would re turn to Albany, andy he entered his cab 18 the e him, age view talked legislation 2” islation, thing of passed between replted. | MAYOR fe aN if a era At 1 O'Clock the Mayor Fights His Way Out to Luncheon, and wae driven back to the Hotel Re+ ualssance. After the Governor's departure an. ef- fort was made to see Mayor Strong, but he declined to receive newspaper men, Jand sent out word that he had nothing whatever to say with reference to his conference with Goy. Morton Mayor Strong was in a very gentle frame of mind when seen at his home, 12 West Fifty-seventh street, by an “Evening World" reporter this morn- ing. He rald he was quite well again, hut that he did not expect to go down- town until Monday. “1 think another day's rest won't hurt me," he added, with a amile which gave evidence that his rheumatic pains had subsided. With regard to a report in political circles that the Platt people want G: lis to resign his position a# Deputy Commissioner of Public Works in the interest c€ harmony, Mayor Strong sald \ne had no definite information and he didn't belleve it. He rald that no fur- ther appointments had been decided upon, When Mayor Strong stays at home things pretty dull at the City Hal There wee but few callers at the or's office this forenc Jvilus Harburger, fied that he ts to be w | stoner, dropped tn to 1vé of kis being xworn in to-day. | etary Hedges had already received word from the Mayor that he wouldn't ‘be downtown to-day, and so told Mr, Harburger that he would have to lose | another day's salury. ‘There i# lit ie doubt that the Mayor's present illness is due in a great meas ure to the extreme selfishness displayed by the mob of p.um-huntera, who pes ter him day after day, They have no regard for his gout or his personal com- fort. It is really a wonder how he stands the strain as well as he does, For over a wes« Mayor Strong has ‘been muking a study of the art of self. repression, With the exception of occ sional outbursts of temper, which o: serve to show that he is human, he | preserved an outward appear: | equanimity which Is remarkabl |e cireuinstances, ho has been noti- cise Commls- From the moment big Dantel opens ck until he closes it afternoon, Muyor the door at 11 o'el {again at 3 in. th Strong's office ts overrun with’ big and | tittle office Kers, They take sion of the floor space ors desk and stand their ground unt! he asks them, with a tinge of Irony in ‘his tone, If they will please form a ling ‘and allow him to enjoy the pleasure of a little fresh alr, Mayor Strong’s fresh air, as ts well known, must be at a temperature of 80 degrees for him to thoroughly enjoy it What the conditions must be when he corelders the room too warm may be gined, Hin Fight to Get Lunch, One of the occasions on which Mayor throws off his appearance of evenness of mind is when, about 1 o'clock, he fights his way from his desk |to the door of his private office, where | Datel has just deposited on the end of a long consultation table His Honor's midday meal The Mayor first executes a flank move- ment by sliding out of his chair and | around his cuspldore to the southern end of his desk. Je has to step high just lihere to clear a cable of wires leading to the telephone on his desk. Then he surveys the mob for a mo- the (Continued on Second Page.) . | O REPORTERS @ APPLICANTS XK Pouiricians — MAYOR'S TRACK War Map of Mayo: ‘Weather indications: Fair and warmer, THE WORL Use the + D’S CIRCULATION. coheellptvich wth d | If you want Help, of Tenagta, | or Boarders, or Buyers for any- thing you have to sell. | _Over Half a Million Per Day, WEEK DAY AVERAGE STRONG’S In the Mayor’s Office at 11.30—Office -Seekers Get the Mayor Dowa, IRE IN WORTH STREET | lianas Two Alarms for a Blaze in the Dry-Goods Distriot. HE GoTiTr— “IN THE NECK One of the Sufferers. = | { ANNA GOULD CAME LATE. Roth She awa the 4 Potter Act The Fire Under Control—No Keti- | mate of the Loss, nt Saw Mien. ys co The. announcement that Mise Anna Gould and her affianced husband, Count Castellane, would be at the matinee at the Harlem Opera-House this afternoon had the effect of attracting the largest audience the theatre has had this sea- Up to the middle of the third act, | neither Mixs Gould nor the Count had arrived, but the other members of Miss Gould's theatre party filled three boxes. Count Castellane and Miss Gould ar. rived at 4.35, as the curtain was going | down after the third ace. They came | in by the stage entrance, and took seats in lower box 3, on the left side In hox No. 2 were Mra. Van Rensne- lwer Cruger, Mra, Brockholat Cutt Count Raoul Duval and Prince Ha feldt Box No. 4 was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John Bloodgood and the Misses | Dodge, Pomeroy, Corbin and Harrison, Box’ No. 3 was occupied by Miss Hewitt, Miss Hall, Miny Lawrence and Mrs. Charles Dodge, ince Lubeck! and Prince Del Biag | Prince Lubeck!, after remaining in| box No. 3 @ short time, left to visit the box occupted by Mrs, Cruger and party The performance, was the drama, | pCharlotte Corday.’ with Mra. James | Brown Potter and Kyrle Bellew in the ‘leading roles, HER DOWRY WAS $300,000. Did Spint Marrh | Mire broke out in the basement of the building occupted by 8. Bachman, im- |porter of shawls and wraps, 87 Worth (Street, at 4.15 o'clock this afternoon. The building @ six-story brown atone, the upper stories of which are occupied by several dry-goods firms, A passing fireman saw smoke issuing from the basement and turned in an alarm Chiet Bonner arrived and ordered a second alarm sent dn, ‘The origin of the fire ix a mystery, At the time of going to press the firemen had the flames under control. ———— PANIC IN A HORSE CAR. ia son, nud They Ran Away. Considerable excitement was caused among the passengers in a runaway car on South street, near Jackson street, at AL o'clock to-da; While surface car N line, driven by James Gibert, of 49 New Bowery, was rolling through South street on its way uptown, the screech- ing of a steamboat whistle frightened the borees and they run away. The passenger @ whom wer Several women, panic stricken and some of them jumped off. Gilbert stuck to his car and, snatch- ing a hook from the da coupled the whipple-tre 9 horses and bringing t ‘ar to a stand util, Gilbert, however, held on to the n a . 721, of the Beit 1 Have a Wite Wh an Ww y Wo The long drawn case of Magdalene de ‘Teran-Spinittl, of 43 West Twenty-third street, againet her alleged common-law husband, Elbano Spinitt, formerly. pro- prictor of Hotel America, came to an end before Justice Simms, in the Jeffer- son Market Polive Court this afterno Mrs, Spinitth contends she is entitle: to support from Mr. Spinitt! for herself and children, She was known for years aw Mrs, Spinitt and had been introduced as his wife by Mr. Spinittl, Martha Wowargartty, of 415 West Sixty-sixth street, testified’ to-day she A seamstress’ for Mrs, Spinittt for Years in-w Fifteenth street fat. November, 188%, to January, 1800, ing the latter pert of Mrs, Spinittl's illness, she act as an agent between Mra, Spinitth and her children, and kept the latter from visiting thelr mother, During. th codings Mr. Spinittt went to W ls ©. and married Gen. Puigarea, of Vene- marriage dowry | was fled further that she of only one person who Inguired for Mrs. de Teran as Mrs, Spinitt!, and he was a servant named Antonio, in the Hotel America Counsel for Mrs. Spinitt! endeavored to place in evidence a bunch of letters from different sections of the country to show she that name. He met wy witness addressed ty Mrs, Spinittt was generally known bj They were ruled out on the ground that they were not competent, and that the persons who wrote them’ should appear in. person Justice Simms said hi the testimony carefully his dectsion On March 1, GOOD GOVT. CLUB ROBBED. Hearing ‘he Mi Walsh Contest Stolen. The hearing the contest of John Murry Mitchell for the seat in Con- gress awarded to James J. Walsh, In the Eighth gressional District, was adjourned to-day until Tuesday at It was uunced at the offic W. Raw counsel for Mr. Mi that burglars enter Club X day nigh t sand It aid had some be would go over ni hand down IME BIG CASINO AT reins and was pulled over the dash- board and along the pavement. He was Pal re on team was caught, and the car Went on its Way Uptown, With a solitary passenger —— COLORED HOSIERY FATAL. rdy Says They Killed the Hranagan Child. Dr. Willia McMurdy, of 282 West Fifty-tirat street, sent a certificate of the death of James Branagan, a three- months-old child, who died at 428 West tty-third street, yesterday, to the Bu- wi of Vital Statisdes to-day, in which stated that death was caused by bial pneumonia brought on by. col- kings, which poisoned his legs, It was referred to the Coroners’ office. James Brannigan, te child's father, ries that his son's death caused by poon, He says the little fellow died trom bronchitis, H its that there wa the infant's leg, it none of the poisonous dye from the King got into it in Dr. Me rs: rd away most of ards of the Club, many enta stolen ring on thks Congressional far the Club has |} red no clue to the identity of the | iron thieves. —— Arrest a May Lawyer. hystelan who aid Hot be found fty-first street oe ro Tattered an ay we meet th by clothes, sallow skin bling footsteps, holding out a tol “ edb the charity quarter phood ands rns man with hase this sham aR 428 Tenth a mothe: oman Hunt had a tively ng Eugene of ndow. I He wa i Ling Ren: . or 4 Randolph st., — YOU WANT Goop HOARD? Capt. Squires's Body W (Special to The ISLAND. Leh. of, the Hi World.) body of Place, & FIRE at the teas: y. Strong’s Office Showing Strategic Course of the Mayor tu His Efforts to Avoid Office-Seekers aud Polltical Advisers, —— racing, eutries and other mews see pages 3 For sportia — laundry Seay. | roid by ali grocer beware ys imitations, 4 A Whistle Frightened the Horses NIGHT EDITION LITTLE MONTE CARLO CLOSED, (Gamblers Made No Attempt to Reopen the Dan | To-Day. SHERIFE JOHNSON ANH, |Hed Planned to Raid the Plaee Yesterday, but a Tip ~ ‘Wis’ Passed. POLICE KNEW OF THE SCHEME, Before the Deputies Could Act the Crowd Was Stampeded | by Attaches’ Warning. | “Little Monte Carlo” ts closed. In fact, no attempt was made to-day to open the doors of the big barn, which were no defiantly and confidently throwm wide by the coterie of gamblers who led LITTLE MONTE CARLO. il EN their clients to believe that an uninters rupted career was entirely within thelr privilege to promise, And they did promise it, with a recke lessness and audacity that equalled any- | thing of like character during the palmy jdays when it was their boast that the | police would “stand for anything,” and | that the Bherift of Westchester County had been convinced that blackboards, betting booths, pool tickets, posted odda and proclaimed winners were all part of the ordiniry paraphernalia of an ime nocent “telegraph office.” | Fully 1.500 people had Journeyed up to the bridge that spans the Bronx a few hundred feet from the structure ‘in which the bookmakers held forth up noon to-day, and every car on the |“Huckleberry’ line was jammed with toughs, touts, crooks and other pests, who made the pent-up atmosphere vile With their habits and languag On the way up the talk was of the stampede from the den which had taken place yesterday afternoon just after the , third race. Much speculation was in- ‘tulged in as to whether the gamblers who had not paid winners In at race could be present to-day or intended 10 | No sign of life or activity about’ the structure ftself) when jcrowd reached the little bi ome of the attaches of the pl culated the information hess would be done. No reason Was given, and they could not say. whether the place would remain permanently closed or not ‘The true reason may have existed in the fact that fifteen men, in uniform. and in plain clothes, from’ Police C Meakim's ‘Tremont Precinct were about (Continued on Second Page.) Mardi-Gres French i, Feb, aa my Square Garde Tickets and boxes a: Martia’s, Jacquin'a *%* t,